Böhle (Wuppertal)

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Böhle
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 216 m above sea level NHN
Böhle (Wuppertal)
Böhle

Location of Böhle in Wuppertal

Böhle , formerly also In der Böhle , is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The residential space was sold in the 1970s.

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 216  m above sea level. NHN in the valley at the confluence of the Bendahler Bach and the Böhler Bach , both of which formed the border between the cities of Elberfeld and Barmen before 1929 and which are still part of the Wuppertal districts of the same name today, in the Grifflenberg residential area of the Elberfeld district . Neighboring places are Bendahl , Böhler Hof , Am Schuwan , Dausendbusch and Am Christbusch .

The allotment garden In der Böhle, founded in 1928, is located next to the village .

Etymology and history

Böhl means rounded hill or rounded depression, also forest on the valley slope. The Böel area , in contrast to the rural Markenwald, a ducal camera forest, was first mentioned in 1597, the name on the Böle in 1642.

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr passed the location, which according to the Elberfeld district map of Johann von der Waye from 1603 led up to Dorn . Böhle was on a connecting road from the Furter Hof along the Bendahler Bach over Schuwanstraße, Dausendbusch and Domenjan to Gockelsheide , today's Böhler Weg . This street was designed in 1754 by the engineer and captain Mansfeld, who was also responsible for the construction of the Chaussee between Elberfeld and Barmen, today's Friedrich-Engels-Allee , from 1750 to 1752 , and expanded it as Elberfelder Communalweg in 1848. On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the place is recorded as Am Buel .

1815/16 the place had 18 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the Fuhrter Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, categorized as Kotten according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was designated as in der Bühl and at that time had two residential buildings and two agricultural buildings. At that time 19 residents lived in the place, one Catholic and 18 Evangelical faith.

After the Second World War , emergency shelters and makeshift homes for bombed-out families were set up in the village and the allotment gardens, which were only removed in 1964 after the last families moved out. In the 1970s, apart from the allotment gardeners' arbors, the last buildings on the site were demolished.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. ^ Karl Coutelle : Elberfeld, topographical-statistical representation ; Elberfeld; 1853
  3. a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836