Kemna (Barmen)

Kemna City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 32 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	162 m above sea level NHN
Location of Kemna in Wuppertal

Kemna was one of the medieval Barmer original farms in the area of ​​today's Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The farm was located at the mouth of the Schwarzbach in what is now the Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach residential area . In contrast to the majority of the medieval Barmer original farms, Kemna has not been preserved under its original name as the current location. The old farm is now part of the dense inner-city commercial and residential development in the area north of the Oberbarmer train station .

Kemna is not to be confused with today's Wuppertal district of Kemna an der Wupper upstream in the district of Langerfeld-Beyenburg , in which the early Kemna concentration camp existed.

history

The earliest mention of Kemna as Ridderhoff to Kimnah comes from trading books of two monasteries in Brabant from the 13th century. Kemna was a saddlery owned by a knight by birth. The latter did not have to pay any taxes, but instead had to do the army succession with provided horses and armed riders .

The next mention took place in the Beyenburger official account (accounting of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. However, due to its status as a saddlery, the farm was exempt from tax. For the unrestricted fishing rights in the Wupper, the farm had to deliver 52 baskets of fish to the office every year.

The court belonged to neither the Bergisch nor the Märkischer Höfeverband and was therefore not subject to their jurisdiction under the lower jurisdiction and was listed in their court roles . The territory around Kemna was from 1324 to 1420 in the Brandenburg parish and Gogerichts district Schwelm and then passed to the Bergische Amt Beyenburg , where it became part of the Barmer farmers .

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. ↑ Barmer Chronik on barmen-200-jahre.de ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.