Kingwood
Königsholz is the name of a former district of Witten .
Originally part of the so-called Stockumer Mark, it was assigned to the municipality of Witten in 1768. Due to its location away from the center of Witten , on a foothill of the Ardey Mountains , the area was spared from industrialization along the Ruhr valley . Neither mines nor other industrial plants were built here . Agriculture and horse and small animal breeding shaped the picture.
After Witten was granted city rights in 1823 and the so-called original cadastre was drawn up in 1825, Königsholz was henceforth right on the border with the rural community of Annen . The boundaries between the districts belonging to Annen and Königsholz could not be identified on the basis of geographical features, but ran partly arbitrarily along lines created on the cadastral board.
While today city and district or statistical districts are clearly defined on the basis of district maps, the designation of an area as a district prior to the municipal reform of 1929 is based on a certain arbitrariness and is often in the interpretation of the viewer. On city maps that were created before 1900, Königsholz is not defined as a district. On the official map of Witten from 1911, drawn up by the city administration, Königsholz is listed as a district, with equal rights to districts such as Crengeldanz . In the same year, the path that led through the district was officially named Königsholz .
With the municipality reform of 1929 Königsholz lost the status of a district. Today the area along the street, which still bears the name Königsholz, is built on - mostly two-story buildings of one and two-family houses . Although there are still relatively large green spaces in the former district and it borders directly on the Hohenstein forest , there has been no agriculture since the 1960s . The former district is now a purely residential area .
literature
- Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares . With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (= contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 1 ). VOHM , Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 .
- Walther Hubatsch (Ed.): Federal and Reich authorities (= The Protected Areas of the German Empire 1884–1920. Excerpts from the outline of German administrative history 1815–1945 . Volume 22 ). Johann Gottfried Herder Institute , Marburg 1984, ISBN 3-87969-183-5 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '8 " N , 7 ° 21' 59" E