Berghausstrasse

Berghausstrasse City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	308 m above sea level NHN
Location of Berghausstraße in Wuppertal

Berghausstraße is a location in the north of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 308 m above sea level. NHN on the watershed of the river systems of the Wupper and the Ruhr north of the Mollenkotten road ( Landesstraße 432). The location today consists of two houses, under which the Scheetunnel of the railway line Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen runs.

The location is on the outskirts of the residential district Nachbarebreck-Ost ( Oberbarmen district ) on the border with the Sprockhövel district of Gennebreck . To the north of the locality are the villages of Frielinghausen and Kuxloh in the Sprockhövel area . The neighboring village of Mollenkotten lies on the watershed to the west of Berghausstrasse , to the east is the Alteschmiede district and behind it Schmiedestrasse . Neighboring towns to the south are Pannhütte , Kattenbreuken , Nachbarebrecker Busch , Hülsen , Hasenkamp and Holtkamp .

The federal motorway 46 runs south of the village .

History and etymology

The area on the ridge had unfavorable soil conditions, so that settlement arose late. Berghausstrasse was on an important coal route from Witten to Elberfeld - today's state road 432, on which the factories in the Wupper area were supplied with fuel by independent coal drivers . Since 1935, the entire length of the Landesstraße between Einern and Schmiedestraße has been named after the neighboring Mollenkotten. Previously, it was also called Berghausstrasse depending on the location .

The location arose from a lease of the Frielinghausen farm belonging to the Mylinghausen farmers near Gevelsberg . The Kotten probably got its name from the Berghaus family who owned it . In 1738, a tavern was opened in Berghausstrasse for the coal drivers on Kohlenstrasse. It appears on the Niemeyersche Karte , special edition map of the mining district of the Blankenstein district , from 1788/89 as a single house.

Berghaus road belonged in the early modern period to Gogericht District Schwelm in official weather the Counts of Mark . According to canon law it was in the parish of Schwelm. From 1807 to 1814, Berghausstraße was part of the rural community of Gennebreck within the newly founded Mairie Hasslinghausen in the arrondissement of Hagen due to the Napoleonic communal reforms in the Grand Duchy of Berg , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration now became the mayor's office Haßlinghausen (from 1844 Haßlinghausen office ) in the Hagen district (from 1897 Schwelm district , from 1929 Ennepe-Ruhr district ) belonged.

The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia in 1885 gives a number of 21 inhabitants for Berghausstraße who lived in two houses. In 1895 the place had two houses with 30 inhabitants, in 1905 the place had two houses and 16 inhabitants.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Gennebreck was split off with Berghausstraße and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal.

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
^ Gerd Helbeck : Next Breck. History of a rural area on the Bergisch-Märkische border in the area of influence of the cities Schwelm and Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 30). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87093-036-5 .
↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.
↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.
↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.

[Wolfgang_Stock-1] Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8

[helbeck-2] Gerd Helbeck : Next Breck. History of a rural area on the Bergisch-Märkische border in the area of influence of the cities Schwelm and Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 30). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87093-036-5 .

[Gemeindelexikon18873-3] Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.

[4] Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.

[Gemeindelexikon18973-5] Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.