Dahlerau

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Dahlerau
City of Radevormwald
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 242 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42477
Primaries : 02195, 02191
Dahlerau (Radevormwald)
Dahlerau

Location of Dahlerau in Radevormwald

Dahlerau is a district of the city of Radevormwald in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

location

View of Dahlerau
Newly used industrial buildings of the former Wülfing company
The former workers' settlement is a listed building

Dahlerau is one of the so-called Wupper towns because, in contrast to the city center, it is in the valley of the Wupper (around seven kilometers from the center via road links).

The neighboring towns are called Vogelsmühle , Dahlhausen and Keilbeck .

history

The statistics of the Lutheran community of Lüttringhausen reported in 1798 that there were 24 inhabitants. In 1832 Dahlerau was part of the Walbrecken Honschaft , which now belonged to the Lüttringhausen mayor . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place called factories had three residential buildings, an agricultural building and nine manufacturing facilities at that time. At that time 54 people lived in the place, 16 Catholic and 38 Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, 48 houses with 1113 inhabitants are given.

The former cloth factory Johann Wülfing & Sohn and its workers' settlements , which were built around the factory on the Wupper , are located in Dahlerau . Today, among other things, the Wülfing Museum is set up there, showing exhibits from the textile industry . The standout piece in the collection is a large steam engine with an output of 400 hp that was in operation until 1954. Some companies have also set up their offices or warehouse there again. As part of the Regionale 2006 , the complex has now been renovated years after its closure and saved from deterioration.

The steam engine from Johann Wülfing & Sohn ran for the last time on April 7, 1961.

On May 27, 1971, a serious train accident occurred in Dahlerau in which 46 people, 41 of them pupils from the Radevormwald secondary school, died.

Personalities

A well-known personality beyond Dahlerau is Fritz Hardt (1873–1959), who, as an entrepreneur of the Wülfing cloth factory, was also known as “The Father of Dahlerau” because he had a high level of social commitment for the circumstances at the time. He was also made an honorary citizen of Radevormwald.

Bernhard Goldenberg , who was born in Dahlerau in 1873, made history as Technical Director of RWE's coal-fired power plant , especially with the Goldenberg power plant that was later named after him .

Jordan Ballsieper , born on November 28, 1835 in Dahlerau, had been a Benedictine since 1858, was appointed Vicar Apostolic of East Bengal (today Bangladesh) in 1878 and was Abbot General of the Sublazenser Congregation of the Benedictine Order and Abbot of the Subiaco Abbey from 1888 until his death . He died on March 1, 1890 in Subiaco .

Hiking trails

The following hiking trails lead through the village:

literature

  • Manfred Heymann, Richard Hückesfeld jun .: Home. Self-published, Radevormwald 2002 (photo book with 106, partly previously unpublished photos from Dahlhausen, Vogelsmühle, Dahlerau, Nieder- and Obertal, Keilbeck, Herkingrade, Altenhof and Remlingrade, 80 pages).
  • Peter Dominick: "Johann Wülfing & Sohn, cloth factory 1674 - 1996, worsted spinning mill 1879 - 1998, chronicle of a world company", private edition 2016, Anna Hardt Foundation eV, Remscheid-Lennep, ISBN 978-3-86424-321-9 , 264 pages, 393 illustrations

Web links

Commons : Dahlerau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 23 .
  2. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888.