Königssiepen

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Königssiepen
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 250 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42111
Area code : 0202
Königssiepen (Wuppertal)
Königssiepen

Location of Königssiepen in Wuppertal

Königssiepen is a location in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location, which emerged from a courtship , is in the east of the residential area Dönberg in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district at an altitude of 250  m above sea level. NHN am Wollbruchsbach on the city limits of Sprockhövel .

In addition to Dönberg, neighboring places are the residential areas and courts of Lohbusch , Prinzberg and the Horather Schanze as well as the Sprockhövel villages of Prinzsiepen , Kottenengel and Horath .

In Königssiepen (today's address: Zum Lohbusch 70 ) there is the “ Haus Königssiepen ” home for the disabled , the “ Rose Ausländer ” workshop and the office of the Troxler-Haus Wuppertal eV association , which operates workshops for up to 400 handicapped people.

history

In the 19th century Königssiepen belonged to the outlying villages of the farmers and the parish Dönberg in the mayor's office Hardenberg , which was renamed Neviges in 1935 . From 1816 to 1861 it belonged to the Elberfeld district and from 1861 to the old Mettmann district .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, a house with 17 inhabitants is given.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Dönberg was split off and incorporated into the newly founded town of Wuppertal with other Nevigeser villages outside Dönberg, the rest of Dönberg with Königssiepen initially remained with Neviges. As a result of the regional reform of North Rhine-Westphalia , Neviges came to the city of Velbert at the beginning of 1975 and the rest of the Dönberg was also incorporated into Wuppertal.

literature

  • Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge , Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.