Cuckoos
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Cuckoos
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 50 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 54 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 280 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Kucksiepen in Wuppertal |
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 The forester's house Kucksiepen
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Kucksiepen is a location in the east of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .
Location and description
The location is at an altitude of 280 m above sea level. NHN in the middle of the living quarters Ehrenberg on the same Ehrenberg in district Langer Field Beyenburg south the near Bundesautobahn 1 . The forest area's forester's house is located in the forest area. The Staunbach rises near this place .
Neighboring locations, courts and residential areas are Adamsbusch , Schmitteborn , Wulfeshohl , Kattendieck , Vorderer Ehrenberg , Hinterer Ehrenberg , Hebbecke , Öhde , Wildeöhde , Buschenburg , Beyeröhde and the center of Langerfeld .
Etymology and history
The name Kucksiepen probably derives from the bird Cuckoo ago. Further west is the location Kuckuck . Siepen is a regionally frequent name for a small brook valley.
The place is marked on the map of the municipality Langerfeld from 1825 and on the Prussian first recording from 1843 as Im Kucks Siepen , on the Wuppertal city map from 1930 as Kucksiepen . In the 19th century, Kucksiepen belonged to the rural community of Langerfeld in the district of Hagen (until 1887) and the district of Schwelm (from 1887), which formed its own office and was incorporated into the town of Barmen , today a district of Wuppertal, on August 5, 1922 .
In the municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia from 1887, a house with two inhabitants is given. The place is called Kucksiepen at the time .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau [Prussia] (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, With an appendix concerning the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, Berlin SW 1887