List of the Wuppertal originals

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In the list of the Wuppertal originals are city originals from Wuppertal listed.

Originals are people from the history of the city who have achieved a high level of awareness among the local population due to their unmistakable appearance or their characteristics and / or their appearance and still have them after their death. Some of them are described as originals in the literature.

Originals

Wittib Hammerstein in forest

Wittib Hammerstein in Wald (* around 1746) was known from 1783 as the postman who carried the post from Elberfeld to Wald (today a district of Solingen) on foot in a knapsack. Until 1816 she provided her service with joy and diligence.

The Köphannes

The “Köphannes” or “Kop Hannes” or “Auerbäumer Hannes” is even equated or confused with the “ Schinderhannes ” from the Taunus.

With the real name Johannes Heimrath (* December 31, 1757 (baptized); † September 27, 1796) lived during the Napoleonic period before 1800 in a house on Auerbaum in Kölnische Strasse within sight of the Schöller rule . He worked there during the day as a weaver. He rarely took part in raids himself, but organized them. Hannes was a person who was helpful, but who didn't want to make friends with anyone and who wouldn't let anyone into his house. During the Sunday church attendance, Hannes and his sister worked in and around the house.

The French were not squeamish and took what they needed from the courts. In this emergency, bands of robbers emerged at the end of the 18th century. But compatriots were not spared either. Rich German farmers were attacked and robbed at night. Quite often they were tortured to find out where the money was hiding. Occasionally Hannes gave something to the poor farmers.

Finally the farmers asked for weapons and police help. The Bergische Police Corps carried out a wave of arrests and houses were searched. After that there was some quiet time. But another attack startled the population again. In a later attack, an injured robber was captured and learned from him that the raids on the Auerbaum were organized. The weaver Hannes was arrested and locked in the castle tower at Gut Schöller . Even when he was locked in the outer cage, naked and coated with honey, for three days from morning to evening and exposed to the bees and wasps, he did not reveal his companions. By a trick he managed to escape from the tower and fled to the Netherlands. However, when he later carelessly returned to Schöller , he was caught and executed by beheading on the Schöllersheide on September 27, 1796 .

Mina bang

"Mina Knallenfalls" by Ulle Hees (1979)

Mina (occasionally also incorrectly Minna) Knallenfall is a literary figure of the local poet Otto Hausmann . Nevertheless, it is counted among the Wuppertal originals. At the beginning of the 1990s, research showed that Hausmann had taken his grandmother Maria Wilhelmina Hausmann (née Maas; * 1776) as a model for the figure. Mina lived more than 200 years ago in the poor district of An der Fuhr at the Isländer Bridge in Elberfeld and was one of the daughters of a large family with an unemployed, drinking father. Her situation did not improve after her marriage, and her husband became a drinker too.

A statue of this figure stands today in Poststrasse at the transition to Alte Freiheit in Elberfeld .

Aunt Hanna

Aunt Hanna , whose real name was Johanna Wilhelmine Faust (1825–1903), was a people's missionary from Elberfeld - Arrenberg , who worked primarily for the poor and the sick. Among other things, she founded a collection of old clothes and helped found the Evangelical Society for Germany . In the Elendstal residential area in Wuppertal , which was particularly poor , she organized Sunday schools for children and built a chapel with the help of donations she had collected.

Zuckerfritz

"Zuckerfritz" by Ulle Hees (1979)

Zuckerfritz, whose real name was Fritz Poth (sometimes referred to as Fritz Pothen ) (* 1830), was known as a peddler . He always wore a taffeta cap or an old military cap and a gray silk scarf around his neck. It got its name because it gladly accepted sugar lumps and sweets (but also cigarette butts). He earned his living by running errands and courier services for items and letters of all kinds. A choir gave him a wheelbarrow for this , which he has carried with him ever since. When they saw him, children greeted him by shouting “Zuckäär, Zuckeräärfritz”. He died on May 9, 1906 in the city hospital.

His statue stands today at the transition from Neumarkt to Kerstenplatz in Elberfeld .

