Hohenholz (Wuppertal)

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Hohenholz
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 285 m above sea level NHN
Hohenholz (Wuppertal)
Hohenholz

Location of Hohenholz in Wuppertal

Hohenholz is a residential area in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The residential area is in the east of the Dönberg residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district at an altitude of 285  m above sea level. NHN in the area of ​​today's streets Waldstraße , Eggenbruch and Zum Lohbusch . The original living space has been incorporated into the closed settlement area of ​​the streets mentioned.

In addition to Dönberg, neighboring places are the residential areas and courts of Prinzberg , Halbachsbusch , Lohbusch , Königssiepen Dickkothen , Horather Schanze and Horath as well as the Sprockhövel villages of Lohbusch , Kottenengel and Horath .

In the local dialect, the place was also referred to as em Hohenholt .

history

In the 19th century Hohenholz belonged to the outlying villages of the farmers and the parish Dönberg in the mayor's office Hardenberg , which was renamed Neviges in 1935 . From 1816 to 1861 it belonged to the Elberfeld district and from 1861 to the old Mettmann district .

The place is labeled on the Prussian first recording from 1843 as Höhenholz . The place is labeled as Hohenholz on measuring table sheets from the first half of the 20th century .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, two houses with 24 inhabitants are given.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Dönberg was split off and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal with other Nevigeser villages outside Dönberg, the rest of Dönberg with Hohenholz initially remained with Neviges. As a result of the regional reform of North Rhine-Westphalia , Neviges came to the city of Velbert at the beginning of 1975 and the rest of the Dönberg was also incorporated into Wuppertal.

literature

  • Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge , Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge, Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976
  2. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.