Jasperskotten
The Jasper Kotten is a former grinding cottas in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf in the Valley of Gelpe , around 175 meters waters downstream from the former Tippelskotten and 200 meters waters upstream from the house of Käshammers . The desert is protected as a ground monument.
State of preservation
The state of preservation is described in the ground monument entry as follows: A narrow upper ditch , which is fed by the underground ditch of the Tippelskotten, which is also protected as a ground monument with its own entry, leads into a long, stretched hammer pond . The pond is thinned out and overgrown with bushes, but it, the ice house and the upper ditch are clearly visible in the area. An earth wall with a crown width of around fifty centimeters made of earth, clay and large boulders separates the pond from the stream, whereby the hammer-facing side of the wall and the Schöttstelle are heavily sanded. The ice house is recognizable as a 3 x 4 meter tub-shaped indentation, which is located down the slope above the former Schöttstelle. Between this washed-out remnant of the ice house and the pond, there is a flat earth wall.
In the area of the lower trench , the stream is bordered in a modern way, it is diverted there via an old battle bordered with ashlar stones , which represents the upper trench of the Käshammer.
A forest path leads along the right bank of the Gelpe, below the path is the rest of the Kottens, of which a 1 × 5 meter section of wall has been preserved. This section of the wall, presumably from an outbuilding, consists of hewn sandstone blocks in the upper part and bricks in the lower part. Only a vegetated platform above the path can be seen of the Kotten operations building.
history
Jasperskotten was first mentioned in a document in 1671. According to the document, a “ little steel hammer ” in Saalscheid, “ which was in a desert a few years ago ”, was bought by “ Fruwin von der Heydt ” and rebuilt. The new owners were Friedrich Grund and Peter Friedrich . In 1677 they sold the hammer to a Steffen König zu Ronsdorf . He died in 1689 and the hammer passed to his son-in-law Franz Strunker , who in turn bequeathed it to his son Franz Strunker the Younger in 1712 .
Up to 1828 there was no further information about the facility, but a first representation of the Jasperskotten can be found in the original cadastral map from 1826. There, next to the company building and ancillary buildings, the dams are shown. The type of use had changed to a grinding ball.
From the year 1829 it is documented that the system had two large and two smaller grindstones plus a polishing wheel, which were set in motion by an overshot water wheel. At that time, the Schleifkotten was owned by Engelbert Jansen , who had a concession for the battle of September 23, 1745. The Tippelskotten was also owned by his family . Jansen leased the Kotten to three different independent grinders, one of the tenants was Abraham Berger . In addition to other tools, mainly drills were sharpened. Since the hammer pond was very small, an additional reservoir was built in front of it further north (upstream), the remains of which are no longer visible in the area today.
In 1834 the leases no longer existed and Jansen worked there alone with an apprentice. After his death in 1852, his wife inherited the Kotten. Engelbert Jansen's two sons now work in the Kotten, which they took over completely after the death of their mother in 1865, where they now operate under the name " Gebr. Jansen ". The water drive had an output of four hp at that time . In 1868 an August Jaspers and a Karl Picard , both residing in Oberdahl , are the owners. After Karl Picard left in 1874, August Jaspers and his wife Christine Jaspers, née Picard, are the owners. Both lived first on Mastweg, later on the neighboring Käshammer . In 1890 the Jasperskotten is owned by an Abraham Jaspers . The complex is listed under the name Jasperskotten in the list of archaeological monuments. The demolition took place in 1927.
It was placed under protection as a ground monument on December 20, 1995 when it was entered in the list. The dam and the ditch systems, among other things, are protected. Further remains of the Kotten building can be assumed to be underground.
literature
- Egon Viebahn: hammers and grinding balls in the Gelpe valley . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87093-033-0 (extended new edition 2003)
- Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid . Volume 3: From Gerstau to Haddenbach with Gelpetal and Ibach . Publisher: Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2002, ISBN 3-9800077-3-1
Notes and individual references
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal soil monument list
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 9.9 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 48.5 ″ E