Freudenberg (Elberfeld)

Freudenberg City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 23 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 56"  E
Height :	326 m above sea level NHN
Location of Freudenberg in Wuppertal

Freudenberg is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The place Freudenberg is located on the southeast edge of the residential area Grifflenberg in the Elberfeld district at an altitude of 326  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring locations are Böhler Hof , Sandhof , Kapellen , Vorm Eichholz and Dorn .

history

On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the place is recorded as Am Freudenberg , on the Prussian first survey of 1843 the place bears the name Freudenberg

In 1815/16 the place had 14 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the Fuhrter Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, which was categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had two residential buildings and an agricultural building at the time. At that time 15 people lived in the place, all of them Protestant faith.

Freudenberg was at the intersection of two regionally important roads. One of them was the Altweg from Elberfeld via Sandhof, Freudenberg, Dorn and Monschau to Ronsdorf , today's streets Am Freudenberg and Dorner Weg . It was expanded in the 1740s as part of the Werden - Elberfeld - Ronsdorf - Lüttringhausen - Lennep road connection.

The other was the coal route from Heckinghausen to Cronenberg . In the district map Elber field of the Johann von der Waye of 1602 is at Freudenberg as to the Kohlestras a designated Höhenweg barrier located. This allowed the passage through the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr . This part of the coal route was expanded to the motorway-like state road 418 in the 1980s . A tram line ran past Freudenberg from the 1920s to the 1960s, and to the east of it another tram line in the Gelpetal Tunnel crossed the town and the Höhenweg.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a large restaurant in Freudenberg. With the construction of the Saarburg barracks in the 1930s (later renamed Generaloberst Hoepner barracks), the large-scale development of the local area began. The Freudenberg campus of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal is now housed in the former barracks .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
2. ^ Rhenish city atlas : Ronsdorf ; Ed .: Landschaftsverband Rheinland ; Lfg. VI No. 33, 1980; Editor: Klaus Goebel in connection with Reinhold Kaiser, ISBN 3-7927-0617-2