Lime kiln (Schöller-Dornap)

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Lime kiln
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 175 m above sea level NN
Lime Kiln (Wuppertal)
Lime kiln

Location of Kalkofen in Wuppertal

Kalkofen was a location in the west of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal , Elberfeld district . With the expansion of the Osterholz pit , the place fell into desolation.

Location and description

The location was at an altitude of 175  m above sea level. NN south of Holthausen in what is now the residential area of Schöller-Dornap in the Vohwinkel district . Neighboring locations were Buntenbeck , Habbach , Holthausen , In der Furth , Wald , Schleheck and Schöller .

history

On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the courtyard is shown as a lime kiln . Kalkofen is recorded as a lime kiln on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824.

In 1832, Kalkofen belonged to the Schöller community in the rural outskirts of the community of Schöller in the mayor's office of Haan in the Elberfeld district . The place categorized as a house according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district and at that time owned a residential house and an agricultural building. At that time, nine residents lived in the village, two of them Protestant and seven of them Catholic.

The location can be found as a lime kiln on the TK25 measuring table from 1892, 1907 and 1927 . Kalkwerke H. Oetelshofen GmbH acquired the site in the 1930s , and the Osterholz pit expanded near the village. The place was last noted as a lime kiln on a map from 1938 on the edge of the pit.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Historika25, Landesvermessungsamt NRW, sheet 4708, Elberfeld
  2. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836