At the Heister

At the Heister City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 8 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	approx. 143 m above sea level NHN
Location of Am Heister in Wuppertal

Am Heister is a location in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel , residential area Schöller-Dornap .

Location and description

Am Heister is in the north of Vohwinkel on the Düssel, directly on the city limits to Mettmann and Wülfrath . Neighboring places are Überzurbeck , Scheidt and Dörnen in Wülfrath, Zum Löh , Buschdelle , Böck and Heresbach in Mettmann and Schmalefeld , Meißwinkel , Heistersfeld and Hahnenfurth in Wuppertal.

The Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund Süd railway line passes by.

Etymology and history

Heister is the name for a young tree that was later also used for beech and oak .

Peter Silberberg sen. from Hof Silberberg in Wülfrath was married to Margareta Lang (1658 to approx. 1720), through the death of his father-in-law Silberberg came to Hof Heister. In December 1687, Peter Silberberg jun., Who later became mayor of Elberfeld (1741), was born here.

The farm is listed as a Heister on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715. In the 19th century, Am Heister was a residential area in the rural community of Unterdüssel of the mayor's office Wülfrath , which emerged from the Bergisch Honschaft Unterdüssel . On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the place is labeled with Zum Heister and on the Prussian first survey of 1843 with Heister . In 1888, according to the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , the place had a house with 16 residents. The place is called Heister at the time .

With the municipal reform of 1975, the area around Am Heister was incorporated into the city of Wuppertal.

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
^ Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 80 ff .
↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.

[Wolfgang_Stock-1] Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8

[2] Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 80 ff .

[Gemeindelexikon1888-3] Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.