Kupferberg (Wipperfürth)

Copper mountain City of Wipperfürth Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	333 m
Postal code :	51688
Area code :	02267
Location of Kupferberg in Wipperfürth
Aerial view of Kupferberg

Kupferberg is a village in Wipperfürth in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

The location is located in the northeast of Wipperfuerth at the national road L 284 between Wipperfuerth and Halver . Neighboring towns are Hammer , Kreuzberg , Engsfeld and Dörpinghausen . The Heinken-Hedfelder Bach flows into the Hönnige in the village .

Politically, the place is represented by the direct candidate of the constituency 12.1 (121) Kupferberg in the council of the city of Wipperfürth.

history

In 1443, Kupferberg was first mentioned in "Income and Rights of the Cologne Apostle Monastery" with the place name "Kopperberge" . However, copper is said to have been mined in open-cast mining much earlier. In the second half of the 18th century there were several smaller pits owned by Hückeswagen merchants. Around 1792 a water art was built to pump out the pit water. The Danielszug mine, muted in 1774 , was particularly productive. The company Grube Danielszug , founded in 1837, was named after him, which combined several corridors and, after decades of downtime, was expanded into a modern mine from 1899. The Danielszug was the most important copper ore mine in the Bergisches Land , but was closed in 1922. The mine, which was reopened in 1938, gained notoriety through the use of foreign slave labor . In 1944, 375 workers mined 2,500 tons of ore with a copper content of 2%. At the beginning of the 1950s, the plants were demolished.

Between 1910 and 1960 Kupferberg owned a train station on the railway line fromschlag to Wipperfürth . This railway line branched off from the Wippertalbahn at Wipperfürth station and connected to the Wuppertalbahn when it stopped .

Opposite the old Kupferberg, today's Kupferberg settlement was built after a forest fire in the early 1950s. Including drained marshland and pasture land, 16 parcels were initially divided and raffled on March 13, 1954. Today the settlement consists of almost 60 houses.

The fish ponds along the main road between Wipperfürth and Halver were created by the Reich Labor Service . The Müller-Hallen , formerly the central warehouse of the textile manufacturer Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth , have housed a. a. Recreational facilities. In 1964 a Protestant church was built. In 1995 a kindergarten of the workers welfare was opened.

bus connections

There is a connection to local public transport via the bus stop for line 338 (VRS / OVAG) in the village .

Hiking trails

The circular hiking trail signposted by SGV leads past the village in the south.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ River Area Geoinformation System (FluGGS). Wupperverband , accessed on December 21, 2017 . 
2. ^ City of Wipperfürth, public announcement from June 2009; Allocation of the streets to the individual electoral districts
3. ^ Klaus Pampus; First documentary mention of Oberbergischer places
4. ↑ 2007 bus network, Oberbergischer Kreis, published by Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH
5. ↑ Topographical Information Management TIM-online, provided by the Cologne District Government