Fähr (Leichlingen)

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Ferry
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 56 ″  E
Height : 79 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Fähr (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Ferry

Location of Fähr in Leichlingen (Rhineland)
House Fähr on the Wupper
House Fähr on the Wupper

Fähr is a residential area in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Fähr is located in the valley of the Wupper, northeast of the center of Leichlingen, in the natural spatial unit of Lower Wuppertal at the foot of the Wupperberg . The nearby river forms the city limits to Solingen . The place on the banks of the Wupper borders on both sides of the nature reserve Wupperhangs with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen and lies at the mouth of the St. Heribert Bach . The Raderbach flows into the St. Heribert Bach in Fähr. A Wupper bridge connects Fähr with the Solinger Obenrüden .

Neighbor sites are immediately adjacent the Rodel , Höfchenstal , Kempen , green Scheid and Oberbüscherhof on Leichlinger and beyond the Wupperfeld Friedrichstal , top Friedrichstaler cotta , Friedrich height , mill Berg , below Rüdener cotta , top and bottom dogs to Solingen urban area.

In the village there was the excursion restaurant Haus Fähr, which was run as a restaurant until 2008. The traditional restaurant, which burned down in 1969 and was refurbished, is already shown on postcards from the 1920s.

history

The place originally belonged to the settlement area of ​​Rödel. Since the 19th century, first a footbridge, then a bridge, replaced the Wupper crossing. The topographical recording of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place as the location of two mills on St. Heribert Bach unlabeled and the Prussian first recording from 1844 with a mill symbol as Am Fähr . On the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830 the place is labeled as Am Wehr .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 seven houses with 33 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had ten houses with 39 inhabitants, in 1905 three houses and twelve inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferry at www.geschichte-leichlingen.de. Retrieved March 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.