Peppinghausen

Peppinghausen City of Wipperfürth Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 18 ″  E
Postal code :	51688
Area code :	02267
Location of Peppinghausen in Wipperfürth

Peppinghausen belongs to the city of Wipperfürth (district Agathaberg ), Oberbergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Peppinghausen

Peppinghausen is a hamlet in the southeast of Wipperfürth. It lies at an altitude of 335  m above sea level. NN and is 35 minutes' walk from the city of Wipperfürth. Peppinghausen belongs to the church district Agathaberg (Catholic) / Klaswipper (Protestant). The next bus connection (line 333) is 800 m away on the L 302 in Friedrichsthal . The neighboring towns of Peppinghausen are Friedrichsthal, Lendringhausen , Küppersherweg and Altensturmberg . The hamlet is on the historic hiking trail no. 43 from Schwelm to Schladern an der Sieg. Its hillside location gives Peppinghausen a relative security against floods and storms. In the valley below the hamlet, a tributary of the Gaulbach flows , the so-called "Peppinghausener Bach". Three fish ponds are fed by the water of the stream.

history

Peppinghausen in winter

In 1487 the hamlet was first listed under the name "Pepenkusen" in a list of loans for Duke Wilhelm III von Berg . The Topographia Ducatus Montani map from 1715 shows four courtyards and names them “Pepeckusen”.

Further documented references to the hamlet of Peppinghausen date from the second half of the 18th century, more precisely to the year 1769. At that time, Peppinghausen is said to have consisted of eight houses.

In the topographical survey of the Rhineland map from 1825, the spelling of the place name is "Peperinghausen" and shows the hamlet on a delimited courtyard with six building plans.

Peppinghausen lies in an area that belonged to the Duchy of Berg between 1160 and 1815 . After the Congress of Vienna it became part of the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . This in turn merged with the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine Province in the Rhine Province in 1822 . The Rhine province survived both world wars with German participation, but was dissolved by the British occupying forces in 1946, or united with the province of Westphalia to form the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Peppinghausen belonged to the administrative district of Cologne within the Rhine Province . This fact has not changed until today.

The Second World War , at least on the surface, passed Peppinghausen without a trace. However, one could watch the bombers over Wipperfürth from Peppinghausen. Nothing is known of fighting in the hamlet itself, even if the American troops were advancing from the south-east to Wipperfürth on April 13, 1945 and also passed through Peppinghausen. The Wehrmacht operated a field kitchen in Peppinghausen towards the end of the war . After the hamlet was occupied by the Americans, they imposed a curfew on Peppinghausen. This went so far that the farmers sometimes had to ask for permission to milk their cows. Looting at this time is also reported.

Not all residents of Peppinghausen survived the war unscathed. It is reported from one family that three sons went to war and only one came back. One fell in the war, the other is still missing today. Hardly any of the other families survived the war without suffering losses. These range from several years in Soviet captivity to death in the field.

Until 1974 Peppinghausen belonged to the independent municipality of Klüppelberg . After the municipality of Klüppelberg was dissolved due to the Cologne Act, Peppinghausen became part of the city of Wipperfürth. On May 20, 2006, a tornado moved from Peppinghausen via Küppersherweg to Egerpohl. Considerable damage was done to the roofs and some vehicles in Peppinghausen. In addition, almost all of the older fruit trees were brought down by the windpants. No resident of the village was harmed.

Storm damage on May 20, 2006 in Peppinghausen

population

Around 25 people currently live in 6 houses in Peppinghausen.

economy

Up to about 1970 there were 5 farmers in Peppinghausen. Almost all of the farm buildings have been converted into apartments.

Attractions

Crossroads in Peppinghausen

There is a new crossroads at the entrance to the village . This crossroads was financed by donations from the villagers and completed through voluntary work by various craftsmen. This cross is intended to commemorate the time when there was such a cross in almost every village. The wayside cross was consecrated on May 13, 2006 in the presence of the Peppinghausen village community by chaplain H.-Josef Lahr. Nowadays, most of the crossroads are in poor condition or no longer exist.

Web links

Commons : Peppinghausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographical Information Management TIM-online, provided by the Cologne District Government
2. ↑ Busnetz 2012, Oberbergischer Kreis, published by Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH
3. ↑ River Area Geoinformation System (FluGGS). Wupperverband , accessed on December 21, 2017 . 
4. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places. Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
5. ^ Historika25, Landesvermessungsamt NRW, sheet 4810, Wipperfürth
6. ↑ Treasures by the wayside; Field crosses in Wipperfürth and its church villages. Home and History Association Wipperfürth e. V., 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029052-7 .