Alder (Sprockhövel)

Alders City of Sprockhövel Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	260 m above sea level NN
Location of alders in Sprockhövel
The old court house of Erlen, Barmer Straße 16

Erlen is a street settlement in the Gennebreck district of the city of Sprockhövel in the Ennepe-Ruhr district , North Rhine-Westphalia . It comes from an older court .

Location and description

Erlen is located in the southwestern part of the Sprockhövel city area on the northern flank of the Mettberg ridge. The majority of the settlement extends along the state road L294 ( called Barmer Strasse here ), which connects the neighboring church village of Herzkamp with the nearby Wuppertal across the ridge .

Other neighboring towns are Ellerhäuschen , Lehn , sticks , horse mackerel Becke , farmland , bush , Mettberg , Birkenhof , Little Siepen , Ochsenkamp and one field .

The listed old courtyard house (postal address Barmer Straße 16 ) is located somewhat away from the current settlement focus, which has shifted to Barmer Straße from the first third of the 20th century, where a new area was gradually built.

In addition to the court house , an old home ribbon knitting factory at Messelken (postal address Barmer Strasse 20 ) has also been preserved as a historical building . The listed building consists of an older half-timbered main house and an extension built in 1898. The courtyard is one of the last well-preserved house ribbon weaving mills in the Wuppertal region.

history

The home knitting factory at Messelken, Barmer Strasse 20

The Erlen court is mentioned in a document in the treasury of the county of Mark from 1486 and, according to a Gennebreck property register, owned one or two farms in 1704. Until 1807 he belonged to the Gennebreck farmers within the high court and the Schwelm recipe of the Wetter office in the county of Mark . From 1807 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic communal reforms in the Grand Duchy of Berg , Erlen was part of the rural community of Gennebreck within the newly founded Mairie Hasslinghausen in the arrondissement of Hagen , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration now became the mayor's office Haßlinghausen (from 1844 Haßlinghausen office ) in the Hagen district (from 1897 Schwelm district , from 1929 Ennepe-Ruhr district ) belonged.

Erlen appears on the Niemeyersche Karte , special edition map of the mining district of the Blankenstein district , from 1788/89 as two farms with a total of three buildings. The place is recorded on the Prussian first recording from 1840 as In der Erlen . From the subsequent editions of the Prussian New Admissions of 1892, the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table as alder .

In 1818 and 1822, 24 people lived in the place categorized as Kothen / Kotten . According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg in 1839, the place named In den Erlen had four houses and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, 77 people lived in the area, including one Catholic and 76 Protestant denominations.

The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia in 1885 gives a number of 32 residents for Erlen who lived in two houses. In 1895 the place had three houses with 40 inhabitants, in 1905 the place had four houses and 45 inhabitants.

On January 1, 1970, the Haßlinghausen office was dissolved and the rural community Gennebreck, which was part of the office, was incorporated into the town of Sprockhövel with alders.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm von Kürten: Development and structure of the community Gennebreck . In: BHS . tape 4 , 1954, pp. 47-64 .
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1897.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1909.
6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 113 .