Haspel (Wuppertal)

reel City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	147 m above sea level NHN
Location of Haspel in Wuppertal

Haspel is a district of the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal in the valley of the Wupper . The location arose from a Wupperfurt and the Furter Hof located next to it , one of the original medieval farms of Barmen .

Location and description

Haspel is located in the Friedrich-Engels-Allee residential area of the Barmen district on the border of the former large cities and today's (since 1929) Wuppertal districts of Elberfeld and Barmen . The listed Haspeler Brücke has been connecting the two places across the river for more than a hundred years. At this point there was a Wupperfurt since the Middle Ages before the first bridge was built . South of the nearby mouth of the Bendahler Bach , in the area of ​​today's Bendahler Strasse / Mauerstrasse, was one of the old Barmer farms of origin, the Hof zur Furt . This farm north of neighboring Bendahl was the first settlement in today's Haspel.

Haspel is densely built up and belongs to the inner-city area along the Wupper. To the west is the court island with the Wuppertal district and regional court , to the north the Hardtberg rises up with the Hardt park . To the south lies the Unterbarmer train station and the specialist and retail market center in the former Wicküler brewery . The botanical garden , the Elisenturm and the Bismarck tower are located in the park and can be reached quickly from Haspel via the Elisentreppe .

The culturally and historically significant buildings in Haspel include the Landgericht suspension railway station , the Haspel houses , which include the Wuppertal City Archives , and the Pauluskirche . On Campus Haspel, the faculty is for Architecture and Civil Engineering of the University of Wuppertal .

Etymology and history

The Haspeler Bridge

The reel houses

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

The name Furter Hof, first mentioned in 1466 as Hof ter Vort (Hof zur Furt), is explained by its location south of the Wupperfurt, which was first mentioned in a document around 1300.

The name Haspel is derived indirectly from its border location. In the Middle Ages, the district boundary was the eastern boundary of the Free County of Volmarstein in the Electorate of Cologne . After the territorial transition to the Duchy of Berg , this older border was now the border between the Bergisch offices of Beyenburg (before 1399 to Berg) and Elberfeld (from 1428 to Berg) in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . This border was secured with the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr . There was a passage in this Landwehr near Wupperfurt. In addition to the barrier for the wagons , there was also a passage for people in the form of a turnstile , a reel . This device was finally transferred as a name to the location and the district. 1789 is on the Charter of the Duchy of Berg of the Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking already a double local situation Thor Fort recorded (to ford) and reel.

The earliest dated mention of the Furter Hof south of the Landwehr passage comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. Due to the insufficient sources, it is not proven, but possible, that the Furter Hof belongs to the " Goods in Barmen " (" Bona de Barme ") in the Electorate of Cologne, mentioned in 1244, belonged to Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as an allod in the possession of the Counts of Berg under Count Heinrich IV . From the late 14th century onwards , the area around the Furter Hof was part of Unterbarmen in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established . In 1641 the size of the Furter Hof is given as 20 acres .

1603 is on a Gemarkenkarte of Johann van der Waye the court as Vurderhöffe to Ibbert , 1715 on the Topographia Ducatus Montani of Erich Philipp Ploennies as Terfort recorded. With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , the Furter Hof was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806. The first stone bridge over the Wupper to replace the ford was destroyed by ice in 1729 .

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. ↑ Bergische Universität Wuppertal : Site plan ( memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 23, 2011; PDF; 35 kB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .