At the Döppersberg
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At the Döppersberg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 13 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 1 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 189 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Am Döppersberg in Wuppertal |
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At Döppersberg , also Döppers Berg , is a locality in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal , district of Elberfeld . The street Döppersberg is named after the place, which leads past the Wuppertal main station and meets the federal highway 7 with an inner-city street crossing .
Location and description
The location is at an altitude of around 189 m above sea level. NHN on the northern slope of the Lichtscheider Höhenücken ieS (Wuppertaler Südhöhen) in the middle of the Südstadt residential area in the Elberfeld district .
The origin of the name is not certain; Döpper or Dopper is probably the name of a family.
history
On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the location is labeled with Doppers B. , the location is no longer recorded on later maps.
In 1815/16 the place had 226 inhabitants. In 1832 Döppersberg belonged to the Fuhrter Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , was called Am Döppersberg and at that time had twelve residential buildings and four agricultural buildings. A public building is also listed. At that time, 249 residents lived in the village, 40 of them Catholic and 209 Protestant.
In the address book from 1850 to 1868/70 the location is noted as 'Döppersberg'. A street called Döppersberger Straße was named in 1873. On April 2, 1901, the street was renamed Döppersberg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836