Bredde (Barmen)

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Bredde
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 157 m above sea level NHN
Bredde (Wuppertal)
Bredde

Location of Bredde in Wuppertal

Bredde is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The location has emerged from one of the medieval Barmer Kotten .

Location and description

The local situation is at an altitude of 157  m above sea level. NHN in an inner-city location north of the Barmer Mühlengraben in the area of ​​today's street of the same name. Bredde belongs to the residential district Oberbarmen-Schwarzenbach of the municipality Oberbarmen . The location is characterized by extensive inner-city residential developments. The old church of Wupperfeld is one of the most historically significant buildings in the local area .

etymology

Bredde is a form of broad , spread out corridor and alludes to the dimensions of the farm.

history

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

The earliest recorded mention of Bredde as In der Bredde 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 Bredde residential area was a Kotten at that time .

Bredde belonged to the court association of the Oberhof Wichlinghausen in Oberbarmen and had been an allod of the Count von der Mark since 1384 . Territorially, the area around Bredde was from 1324 to 1420 in the Brandenburg parish and Gogerichts district Schwelm and then passed to the Bergische Amt Beyenburg , where it was transferred to the Barmer Höfeverband .

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

The Hofgut In der Bredde owned extensive land between Hof Werth and the Wichlinghauser Höfe . It was located on what is now Bartholomäusstraße corner Bredde and was demolished in the early 19th century and replaced by a new building.

Personalities

The Bredt family from Barmer comes from this estate. The best- known representatives of the family were Wilhelm August Bredt (Barmer mayor from 1855 to 1879, first Lord Mayor from 1857) and Johann Viktor Bredt ( constitutional law teacher , Reich Minister of Justice in the Brüning cabinet and party founder ).

The archaeologist and Schliemann employee Wilhelm Dörpfeld was born in Bredde in 1853 .

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. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .