Hucklenbruch (Langenfeld)

Hucklenbruch City of Langenfeld (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 14 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	45 m above sea level NN
Location of Hucklenbruch in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

The Hucklenbruch is a settlement area consisting of several places ( location ) on and around the Talstrasse in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Langenfeld .

geography

Langenfeld-Hucklenbruch, the intersection Talstraße, Schulstraße, Hochstraße ("O'm Hucklenbruch")

The Hucklenbruch borders in the north on the Ganspohl , in the west on Langenfeld-Mitte , in the south on Galkhausen and in the east on the Vogelsiedlung and the Musikantenviertel , as two more recent locations are called. In earlier times there were fields and forests up to the Flachenhof and the Dückeburg . The Hucklenbruch lies in front of the old central terrace of the Rhine . The valley road that runs through the Huckenbruch in a north-south direction is accompanied for long stretches by the Galkhauser Bach , which flows north in front of the terrace. In it opens to approximately halfway Talstrasse the block Bach a.

Surname

The name Hucklenbruch consists of two name components , for a Hucklen- , on the other breakage . The second part is easy to explain and its meaning is considered certain. With break , Broich or Broch were referred to a marshland , a humid lowlands or one of Laachen Infused swampy terrain . Incidentally, the basic word -bruch can be found several times in Langenfeld and then each time for a swampy area, for example for Mehlbruch , for Ossenbruch or the Immigrather (between Hardt and Feldhausen ) or the Reusrather Bruch ( Wiesenstrasse, South ). In addition, the stream flowing through the locality is called “Saurebach” in the original cadastre and, with an acidic (= swampy) meadow on its banks , again indicates the damp ground of the Hucklenbruch.

In contrast, the first part of the place name causes problems with regard to origin and meaning. Heinrich Dittmaier took a personal name as the namesake of the Hucklenbruch and assumed that it could have been a Huckilo. This is countered by the fact that, in essence, Hugo was the namesake. In addition, this name has been tightened with the suffix -ilo . Such developments are, however, only in " Saxon times been active" and would the adoption of a foundation of Hucklenbruchs in the 9th or 10th century have resulted. However, since there are neither archaeological finds nor documents that could support such an assumption, a first settlement in the High Middle Ages can be ruled out. Furthermore, the mentions of the district since the 17th century primarily with “o” and not with “u”, as would then be expected, speak against Dittmaier's interpretation.

According to Hans Bahlow, Hucklen - in cooperation with -bruch - points to water a second time and is a language monument from pre-Germanic , Celtic times. However, this interpretation also stands in the way of a lack of archaeological finds - at least so far. However, this interpretation cannot be completely dismissed because the valley road was a section of the mouse pad .

A third attempt at an explanation can be found in the home calendar of the Rhein-Wupper district of 1955. “Hucken - luckeln-ducken. The houses duck behind the nearby bump to the east. The district lies in an old bed of the Rhine, the eastern arm in the middle terrace, ”wrote Heinz Müller. And the working group adds that Heinrich Nowottny also recognized two parallel , once swampy ditch folds in a handwritten manuscript and therefore assumed “on the hills” or “breakland lying between the hills”. Presumably, the working group had both authors the Brothers Grimm 'sche dictionary consulted, in which an important Declaration towards Hockeln , Höckeln and crouching will set out.

Population development

Around 1688 and around 1730, 55–60 inhabitants were given for the Hucklenbruch . Around 1815/16 there were 208 people, in 1829/30 there were 226 people, in 1832 there were 243 and in December 1843 there were 292 people who lived “on” the Hucklenbruch. Only then did the population grow faster. In 1875 there were 400 people and in 1905 there were already 794 inhabitants in this location.

The mouse path

The Mauspfad , which led here between Hagelkreuz and Galkhausen in the south and between Ganspohl and Immigrath in the north, over Talstrasse seems to have had little influence on the development of the district . The toll path, which is still reminiscent of this trade route , is located on the terrace facing east and, according to prevailing opinion, is not identical to this historic old road .

