Röttgen (Uellendahl)
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Röttgen
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 37 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 222 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Röttgen in Wuppertal |
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 The high-rise estate Röttgen north of the residential area
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Röttgen is a location in the north of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .
Location and description
The location is in the east of the Uellendahl-West residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district at an altitude of 222 m above sea level. NHN on today's street Röttgen of the same name . To the east is the Uellendahl Catholic cemetery.
Neighboring locations, farms and residential areas are Uellendahl , Am Bruch , Am Flöthen , Weinberg , Am Deckershäuschen , Am Sonnenschein , Norkshäuschen , Auf der Nüll , Am Brucher Häuschen , In den Siepen and Kempers Häuschen .
The name of Hof Röttgen was transferred to the large high-rise estate north of the original residential area . The courtyard is no longer perceptible as an independent location, as it is now part of the Uellendahl closed residential area.
Etymology and history
Röttgen is derived as a diminutive of clearing . It means small, cleared area freed from scrub and forest .
In the 19th century Röttgen belonged to the Uellendahler Rotte of the Lord Mayor's Office of Elberfeld . The place is marked on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as Rottchen . On the Prussian first photo from 1843 the place is labeled as Röttgen , on the Wuppertal city map from 1930 as Am Röttgen .
In 1815/16 there are 21 inhabitants. According to the topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province from 1830, 24 inhabitants lived in Am Röttchen . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf in 1832 as farm goods categorized place was as encouraging Röttchen called and had at that time three homes and five farm buildings. At that time there were 26 people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.
Up until the first half of the 20th century, Röttgen was just one of numerous residential areas of roughly the same size in the Uellendahl district of Wuppertal. When a closed residential and commercial building was built in Uellendahl as part of the Wuppertal urban development from the second half of the 20th century, the name of the courtyard was transferred to the high-rise estate.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830