Upper Steinbeck
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Upper Steinbeck
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 52 " N , 7 ° 8 ′ 33" E
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| Height : | 172 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Obere Steinbeck in Wuppertal |
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Obere Steinbeck , until the middle of the 19th century Oberste Steinbeck , was a location in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal an der Hatzenbeck in the area of today's Steinbeck street . Obere Steinbeck is to be distinguished from the localities Mittlere Steinbeck and Untere Steinbeck , which lay further downstream on 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 first of the two residential spaces was in the area between Steinbeck , Ruhrstrasse and Mainstrasse north of the Wuppertal-Steinbeck train station . The second place to live was on Steinbeck Street , mainly on the west side. Both are located in the residential area of Friedrichsberg in the Elberfeld district at an altitude of 190 m above sea level. NHN . They were already incorporated into the inner-city development of Wuppertal towards the end of the 19th century.
Neighboring locations in the 19th century were In der Hütte , the settlement core of Arrenberg , Mittlere Steinbeck, Untere Steinbeck, Vorm Holz , Hinterm Holz , Hatzenbeck , Im Langenfeld , An der Windfoche and Am Hohlenweg .
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.
Obere 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 two residential places are recorded as W. Steinbach and S. 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.
In 1815/16 the place had 123 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the wood and Eichholzer Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . The place, categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , was designated as in the uppermost Steinbach and at that time had eight residential buildings and seven agricultural buildings. At that time, 138 residents lived in the place, ten Catholic and 128 Protestant.
Today's Steinbeck road was a regionally important trade route between Cologne and the Rhine near Hitdorf and the then independent town of Elberfeld , which was expanded into the provincial road Elberfeld – Hitdorf in the 19th century . Obere Steinbeck was on this busy road , which was classified as a state road.
In 1863 there was a public swimming pool in Oberen Steinbeck, the Kirberg'sche Badeanstalt .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ Karl Coutelle : Elberfeld, topographical-statistical representation ; Elberfeld; 1853
- ↑ Wilhelm Langewiesche (ed.) In connection with C. Siebel, C. Coutelle , CR Hötte, C. Pöls: Elberfeld and Barmen - description and history of this twin town of the Wupperthals together with a description of their industry, an overview of the Bergisch regional history ; Barmen; 1863