Mouse path and gallows

The discovery of a possible place of execution in aerial photographs taken by the Americans in 1945 on the street Zum Galkhause (ne) r Bach , which would have been located directly on the former Mauspfad, like the gallows in Richrath , Zollhaus once, could be interesting with regard to the Mauspfad . Because in terms of the nailed skull from Langenfeld is still the place of decapitation to clarify the young, apparently coming from a good family woman who obviously here because of witchcraft , a presumably short process was made. Against the background of the shift in the importance of the mouse path as a north-south connection to the new street, it would also seem understandable why the woman's skull was brought to Kölner Strasse after the execution and nailed there. There was a larger audience there and the desired deterrent effect greater. And with regard to the woman herself, it can be assumed that she traveled without “ escort ” and that her appearance evidently aroused the anger of the population . A look just to the population structure revealed namely that with the affluent , educated , cosmopolitan (her brocade - cap probably came from the Orient ) allegedly thereat confident young woman and the former inhabitants of Hucklenbruchs two worlds collided.

Professions at the Hucklenbruch

The Hucklenbruch is mentioned around 1816 as a "peasantry", so that at least a partial agricultural use can be assumed. Essentially, however, less a collection of is with "peasantry" farmhouses , but the settlement structure with isolated lying houses and a sideline -Agriculture have been meant. After all , it is difficult to make a sufficient living with agriculture on wet and acidic soils . In this context it seems only logical that a source from 1781/1789 lists various weaving professions for the Hucklenbruch . Furthermore, in connection with the industrialization of workers living at the Hucklenbruch is reported. And it lived in homework active suppliers for the Solingen steel industry ( knives - cutlery - and tool production ) in this local situation, namely shell Schneider , Feiler , Reider and grinders .

Nowadays, by the way, after this former quarry was drained , mostly middle-class and upper- middle-class people have settled here in single-family houses and terraced houses . Proof of this are the names of the new "localities" with bird settlement and musicians' quarter . Crafts and trades , on the other hand, are only to be found to a small extent, predominantly showing the character of an upscale residential area .

Socializing at the Hucklenbruch

From the second half of the 19th century, there was also a wave of founding clubs at Hucklenbruch . The “Men Singing Association Concordia ” from 1877, which was merged into the Langenfeld choir community in 1875, should be mentioned here. On the other hand, the "Jünglings-Verein Eintracht zu Hucklenbruch" from 1891 (Müller mentions 1901), the Hucklenbruch Musik-Verein Harmonie "from 1898 or the" Turnverein Langenfeld-Hucklenbruch "from 1904 are no longer in existence On the other hand, in connection with the international prizes won by the singers of the Hucklenbruch in May 1913, there was also talk of a strong feeling of togetherness among people at that time.

Miscellaneous

• In 1911, it have the records of Aehnze Käl out, was first a Rosenmontagszug performed at which the Hucklenbrucher in 1929 Karnevalsgesellschaft involved. Incidentally, both associations no longer exist, but the Aehnze Käls (the serious guys ) were completely merged into KG Spiessratzen in 1952, the oldest still existing carnival association in Langenfeld.
• Between 1849 and 1930, road construction measures and measures to drain the valley road were a constant theme of the Hucklenbruch, which was certainly understandable against the background of the damp ground.
• For more than 50 years, the Hucklenbruch sports club from 1959 (HSV Langenfeld) has carried the name of the district into the world of sports.
• When the entrepreneur Carl Theis set up the first steam engine in Langenfeld in 1865 , he also employed 20 men from Hucklenbruch. In this context, he spoke literally of the "formerly generally notorious village of Hucklenbruch". If it was ever like that, however, the reason why the Hucklenbruch family once had a bad reputation is now certainly rightly forgotten .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} VHS working group "History", " Der Hucklenbruch ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld, February 2002
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
3. ↑ ^{a b} Heinz Müller, place and field names in the home calendar of the Rhein-Wupper district 1955, p. 41 ff.
4. ↑ www.kg-spiessratzen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• http://www.hsv-langenfeld.com
• Information about the Langenfeld Carnival, accessed September 14, 2014