Flanhard

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Flanhard
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 300 m above sea level NHN
Flanhard (Wuppertal)
Flanhard

Location of Flanhard in Wuppertal

Flanhard is a residential area in the Wuppertal district of Barmen (district Hatzfeld ), North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

Flanhard is located in the northern part of the Wuppertal urban area on the city limits of Sprockhövel - Gennebreck on the altitude ( 300  m above sea level ) of the Haßlinghauser Ridge , the watershed between the river systems of the Wupper and the Ruhr . The state road 432 (here called Hatzfelder Straße ) leads past the place.

Neighboring towns are adjacent to the settlement Hatzfelder core residential courses sour wood , Tente , Riescheid , Dahl , Mallack , Cuckoo , One trench and skimmers in Wuppertal and county cottas , Huxel and Kuhstoss on Sprockhöveler city.

Due to the growth of the Hatzfeld residential and commercial areas, the residential area is now part of the closed development. A street of the same name Flanhard opens up the more recent settlement areas to the rear.

At Flanhard there are several buildings of the Troxler-Haus handicapped workshops and a Troxler-Haus handicapped dormitory. The part of the residential area to the south of Hatzfelder Strasse was built over by the Axalta Coating Systems plant .

Etymology and history

The name of the corridor on the Fladenhard can already be documented in 1597. The appellative -hardt is a toponym for mountain forest , wooded slope , and refers to the altitude. The defining word is derived from flatbread , flatbread , meaning marsh grass , rush .

According to a Gennebreck list of goods in 1704, Flanhard consisted of one or two farm estates. Influenced by the nearby textile center in Wuppertal, the bank knitting was operated in the village .

Until 1807, Flanhard 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 , Flanhard 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.

A coal road ran through the village from Witten to Elberfeld , on which the factories in the Wupper area were supplied with fuel by independent coal drivers .

Flanhard appears on the Niemeyersche Karte , edition of the special map of the mining district of the Blankenstein district , from 1788/89 as a collection of four spatially separated individual houses. The place is on the topographical recording of the Rhineland from 1824 as Flanhardt and on the Prussian first recording from 1840/44 as Flanharde (south of Hatzfelder Straße ) and An d. Flanhardt (north of Hatzfelder Straße ). From the Prussian new admission of 1892/96 the place is recorded on the TK25 measuring table as Flanhard . In address books from 1850 and 1858 the place also appears as Flanhard .

In 1818, 18 people lived in the place categorized as a hamlet . In 1885, the community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia also gave a number of 54 residents for Lehn who lived in four houses. In 1895 the place had six houses with 69 inhabitants, in 1905 the place had four houses and 63 inhabitants.

At the turn of the 20th century there were two brickworks south of Flanhard , which were also built over by the paint factory from the middle of the 20th century. With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Gennebreck was split off around Flanhard and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 , p. 124 .
  2. a b Wilhelm von Kürten: Development and structure of the community Gennebreck . In: BHS . tape 4 , 1954, pp. 47-64 .
  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. Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 236 .