August Kallenbach

August Kallenbach, "dä roade Kaldenbach" - after his red hair, is described as a friend of Zuckerfritz. He passed away two years after his friend.

The suspension railway general

When the suspension railway went into operation in 1901, there was not only the driver but also a conductor who accompanied the journey. The two wore a uniform when on duty, at that time a person wearing a uniform was a person of respect.

Conductor Karl was known as a friendly and popular person. But if a passenger did not behave according to the transport regulations, Karl could do otherwise. At the next station, the passenger had to leave the car. At one point, several passengers complained about the conductors' arbitrariness. He didn't hesitate for long and kicked all the passengers out of his car. The passengers left the suspension railway amid loud protests. Since then he has had the reputation of a “suspension railway general” and nobody dared to behave improperly in his presence. He retired in 1933.

Hush hush

"Husch Husch" by Klaus J. Burandt (2014)

Husch Husch, whose real name was Peter Held, was a bearded peddler . Born on August 2nd, 1886, legend has it that he descended from a pastor's family and was the brother of a famous ear, nose and throat doctor; in fact he was the son of a day laborer . Around 1914 he lived at Plateniusstraße 30a in the Elberfeld district , but also had many old friends in Oberbarmen and Heckinghausen , where he was born and grew up. After his father's death in 1920, he left his apartment and went - as he said - "on the roll ". He often stayed in the waiting room of the Ritterhauser train station , in quarries near Laaken , near the lime kilns in Wülfrath or on the “Kuhweg” on the Rott .

In the 1930s he moved around with the cardboard box that had become his trademark selling small goods. He got angry quickly if nothing was bought from him, so many people avoided him. He also had a tense relationship with the regulatory authorities and was repeatedly conspicuous by mobbing and insults. While he was on his way, he was teased by young people with the shouts of "Husch Husch", which, as expected, made him very upset. He deeply hated that ridiculous name and was very aggressive. Nevertheless, as a city original, he found acceptance in the heart of the population.

When he was admitted to a hospital in March 1936, a large crowd gathered at the gate, startled by a rumor of his imminent death, and wanted to inquire about his health. Due to the large number of visitors, the hospital felt compelled to ask the press to print a notice stating that the illness was only mild.

On November 2, 1937, during the National Socialist era , he was convicted of begging and vagrancy and served six weeks in prison in Bendahl , then another two years in detention . Not least his disrespect and his quick-witted rioting towards the police and the National Socialist law enforcement officers, which parts of the population saw with secret smiles, contributed to the severe punishment.

Husch Husch was last seen on the Elberfeld bombing night in June 1943, after which every sign of life is lost. Eyewitnesses reported his death in his bombed apartment, while others claimed to have seen him rescued with serious injuries. His sister Maria reported that she had never seen him again after that night. According to a memo from the city of Wuppertal, he is said to have died on November 28, 1953 in the Galkhausen Psychiatric Clinic in Langenfeld . During a search in the clinic archives in 2003, however, no files on a patient Peter Held were found, so that his fate remains unclear.

His statue stands today on the Werth in Barmen .

Planned Liss

In Vohwinkel , Johanna Elisabeth Gummersbach (1891–1964) was known as "Planten Liss". She sold plants to gardening enthusiasts, and later ran a vegetable stand on Lienhardplatz . She came twice a week from Düsseldorf-Flehe, where she lived.

De fule Äu

A well-known Tippelbruder in Elberfeld, whose real name was August Miedel, was De fule Äu in the years after the Second World War. August had two siblings who would rather not see him. His sister ran a flower stand on Laurentiusplatz (then: Königsplatz). His brother was a tavern on the Mount of Olives . If Äu entered his brother's pub, he offered him a dröppelbier and made sure that he disappeared again as soon as possible. De fule Äu didn't mind that much, he just went to the nearest pub on the Mount of Olives and scrounged for a beer there.

Contemporary originals

Erika Nagel

Erika Nagel (1920–2007) was known to most of the citizens of Wuppertal in the 1970s, when she initially painted the walled bank of the Wupper with colorful and naive animal motifs without permission . After a controversy that sparked a public discussion, Lord Mayor Gurland stood behind her.

