Gallows bush
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Gallows bush
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 31 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 220 m | |
Location of Galgenbusch in Wuppertal |
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 The desert of Galgenbusch
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Galgenbusch was a court in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal . Today the place is a desert .
Location and description
The Hofschaft was in the northwest of the city Elberfeld to 232 meters above sea level in the district Below Seven Eick of the Wuppertal residential district Seven Eick in the district Uellendahl-Katerberg on the outskirts of Velbert.
history
Galgenbusch was one of the places to live in the Unterste Siebeneick peasantry of the Bergische Herrschaft Hardenberg . It was on the Alte Kölnische Strasse from Cologne via Hilden , Erkrath - Hochdahl , Mettmann - Diepensiepen and Wülfrath - Oberdüssel to Westphalia. Based on the place name, it can be assumed that there was an execution site near Galgenbusch .
In the 19th century gallows Busch was one of the villages outside the peasantry Below Seven Eick of the mayoralty Hardenberg established in 1935 Neviges has been renamed. From 1816 to 1861 it belonged to the Elberfeld district and from 1861 to the old Mettmann district . In 1888, four residents lived in one house in Galgenbusch. In the middle of the 20th century the place fell into desolation. Due to the regional reform of North Rhine-Westphalia , Neviges came to the city of Velbert at the beginning of 1975 and the eastern suburbs of Neviges around Galgenbusch were incorporated into Wuppertal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.