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City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 47 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 187 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Auf'm Höchst in Wuppertal |
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Auf'm Höchst , also Höchst, is a location in the north of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .
Location and description
The location is at an altitude of 187 m above sea level. NHN on the Höchst street in the middle of the Nordstadt residential area in the Elberfeld district . Neighboring locations are Unterer and Oberer Dorrenberg , Wüstenhof and the city center of Elberfeld.
Etymologically, the name can be associated with the neighboring Hochstraße , which very likely got its name from its topographical location high above Elberfeld.
history
The location is not recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824; on the first Prussian survey of 1843, the location was incorporated into the residential development of the northern Elberfeld and not recognizable as an independent residential area.
In 1832 Auf'm Höchst belonged to the Mirker Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place, which was categorized as an arable property and a craftsman's home, was called Auf'm Höchst and at that time had three residential buildings and two agricultural buildings. At that time, 79 residents lived in the place, 15 of them Catholic and 64 Protestant. In 1815/1816 no inhabitants were counted.
The street at the locality was named way after the desert farm in 1827 . In the address book from 1864 to 1868/70 the location is noted as Auf'm Höchst . The Wüstenhofer Straße , east of the town, was given its name on December 14, 1880.
On July 15, 1873, the path after the Wüstenhof was renamed to Höchstenstrasse and on April 2, 1901 to Höchst .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ Historical maps: Prussian new recording and Prussian first recording (on: HistoriKa25 , Landesvermessungsamt NRW, sheet 4708, Elberfeld)
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836