Colonel (Wuppertal)

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Colonel
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : approx. 200 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation : 1929
Area code : 0202
Colonel (Wuppertal)
Colonel

Location of Oberst in Wuppertal

Overview of Colonel with the former Protestant Markuskirche
Overview of Colonel with the former Protestant Markuskirche

The Oberst location (also " Am Oberst ") is located in the Lüntenbeck residential area of Wuppertal in the Vohwinkel district on the border with the Elberfeld-West district . It is located south of Saurenhaus and east of Lüntenbeck Castle .

history

Hof Oberst was first mentioned in 1677 in a survey of the Sonnborn community. It belonged to the Lüntenbeck estate until the 19th century and in 1830 it had an area equivalent to eight hectares .

The place is recorded as a. Obersten on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824. Colonel lay in the municipality of Sonnborn , which was split off from the mayor's office in Haan in 1867 , and which was renamed the municipality of Vohwinkel in 1888 when territory was ceded to the city of Elberfeld . According to the community encyclopedia of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1888, Colonel owned a house and eleven residents.

When Wuppertal was founded in 1929, Oberst was accepted into the city as part of Vohwinkel.

A cul-de-sac with the name Am Oberst was named on February 24, 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. Wilfried Heimes : The beginnings of the district Sonnborn in the Bergisches Land and their development - a settlement geographic study , Cologne 1961 (Cologne, University, phil. Inaugural dissertation of December 14, 1961).
  2. Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8