Schmalenhof (Wuppertal)
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Schmalenhof
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 36 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 23" E
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| Height : | 299 m above sea level NN | |
Location of Schmalenhof in Wuppertal |
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Schmalenhof was a court in the former town of Ronsdorf , now part of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal . Today the place is a desert .
Location and description
The living space was in the north of the city of Ronsdorf at 299 meters above sea level on the Schmalenhofer Bach at the foot of a ridge called Scharpenacken . The area of the yard was last part of the former eponymous site training area .
history
Schmalenhof was first mentioned in a document in 1502. The farm was part of the Erbschlö family in the Lüttringhausen parish of the Beyenburg office in Berg . After its founding, it later belonged to the parish of Ronsdorf.
On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715 and the charter of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking from 1798, the court is listed as Schmalenhoff or Schmalenhoff .
In 1832 Schmalenhof belonged to the Scharpenacker Rotte in the rural outskirts of the city of Ronsdorf . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had six residential buildings and five agricultural buildings at the time. At that time 54 people lived in the place, all of them Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888 seven houses with 48 inhabitants are given.
In 1929 Ronsdorf was merged with other cities and municipalities to form Wuppertal. In 1936, the area around Schmalenhof was rededicated as a training area for the newly built Wuppertal barracks as part of the National Socialist armament and the old courtyards, including Schmalenhof, were cleared. Until the 1970s, the buildings were used for military exercises and then demolished.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ 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.