Domenjan
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Domenjan
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Height : | 325 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Domenjan in Wuppertal |
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 Old slate house between Heide and Domenjan
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Domenjan was a residential area in the mountainous city of Barmen , (today part of Wuppertal ).
Location and description
The residential area was in the west of today's residential area Lichtenplatz in the Barmen district on today's Böhler Weg , which was laid out as a plan street in the middle of the 18th century. It is located at an altitude of 325 m above sea level. NHN on the Lichtscheid ridge . To the south lies the highest point of the city (350 m above sea level), on which the old Lichtscheider water tower was located. Also to the south is the headquarters of the Barmer GEK insurance company .
The majority of the population no longer has the name Domenjan as an independent name for this location. Large parts of the original residential area are now built on with residential developments along Böhler Weg or are part of the grounds of the YMCA training center Bundeshöhe .
Etymology and history
The part of the name Domen is a form of domain , so it indicates a ducal possession. The Böhler Forest, which adjoins it to the west, was a ducal Kameralwald in the early modern period, which, in contrast to the rural Barmer Forest , a marrow forest , was managed solely by the Hofkammer. The place belonged to the Hoechster Rotte Barmens until the 19th century .
Domenjan was on a connecting road from the Furter Hof along the Bendahler Bach over Schuwanstraße, In der Böhle , Dausendbusch to Gockelsheide , today's Böhler Weg . This street was designed in 1754 by the engineer and captain Mansfeld, who was also responsible for the construction of the Chaussee between Elberfeld and Barmen, today's Friedrich-Engels-Allee , from 1750 to 1752 , and expanded it as Elberfelder Communalweg in 1848.
For 1815/16 ten inhabitants are given for Domenjan. On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey from 1843, the location is unlabelled. In 1832 Domenjan was part of Section b of the rural outskirts of the Barmen mayor. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place, which was categorized as a farm and a craftsman's apartment, had four residential buildings and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 75 people lived in the place, 16 of them Catholic and 59 Protestant faith.
Domenjan was located near the Barmer Kohlenweg (Trasse Müngstener Straße , Böhler Weg , Obere Böhle ) from the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke over the heights to the hammer mill in the Cronenberg area, over the coal from the Brandenburg mines south of the Ruhr from the 16th to the 19th century ( space Sprockhövel , Wetter (Ruhr) , Witten and Hattingen ) were imported.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Coutelle : Elberfeld, topographical-statistical representation ; Elberfeld; 1853
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ The Kohlenweg in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf on ruhrkohlenrevier.de