Chapels (Wuppertal)

Chapels City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 43"  E
Height :	328 m above sea level NHN
Area code :	0202
Location of chapels in Wuppertal
Chapels on Landesstraße 418 , in front the former Bergische Sonne leisure pool

Kapellen is a district in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The district emerged from one of the 36 original courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 328  m above sea level. NHN on the Lichtscheid ridge of the Wuppertal southern heights in the Lichtenplatz residential area of Barmer . The motorway-like state road 418 leads directly past the location, the state road 417 branches off from the L418 there. The city district border runs south of the village between Barmen and Ronsdorf , to the west that of Elberfeld .

North of the chapels the terrain falls on the country roads across the Bendahler river valley from the south rises in Hofschaft Baur a source stream of Gelpe . To the northeast is a location of the headquarters of the Barmer GEK , to the west is a small forest with a riding arena, where jumping tournaments are held regularly .

In addition to some residential buildings and the courts and hall of a tennis club , the Bergische Sonne leisure pool dominates the location today .

Etymology and history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

The origin of the name Kapellen is not documented. Since the neighboring Hofesgut Baur was owned by the Beyenburg Steinhaus monastery from 1296 , it is assumed that there was a prayer room or a chapel for the monks and courtiers in chapels . According to Engelbert Wüster , the remains of the wall were still visible on the property of an owner Berg in 1929 .

The exact age of this court is not known, the earliest mention of Kapellen with a certain date comes from the Beyenburger official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. However, it can be assumed that the court is considerably older.

Due to the insufficient sources, it is unproven, but possible that chapels belonged to the "goods in Barmen" (" Bona de Barme ") in the Electorate of Cologne, mentioned as early as 1244 , which were owned by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as an allod of the Counts von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around chapels was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg and was part of the Barmen peasantry . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established, and the border with the parish of Lüttringhausen (later Ronsdorf) lay immediately to the south . In the 17th century, a coal road led past chapels, a turnpike in the Elberfeld Landwehr, which passed chapels to the west and still existed there in part, is documented on a map of Johann von der Waye from 1602.

In 1715 the farm was recorded on the Topographia Ducatus Montani as Capell , the Bendahler Bach was labeled there as Capellenbach .

In 1815/16 the place had 86 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to Section B of the rural outskirts of the Barmen mayor . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place, which was categorized as a farm and a craftsman's apartment, had 16 residential houses and four agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 158 residents lived in the place, twelve Catholic and 146 Protestant faith.

From 1929 to 1959, the route led tram 23 from Elberfeld to Ronsdorf through the village, a first Wagenhalle for the tram was in Kapellen 1913 by the Barmer mountain railway AG established that in subsequent years to a depot with several halls, including depot was expanded. In 1978 the tram depot at Kapellen was first used as a bus depot for the Wuppertal public utilities , then a private bus company and later as a timber shop. After a fire it stood empty and was demolished before 1992 for the construction of the Bergische Sonne leisure pool .

Founding saga

According to a legend , the Bergische missionary Suitbert himself is said to have built a chapel in chapels and thus founded the place.

literature

• Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Engelbert Wüster : " Der Neuhausbauer " in: Günter Konrad (Ed.): " Living Past - History and Stories about Ronsdorf ", Wuppertal, 2002
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
3. ↑ Otto Schell (Ed.): Bergische Sagen. Baedeker, Elberfeld 1897.