Olpe (Wuppertal)

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Olpe
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 293 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42399
Area code : 0202
Olpe (Wuppertal)
Olpe

Location of Olpe in Wuppertal

View over Olpe in the valley towards Windgassen

Olpe is a court in the Herbringhausen residential area in Wuppertal in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district .

Old house number in the Olpe court
Former bakery in the Olpe estate

geography

The Hofschaft is located on Landesstrasse 81 at 293  m above sea level. NHN , surrounded by hilly agricultural areas on the edge of Garschager Heide . To the east is the Herbringhauser dam , to the southwest is the city limit to Remscheid - Lüttringhausen . To the west is the neighboring Olper Höhe and to the north is the hamlet of Windgassen . Olpe lies in the basin of the Olper Siefen, a tributary of the dam.

history

Olpe gave its name to the Herbringhauser Bach , which was called Olpebach in the Middle Ages and early modern times . The old name Ohl (p) Scheidt of the Herbringhauser Wald also goes back to the farm name. A historic bakery is still preserved in the courtyard, but is used as a storage shed. One of the buildings still has an old house number from the beginning of the 19th century.

In the Middle Ages belonged Olpe next nine other courts to Honschaft Garschagen in parish Luettringhausen the Office Beyenburg . In 1547, three dwellings are documented in a list of manual and clamping services . At that time the court was part of the Mosblech court association , which was an allod of the Bergisch dukes . In 1715 the hamlet is referred to as Ulpe on the Topographia Ducatus Montani .

The Olpe court has a long history. At the turn of the 14th to the 15th century, "Alf ut der Olpe" was sent to the Hanseatic League and in 1406 was given the office of councilor in Riga . At that time the Hanseatic trade route ran through Lüttringhausen and opened up connections to the wide world.

In 1815/16 51 people lived in the village. In 1832, Olpe was still part of the Garschagen Honschaft, which belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place called a hamlet had five residential buildings and five agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 37 people lived in the place, seven Catholic and 30 Protestant faith. In the municipality encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 four houses with 32 inhabitants are given.

literature

  • Hans Kadereit: Where there is still celebrations, reels and delights , a historical illustrated book Lüttringhausen, RGA-Buchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7
  • E. Erwin Stursberg: Lüttringhauser story

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 .
  2. ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
  3. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  4. 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.