Boxberg (Wuppertal)
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Boxberg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 25 ″ E
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| Height : | 248 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Boxberg in Wuppertal |
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Boxberg is a location in the Ronsdorf district of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal . It emerged from a medieval court.
Location and description
The location is in the south of the residential area Schenkstrasse on the city limits to Remscheid in the urban district of Ronsdorf at an altitude of 268 m above sea level. NHN . The Kottsiepen brook flows into the Leyerbach near Boxberg .
Etymology and history
The name Boxberg is made up of the name for beech and mountain, so it means Buchenberg.
The court was first mentioned in 1312. In the early modern period she belonged to the Erbschlö Honschaft in the Bergisches Amt of Beyenburg . In 1710, four places were occupied in Boxberg, at that time Boxberg was the titular place of the Boxberg Rotte . On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the farm is listed as Bocksberg . In 1728 a Lutheran angle school on the Boxberg is mentioned.
On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the place is listed as Bocksberg and on the Prussian first survey of 1843 as Boxberg .
In 1832 Boxberg belonged to the Boxberger Rotte of the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had five houses and one agricultural building at that time. At that time there were 42 people living in the village, nine of whom were Catholic and 33 were Protestant. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, five houses with 41 inhabitants are given.
From the beginning of the 19th century until 1910 there was the Hordenbachskotten, a sanding kotten , also known as the scratch kotten , on the Leyerbach near Boxberg .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1700 to 1724. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
- ↑ Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 4: Leyerbach, Diepmannsbach, Mückenbach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2004, ISBN 3-9800077-4-X .