Bockmühle (Wuppertal)

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Post mill
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NHN
Bockmühle (Wuppertal)
Post mill

Location of Bockmühle in Wuppertal

Bockmühle is a location in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal . The location has emerged from one of the medieval Barmer Kotten .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 165  m above sea level. NHN on the Wupper in the area of ​​today's intersection of Bockmühle , Bockmühlberg and Lenneper Straße in the residential quarters of Heckinghausen and Hammesberg in the Heckinghausen district .

The location is characterized by extensive commercial and residential development. The Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Solingen railway line crosses the river on a striking bridge in Bockmühle. Most of the extensive grounds of the JP Bemberg company are on the other side of the Wuppertal.

Etymology and history

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

Post mill is the name for a pestle, a water-powered flax and oil mill , and, contrary to what the name suggests, has nothing to do with a post mill . The name of the mill was transferred to the location. The following forms of name have been handed down: Bockmoellen (1466) and Zur Bockmühl (1642).

The earliest mention of Bockmühle 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 Bockmühle residential area was a Kotten at that time .

Bockmühle belonged to the court association of the Oberhof Wichlinghausen in Oberbarmen and was an allod of the Count von der Mark . Territorial was the area around Bockmühle 1324-1420 in Brandenburg parish and Gogericht District Schwelm and then went to the bergische Office Beyenburg about where Bockmühle now part of the Barmer peasantry was. With the transition from Oberbarmens to the Duchy of Berg, the Wupper near Bockmühle was now the territorial border between the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark. In 1642 three goods were named zur Bockmühl.

In 1815/16 the place had 70 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to Section D of the rural outskirts of the Barmen mayor . The place, categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was called Bockmühl at that time and had five residential buildings and six agricultural buildings. At that time, 26 residents lived in the village, three of them Catholic and 23 Protestant. The old courtyard between the railway line and the Wupper had to give way to an expansion by JP Bemberg in 1936/37 .

The Bockmühl family comes from the farm. Its best-known representative, Johann Heinrich Bockmühl, invented the first mechanical, water-powered machine for the manufacture of braided textile products, which was called a belt gear .

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