Fingscheid

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Fingscheid
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 52"  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NHN
Fingscheid (Wuppertal)
Fingscheid

Location of Fingscheid in Wuppertal

Fingscheid is a district of the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

Fingscheid is located in the north of the Kothen residential area in the Barmen district of Wuppertal . The original courtyard was located directly on the lower Kothener Bach at what is now Fingscheider Strasse , but today the entire residential area in the area of Meckelstrasse east of the original settlement is called Fingscheid.

Etymology and history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

Fingscheid is a derivation of the original name Vinckenscheydt (border at the finches ), later forms are Finkenscheidt (1591), Vinckenscheidt (1641), Vingscheit (1715), from 1850 then Auf Finkscheidt , Am Finkscheidt and finally Am Fingscheid .

The earliest mention of Fingscheid with a certain date comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. This shows that the living area of ​​Fingscheid was a Kotten , i.e. a smaller courtyard, at that time . This Kotten was on today's Fingscheider Strasse at the level of the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line . In 1715, Fingscheid is listed as Vingscheit on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies .

Due to the insufficient sources, it is not proven, but possible, that Fingscheid was one of the " goods in Barmen " (" Bona de Barme ") in the Electorate of Cologne, mentioned in 1244 and owned by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as an allod the Count von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . From the late 14th century onwards , the area around Fingscheid was part of Unterbarmen in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the Elberfeld parish until its own parish in Barmer was established . With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , Fingscheid was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806.

literature

  • Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8