Marpe (Wuppertal)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marpe
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 284 m above sea level NHN
Area code : 0202
Marpe (Wuppertal)
Marpe

Location of Marpe in Wuppertal

Marpe is a district in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The district emerged from one of the 36 original courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

The location is surrounded by meadows in the south of the Lichtenplatz residential area in the Barmen district at an altitude of 284  m above sea level. NHN in the basin of the Murmelbach , a tributary of the Wupper . The creek, which is almost completely protected from the source , often bears the name Marper Bach according to its location in older literature .

To the north of the location is the closed residential development of the Lichtenplatz residential area, in particular the upscale development of the residential area on Toelleturm and on Adolf-Vorwerk-Straße . Southern the extensive area of the former begins location training area Scharpenacken , west the terrain rises smoothly up to the height of the light Scheids on.

The streets Marpe and Marper Weg lead to the village from Adolf-Vorwerk-Straße . Also north of Marpe on the Marper Schulweg street is the second successor to the Marper School , which was founded in 1789, but which had already existed as a rear school .

Etymology and history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

The name Marpe is interpreted as a swamp meadow. “ Mar ” is probably an older form of moor . According to some etymologists, the endings -apa , -epe, -pe and -fe can be traced back to the ancient Germanic word “ Apa ”, which stands for “stream” or “water”. The name Marpe is to be interpreted in connection with the swampy headwaters of the Murmelbach.

The exact age of the Marpe court that gave it its name is not known, the earliest mention with a date comes from the Beyenburg official account (account of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. However, it can be assumed that the court is considerably older.

Due to inadequate source material it is unoccupied but possible that Marpe to the mentioned already in 1244 "goods in Barmen" ( " Bona de Barme ") in the Electoral Cologne was one area that by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as allodium of the counts in the possession von Berg under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around Marpe was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . There it was part of the Barmen peasantry .

Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established, and the border with the parish of Lüttringhausen (later Ronsdorf) lay immediately to the south . The farm is recorded in a list of the income of the Elberfeld parish between 1550 and 1578 as a Kotten In der Morpen or In der Marpen . After the establishment of the Barmen Rotten in 1634, the Marpe farm belonged to the Höchst Rotte , which was transferred to sections of the external citizenship of the Barmen mayor in the 1830s .

In 1815/16 there are 59 inhabitants. The place, which was categorized as Individual Houses according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district in 1832 , was designated as Marpe and at that time had nine residential buildings and six agricultural buildings. At that time there were 73 people living in the village, all of them Protestant faith.

A small part of Marpe across the border to Ronsdorf belonged to the Scharpenacker Rotte of the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The suburb, which was categorized as Kotten according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district, had a residential building and an agricultural building at the time. At that time there were seven people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

literature

  • Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wiescher : farmers, weavers, workers. On the history of the southern heights in Barmen. H.-J. Momberger, Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-940439-60-4 , pp. 102 ff .
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
  3. ↑ a b c Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836