Konrads desert
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Konrads desert
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Height : | 280 m above sea level NHN | |
| Postal code : | 42289 | |
| Area code : | 0202 | |
Location of Konradswüsten in Wuppertal |
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Konradswüsten is a small district or a settlement on the north-eastern slope of the Scharpenacker Mountains in the Wuppertal residential area of Hammesberg in the Heckinghausen district .
history
The first written mention of the desert farm (1805: Weuste, 1824: Conrads desert) took place in 1547. In 1715 Erich Philipp Ploennies recorded the farm in his work Topographia Ducatus Montani .
In 1832 Konradswüsten belonged to the Scharpenacker Rotte in the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf, was called Conrads desert at that time and at that time had five residential buildings and two agricultural buildings. At that time 35 people lived in the place, one Catholic and 34 Protestant faith. In Ronsdorfer address of 1870 Konrad desert is also listed. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, five houses with 57 inhabitants are given.
On December 24, 1936, a street was named "Konradswüsten". Furthermore, the access road from Heckinghausen is called "Zur Konradswüsten", another road is called "Konradshöhe".
traffic
The Konradswüsten settlement is used by the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke bus line 638 every hour during the day. However, there is no overnight express to get there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Konrad: Living past - history and stories about Ronsdorf. Schmidt, Wuppertal 2002, p. 180.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Geschichtskalendarium, accessed November 2008
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ 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.