Hilgenpütt
The Hilgenpütt is a forest area in the district of Gennebreck in the south of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Sprockhövel ( Ennepe-Ruhr district ) on the city limits of Wuppertal , district Nachbarebreck .
Location and description
The forest area lies just north of the watershed of the river systems of the Wupper and the Ruhr . Therefore, the streams that arise north above the forest area or at the edge of the forest, including the Felderbach , all drain north into the Ruhr. The watershed is formed from the boundary sandstone layers of the Productive Carboniferous .
Two golf courses (Golfclub Felderbach and Golfclub Juliana) are located to the northeast of the forest, to the north the terrain slopes down to the Herzkämper Mulde , where the coal seams of the Ruhr area that were emerging from the Ruhr area have been mined since the 15th century . The forest area borders in the east on the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen railway line with the Scheetunnel and the old customs town of Alter Schee , which has also been mining coal since the late Middle Ages . The area around the Hilgenpütt is one of the earliest hard coal mining sites in the Ruhr area.
Adjacent to the forest is located in the north, the Hofschaft Big Siepen , the culturally and historically significant and therefore a number of listed has buildings from the early modern period. To the west lies the Sprockhövel village of Herzkamp , which was home to the southernmost shaft of the Ruhr area mining industry. The state road L432 and the federal highway 46 run south in the Wuppertal city area .
The Wuppertal circular route , the Gennebrecker circular route and other local hiking trails cross the forest area.
Etymology and history
The name Hilgenpütt probably derives from a sacred spring. " Pütt " (also " Pött ") stands as a property name for pool , pond or fountain , see also Pütt . Hilgen is a derivative of Heilig .
The forest belonged in the Middle Ages to Schee'er or Einener Mark, a Markwald of Mark comrades of the surrounding Hofschaften, in turn, a allodium the provost and in 1390 the abbot of the monastery are goods that Allofialbesitzer of Oberhof Einern were. In the late Middle Ages , the Counts of the Mark , who had previously held the monastic bailiff's office , ruled over Schee and the surrounding farms. Schee with the Schee'er Mark was assigned to the Weather Office and had been on the border with the Duchy of Berg since 1245 . According to canon law it was in the parish of Schwelm .
After the conquest of the county of Mark by France , the Hilgenpütt became part of the Département Ruhr in the arrondissement of Hagen , Mairie Haßlinghausen in 1806 . In 1815 the French occupied area came to Prussia .
Two days before the arrival of the Americans were in a now filled-quarry two deserters German soldiers from the military police shot and left. The identity of the victims of this end- stage crime has never been clarified. The forest area gained national prominence in the press due to another homicide on November 3, 1983 in the forest area's car park. The murder could only be solved in 2008 after 25 years.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm von Kürten: Development and structure of the community Gennebreck . In: BHS . tape 4 , 1954, pp. 47-64 .
- ↑ 25 years after the Hilgenpütt murder: Life imprisonment for Andreas O. Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 21, 2008, last accessed on October 25, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 24 ″ E