Eskesberg
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Eskesberg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 38 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 14" E
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| Height : | 216 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Eskesberg in Wuppertal |
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Eskesberg is a location in the west of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .
Location and description
The location is at an altitude of 216 m above sea level. NHN on the southern slope of the Wuppertal north heights in the residential district of Varresbeck in the Elberfeld-West district . Neighboring locations are Saurenhaus , Schliepershäuschen , Düsselerhöhe , Lohrenbeck , Bergerheide , Häuschen , In der Beek , Am Krötelnfeld , Am Dorp , Varresbeck , Scheidt , Lüntenbeck , and Oberst .
Eskesberg is located near the course of the Varresbeck creek , which passes the Hof Beek from the north and bends to the west south of Eskesberg. There is a sinkhole area between Eskesberg and Am Dorp . The sinkholes, which increasingly emerged from 1980 onwards, come from the Krötelnfeld brook, which goes down from Falkenberg into a creek and loosens the calcareous rock.
The name Eskesberg refers to the Eskesberg farm , which was owned by the Esken family in the 16th century. The personal name 'Esken' or 'Essken' originated from 'Aeschines', mentioned as a farm owner in 1551.
history
The former Eskesberg farm was one of the oldest structures in the region. Due to the typical construction with the south gable and the projecting storeys, it is estimated that it was around 400 years old in the 1980s. According to a directory from 1644, the property comprised 104 Cologne acres and 90 rods, which corresponds to around 33 hectares. At the end of the 16th century, the Esken family, a well-known family of lawyers in the region, came into possession of the farm. Before the Esken family ran it, its name was "Berg" or "Dietzberg". Initially, the farm was part of the Elberfeld rule in Cologne and later part of the Elberfeld office in Berg . Ecclesiastically he belonged to the parish of Sonnborn , under court law he was assigned to the court association Elberfeld.
The farm is listed as Eskesberg on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715. On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the location is also noted with Eskesberg .
In 1832 the Eskesberg belonged to the Dorper Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the town of Elberfeld . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as Ackergut categorized place was as On Eskesberg called and had at that time three homes and five farm buildings. At that time, 18 residents lived in the place, all of them Protestant faith.
In the address book from 1850 the location is noted as 'Eskesberg', from 1875 'am Eskesberg'. A street called Am Eskesberg , which branches off from Otto-Hausmann-Ring and ends today at Fliednerweg , was named on an unknown date.
Limestone was mined south of Eskesberg from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s . There were two pits, the eastern one was called Grube Dorp and the western one was called Eskesberg . The two pits were then used as landfills.
The farm was managed until the mid-1970s, cows and sheep grazed on the surrounding meadows. Then the surrounding area was developed as a new building area. The Krummacherstraße that of the Diisseldorferstrasse ( Federal Highway 7 branches), has been extended from the west to the east. In 1981 the buildings of the courtyard had to give way to a further street widening. Through the mediation of the Wuppertal historian Klaus Goebel , the new owner had the farm dismantled, the structure of which was already severely endangered. The half-timbered house was then rebuilt as the Waldhotel Eskeshof around 100 meters further east using some old parts of the building. Contrary to the original plans, however, it was not recognized as a monument because the changes to the structure were too great.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Paul Reising: The owl head path. D. History d. Stones, plants, animals and people on the northwestern edge d. City of Wuppertal. 1985, ISBN 3-87294-282-4 .
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. 1836.
- ↑ Website of the "Waldhotel Eskeshof"