Lipper Heath

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The area of ​​the Lipper Heide on the map of Le Coq 1805

Lipper Heide describes a heathland landscape in the western Ruhr area , on which the core development of today's city of Oberhausen arose from 1850 . The area was bordered to the north by the Emscher and reached west to Meiderich , east to Borbeck and south to Alstaden , Styrum and Dümpten , thus roughly encompassing what is now known as Alt-Oberhausen . The heather area was named after the Lippern farmers located on the edge of the heather .

The heather area was already settled in prehistoric and early historical times, Mesolithic remains have been found immediately north of the area in Lirich in the valley of the Emscher, and Neolithic remains north of Alstadens in the area of ​​the Lipper Heide.

In the Middle Ages, most of the heath area belonged to the Essen monastery , the southern edge area to the Broich rule . The Lirich and Lippern farmers are mentioned for the first time in a document dated January 15, 947; they have belonged to Essen monastery ever since.

Early modern maps show two farmers in the area belonging to the Essen monastery: Lippern and Lirich , which together comprised 26 farms around 1500. In the part belonging to Broich, shortly before 1700 another peasantry, called Heider Höfe, emerged.

After 1815 the heath area was administratively part of the Borbeck mayor's office within the Essen district . From 1823 to 1859 Borbeck belonged to the Duisburg district . In 1862 the area was assigned to the newly founded municipality of Oberhausen. The southern edge of the Lipper Heide belonged administratively to the communities of Alstaden , Styrum and Dümpten. When Oberhausen was founded, these communities also had to cede an approximately one kilometer wide strip of the heather to the newly founded community. In 1863 the municipality of Oberhausen made the decision to parcel out the heathland. For this purpose, the geometer Fuchs was commissioned to carry out the necessary measurements. In 1865, August Kind, as Essen's district builder and because of his proven ability for planning work, was commissioned to implement the parcelling. Thanks to Kind's grid plan from 1865, the young city received a large number of avenues and streets that still exist today.

In the course of industrialization, the heath area disappeared due to development and the settlement of industry, only district names and street names such as "Lipperheidstrasse" still remind of this.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Eger: Prehistoric finds from Oberhausen. In: Historical Society Oberhausen (ed.): Origins and developments of the city of Oberhausen. Sources and research on their history. Vol. 2. Oberhausen: Laufen, 1992, Fundkarten p. 22-24.
  2. ^ Alfred Lindemann: Oberhausen in the mirror of contemporary history . Oberhausen: Selbstverlag, 2006, p. 15.
  3. ^ Alfred Lindemann: Oberhausen in the mirror of contemporary history . Oberhausen: Selbstverlag, 2006, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Magnus Dellwig: Economic Policy in Oberhausen 1862 to 1938. Vol. 1. Oberhausen: Verlag Laufen, 1996, p. 106; plus diss. phil. TU Berlin 1995; Map to this in Heinz Reif: The belated city. Industrialization, urban space and politics in Oberhausen 1846 to 1929. Text volume. Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1993, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Roland Günter: In the Valley of the Kings. A handbook for traveling to the Emscher, Rhine and Ruhr. Essen 2000, p. 40.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 50 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 9 ″  E