Bendahl

Bendahl City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '10 "  N , 7 ° 9' 54"  E
Height :	191 m above sea level NHN
Location of Bendahl in Wuppertal

Bendahl is a district in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

Bendahl is located in the west of the Hesselnberg residential area in the Wuppertal district of Barmen on the border with the Elberfeld district . The district includes the valley location in the area of ​​the confluence of the Bendahler Bach in the Wupper near the court island . The north of Bendahl in the valley basin is built up in the inner city, to the south the residential development loosens up and allotment gardens , green spaces and the Christbusch forest area follow. The terrain from the Bachtal rises sharply to the east and west, so that this largely limits the development to the Bendahler Bachtal.

The German headquarters of the retail chain Wal-Mart , which was built on the site of the former prison in Wuppertal , was one of the facilities in Bendahl until its withdrawal in 2007 . A supermarket and other specialist stores have set up shop in the old Wicküler brewery . Further south was Bad Bendahl, an open-air swimming pool that was abandoned in the mid-20th century and converted into a small park with a pond in the late 1980s. Adjacent to it is the Alfred-Panke-Bad of Wasserfreunde Wuppertal eV

The Waldfrieden Sculpture Park by the sculptor Tony Cragg at Villa Waldfrieden has developed into a magnet for art lovers since it was founded in 2008. Another point of attraction is the communication and event center Die Börse .

For many years, the Bendahl descent was planned, via which the Ronsdorfer Straße was to be brought down on the western ridge to Bundesstraße 7 in the Wupper valley. This planning is currently no longer being pursued.

Etymology and history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

The name Bendahl is derived from the original name Barendahl (= Bärental, valley of the bears). It is not known whether bears actually lived in the valley or whether the bear was a proper name. Other forms of the name are Bardendaell (1567), Berrendahl (1641), Berndahl and Pandahl (1715)

The earliest mention of Bendahl with a certain date comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. This shows that the Bendahl residential area was a Kotten , i.e. a smaller courtyard, at that time . This courtyard was on today's Buschstrasse at the level of the footpath that is the extension of Hirschstrasse .

Due to inadequate source material it is not occupied, but possible that Bendahl to the mentioned already in 1244 " goods in Barmen " ( " Bona de Barme ") in the Electoral Cologne was one area that by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as allod into possession the Count von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around Bendahl was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established .

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the Bendahler Bach was the border between the Bergisch offices of Elbderfeld and Beyenburg. According to a map by Johann von der Waye, this border was secured with the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr .

In 1715 Bendahl is listed as Pandahl on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies . With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , Bendahl was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806.

In 1815/16 there are 90 inhabitants. Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as 1832 Ackergut categorized place was as Bendahl called and had at that time eight houses and four farm buildings. At that time, 98 residents lived in the place, four of them Catholic and 94 Protestant.

Large-scale settlement of the area began with the construction of the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line and the nearby Elberfeld district court (1852) on the island of Justice. The correctional facility was built as an Elberfeld prison in 1864. It closed in 1980 and was demolished in 1997.

literature

• Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

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