Middle Steinbeck
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Middle Steinbeck
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 24 ″ E
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| Height : | 160 m above sea level NN | |
Location of Mittlere Steinbeck in Wuppertal |
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Mittlere Steinbeck , until the middle of the 19th century Mittelste Steinbeck , was a location in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal on the Hatzenbeck . Today the core of the settlement is built over by the tracks of the Düsseldorf – Elberfeld railway line and the Wuppertal-Steinbeck train station .
Mittlere Steinbeck is to be differentiated from the localities of Obere Steinbeck and Untere Steinbeck , which were upstream and downstream of the Hatzenbeck, which was still called Steinbeck until the early 20th century. Today the entire area of the three courtyards is referred to as Steinbeck by the population .
Location and description
The location is in the east of the Arrenberg residential area in the Elberfeld-West district at an altitude of 160 meters above sea level .
Neighboring locations in the 19th century were In der Hütte , the center of Arrenberg , Obere Steinbeck, Untere Steinbeck, Ochsenkamp , Am Brill , Aue and Ohligsmühle .
Etymology and history
Beck is a Middle Low German form for Bach, Steinbeck therefore means Steinbach. Steinbach and Steinbeck are arbitrarily interchangeable synonyms for the stream and the place name and have been used differently in history depending on the source. The name of the farm goes back to its location on the stream of the same name.
Mittlere Steinbeck goes back to a medieval and early modern court. A Steinbeck farm was mentioned in a document as early as 1428. At that time he belonged to the Elberfeld Church in the Elberfeld parish in the Bergisch Amt Elberfeld . On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the farm is listed as C. Steinbach . A location is also recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as it is on the first Prussian survey from 1843.
The location became in 1841 the end point of the Düsseldorf – Elberfeld railway, the first steam-powered railway line in western Germany. The railway line was built to connect the most important economic center of Prussia, Elberfeld and Barmen with the Rhine port in Düsseldorf.
In the middle of the 19th century, the place was still to the east of the terminus of the railway line, but after the breakthrough of the railway line to the Dortmund – Elberfeld line, it fell victim to the expanding railway facilities of the new Steinbeck station and depot .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.