Kohlfurther Bridge

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Kohlfurther Bridge
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 47 ″  E
Area code : 0202
Kohlfurther Bridge (Wuppertal)
Kohlfurther Bridge

Location of Kohlfurtherbrücke in Wuppertal
The eponymous Kohlfurther bridge with a view of the place
The eponymous Kohlfurther bridge with a view of the place

Kohlfurtherbrücke is a location in the Wuppertal residential district of Kohlfurth in the Cronenberg district and is located on the Kohlfurther bridge , which was first mentioned as a wooden bridge in 1363 and represents the settlement core of the location.

The Bergisches Staßenbahmuseum is located in the village . A museum railway is maintained via a club's own route, so that one of the smallest tram companies in the world is based here. The listed Gasthaus Strandcafe has been preserved in the village as a historical building.

history

The tram museum
In Kohlfurtherbrücke

Kohlfurtherbrücke is marked in 1715 on the map by Erich Philipp Ploennies as adBbrücken . On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the place is recorded as Kolferter Brück and on the Prussian first survey of 1844 as Kohlfurter Brück .

In 1815/16 there were 187 residents in the village. In 1830, the Kohlfurtherbrücke , known as a hamlet , belonged to the mayor's office of Kronenberg ; at that time, 221 people lived in the village. In 1832 Kohlfurtherbrücke was part of the Berghauser district within the mayor's office. The place, which was categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had 20 residential buildings, eight factories or mills and 16 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 193 residents lived in the place, seven of them Catholic and 186 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with 47 houses and 367 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland , 62 houses with 389 inhabitants are listed in 1885. In 1895 the district had 40 houses with 351 inhabitants, in 1905 132 houses and 792 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  2. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ Königlich Statistisches Bureau (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  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.
  5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  6. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.