Slaughterhouse on Brausenwerth

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Slaughterhouse on Brausenwerth

The slaughterhouse at Brausenwerth was a slaughterhouse that existed from 1829 to 1879 on Brausenwerth south of the Wupper outside the historic center of the city of Elberfeld .

history

The construction of a slaughterhouse in Elberfeld had been planned as early as 1804, but was repeatedly postponed due to lack of financial means. In 1827 it was finally possible to start after the city council, some private individuals and Lord Mayor Brüning had jointly secured the financing.

The city justified the need for the facility: “The streets where the cattle are slaughtered have a cleanliness and not the bad smell that this business had to cause up to now. The existence of a slaughterhouse must finally, in addition to several unmistakable benefits, also have an effect on the morality of the children; for it can only arouse bad, at least no benevolent, impressions when they watch the cattle killing for hours, which every part of town gives them the opportunity to do. (...) The location of such a building must be as much as possible outside the city because of the uncleanliness that arises in it and because of the mucking out of the stables adjoining it. "

On June 29, 1829, the slaughterhouse on Brausenwerth began operations with the slaughter of an ox. “In the second half of 1829, 739 oxen, 1025 cows, 3205 sheep, 919 calves and 458 pigs were slaughtered in the slaughterhouse. The slaughter fee for an ox was 10 Sgr. , for a cow 8 Sgr., for a sheep or a calf 2 Sgr. and for a pig 4 Sgr. “.

After the slaughterhouse law enacted by the slaughterhouse law of 1868, the establishment of a new public cattle yard and slaughterhouse facility on the Arrenberg became a necessity. In the same year the slaughterhouse on Brausenwerth ceased operations. After that the building served as a warehouse until it had to give way for the new building of the modern municipal bathing establishment Brausenwerth , which was built between 1885 and 1887 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ garbage history in Wuppertal. AWG Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft, Wuppertal 2006. ISBN 3-00-019280-8 . Pp. 14, 15.
  2. ↑ Uwe Eckardt: The Lord Mayors of Elberfeld from 1814 to 1929. P. 56.
  3. ^ History in Wuppertal , year 12. In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein , Wuppertal department. P. 140.
  4. ^ Herbert Günther: Wuppertal in early photographs. 1880-1945. Sutton-Verlag, Wuppertal 2013. ISBN 3-95400-176-4 . P. 33.
  5. ^ Uwe Eckardt: The Lord Mayors of Elberfeld from 1814 to 1929. P. 69.