Carnap (Wuppertal)

Carnap City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 57"  E
Height :	205 m above sea level NHN
Location of Carnap in Wuppertal

Carnap is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

Carnap is in the north of the residential area Rott and the East of the living quarters Clausen of the city district Barmen in the source basin of Bach Schoenebeck . Large parts of the area of ​​the original residential area are now occupied by the Wuppertal-Barmen junction of the federal motorway 46 , so that only the residential developments at the intersection of Schönebecker Strasse , Carnaper Strasse and Hatzfelder Strasse and Robert-Koch-Platz belong to the Carnap location .

Etymology and history

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

There are two views on the interpretation of the name Carnap. According to Leithäuser, the ending of Carnap can be traced back to the Germanic word Apa , which stands for river, brook (Carnap = Carn-Bach ). However, the only stream in the area, the Schönebeck, rises just a few meters to the north and was therefore only a small trickle there. Dittmaier, on the other hand, is based on the old German word Karnap (= bay window , extension), which can refer to a building there as well as a local terrain.

The earliest mention of Carnap with a date comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. From this it emerges that Carnap's residential area was already divided into two courtyards at that time , which belong to a Goddert Carnap and a Heyne belonged to Carnap . The second courtyard was a little further south-west in the Robert-Koch-Platz area , Liebigstrasse .

Due to inadequate source material it is not occupied, but possible that Carnap to the mentioned already in 1244 " goods in Barmen " ( " Bona de Barme ") in the Electoral Cologne was one area that by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as allod into possession the Count von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around Carnap was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century 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 Carnap is given as 126 acres .

In 1715 the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies recorded the two neighboring farms. With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , Carnap was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Carnaper Höfe were independent localities, and with the construction of the Loh – Hatzfeld railway line and the Barmer Schlachthof (today the site of the WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke ) they were completely incorporated into inner-city development at the end of the 19th century. In the 1930s, the area of ​​the southwestern Carnaper Hof was built over with residential houses, the larger northeastern one was divided into two parts and mostly demolished by the construction of the federal motorway 46 and its junction in the 1960s.

The Carnap family from Barmer descended from the place where they lived .

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