Ganspohl

Ganspohl City of Langenfeld (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	49 m above sea level NN
Location of Ganspohl in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Goose Pohl is a local situation in to Langenfeld counting district Immigrath called.

geography

Today, the Ganspohl is located in the city ​​center and is therefore sometimes referred to as a “core of the Langenfeld city center”. It is located on the section of the Galkhauser Bach called Ganspohler Bach , which takes in all the brooks in the urban area and leads them to the Baumberger Alt rheinarm . The former hamlet , not only in Langenfeld, but also in the middle of Immigrath , is connected to the Hucklenbruch via the valley road . Via Solinger Straße there is a connection to Hardt , via Richrather Straße to Steinrausch and to Richrath . There is also a connection via the main street with Langenfeld-Mitte and via the Bachstraße with Stevenshoven and Berghausen . The central location as well as the " traffic " routed via Ganspohl , on foot , on horseback and by carriage , led to the construction of a bridge over the Ganspohler Bach early on . It is known from the year 1837 that there were only four stream bridges in Langenfeld, the maintenance of which the community had to take care of, one of which was at Haus Arndt am Ganspohl . A bridge at Haus Arndt is mentioned as early as 1784 in connection with the stagecoach system and the post lines , led over the Cölln-Düsseldorffer middle station at Haus Wagner .

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  Haus Arndt farm , now a restaurant

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  The arches of the arcades indicate the course of the stream.

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  Since 1913 at Ganspohl, L'felder weekly market

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  Once a peasantry, now a pedestrian zone

About the name

A misleading Jansenpfuhl appears on a map around 1760 , but basically Ganspohl is used throughout in different spellings. Thereby forming goose and -pohl the two syllables of its own name whose meaning is here to explain. It is easy with regard to the first syllable of the word. The word goose is derived from the Latin anser and the old Indian bansas and means nothing else than the goose we are still familiar with today . The -pohl seems less understandable at first, but has been retained in the English word pool . It stands for a pool or pond , as is shown on maps for the Ganspohl . In Middle Low German pol can be found as well as pul , but the fact that Ganspohl is mentioned mainly with "o" suggests that the district already existed under this name in the Middle Ages.

history

Iron Age and Middle Ages

We have just spoken of the stagecoach system and of the brook bridge, where the road toll , so-called “barrier money”, was to be paid. Apparently so here is one for stagecoach times in the early modern turnpike stood as used for much longer and much earlier time for the customs house has survived. The reason for the customs house was the Mauspfad , an old road from the early Iron Age that, coming from Opladen in Langenfeld , led over the Rosendahlsberg , through Schnepprath and past Köttingen and Kämpe to Hausingen. From there, the route then ran over today's Opladener Straße through the locations Hagelkreuz and Galkhausen . Over the Hucklenbruch , the path continued through the valley road towards the Ganspohl . From here the route went via Richrather Strasse , the Steinrausch to Richrath and on to the customs house , where the toll had to be paid. This route, called Butenweg from Hilden , connected the Rheingau with Essen , where it reached the Hellweg . Incidentally, because of this old path across the Ganspohl, it can be assumed that people could have settled on the Ganspohl at an early age.

Modern times

Fountain on the market in Langenfeld

Ganspohl's most popular playground

The Ganspohl used to be nothing more than a farm and for a long time it was just a patch with a few houses. Only the significant increase in the number of the population after 1800 did the districts merge to form today's Langenfeld in the second half of the 19th century . In 1816, for example, a table listed the Ganspohl as a peasantry with just 98 inhabitants .

Another source, however, reports from a census from 1813 and from 121 inhabitants, of whom 21 were men , 20 women , 38 boys and bachelors , 40 girls and virgins and two widows . Broken down according to religion , the statistics showed 93 Catholic , 16 Lutheran , 7 Reformed and 5 Jewish citizens. By the end of the 18th century - here, the term "peasantry" into perspective - in addition to be Ackerer the professions baker , Half Man , Radmacher , carpenter and weaver listed, so a craft orientation of goose Pohl is recognizable.

The oldest mention of the Ganspohl so far comes from the year 1546. In the archives of the Counts of Mirbach zu Harff, a " Gerhard Stetzes uff dem Ganßpoll" is mentioned, who took part in the court court among the " sworn courtiers". It is known from the tombstone of another lay judge that he, a " Bartholomäus Krengel auffem Ganßpfuhl, Scheffe der Herrlichkeit Richrath, died at the age of 63 on October 23, 1687". Furthermore, on the occasion of a French invasion in the autumn of 1688, a list has been preserved in which contributions from, among others, citizens of the Ganspohl had to be raised.

In the course of the 19th century the evidence for the Ganspohl became more frequent and there were maps on which the district is shown. It is therefore known that the residents of the village settled in houses on both sides of the road, which later became the provincial road Elberfeld – Hitdorf , and that towards Hucklenbroich , an elongated pond that angled to the southeast was located. The variety of occupations also increased. In addition to the professions already mentioned, there are now postillons , a butcher , a blacksmith , an innkeeper and even a doctor .

Of the 24 people of Jewish faith in Langenfeld, only five lived directly on the Ganspohl in 1813 . If the area was of regional importance for the Jews, it was because of their prayer house , which had existed here since 1744. In addition, there was an auxiliary synagogue on Ganspohl, first mentioned in 1816 , although the year it was founded is still unknown. Their age was already described at the beginning of the 19th century with the phrase “since unthinkable years” and was used by 31 Jews from Langenfeld and Monheim am Rhein at the time . Therefore, it seems logical to us that after thorough planning a new synagogue ( Synagogue zu Ganspohl ) was also built again on Ganspohl to replace it. Its inauguration was from December 17th to 19th, 1869.

Miscellaneous

• In 1881 there were six mailboxes available for the convenience of the public , one each in Berghausen , Immigrath , Reusrath , Richrath , Wiescheid and at Ganspohl .
• In 1883 there were two innkeepers on the Ganspohl who offered dance events . These "dance pleasures" made the authorities to create. There is even talk of a worrying increase and police surveillance, imprisonment and fines . District Administrator Lucas even took up the cause of having reduced the number of pubs during his tenure as the population increased.
• In 1910 the first Immigrant fire station was built on Ganspohl . It was considered to be particularly progressive because it represented a combination of a fire station, a massive riser tower and an apartment .
• In 1913 the first weekly market was set up in the city center on Ganspohl .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} VHS working group "History", " The district of Ganspohl and Arndt House ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1989
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
3. ^ Friedhelm Görgens, Langenfeld , Droste, Düsseldorf 1984
4. ↑ Heinz Müller, place and field names in the home calendar of the Rhein-Wupper district 1955, p. 41 ff.