Schmitteborn

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Schmitteborn
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : approx. 212 m above sea level NHN
Schmitteborn (Wuppertal)
Schmitteborn

Location of Schmitteborn in Wuppertal

Schmitteborn is a location in the east of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 212  m above sea level. NHN on the street of the same name Schmitteborn in the west of the residential quarter Ehrenberg on the northwest slope of the eponymous Ehrenberg in the district of Langerfeld-Beyenburg . The original settlement area is divided into two parts by the Federal Motorway 1 , to the north there is a single-family housing estate , accessed via the street Schmitteborn .

Neighboring locations, courts and residential areas are Adamsbusch , Wulfeshohl , Kucksiepen , Kuckuck , Vorderer Ehrenberg , Hinterer Ehrenberg , Hebbecke , Öhde , Buschenburg , Wildeöhde , Norrenberg , Bockmühle and Blombacherbach .

The Schmitteborn stream rises near this place .

The large Schmitteborn residential complex

In the local press, the location was long mainly due to three optically neglected, six- to nine-storey high-rise buildings from the 1970s in massive concrete skeleton construction with a total of 204 (according to another source 201) apartments between 41 and 97 square meters of living space several hundred meters northeast of the original Called residential space, which was last seen as a social hotspot with residential units in need of renovation and had large vacancies . The owner and the city aimed to dismantle the buildings in order to enable single-family houses to be built at this location and in the surrounding area. For this purpose, the city of Wuppertal issued a statute that shortened the period of grace for social commitment to December 31, 2016. This project was not pursued any further because it was not feasible in a market economy.

In the summer of 2016, the residential complex was sold, whereupon the new owners began renovating and social restructuring the complex. Completion was planned for 2018. The success of these measures can be clearly seen in mid-2019. Through the renovation of the residential units and the entire complex, including the outdoor area, as well as the creation of affordable living space with a homogeneous tenant structure, the residential complex has undergone a recognizable positive visual and socio-structural development. As of mid-2019, 600 people, including 100 children, live in the residential complex.

Etymology and history

Schmitteborn is a compound from Schmitte , a form of forge , and Born , a historicizing-poetic term for source , well . In the area north of the road, a smelting site and slag dump are a reminder of the local iron production and processing. These are placed under protection as a ground monument .

The farm is mentioned in 1754 as being in the Schmitteborn . The location is marked as Im Schmitteborn on the situation chart of the Fabrickendistricts in the high court of Schwelm from 1788 , on the map of the Langerfeld municipality from 1825 and on the Prussian first recording from 1840/44, on the Wuppertal city map from 1930 as the Schmitteborn district .

In the 19th century Schmitteborn belonged to the rural community Langerfeld in the district of Hagen (until 1887) and the district of Schwelm (from 1887), which formed a separate office and was incorporated into the town of Barmen , today a district of Wuppertal, on August 5, 1922 .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia from 1887 ten houses with 142 inhabitants are given.

In the 1950s, the Federal Motorway 1 was laid right through the town, from the 1970s the area north of Schmitteborn was built on with large areas of single-family houses and the current focal point settlement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of October 22, 2013 ( online version )
  2. ↑ Statute to shorten the period of grace for the property in Wuppertal-Langerfeld, district Schmitteborn 42 - 68 in accordance with Section 22, Paragraph 5 of the Act on the Promotion and Use of Housing for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (WFNG NRW). Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Boller: New investor sees prospects for the high-rise buildings on Schmitteborn . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . August 26, 2016 ( wz.de [accessed January 21, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Manuel Praest: Visiting the Schmitteborn . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . November 18, 2016 ( wz.de [accessed January 21, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Manfred Bube: The Schmitteborn is doing itself! Article in the Wuppertaler Rundschau from August 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  7. ↑ Entry B022 in the Wuppertal soil monument list (smelting site and slag dump near Schmitteborn)
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau [Prussia] (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, With an appendix concerning the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, Berlin SW 1887