Huckenbach
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Huckenbach
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 5 ″ E
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| Height : | 301 m above sea level NHN | |
| Incorporation : | 1975 | |
Location of Huckenbach in Wuppertal |
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 Huckenbach
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Huckenbach is a court in the district of Ronsdorf in the mountainous city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Location and description
The village is located in a spring basin in the west of Ronsdorf in the residential area Ronsdorf-Mitte / Nord at an altitude of 300 m above sea level. NHN . The Huckenbach , one of the two source streams of the Gelpe, has its source near the Hofschaft . Huckenbach consists of three residential buildings and has twelve residents (as of 2007) .
Etymology and history
Huckenbach is mentioned in a document as early as 1312. In 1715, Erich Philipp Ploennies recorded the court as Huckenbec in his work Topographia Ducatus Montani . The origin of the name is in the Low German suspected word "Hucke" what toad or toad does.
The building in the center of the village was built in 1753 for the entrepreneur Peter Erbschlö. The two surrounding half-timbered houses were built during the 19th century.
In 1832 Huckenbach belonged to the Holthauser Rotte of the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had eight residential buildings and five agricultural buildings at the time. At that time 81 people lived in the place, 17 Catholic and 64 Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, six houses with 87 inhabitants are given.
Hiking and biking trails
Several hiking and riding trails run through the village or in its vicinity at the "entrance to the Gelpe Valley" . The site of Huckenbach, which is protected as an architectural monument , with its half-timbered and slate houses and the location in a hollow surrounded by meadows almost represents the ideal image of a court in the Bergisches Land.
The following hiking trails lead through the village:
- The local hiking trail = from Parkstrasse to Hahnerberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronsdorf Chronicle until 1699
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ 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.