Sedansberg

Sedansberg (55) ; district of Wuppertal
Coordinates	51 ° 16 '50 " N , 7 ° 11' 47" E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '50 " N , 7 ° 11' 47" E
height	259 m above sea level NHN
surface	1.8 km²
Residents	10,583 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density	5879 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	22.4% (Dec. 31, 2016)
Postcodes	42275, 42281
prefix	02 02
Borough	Barmen
Transport links
Highway
bus	612 622 628 644
	Source: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data

The Sedansberg district of Wuppertal [ ˈzeːdɑˑnsbɛʁk ], part of the Barmen district as a residential area 55 , is the northern suburb of the old town of Barmen , which was largely created at the beginning of the 20th century . The well-preserved examples of urban housing construction from the period between 1912 and 1930 make the district an important example of public housing architecture of this time in Germany.

location

View of the Sedansberg from the south

The Sedansberg lies on a spur of the Wuppertal north heights , which points south to the Wupper and rises between two brooks that both flow to the Barmer Mühlengraben , the Leimbach in the west and the Westkotter Bach in the east. To the north of a small knoll (212 m) is a depression (199 m) that is marked today by the Klingelholl road , part of the old route from Elberfeld over the Loh to Wichlinghausen . Behind it, the terrain to the Wuppertal Nordpark rises again to the ridges of the Riescheid and Mallack locations , where a height of 259 m is reached. In addition to the Sedansberg proper, the area west beyond the Leimbach to Carnaper Strasse was also incorporated into the modern quarter .

The quarter is separated from the Hatzfeld district in the north by the A 46 , in the west Carnaper Strasse forms the border with the Unterbarmer district of Rott , and in the south the route of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund Süd railway line (called "Wuppertaler Nordbahn") marks the border with the Barmer Downtown (the Barmen-Mitte quarter ). To the east, across from Westkotter Strasse, lies the Wichlinghausen district in the Oberbarmen district .

Surname

The Sedansberg was originally called Wichelhausberg or Mottenberg, the latter a contraction from the Ottenberg, a toponym that goes back to a local Otto. The street leading from the district to the north was called Sedanstraße after the Battle of Sedan (1870) that took place during the Franco-Prussian War , the name then gradually transferred to the hill and the district.

history

Klingellholl court house (17th century)

Four old farm estates were located on the Höhenstraße between Elberfeld and Wichlinghausen early on: Carnap, Lembek, Klingenholt and Westkot, whose names have been preserved in the street names Carnaper Straße, Leimbacher Straße and An der Lehmbeck, Klingelholl and Westkotter Straße . While the Leimbachtal was built as a settlement tongue from Barmen-Gemarke in the first half of the 19th century, the area of the Wichelhausberg was characterized by gardens and isolated houses; The development along Sedanstrasse only grew slowly in the second half of the century.

View of the residential tower of the Sedansberg settlement

The first planned development was carried out by the Barmer Baugesellschaft für Arbeiterwohnungen (BBA) : the Wichelhausberg I colony with 43 semi-detached houses was built between 1872 and around 1890, and the Wichelhausberg II colony with 17 semi-detached and two multi-family houses between 1896 and 1903 . The general building cooperative Barmen (ABGB) also built the winding settlement of Nordpark with 111 residential units in multi-family houses and 23 private homes in 1912–1917 . In 1899 the city of Barmen acquired the Sedansberg site for a planned hospital building, which was later carried out on the Schönebeck as the Barmen Municipal Hospital . As a result, after the First World War, a building area close to the city center was vacant, which, in view of the high building demand between 1919 and 1931, grew into a new district with shops, residential developments and the Catholic Church of St. Marien (1930/31). A little further to the east, the Church of the Redeemer was built by the Wichlinghauser congregation for the Lutheran population of the Sedansberg. The building material for the settlement was largely obtained in the form of granules made of cinder block concrete, which was made from incineration residues from the municipal waste incineration plant, which was built in the east of the district in 1908. (The municipal vehicle fleet was later set up on the site.)

The core of the Sedansberg settlement, between Siedlungsstrasse , Schwalbenstrasse and Amselstrasse , was built between 1919 and 1923. The streets were based on the topography of the site, which enabled a symmetrical layout in the center with Boelckestrasse as the central axis. It leads through an entrance gate up the gently sloping site and towards a seven-storey residential tower on the summit of the Sedansberg, which characterizes the site as a landmark that is visible from afar and was deliberately designed as a dominant point de vue . One to two-storey single and multi-family houses are lined up along several paths parallel to this axis, while three-storey buildings delimit the area from the outside. Other residential complexes from the years up to 1923 are the Klingelholl residential courtyard and the Wichelhaushof . The architecture of these buildings is simple, but still shows decorations and structural elements based on baroque models in the sense of the Heimatschutz style, referred to here as Bergischer Neo-Baroque . The Sedansberg area was almost completely built up by 1931, and the city also bought additional land for this purpose.

The residential area

Münzstrasse residential courtyard

Like all of Wuppertal, the Sedansberg is affected by a population decline. The number of inhabitants fell between 1990 and 2007 from 12,679 to 10,462, which corresponds to a decrease of almost 17.5 percent.

The eastern edge of the quarter is lined with several residential complexes from the period after the Second World War. Otherwise, the townscape of the settlement construction in the first half of the 20th century has remained fairly closed; Large areas of the development as well as the two churches are under monument protection .

From 1895 the Nordstädter Bürgererverein protected and cared for the area of the Nordpark, which adjoins the Sedansberg to the north, thus preserving an extensive recreational area close to the city for the population. There are also three cemeteries in the quarter, the old Jewish cemetery on Hugostraße , the originally reformed cemetery on both sides of Hugostraße from the same period and the cemetery of the Catholic Antonius community in Schützenstraße in the west of the quarter.

The Palette - Röderhaus gallery is important for the visual arts in Wuppertal, and brought important artists to Wuppertal in the second half of the 20th century. In addition, the pallet was also a political meeting point. Johannes Rau (a real “Sedansberger”) and Hans-Dietrich Genscher (constituency of Wuppertal Barmen) also used the Galerie Palette for political discussions during their terms of office.

Klingelholl , Leimbach , Mallack and Westkotten are among the places to live and locations in the residential area . The Dahlkamp farm has gone .

literature

Christoph Heuter: City Creation . Settlements from the 1920s in Wuppertal-Barmen, Wuppertal (Müller and Busmann) 1995, ISBN 3-928766-15-5

Individual evidence

↑ History of Sedanstraße on the pages of the 200th anniversary of the city of Barmer

↑ Data on the population of Sedansberg, City of Wuppertal, General Infrastructure Services, Statistics and Elections ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . , 25 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wuppertal.de

Web links

Commons : Sedansberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] History of Sedanstraße on the pages of the 200th anniversary of the city of Barmer