In the big bush

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The forest area Im Großer Busch , rarely also known as Zum Großer Busch or Großer Busch , is located in the northwest of Wuppertal at the intersection of the three urban districts of Vohwinkel , Elberfeld-West and Uellendahl-Katernberg . Today it has an area of ​​around 26 hectares.

The forest area lies on the watershed of the rivers Wupper and Ruhr and, as part of the Düsseler Höhe, belongs to the Wuppertal Northern Heights . On the northern heights, an old road ran in a west-east direction , which on old maps was called Kohlenweg . The route is largely used by today's roads.

The Wuppertaler Rundweg and the Eulenkopfweg cross the forest area.

geology

Adjacent to the north is Gut Steinberg , one of the older houses in today's Wuppertal area. It was built in 1790 from stones that the landowner got from a small quarry in the Großer Bush, around 200 meters from the estate. This quarry is recognizable as a channel around 114 meters long and 22 meters wide in the forest.

In 1857 a large number of fossils from the Lower Carboniferous were found , the sequence of layers was described in scientific literature as the location "Aprath" or "Aprathium". Among other things, trilobites were found , one of which is named "Archegonus (Phillibole) aprathensis" after the place where it was found.

During construction of the tunnel Big bush in the late 1980s, a further opportunity for the revealed Paleontology -Research in Massenkalk - rocks . The investigations produced abundant finds and essential new insights into the processes in the Mississippium (also known as the “Lower Carboniferous”) in this region. The evaluations of the finds extended over several years.

Natural monument

The former quarry with the exposure of various layers of the Lower Carboniferous and the Aprath layers with their diverse fossil finds was recognized as a geological natural monument on November 30, 1979. The outcrop should therefore be kept free from excessive vegetation.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Reising, Der Eulenkopfweg - The history of stones, plants, animals and people on the north-western edge of the city of Wuppertal , Hammer Verlag, ISBN 3-87294-282-4
  2. ↑ Paul Reising: News from the Eulenkopfweg: the history of stones, plants, animals and people on the north-western edge of the city of Wuppertal Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-87093-068-3

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 50 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 53"  E