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Thick City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '37 "  N , 7 ° 10' 38"  E
Height :	266 m above sea level NHN
Location of Dickten in Wuppertal

Dickten is a district in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal . The district emerged from one of the 36 original courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

The place is located in the north of the residential area Hatzfeld in the district of Barmen (district Unterbarmen ) at an altitude of 266  m above sea level. NHN at Landesstraße 70 near the city limits of Sprockhövel .

The local situation is in the rural northern part of Hatzfeld in border position between the two formerly independent cities Barmen and Elberfeld (district Uellendahl ) and the former Nevigeser parish Dönberg that today all areas of Wuppertal are. The Mirker Bach rises in the locality , which by its name (Mirker Bach = Markbach, Grenzbach) indicates this border situation, which has existed since the High Middle Ages.

Neighboring places are the partly densely built-up residential areas of Hatzfeld, Uellendahl-Ost and Dönberg with the localities of Lante , Tente , Siepen , Sauerholz , Raukamp , Uellendahler Brunnen , Hohenhagen and Horather Schanze and the Sprockhövel village of Horath .

A regionally important coal route leads past the location to the north , a transport route from the 18th and 19th centuries between the coal mines of the southern Ruhr area and the industrial center of Elberfeld. The coal path can still be seen well in the landscape as a ravine and is part of the Hohenhagen nature reserve and the surrounding area . As a so-called French Path , it is also protected as a natural monument .

Etymology and history

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

In old documents the farm is called Im Dickten . Dickten is a medieval word form of thicket . The forest around Dickten is called the Dickter Busch in old documents .

The court belonged to the Barmer court association, which passed as "Güter in Barmen" ("Bona de Barme") in 1244 from Count Ludwig von Ravensberg into the possession of Count von Berg under Count Heinrich IV .

Probably the first documentary mention took place in the undated Barmer court roll , presumably from the 14th century , the wisdom of the Barmer court association. The earliest mention of Dickens with a certain date comes from the Beyenburg official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of 1466.

Dickten lay on the Barmen line of the Bergische Landwehr , which Barmen divided into two halves in the High Middle Ages on the border between the parishes of Elberfeld and Schwelm (at the same time the border between the medieval deans of Lüdenscheid and Neuss in the Archdiocese of Cologne ). Dickten thus belonged to the Elberfeld parish, despite belonging to the Barmer court association.

Dickten was not a full courtyard , but a Kotten (courtyard of a smaller size and tax liability) and was probably created as a split from a larger courtyard. The Dickter Busch was a marrow forest of the Barmer Hofverband and was managed by a marrow cooperative.

Members of the Carnap family lived in Dickten at the beginning of the 18th century , including Wilhelm Carnap, who came into the possession of the farm through marriage in 1716. In 1742 he left the farm again and moved - following the radical pietist Elias Eller - to Ronsdorf .

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. ^ Wilhelm Engels: The Landwehr in the outskirts of the Duchy of Berg. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . Vol. 66, 1938, pp. 67-278.
2. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Goebel : The Carnap family in Wuppertal . ( PDF; 486 kB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).  
3. ↑ Barmer Hofesrolle (wisdom of the Barmer Hofverband)