Heckinghausen

Heckinghausen (70) district of Wuppertal
Coordinates	51 ° 16 '14 "  N , 7 ° 13' 34"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '14 "  N , 7 ° 13' 34"  E.
surface	1.81 km²
Residents	13,097 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density	7236 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	24.6% (Dec. 31, 2016)
Post Code	42289
prefix	0202
Borough	Heckinghausen
Transport links
bus	611 636 638 644 646 NE5 AST02 AST11 AST38
Source: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data

The Heckinghausen residential area in Wuppertal is one of three residential areas in the Heckinghausen district of the same name . It encompasses the core area of ​​the old Heckinghausen district and is the location of the medieval Heckinghauser Höfe from which it emerged. Today's Heckinghausen district, on the other hand, encompasses a larger area that also contains parts that historically did not belong to Heckinghausen.

geography

The 1.81 km² residential area is bordered in the east by the Rauentaler Bergstrasse , from the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke by the course of the Wupper , in the south by the streets Bockmühle , Bockmühlberg and Hammesberg . To the west it is bounded by Forestastrasse , Mörikestrasse , Grillparzerweg and the lower section of Heidter Berg , to the northwest the course of the Wupper and to the northeast the Widukindstrasse represent the border to the neighboring residential areas.

Clockwise, the residential quarters Rauental , Hammesberg , Heidt , Barmen-Mitte and Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach surround the Heckinghausen quarter.

The north and east are characterized by closed inner-city residential developments, while the southern part is occupied by the wooded Kaiser-Wilhelm-Höhe , part of the Barmer Forest . For the culturally and historically significant and therefore under monument protection structures identified include the Heckinghauser gas tank and one of the oldest buildings in the house Spieker street 12a . Came off Krebs-Clef . The Butane Club , located near the gas tank, was one of the best-known German techno clubs until it closed in 2018.

Bockmühle and the eastern part of Clef are among the old places to live in the residential area .

A community elementary school is located on Meyerstraße.

Etymology and history

The ending -inghausen suggests a settlement in the 8th to 10th centuries by the Borchter , who lived in the central Ruhr region and were under Saxon rule up to the Charlemagne wars . Heckinghausen is interpreted as the house of the Hecko clan .

In the Middle Ages, Heckinghausen belonged to the Schwelm parish and was located east of the near border of the deaneries Lüdenscheid and Neuss. Administratively it belonged to the Franconian Ruhr or Keldachgau under the rule of the Ezzone until the 11th century and from the 12th century to the Electoral Cologne judicial district of Volmarstein and the later Free County of Volmarstein .

The Heckinghauser Höfe had been an allod of the Counts of Mark since 1384 , who also came into the possession of the Schwelm parish, which had been conquered by Kurköln , between 1300 and 1324 and who now ruled the part of Barmen, known as Oberbarmen. The upper court of the Brandenburg farm association within Oberbarmen was Wichlinghausen , the Heckinghauser farms were subject to its jurisdiction in the lower jurisdiction .

After the territorial transition of Oberbarmen to the Bergische dukes between 1399 and 1420, Heckinghausen became part of the Barmer peasantry in the Bergische Amt of Beyenburg . The territorial border between Berg and Mark ran from 1420 at the latest to the east of Heckinghausen an der Wupper, so that Heckinghausen remained a Brandenburg exclave in the Berg territory.

The earliest secured with date mentioned Hecking Stockhausen comes from the Beyenburger office account (settlement of Rentmeister's to the Bergisch-ducal Kameralverwaltung ) of the year 1466. From this it appears that the living space Heckinghausen at this time in four full-yards was divided, the one Hermann, a Peter, a Wilhelm and a Wever belonged.

The city district is located on the Wupper River , where dyeing companies in the textile industry settled in the 18th century. A simple memorial plaque at Heckinghauser Str. 162 commemorates the home of Friedrich Bayer , who together with the master dyer Johann Friedr. Weskott founded the company Friedr. Bayer et Comp. founded, from which the global company of paint factories Bayer AG in Leverkusen emerged. In the 19th century the district grew together with the then city of Barmen (for more details on the history see there), with which it was merged in 1929 in what would later become Wuppertal. During the Second World War , Heckinghausen suffered severe damage.

In 1815/16 the place had 607 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to Section D of the rural outskirts of the Barmen mayor . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was called Heckinghausen at that time and had 47 residential houses, 21 agricultural buildings and a factory or mill. At that time, 990 people lived in the village, 49 of them Catholic and 941 Protestant.

Web links

See also : List of architectural monuments in the Heckinghausen residential area in Wuppertal

Commons : Heckinghausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Wuppertal: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data . In: wuppertal.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836