Hohenhagen (Wuppertal)

Hohenhagen City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	approx. 260 m above sea level NHN
Location of Hohenhagen in Wuppertal

Hohenhagen is a location in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is in the far east of the Uellendahl-Ost residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district, right on the border between Elberfeld and Barmen at an altitude of 260  m above sea level. NHN at what is now the Hohenhagen spur road of the same name .

Neighboring locations, courtyards and living spaces are Auf'm Hagen , Uellendahler Brunnen , Dickten , Horather Schanze , Horath (Wuppertal) , Horath (Sprockhövel) , municipality , Siepen and Tente .

At the location there is a sports and leisure center called Rainbow Park , the nature reserve Hohenhager Bachtal and the surrounding area begins on the northeastern edge of the village.

history

On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the farm ahHacken is recorded. In the 19th century Hohenhagen belonged to the rural community Gennebreck in the Schwelm district . The place is labeled on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as Hagen and on the Prussian first survey from 1843 as Am Hagen , on the Wuppertal city map from 1930 with Hohenhagen . The border with the city of Elberfeld ran southwest of the farm, and the border with the city of Barmen to the southeast .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia from 1887, three houses with 40 inhabitants are given.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part around Hohenhagen was split off from Gennebreck and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal. A coal route ran past the site from Sprockhövel to Elberfeld , on which hard coal was transported from the mines in the southern Ruhr area to the factories in Wuppertal at the end of the 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century , which at that time was the industrial heart of the Region was. A ravine of the coal path has been preserved in the area near Hohenhagen , which is called the Franzosenweg and whose cut is protected as a natural monument .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau [Prussia] (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, With an appendix concerning the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, Berlin SW 1887
2. ↑ Kohlenwege on Ruhrkohlenrevier.de