Gangolfsberg (Wuppertal)

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Gangolfsberg
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 256 m above sea level NHN
Gangolfsberg (Wuppertal)
Gangolfsberg

Location of Gangolfsberg in Wuppertal

Gangolfsberg is a court in the Wuppertal residential district of Herbringhausen in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district .

geography

The Hofschaft is 256  m above sea level. NHN south of the Beyenburger reservoir , an impoundment of the Wupper near Beyenburg. On the other side of the Hengstener Bach, which flows past to the west, lies the large Beyenburg residential area Siegelberg on an elevation . Neighboring places are Hengsten , Stoffelsberg and Nöllenberg .

Etymology and history

Gangolfsberg is probably named after the Radevormwald church patron Gangolf .

In the Middle Ages, Gangolfsberg belonged to 15 other farms in the Honschaft Walbrecken in the parish Lüttringhausen of the Beyenburg office . In 1547 a list of manual and tensioning services shows that there was a dwelling. In 1547 a dwelling is documented. At that time the court was part of the Mosblech court association , which was an allod of the Bergisch dukes . In 1715 the hamlet is called Selspinsberg on the Topographia Ducatus Montani .

The Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr ran between Gangolfsberg and the stallion .

In 1815/16 there were 12 people living in the village. In 1832 Gangolfsberg was still part of the Walbrecken Honschaft, which now belonged to the mayor's office of Lüttringhausen . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place called a hamlet had five residential buildings and two agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, four of whom were Catholic and 16 were Protestant. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, four houses with 27 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. a b c Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 .
  3. ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
  4. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  5. 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.