Hans Geib

Hans Geib (1922–1995) was known for his column “Hie kallt Ötte” in the Westdeutsche Zeitung , he was considered the original.

The "Puma" from Sonnborn

The “Puma” from Sonnborn, bourgeois Hans Dieter Fey (1933–2017) was mainly known in motorcycle circles and was called the Wuppertal original. He was known in an easy rider outfit, with long white hair, in a leather suit and with a mighty Honda Gold Wing 1100 , which he rode with loose hair until old age without observing the helmet requirement.

Fey was born in the Wuppertal district of Wichlinghausen , in 1940 the family moved to the district of Lüntenbeck . From 1999 the trained lathe operator and blacksmith lived in the Sonnborn district . His motorcycle was often parked there in Sonnborn in front of the “Alt-Sonnborn” pub and in the “Café Hubraum” in the Kohlfurth district .

Hans Osterberg

Hans Osterberg (actually Hans-Jürgen Osterberg ; * 1946) trained decorator, is referred to by the regional press as the Wuppertal original. He regularly embodies St. Martin in Elberfeld or goes volunteer disguised as a clown through old people's homes and hospitals. He has been going in and out of St. Josef Hospital , the so-called “Kapellchen”, for more than 50 years .

Paul Decker

Paul Decker (* 1948), head of the dialect music group Striekspöen and former innkeeper on the Mount of Olives , was described as an original from Wuppertal.

Lore Duwe

Lore Duwe at the German premiere of King Ping, in Wuppertal

As an entertainer and author, Lore Duwe cultivates the dialect of the region in the so-called “Plattkaller Evenings”. The regional press calls it the Wuppertal original.

See also

Not a person, but known like an original, is the young female circus elephant Tuffy , who fell from a suspension railway during a press appearance in 1950 .

literature

  • Wilhelm Busch : Aunt Hanna - a Wuppertal original . Ed .: Evangelical Society for Germany. 1904.
  • Helmut Böger: Famous & [and] infamous Wuppertal: 27 portraits . Ed .: Robert Wolfgang Schnell. Hammer, Wuppertal 1975, ISBN 3-87294-091-0 .
  • Heinrich Karl Schmitz, Wolfgang Winkelsen: Originals from the Wupper valley . Born, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-87093-064-0 .
  • Kurt Schnöring : Dröppelmina, Husch-Husch and Zuckerfritz stories and anecdotes from Wuppertal . 1st edition. Wartberg-Verl, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8313-2143-8 .
  • Wolfgang Winkelsen, Klaus J. Burandt: Lovable and other Wuppertal originals . 1st edition. Heinrich Köndgen, Wuppertal 2015, ISBN 978-3-939843-63-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Ilka Platzek: District Mettmann: An execution 222 years ago. In: rp-online.de. RP ONLINE, accessed June 30, 2019 .
  3. Hung or beheaded - the Auerbäumer Hannes lives on. In: wordpress.com. 2018, accessed on June 30, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Busch : Aunt Hanna - A Wuppertal original . Elberfeld bookshop of the Evangelical Society for Germany, 1905.
  5. monhof.de
  6. The war and the consequences: Between coffee table and ruins ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Westdeutscher Rundfunk from November 21, 2013.
  7. ^ A b Manuel Praest: The "Puma" from Sonnborn. In: Solinger Tageblatt. Solinger Tageblatt, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  8. ^ Wuppertaler Rundschau: Farewell to Hans Dieter Fey: They called him "Puma". In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Hans Osterberg: The first Wuppertal with the new Pope. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  10. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Osterberg is an honorary saint. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  11. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung: Wuppertal: A whole life for the "little chapel". In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  12. ^ Wuppertaler Rundschau: Elberfeld: Nativity figures stolen from hospital. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  13. ^ Wuppertaler Rundschau: Witnesses wanted: Antique cross stolen from St. Josef Hospital. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  14. Striekspöen front man is 70 years old: Congratulations Paul Decker! In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  15. Santa Claus comes from Barmen Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from December 6, 2007.
  16. ^ "Talk in the valley": Lore Duwe and the three Ursulas Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from April 1, 2011.