At the Windfoche

At the Windfoche City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	168 m above sea level NHN
Location of An der Windfoche in Wuppertal

At the Windfoche there was a location in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal in the Elberfeld district . At the end of the 19th century, the previously free-standing location was integrated into the inner-city development of Elberfeld and the majority of the population no longer saw the name An der Windfoche as an independent name for this location.

Location and description

The local situation was in the range of Bahnhofstrasse corner Kölnerstraße in the south of the living quarters Elberfeld-Mitte in the district Elberfeld at an altitude of 168  m above sea level. NHN . The location is now overbuilt by the historic town hall on Johannisberg .

history

The location is marked on city maps from the 18th century, for example on the map of 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 unmarked on the edge of the spreading urban development. Other city maps from the 19th century mostly describe the location as Johannisberg

In 1815/16 the place had 156 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, categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had twelve residential buildings and three agricultural buildings at that time.

Today's streets Johannisberg and Kölner Straße were part of what was then 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 . The Windfoche was on this heavily frequented road , which was classified as a state road.

From the middle of the 19th century the location was dominated by Abraham Küpper's Johannisberg amusement bar, which offered a ballroom, an orchestra building, a wooded garden with a square and a fountain with water features . The place name Windfoche gave way to the name Johannisberg over time. From 1896 the town hall was built in place of the amusement hall.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
2. ^ Karl Coutelle : Elberfeld, topographical-statistical representation ; Elberfeld; 1853