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City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 27"  E
Height : 297 m above sea level NHN
Katzenbruch (Wuppertal)
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Location of Katzenbruch in Wuppertal

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

Location and description

The location is in the north of the Uellendahl-Ost residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district at an altitude of 297  m above sea level. NHN on the Woltersberg ridge on the Neuenbaumer Weg road south of the sources of the Hardenberger Bach . The majority of the population no longer has the name Katzenbruch as an independent name for this location.

In addition to Dönberg, neighboring locations are the farms and locations Neuenbaum , Woltersberg , Schmitzberg , Adamshäuschen , Langenbruch , Am Hasenkamp , In der Sonne and the Halfmannsberg immediately next to it .

Etymology and history

Bruch is a common name for a swampy, watery area. In the local dialect, the place was also called Kattenbrook .

The first houses in Kattenbruch were built between 1664 and 1701, probably as the first houses on the ridge.

In the 19th century Katzenbruch 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 .

The place is labeled as Kazenbr on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 . On the Prussian first recording from 1843 the place is marked without any letters , on the Wuppertal city map from 1930 it is marked with Kartenbrück .

In 1815/16 there were 287 inhabitants in the local area. The location, which was categorized as several courtyards according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was designated as Vorn am Katzenbruch and at that time had 29 residential buildings and 21 agricultural buildings. At that time there were 302 residents in the village, 79 Catholic and 223 Protestant. It can be assumed that these figures relate to the entire area around Katzenbruch and include other neighboring, unspecified contemporary locations and courtyards.

In the municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province from 1888, only two houses with 26 inhabitants are given for Katzenbruch itself.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Dönberg was split off from Neviges and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal with other Neviges villages outside Dönberg, including Katzenbruch. The city boundary between Wuppertal and Neviges ran north of Katzenbruch until 1975, and that of Neviges to Elberfeld to the south until 1929. 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. As a result, Katzenbruch lost its border position.

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. ↑ a b Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge, Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976
  3. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  4. ↑ 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.