Upper Jansenkotten
The Obere Jansenkotten was a Schleifkotten in the Gelpetal in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located directly on the border with the districts of Cronenberg and Ronsdorf . Here the Eichholzbach flows into the Gelpe at an altitude of about 235 meters above sea level . The building was demolished in 1908, only the chimney has been preserved and was entered as a monument in the monument list of the city of Wuppertal.
history
The Schleifkotten was first mentioned in 1800 as the property of Caspar Eicken. In 1826, the Schleifkotten became the property of Johann Jansen, who lived in the nearby hamlet In der Gelpe . An upper ditch led water from the Gelpe brook to a reserve pond, which was connected to the actual reservoir pond by a 200-meter-long ditch and which the Gelpe supplied as a replacement when there was a lack of water. The reservoir held water for the grinding shop's waterwheel , which, with its artificial slope, drove the shaft of the rotating grindstones and Pliest disks.
According to an inscription on the building, the 20 meter high chimney was built in 1858 on a rubble base . The chimney discharged the exhaust gases from a steam engine that supplemented the water power. When exactly this steam engine was installed is not clear from the files - according to tradition, however, it is said to have been the first in the Gelpe Valley. In 1882 14 assistants worked in the upper Jansenkotten.
The Schleifkotten, which was also called Dohmskotten or Dammskotten in the documents , was owned by the family until 1897 (according to other information until 1905) and then passed to a Barmer entrepreneur. It was demolished in 1908, only the chimney remained.
On November 12, 1993 the chimney was placed under protection as a technical cultural monument . At the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Wuppertal acquired the site from private ownership. In May 2009 the renovation of the chimney, financed by donations from the Gelpe Association and supported by the city with logistical means, was completed.
Opposite, in the area of the former town of Cronenberg ( Hahnerberg residential area ), was the “Bergisch Nice” restaurant, which was destroyed in the Second World War and some of the foundations of which can still be seen.
literature
- Egon Viebahn: hammers and grinding balls in the Gelpe valley . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87093-033-0 (extended new edition 2003)
- Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid . Volume 3: From Gerstau to Haddenbach with Gelpetal and Ibach . Publisher: Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2002, ISBN 3-9800077-3-1
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on the renovation work in the Westdeutsche Zeitung from May 19, 2009
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 51.5 ″ E