Nickhorn

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Nickhorn
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 22 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 250 m above sea level NHN
Area code : 0202
Nickhorn (Wuppertal)
Nickhorn

Location of Nickhorn in Wuppertal

Nickhorn is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . It emerged from one of the old Barmer Kotten .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 250  m above sea level. NHN on what is now Nickhornweg in the neighborhood of the district of Oberbarmen on the approach to the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen junction of the federal motorway 46 .

The location is surrounded by extensive residential developments in Mallack , Reppkotten , Markland , Einerngraben and Kickersburg . To the northeast, beyond the junction, the Schellenbeck stream flows past, a tributary of the Schwarzbach .

Etymology and history

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

Horn stands for an elevation, Nick is derived from tend , nod .

The exact age of this farm is not known, the earliest dated mention of Nickhorn as Kotten comes from the Beyenburger official account (accounting of the rent master to the Bergisch-Ducal camera administration ) of the year 1466. It can be assumed, however, that the Kotten is considerably older.

Nickhorn belonged to the court association of the Oberhof Einern and was an allod of the Werden monastery . Territorial was the area around Allenkotten 1324-1420 in Brandenburg parish and Gogericht District Schwelm and then went to the bergische Office Beyenburg about where it is part of the Barmer courtyards Association was. From 1420 the Schellenbeck was the border between the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark.

In 1655 Nickhorn belonged as Caspers Ecksteins Lo to Nickhorn to the Westkotter Rotte. With the other farms in the Barmen farming community, Nickhorn was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806. Ecclesiastically it belonged to the Schwelm parish until its own parish in Barmer was established in the 17th century.

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. ↑ a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
  2. ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.