Mill (Wuppertal)

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Mill
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 11"  E
Height : 266 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42369
Mill (Wuppertal)
Mill

Location of Mühle in Wuppertal

Mühle is a locality in the district of Ronsdorf in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany .

Location and description

The location is in the Blutfinke residential area in the area of ​​the Mühle street of the same name, south of the center of Ronsdorf above the Leyerbach on the city limits of Remscheid . Neighboring locations, in addition to the center of Ronsdorf, are the places and residential areas Grünenbaum , Radel , Hut , Boxberg , Graben , Kottsiepen and the Remscheid villages Neuland , Desert and Flügel . Today the mill is part of an extensive residential and commercial development.

Etymology and history

The name mill refers to a mill on the Leyerbach. The Heyers Lohmühle is occupied there , but it was not licensed until 1779. The mill itself cannot have been the location of a water mill due to its hillside location without its own running water.

The Hofschaft Mühle was first mentioned in a document in 1502. In 1715, Erich Philipp Ploennies recorded the court as op.d.mühlen ( Auf der Mühlen ) in his work Topographia Ducatus Montani . On the chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking from 1798, the place is marked as mills . On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey of 1843, the place is marked with inscriptions.

In 1815/16 the place had 120 inhabitants. In 1832 Mühle belonged to the Hohenhagen community of the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had 15 houses and nine agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 128 residents, eight Catholic and 120 Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, 18 houses with 269 inhabitants are given.

On May 15, 1900, Mühle came from the mayor's office of Lüttringhausen to the mayor's office of Ronsdorf as part of an area swap . In 1905 the CVJM Mühle and the Protestant Trombone Choir Mühle were founded.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1246 to 1699. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
  2. a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  4. ^ A b Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1900 to 1924. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .