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Scraper head
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 32 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 21" E
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| Height : | 295 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Kratzkopf in Wuppertal |
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Kratzkopf is a locality in the mountainous city of Wuppertal in the district of Ronsdorf .
location
The place is in the residential area Blombach-Lohsiepen at an altitude of about 295 m above sea level. NHN at the Lüttringhauser Strasse at the corner of Kratzkopfstrasse . The location was independent until the end of the 19th century, but today it is part of an extensive residential development on the edge of the center of Ronsdorf.
Etymology and history
Kratzkopf is a contemporary joke name that reflects the location of the place on a hilltop ( head ) and the road that climbs there.
The connecting road ran through Kratzkopf from Ronsdorf via Kratzkopf, Im Büschgen , Blaffertsberg and Klausen to Lüttringhausen , today's Lüttringhauser Straße . It was expanded in the 1740s as part of the Werden - Elberfeld - Ronsdorf - Lüttringhausen - Lennep road connection.
On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, Kratzkopf is mapped and labeled for the first time. It was on the highway from Ronsdorf to Lüttringhausen . In the 19th century, Kratzkopf belonged to the Boxberger Rotte in the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as a craftsman's apartment according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had a residential building at the time. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, three of them Catholic and 17 Protestant.
On October 24, 1877, the Kratzkopfstraße starting at the locality was named. The municipal primary school at Kratzkopfstrasse was founded in 1882. In Kratzkopf there was a stop on the branch from the Ronsdorf State Railway Station to the Ronsdorf City Railway Station of the Ronsdorf-Müngsten Railway, which opened on August 21, 1891 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ^ Julius Leithäuser : Bergische place names ; Martini & Grütefien; Elberfeld; 1901
- ^ Rhenish city atlas : Ronsdorf ; Ed .: Landschaftsverband Rheinland ; Lfg. VI No. 33, 1980; Editor: Klaus Goebel in connection with Reinhold Kaiser, ISBN 3-7927-0617-2
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ Alfred Scheerer: Chronicle of the Remscheid trams ; Verlag JHBorn; Wuppertal; 1954