At the Luhnberg

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At the Luhnberg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 32 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 237 m above sea level NHN
Am Luhnberg (Wuppertal)
At the Luhnberg

Location of Am Luhnberg in Wuppertal

Am Luhnberg 1
Am Luhnberg 1

Am Luhnberg is a location in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 237  m above sea level. NHN am Briller Bach near Nevigeser Strasse Strasse in the north of the residential quarter of the same name, Nevigeser Strasse in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district . Today's street Am Luhnberg leads from there to the original settlement area. Neighboring locations are An der Vossdelle , Hessen , Am neue Hessen , Am Baum , In den Birken , Acker , Am Rohm , Holländische Heide and Kuckelsberg .

Etymology and history

Luhnberg is a form of alum mountain . The name goes back to an occurrence of alum stone .

The location of the village emerged from a farm that was mentioned in a document as early as 1644. The farm is listed as Alunsberg on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715.

In 1832 Am Luhnberg belonged to the Katernberger Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, also categorized as Kotten according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was designated as im Luhnberg and at that time had two residential buildings and two agricultural buildings. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant. No population is given for 1815/16.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836