Egidius Klusen

Egidius Klusen City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  E
Height :	about 270 m above sea level NHN
Location of Egidius Klusen in Wuppertal

Egidius Klusen is a locality in the residential area Höhe in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel .

Location and description

Egidius Klusen is located northwest of Grünewald directly on the city limits of Solingen - Gräfrath at an altitude of 270  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring locations are Bracken , Bies , Dasnöckel , Engelshöhe , Freudenberg , Halbenberg , Görtscheid , Kirschsiepen , Kluse , Roßkamp , Schlüssel and Grünewald and Piepersberg , both of which belong to Solingen.

history

The living space Egidius Klusen originally belonged to the Gräfrath Honschaft in the Gräfrath Mayor's Office .

On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the place is already unlabelled, on the Prussian first survey from 1843 the place between Kluse and Grünewald is as Egid. Kluse listed.

In 1815/16 23 people lived in the village. In 1832 Egidius Klusen was still part of the Gräfrath honors within the Gräfrath mayor. The place, categorized as inns according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had two houses and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, 28 residents lived in the place, 20 of them Catholic and eight Protestant denominations.

The buildings originally belonging to the place were probably demolished between 1974 and 1984. In their place and in the further course of Roßkamper Straße towards Freudenberg, several row houses were built. The place name Egidius Klusen has not been recorded in maps since the end of the 19th century.

With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area , the cities of Wuppertal and (Greater) Solingen were founded on August 1, 1929. In the area of ​​Egidius Klusen, a small strip was removed from the former city of Gräfrath , which was incorporated in Solingen , and assigned to the new city of Wuppertal.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
2. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
3. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
4. ↑ Appendix A, Section XXX of the legal text