Heiderhöfen
In the High Middle Ages, Heiderhöfen was a residential area in what is now Alstaden an der Ruhr , a district of Oberhausen in the Rhenish part of the Ruhr area . During the course of industrialization, the courtyards grew together with Alstaden, but their name lives on today in the form of the street name Heiderhöfen .
history
The Heiderhöfen were built on the edge of the Alstadener Lehmspreite, at a culvert of the Bergische Landwehr . Their name indicates the heathland on which they were created. Since this area is rather unsuitable for agriculture, its emergence is often attributed to the more recent times, even if it must have been created before the name Alstaden was created , since the frequent translation of Alstaden as "old site" only with regard to the Höfe an der Heide is to be understood. Like Alstaden, the Heiderhöfe belonged to the Broich rule in the Duchy of Berg since the early Middle Ages . The old Landwehr was the border to Meiderich until the 17th century , before Alstaden and with it the Broich rule expanded further north into the Lipper Heide .
The farms Flocken, Häntgen, Lukas, Kiepen, Gräfermann and Rademacher, right on the edge of the Heider, are known from the Rauchhühner index of the Broich manor. Where the Vltava, a small, meanwhile dried up watercourse, flowed into the Ruhr floodplains, there were other old farm estates, namely Lohmann, Roland, Gütz and Bruß. Later, the Kuhlmann, Kämpgen, Mertens, Ortmann, Bonett and Wintgens farms in Büschken were built west of the old Heiderhöfe in the so-called “new field”. The establishment of these farmsteads is dated to the late 17th century.
The courtyards in the heather formed the Alstaden community with Alstaden from the 16th century, and later the Alstaden community from around 1800 . In the course of industrialization and the associated rapid population growth, the Heiderhöfen grew together with Alstaden from the middle of the 19th century. Until the First World War , Heiderhöfen was still used to denote the western part of Alstadens, before the name became the street name of the old Bismarckstraße , the former Dorfstraße of the Heiderhöfen, when Alstadens was incorporated into the new mayor's office in Oberhausen in 1910 .
Kiepen's yard
The most important of the Heiderhöfe has always been the Kiepens Hof , which already existed around 1550. It is the only farm that is listed as a “free estate” in a list of the Broich rule. In a Broich document from the 16th century it says that in the Kiepenhof (called "Keypengoed"), which belongs to the parish of Meiderich, the baptisms take place and the dead are buried. In later times the owners of the farm often serve as elders or superintendents for Alstaden. In 1655 Arndt Kippen died, who at the age of 90 reached an age that was Methuselah at the time.
Around 1821 the Kiepen owned large estates in Alstaden. Well-known names such as Rehmer , Stubbenbaum , Franzenkamp , Kiwittenberg and Breitenbruch , which are still street names today , appear on a map of their goods . The last name bearer is said to have been Kiepens Gretchen, who died around 1900. The Kiepens Hof building, which was built at the end of the 18th century, still exists today and is a listed building.
The name of the Prussian Queen Luise also appears in connection with the Kiepens Hof. She is said to have been a frequent guest at the Kiepens Hof in Alstaden during the summer months of 1787 and 1791, which she spent at Broich Castle. In 1791 she gave the farmer Kiepen a Bible for his gold wedding anniversary.
Survival of the Heiderhöfen
Although Heiderhöfen has long ceased to exist as a place to live, some buildings and especially street names still remind of the old village. The Heiderhöfen live on most strongly in the street name Heiderhöfen , which the old village street bears. Many old field names from the area of the Heiderhöfen have become different street names today, including the Rehmer , the Stubbenbaum (“trimmed tree”), the Franzenkamp (“French field”), the Kiwittenberg (“Kiebitzenberg”) as well as the Breitenbruch and the Broicher Strasse, both of which are reminiscent of the marshland in which the Heiderhöfen were built.
In addition, some street names are reminiscent of old farms that were part of the Heiderhöfe. The Flockenfeld leads through the former fields of the Heiderhöfer farmer Flocken, the Kiepenfeld through those of the Kiepens Hof. A new building area in the south of the Heiderhöfen was given the name Lohmannshof in 2015 .
The Kiepens Hof still exists today as a listed building on Fröbelplatz, the old Heiderhöfer village square, with the address Flügelstr. 132. It is a brick building with a gable roof and rectangular windows, which is said to have been built around 1800. The small footpath that begins next to the Kiepens Hof and leads over the Germaniaweg to the Blattstrasse was called Weg von Kiepens Heck around 1823 and is still popularly known today as the Kiepens Eck .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Alfred & Ulrich Lindemann: 500 kilometers of Oberhausen street history, 1997
- ↑ a b c d Marianne Vier, Rudi Pilat: Alstaden. 1000 year old district on the Ruhr . Published by Bürgerring Oberhausen-Alstaden 1950. Self-published, Oberhausen 1998
- ↑ TIM-Online. Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Oberhausen. (PDF; 105 kB) Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
- ^ City of Mülheim ad Ruhr: Timeline of the city's history. Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
- ^ Official Journal for the City of Oberhausen. (PDF) June 15, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
- ^ Oberhausen monuments: Former Kiepen's yard. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 9, 2015 ; Retrieved April 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
