Heather (barmen)

pagan City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 13 ″  E
Height :	344 m above sea level NHN
Location of Heide in Wuppertal
Old slate house between Heide and Domenjan

Heide , Heid and formerly also called Gockelsheide , was a location in the Bergisch city ​​of Barmen , (today part of Wuppertal ). The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen.

Location and description

The location was in the west of today's residential area Lichtenplatz in the district of Barmen in the area of Böhler Weg , Müngstener Straße and Oberbergische Straße . It is located at an altitude of 340  m above sea level. NHN on the Lichtscheid ridge above the basin of the Auer Bach , a tributary of the Wupper . To the south-west lies the highest point of the city ( 350  m above sea level ), on which the old Lichtscheider water tower was located. Also to the south is the headquarters of the Barmer GEK insurance company .

To the south there is a Hornbach hardware store and a Bauhaus hardware store , the management of the companies Vorwerk Drivetec and Vorwerk Autotec and to the west the federal police (formerly riot police ) on the site of the former Barmer stadium . The extensive factory buildings of the companies Vorwerk Drivetec and Vorwerk Autotec have been largely demolished in recent years to make room for the hardware store . Most recently, they served as a space for the Wuppertal Technology Center ( W-Tec ), which moved to Lise-Meitner-Straße in 2003. The southern residential development along Oberbergische Strasse , consisting of an agricultural property and a small residential courtyard, was also demolished in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. Two residential buildings on the corner of Oberbergische Strasse and Müngstener Strasse in 2009. Several years earlier, a new building area was built on the site of an older housing estate opposite near Buschland .

The name Heide / Gockelsheide was for the most part no longer in the minds of the population as an independent name for this location, until a nearby new development called Wohnpark Gockelsheide re-established the name in 2013 .

history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

The exact age of this farm is not known, the earliest mention of Heide with a date comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. However, it can be assumed that the farm is considerably older. In the official accounts, Heide is given the name Gockel (form of Gottschalk ) and is counted among the Kotten , i.e. the smaller courtyards.

Due to the insufficient sources, it is unproven, but possible that Heide belonged to the " goods in Barmen " (" Bona de Barme ") in the Electorate of Cologne, already mentioned in 1245 , which was owned by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as an allod of the Counts von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around Heide was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established .

On a court list from 1641 and on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the court is still listed as Gockelsheide , as well as on the chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking .

Heide was on the Barmer Kohlenweg (Trasse Müngstener Straße , Böhler Weg , Obere Böhle ) from the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke over the heights to the hammer mill in the Cronenberg area, over the coal mines from the Brandenburg mine south of the Ruhr from the 16th to the 19th century ( space Sprockhövel , Wetter (Ruhr) , Witten and Hattingen ) were imported.

In 1902/03, the 44.4 meter high old Lichtscheider water tower was built on the highest point to provide drinking water in Barmer . The Barmer Stadium was built in 1909, and its cycling track enjoyed great popularity. The inn " Beautiful View " or " sports restaurant Finkenstein " ( Obergische street corner Böhler way ) near the stadium was a popular tourist cafe that time. To the east of the stadium, a police station shelter was built in the 1920s . In 1919, the Bundeshöhe , the headquarters of the YMCA-Westbund , was built west of Heides on Böhler Weg . Even today there is a home and a conference center of the YMCA on the site .

The Vorwerk factory had expanded considerably until the 1930s and now took up the entire area between the intersection and the Barmer stadium. The construction of the temporary Catholic church at the foot of the water tower, which was demolished after 1955, also fell during this period. During the Second World War , a barracks settlement for workers from the occupied territories was built at the water tower , which was used after the war as living quarters for refugees and bombed-out citizens. On December 2, 1977, the old Lichtscheider water tower was blown up amid public protests. A previously constructed new building, the Lichtscheider water tower, took over its task .

From 2013, a new housing estate was built in the vicinity on the site of a tennis hall with outdoor facilities and a sports studio set up for this purpose, which was named by the developer Wohnpark Gockelsheide . The topping-out ceremony took place in March 2014.

literature

• Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Kohlenweg on ruhrkohlenrevier.de
2. ^ Böhler Weg: New housing estate on old tennis courts. Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of February 15, 2014 ( online version )