Cog

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Cog
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 299 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42369
Cog (Wuppertal)
Cog

Location of cogs in Wuppertal

Wheel is a locality in the district of Ronsdorf in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany .

Location and description

The location is in the residential area Blutfinke on the street of the same name east of Hofschaft Heidt on the border with Remscheid on the watershed between the Leyerbach and the Gelpe . In addition to Heidt, neighboring locations are Stall , Echo , Grünenbaum , Mühle and the Remscheid villages Neuland and Langenhaus . The headwaters of the Heusiepen are located at Rräder .

Etymology and history

Ritzel is a diminutive of Rade (= clearing).

The first documented mention of cogs took place in 1547. In the early modern period , the place belonged to the parish of Lüttringhausen of the Beyenburg office . Cog was on a coal path from Lichtscheid over the heights to the hammer mill in Remscheid's Morsbachtal . A ravine of this coal path is placed under protection as a ground monument south of Rialen near Neuland . This coal route is recorded on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715.

The location is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey from 1843.

In 1832 Ritzel belonged to the Heider Rotte in the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as Kotten according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential house and an agricultural building at the time. At that time there were eight people living in the village, all of them Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, three houses with 21 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. ^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1246 to 1699. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
  3. The Kohlenweg in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf on ruhrkohlenrevier.de
  4. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  5. 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.