Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach

Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach (60) District of Wuppertal
Coordinates	51 ° 16 '49 "  N , 7 ° 12' 46"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '49 "  N , 7 ° 12' 46"  E.
height	160– 210  m above sea level NHN
surface	1.59 km²
Residents	15,414 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density	9694 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	37.4% (Dec. 31, 2016)
Post Code	42275
prefix	0202
Borough	Mercy
Transport links
Federal road
railroad	RB 48 RE 4 RE 7 RE 13
Train	S 7 S 8
Overhead conveyor	Wuppertal suspension railway
bus	602 608 616 622 626 636 638 642 646 NE5 NE8 AST02 AST11 AST38
Source: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data

The Wuppertal residential district Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach is the southernmost and most populous district of the Oberbarmen district and corresponds to the area that is now commonly referred to as the Oberbarmen district of Wuppertal and together with Wichlinghausen and Nachbarebreck forms the district of the same name. According to the city of Wuppertal, it is considered a district with a "bad reputation" but with "potential".

location

Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach stretches around 1.5 km along the Wupper between the mouth of the Schwelme and Werther Bridge, and around 1.2 km up the valley of the Schwarzbach, which flows into the Wupper on the right . By far the largest part of the area lies north of the Wupper, in the south it borders on the Heckinghausen quarter in the city district of the same name . The Wichlinghausen-Süd district occupies the height north of the district above the Wuppertal . Downstream of the Wupper, beyond Westkotter Straße, Barmen-Mitte joins in the west ; in the north, in the upper course of the Schwarzbachtal, follows the neighborhood of Nachbarebreck-Ost . In the east there are borders to three quarters of the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district , these are Hilgershöhe , Jesinghauser Straße and Rauental .

history

Wupperfeld 1783

The highly industrialized Oberbarmen around 1870

During the Middle Ages the area had only a few farms, mostly mentioned for the first time in 1466: Wupperhof , Winkelmanns Hof , Krühbusch , Kemna / Oberbarmen , Fettehenne , Wülfing and Rittershof . The boom in the textile industry on the Oberbarmer banks of the Wupper began as early as the 17th century thanks to the bleaching monopoly of the Counts of Berg for the inhabitants of the Wuppertal. Two older settlements emerged in modern times in the area of ​​the modern residential area: Wupperfeld, which emerged from the Wupperhof, gradually formed on the right bank of the Wupper in the 18th century and was given a spiritual center with the Lutheran Old Church Wupperfeld in 1785. Here yarn spinning was a main livelihood from an early age. Rittershausen formed around the Hofgut Rittershof at the confluence of the Schwelme into the Wupper, roughly at the point where the course of the Wupper turns west when coming from the south.

In addition, important traffic routes ran through the area: From the road following the valley of the Wupper, one of the first paved roads in Prussia (today Berliner Straße as part of the B 7 ), a road branched off near today's Berliner Platz through the Schwarzbachtal towards Witten which, as a coal road, became important for the energy supply of the textile companies in the valley. A street that is still important today is the Wichlinghauser Straße that branches off from the B 7 to Wichlinghausen in the west of the district. The chemical industry, including textile dyeing, and tool manufacture were among the emerging branches of the economy from around 1800 onwards. During the 19th century, the settlement areas grew together completely to form an urban area, with the Schwarzbach area being mainly characterized by industrial facilities from that time. Two churches in the quarter bear witness to the strong influx of people into the area in the 19th century, the Reformed Immanuelskirche (1869) and the Catholic Church of St. Johann Baptist (1890). In 1890, the route of the Wuppertal Northern Railway was inaugurated, which today limits the district to the north; here it largely runs over long, listed viaducts .

The quarter in the 21st century

Kafenio on Berliner Strasse

In the streets north of Bundesstraße 7, especially in Wupperfeld, are the oldest buildings in the district, which date back to the 18th century. The Schwarzbach area is characterized by the typical mixed development of factory and commercial buildings and residential buildings for the employees of the late 19th century. The Berlin street consists mainly of post-war buildings with shops on the ground floor. The Berliner Platz , where the two main roads of the district meet, is the center, where there are also the eastern terminus of the Wuppertal suspension railway and the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station . Due to its “large, mostly unused open space in a central location at the train station”, the square is a “social hotspot”.

With around 39% residents with foreign or dual citizenship, the quarter has one of the highest rates of immigrant residents in Wuppertal. Especially the population of Greek origin, who is particularly well represented west of Wichlinghauser Straße, is present in the cityscape through shops and a few kafenia . Most of the inhabitants of Turkish origin live along the Schwarzbach. At the same time, the population of the quarter is relatively young compared to the rest of the Wuppertal city area.

The school offer consists of the school center east, with the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium and the Max-Planck-Realschule, a secondary school and a cath. Primary school.

The production building of the former Dungs & Co. strand dyeing works , which was in operation from 1903 to 1962, was converted into a meeting place in 1994, which is now home to various social projects under the name Die Färberei . Other industrial buildings, especially on the west side of the Schwarzbach, are of historical importance and are therefore now under monument protection, including a former soap factory of the Luhns company , some production facilities of the Vorwerk group and a former horse and later tram depot from 1873. The abandoned one The marshalling yard near the center of the quarter is to be developed into a green area in the otherwise very poor area for recreation.

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  Old church Wupperfeld

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  Oberbarmen suspension railway station

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  The dye works

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  former Luhns soap factory

literature

• City of Wuppertal (Ed.): Integrated action plan Wuppertal Oberbarmen-Wichlinghausen, Wuppertal 2007 ( PDF , 6.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of Oberbarmen on the website of the city of Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Walter Dietz: "Barmen 500 years ago - an investigation of the Beyenburger official bill from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen" , contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 12, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1966
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Integrated action plan Wuppertal Oberbarmen-Wichlinghausen, p. 21 (see lit.)
5. ↑ Portrait of the dye works ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the district association Barmen-Mitte 

Web links

See also : List of architectural monuments in the Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach residential area in Wuppertal

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