Kreuzmühle (Wuppertal)

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Kreuzmühle
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 58"  E
Height : 284 m above sea level NN
Residents : 0
Kreuzmühle (Wuppertal)
Kreuzmühle

Location of Kreuzmühle in Wuppertal
Fork in the former settlement area
Fork in the former settlement area

Kreuzmühle was a watermill and place to live in the Wuppertal Herbringhausen residential area in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district .

Location and description

The Kreuzmühle was in the Herbringhauser Bachtal at 284 meters above sea ​​level north-east of Untergarschagen and south of Olpe directly on the city limits of Remscheid . The Kreuzmühle pre-basin of the Herbringhauser Dam , which was completed by 1900, is located immediately northeast of the site.

Today the site is a forest-covered desert , located in water protection zone II . The old access roads to the mill are now used as hiking trails, including the Wuppertal circular route through the former settlement area.

history

The mill, known as the Kreuzmühle, was first mentioned in a document in 1547 under the name Krulß molle in the files of the Beyenburg Office . In 1697, Albus' water knowledge was collected for 40 Albus water level, which was used as a fulling mill . In the early modern period, the bar mill next to 18 other farms for part Honschaft Garschagen in parish Luettringhausen the Office Beyenburg.

In 1715 the court is referred to as ☩Mühl on the Topographia Ducatus Montani . In 1731 the Kreuzmühle was owned by Johannes Berg , who used it as a fruit mill . The Berg family remained in possession of the Kreuzmühle residential area until 1955, which at last consisted of two residential buildings, two attached tool sheds and a barn. Mill operations must have ceased as early as the 19th century, because in 1832 no mill was listed in the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district for residential areas.

In 1815/16 15 people lived in the village. In 1832 Kreuzmühle was still part of the Garschagen Honschaft, which now belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as Ackergut designated place had at that time three houses and two farm buildings. At that time, 22 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant. The topographical record of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first record from 1844 record the place as Kreutzmühle and Kreuzmühle . In the parish dictionary for the Rhineland province of 1888, two houses with 26 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had two houses with 16 inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and eleven inhabitants. In 1929 Kreuzmühle and the Beyenburg area were split off from Lüttringhausen and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal.

According to tradition, the last owner set the property on fire in 1955 due to inheritance disputes. The fire ruins and the buildings and parts of the building that had been spared from the fire were later put down by the fire brigade as part of an exercise. After the Wupperverband had built the Kreuzmühle pre-basin of the Herbringhauser dam in 1933 , the opportunity was used after the fire to remove all traces of the settlement that was located in the water protection zone of the drinking water dam.

literature

  • Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 5: From Blombach to Eschbach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 3-9800077-6-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 324
  2. ↑ a b Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 5: From Blombach to Eschbach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 3-9800077-6-6 , p. 41
  3. ^ A b c Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. 1836
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1897, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .
  7. ↑ a b c Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 5: From Blombach to Eschbach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 3-9800077-6-6 , p. 42