Village field (Leichlingen)

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Village field
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 74 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Village field (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Village field

Location of Dorffeld in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Dorffeld is a location in the core of the city of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Dorffeld is located northwest of the center of Leichlingen in the area of Kirchstrasse , which is qualified as the L359 state road, at the level of the side streets Im Dorffeld , Schützenstrasse , Am Kloster and Grünstrasse . The location was independent until the middle of the 20th century, but today it is part of the closed residential and commercial development of the grown core town. Neighboring towns and locations are Eicherhof , Am Hammer , Bechlenberg , Bergerhof , Wachholder , Neuland , Johannisberg , Brücke , Büscherhof and Hüschelrath .

history

The place was named in 1928 after a field name and appears for the first time in the first third of the 20th century on the Solingen measuring table of the official topographic map 1: 25,000. Until the 1956 edition it was labeled with village field . Dorffeld was created at the intersection of the road from the Leichlinger Wupperbrücke to Bergerhof, today's Kirchstraße (L359), with the road from Bechlenberg to Johannisberg and spread out along the traffic routes. In the middle of the 20th century, Dorffeld lost its independent location and the vacant lots to the other residential areas in the city center were closed.

In the first quarter of the 20th century, a brick factory was built near the place , the site of which was built on with residential buildings in the 1970s. The streets Am Ziegelfeld and An der Ziegelei go back to this brick factory.

Motocross races were held near Dorffeld in the 1950s and 1960s . In 1951 the approx. 1000 meter long Erbslöh cross-country course was opened, which was notorious due to its height difference of up to 60 meters and its ten meter high steep passages. A speaker tower was built for the race supervision, guests of honor, timekeeping and public address. The opening race with a total of 83 drivers took place on August 26, 1951 in front of 5,000 spectators. Up to 35,000 spectators watched the races, the climax of which on September 4, 1960 was the European Motocross Championships. The operating Motor-Sport-Club Leichlingen (MSCL) had to refuse the request to organize the Motocross World Championship for financial reasons. The area was eventually built over by the Cremers Weiden urban development.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorffeld on www.geschichte-leichlingen.de. Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Erbslöh terrain course at www.leichlingen.de. Retrieved April 14, 2015 .