Break (barmen)

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City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 58 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 33"  E
Height : 154 m above sea level NHN
Bruch (Wuppertal)
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Location of Bruch in Wuppertal

Bruch , often also Unterbarmer Bruch , is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

Bruch is located in the residential quarters of Friedrich-Engels-Allee and Kothen in the Barmen district ( Unterbarmen area ) in the Wupper valley between the river and the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line . Today Bruch is no longer an independent locality, but part of the extensive inner-city commercial and residential development in the densely populated Wuppertal.

Bruch was divided into Oberste Bruch, Unterste Bruch and Brucher Kotten, all of which were individual settlements. The lowest break was in the area of ​​today's Wartburgstraße , Wasserstraße and Friedrich-Engels-Allee ( Bundesstraße 7 ), while Oberste Bruch was located in the western area of ​​the Barmer train station on Springer Bach . Today the area of ​​the old Oberste Bruch farm is occupied by the fanning out tracks of the train station and a junkyard below Siegesstrasse , while Unterste Bruch is now part of the dense inner-city development and can no longer be perceived as an independent location.

In addition to the two farms there was also a Kotten , which was called Brucher Kotten or Rövers Kotten after its owner . The Brucher Kotten was southeast of Oberste Bruch in the area of ​​today's Zeughausstrasse .

The outstanding buildings near Bruch include the Köbner church , the opera house of the Wuppertaler Bühnen , the Barmer train station and the ensemble of buildings that is now known as the Wuppertal Historic Center . The Historic Center consists among other things of the Angel House , the Kannegiesserschen factory , the house Barthels and house Roehrig and the angel garden together, which destroyed in World War II's birthplace on the edge of Friedrich Engels was.

Etymology and history

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

Break is a common name for a wetland . The name probably came about because of its location in the Wupperaue.

The earliest mention of Bruch with a 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 living space Bruch was already divided into two courtyards and a Kotten at that time belonged to a Henneken in the Bruch and a Hermann in the Bruch . The Oberste Bruch later descended from a full yard to a Kotten.

Due to the insufficient sources, it is not documented, but it is possible that Bruch was one of the " goods in Barmen " (" Bona de Barme ") in the Electorate of Cologne, mentioned in 1244 and owned by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as an allod the Count von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . From the late 14th century onwards , the area around Bruch was part of Unterbarmen in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established . In 1641 the size of Bruch is given as 25 acres .

1715 is Topographia Ducatus Montani of Erich Philipp Ploennies between two yards o.Bruch (Supreme break) and u.Bruch (Unterster break) distinguished. The Brucher Kotten is not listed there. With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , Bruch was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the Brucher Höfe were independent localities in the Wupperaue. With the development of Unterbarmens and especially the valley axis into one of the settlement centers in Wuppertal and the construction of the railway line from 1844, the Brucher Höfe were completely absorbed into inner-city development.

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.