Hahnenfurth
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Hahnenfurth
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 28 ″ E
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| Height : | 140 m above sea level NHN | |
| Incorporation : | 1975 | |
Location of Hahnenfurth in Wuppertal |
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Hahnenfurth is a district in the Vohwinkel district of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany .
Location and description
The village is located in the residential area of Schöller-Dornap on Bundesstraße 7 northeast of Schöller, directly on the city limits of Mettmann . In Hahnenfurth, district road 17 branches off from federal road 7 to Schöller.
Today, Hahnenfurth forms a closed residential area with the Am Höfchen residential area. Other neighboring places are Niederfurth , Gerhardtsfurth , Heresbach , Heistersfeld and Schöller . In the village the Grenzbach flows into the Düssel . The name Hahnenfurth is derived from a ford that was used in the village to cross the Düssel. The place is surrounded by extensive facilities, spoil heaps and quarries of the Rhine lime works Dornap and the quarry Oetelshofen .
A section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund Süd railway line (so-called “Wuppertaler Nordbahn” of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) that is closed for passenger traffic runs through the town. Hahnenfurth owned a train station Dornap-Hahnenfurth on this railway line, the high embankment of which is crossed by the federal highway 7 by means of a long tunnel . Today the extensive freight tracks for the lime loading in the lime works branch off the railway line.
history
Hahnenfurth is listed as o. Furth as a collection of several Bergischer courtyards on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715. On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the place is marked as Furth and on the Prussian first survey from 1843 as Hahnenfurth . In the 19th century as a dwelling place in the rural community was most Höfchen Scholler the mayoralty Haan (1894 mayoralty Gruiten ) from the Berg rule Schoeller emerged.
In 1879 the railway line was opened through the town. In 1815, 85 people lived in the vicinity of Hahnenfurth. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place was categorized as a courtyard and called In der Furth . At that time the local area Hahnenfurth, Am Höfchen and Niederfurth had eleven residential buildings and five agricultural buildings. 115 inhabitants lived in the place, 23 catholic and 87 evangelical faith. In 1888, according to the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , the place had two houses with 14 residents.
With the territorial reform of 1975, the municipality of Schöller was split off from the Gruiten office in the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district and incorporated into Wuppertal as the Schöller-Dornap residential area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ 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.