Garschager Heide
The Garschager Heide is predominantly a recreational area characterized by agricultural land in the Remscheid district of Lüttringhausen on the city limits of Wuppertal .
Location and geography
The local recreation area in the east of Lüttringhausen, which, contrary to what the name suggests, is largely not a heathland , is in the west by the railway line Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Solingen in the south by the state road 58 (formerly federal road 51 ), in the southeast and east by the state road 411 and bounded in the north by state road 81. The north and east of Garschager Heide are dominated by smaller forest areas. The city boundary between Remscheid and Wuppertal runs right through the recreation area.
The federal highway 1 also divides the Garschager Heide into two parts. The smaller western area near Lüttringhausen is largely taken up by the source area and the upper reaches of the Marscheider Bach and is protected as a nature reserve Upper Marscheider Bachtal . A small part of the area is occupied by a local location in Lüttringhausen with residential and smaller commercial buildings on Ritterstrasse , on the edge of which there is also the old Lüttringhausen water tower , which has been converted into a residential tower.
In the larger eastern part are the three court communities Obergarschagen, Mittelgarschagen and Untergarschagen, which gave the area its name. Other places to live are Schreverheide, Garnixhäuschen and Grunewald. The Herbringhauser Bach and its tributaries Garschagener Bach arise in the southeast of the area, flow through the Garschager Heide in their upper reaches and flow into the Kreuzmühle pre- dam of the nearby Herbringhauser Dam . The Olper Höhe in the north is a popular starting point for walks in the local recreation area.
history
In the late Middle Ages, Garschagen was a separate Bergische Honschaft in the Beyenburg office , to which the farms in the area were subordinate. On the Herbringhauser Bach, the cross mill of the same name, first mentioned in 1597, has stood at the level of the dam of the Kreuzmühle barrier since modern times. It burned down in 1955 and was then removed.
Web links
- "Garschager Heide" nature reserve (RS-007) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 40 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 42 ″ E