Sandhof (Wuppertal)

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City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 261 m above sea level NHN
Sandhof (Wuppertal)
Sandhof

Location of Sandhof in Wuppertal

The built-up place (2009)
The built-up place (2009)

Sandhof , also called Am Sandplatz in the 19th century , is a location in the Bergisch metropolis of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is in the residential area of Grifflenberg in the Elberfeld district at an altitude of 261  m above sea level. NHN near the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . There is now a roundabout on the original settlement site .

Neighboring locations are Böhler Hof , Im Ostersiepen , Freudenberg , Uellenberg , Hinterm Holz / Vorm Holz , Distelbeck , Friedenshain and Hatzenbeck .

history

On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 the place is recorded as Am Sandplatz , on the Prussian first recording from 1843 the place bears the name Zum Husaren , which indicates the restaurant located there at that time. On measuring table sheets of the early 20th century and contemporary city maps, the place is called Sandhof and Am Sandplatz at the same time , only from the middle of the 20th century onwards the place is only called Sandhof.

In 1815/16 the place had 20 inhabitants. According to the topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province from 1830, 20 inhabitants lived in Sandplatz . In 1832 the place belonged to the Fuhrter Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as a tavern categorized place was as encouraging clay court called and had at that time a house. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

Already at the beginning of the 19th century, Sandhof was the intersection of several streets, which was converted into a roundabout in the early 1990s. One of them was the connecting road from Elberfeld via Freudenberg, Dorn and Monschau to Ronsdorf , which was expanded in the 1740s as part of the Werden - Elberfeld - Ronsdorf - Lüttringhausen - Lennep road. A tram line touched the place from the 1920s to the 1970s, which from the beginning of the 20th century increasingly lost its independence and merged into the expanding residential area of ​​Elberfeld.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  2. Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  3. ^ Rhenish city atlas : Ronsdorf ; Ed .: Landschaftsverband Rheinland ; Lfg. VI No. 33, 1980; Editor: Klaus Goebel in connection with Reinhold Kaiser, ISBN 3-7927-0617-2