Metzmachersrath
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Metzmachersrath
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 283 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area code : | 0202 | |
Location of Metzmachersrath in Wuppertal |
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Metzmachersrath , in the 19th century Auf dem Metzmachersrath , is a location in the Wuppertal district of Uellendahl-Katernberg in the Siebeneick residential district , which emerged from an older court.
Location and description
Metzmachersrath is located a little north of the Nevigeser Straße / Westfalenweg intersection and is now part of a larger settlement area. A street of the same name Metzmachersrath touches the old settlement core and leads away from it in an easterly direction. The Wuppertal-Westfalenweg telecommunications tower was built at the eastern end of Metzmachersrath street .
Neighboring locations are Krieg , Branger , Vogelsbruch and Wolfsholz . Elsternbusch and Schanze belong to the abandoned farms, while residential areas that have merged into today's residential areas are Triebel , Röttgen , In den Birken and Grenz .
Etymology and history
The name of the court of Metzmachers rath probably goes back to a clearing by the Metzmachers family ( knife makers ), who were resident in this area as early as 1566. Around 1600 the place is mentioned as Uffm Rodt . On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the farm was accordingly called M.Rodt (-rodt, -rath = clearing).
At Metzmachersrath, the old road from Elberfeld to Neviges , which ran a little north of today's Nevigeser Strasse (Landesstrasse 427), and the Kohlenweg, which ran as a high route in an east-west direction (today Westfalenweg ), crossed.
100 inhabitants are counted in 1815/16. In 1832 Metzmachersrath belonged to the Katernberger Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, categorized as a craftsman's apartment according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , was referred to as Auf dem Metzmachersrath and at that time had two residential buildings and five agricultural buildings. At that time only 27 people lived in the village, all of them Protestant faith.
Settlement construction in the local area began shortly before the Second World War and was promoted by the National Socialist rulers. It was built as a so-called SA thank offering settlement for members of the SA , the SS , the NSKK , five war invalids from the First World War and so-called “Merited Fighters” of the NSDAP . Large families from these groups of people were given preference in the allocation of houses.
Shortly before the start of the Second World War, the houses were ready for occupancy. On August 1, 1953, a memorial was inaugurated in the settlement, commemorating the fallen and missing family fathers from the settlement, more than half of those who lived there.
The family of the Oberberg industrial pioneer Johann Wilhelm Sondermann (1770–1857) lived in Metzmachersrath around 1630 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. 4th edition. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2010, ISBN 978-3-88908-481-1 .
- ^ Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge , Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836