Bredenscheid

Bredenscheid City of Hattingen Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 30 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 41"  E
Incorporation :	April 1, 1926
Incorporated into:	Bredenscheid-Stueter
Postal code :	45527
Area code :	02324
Location of Bredenscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia

Bredenscheid is a district of the city of Hattingen in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1926 Bredenscheid was an independent municipality in the district of Hattingen in the Prussian province of Westphalia .

geography

Bredenscheid occupies the north-western half of the Hattingen district of Bredenscheid-Stüter . In the north, Bredenscheid extends to the Hattinger core city and in the northeast to Holthausen . In the east Bredenscheid borders on Sprockhövel , in the south on the Niederstüter district of Hattingen and in the west on Velbert in the Mettmann district .

Bredenscheid consists of the two districts Niederbredenscheid and Oberbredenscheid. After Bredenscheid was historically a peasantry consisting of individual farms, a larger settlement developed on both sides of the Im Lichtenbruch street in the 20th century .

history

Bredenscheid was originally an old Westphalian peasantry in the Blankenstein district of the county of Mark . Since the 19th century Bredenscheid formed a rural community in the office of Hattingen in the Bochum district in the Westphalian administrative district of Arnsberg . Since 1885, the Hattingen district and the Bredenscheid community belonged to the Hattingen district .

On April 1, 1926, Bredenscheid was merged with the neighboring community of Niederstüter to form the municipality of Bredenscheid-Stüter . Most of this community came to the city of Hattingen in 1970. Part of Niederstüter came to the city of Sprockhövel .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1871	702
1885	635
1895	814
1910	1181

Mining

In Bredenscheid, coal mining was carried out between 1737 and 1925 in the following mines :

• Cornelius Erbstollen
• Peaceful neighbor
• Gustav Carl
• Hope valley
• Johann Heinrich
• John's blessing
• Black Raven
• Valeria
• Wodan
• Chance luck

traffic

The disused railway line Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen , which also had a train station in Bredenscheid, runs through Bredenscheid . In Bredenscheid, a horse-drawn tram from the Paasbachtal and the siding of the Johannessegen colliery used to connect to this railway line .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
3. ↑ 1895 census
4. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 . 
5. ^ The early mining on the Ruhr: Bredenscheid station