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Location of Schmalefeld in Wuppertal

Schmalefeld was a location in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel , residential area Schöller-Dornap . In the mid-1980s, the site was demolished when the Hahnenfurth pit limestone quarry was expanded . Today there is a heaped heap at the settlement site.

Location and description

Schmalefeld was in the north of Vohwinkel near the city limits of Wülfrath and Mettmann . Neighboring places are Überzurbeck and Tillmannsdorf in Wülfrath and Bollenbergsdorf , Dornap , Hahnenfurth , Heistersfeld in Wuppertal.

history

In the 19th century Schmalefeld was a residential area in the rural community of Unterdüssel of the mayor's office Wülfrath , which emerged from the Bergisch Honschaft Unterdüssel . On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, a place is labeled with Schmalenberg , on the Prussian first survey from 1843, the place is labeled as Schmalefeld . In 1888, according to the community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province , the place had a house with five residents.

At the end of the 19th century, the industrial mining of the Devonian mass limestone began in the Dornap / Hahnenfurth area, which Schmalefeld finally fell victim to in the mid-1980s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.