At the Hohlenweg
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At the Hohlenweg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 14 " N , 7 ° 8 ′ 43" E
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| Height : | 157 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Am Hohlenweg in Wuppertal |
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On Hohlenweg was a locality in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal , Elberfeld district . In the middle of the 19th century, the previously free-standing location was incorporated into the inner-city development of Elberfeld and the majority of the population no longer saw the name Am Hohlenweg as an independent name for this location.
Location and description
The local situation was in the range of road Johannisberg in the south of the living quarters Elberfeld-Mitte in the district Elberfeld at an altitude of 157 m above sea level. NHN . The location is now overbuilt by the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium and an administration building of the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal .
history
The location is marked on city maps from the 18th century, for example on the Elverfeldt map in the prospect of Nordl. Page from 1760, Elverfeldt in Ad 1769 and Stadt Elverfeldt in 1771 . On later maps, such as the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first survey from 1843, this location is shown unmarked on the edge of the expanding urban development.
In 1815/16 there were 13 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the wood and Eichholzer Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld. The place, which was categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had three residential buildings and one agricultural building at the time.
Today's street Johannisberg was part of Kölner Straße in the 19th century . In Elberfeld, that was the name of the old trade route between Cologne or the Rhine and the then independent town of Elberfeld, which was expanded into the provincial road Elberfeld – Hitdorf in the 19th century . In Hohlenweg was on this heavily frequented road , which was classified as a state road. The name Am Hohlenweg probably goes back to the location on the ravine of the predecessor of the state road, which was described in this area in 1853 as a steeply sloping road .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ A b Karl Coutelle : Elberfeld, topographical-statistical representation ; Elberfeld; 1853