Frankenplatz settlement

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Row of houses on Frankenplatz

The Frankenplatz settlement, also popularly known as Pelerinenviertel (also spelled Pelerinen-Viertel ) is a residential area in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal , Ostersbaum .

Location and description

The Frankenplatz housing estate includes the following buildings in particular: Frankenplatz 3–43, 4–12, Frankenstrasse 1–19, 2–18, Gotenstrasse 3–11, 6–10, Burgunderstrasse 1–5 and Friesenstrasse 1–27, 2–14 and the Pelerin stairs and lie on the northern hand of the Hardtberg . These buildings are protected as historical monuments and are entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

Etymology and history

From 1913 to 1930, the Elberfeld non-profit housing association built single and multi-family houses in the hallway on the Bredt , largely according to plans by the architects Clemens Julius Mangner from Barmen and Ernst Bast from Remscheid . According to another source, the official housing association founded in 1910 is mentioned; a predecessor of today's non-profit housing cooperative Wuppertal-Mitte (GWM). The resulting residential area between the streets Ostersbaum , Reichsallee and Schwabenweg was given the vernacular name Pelerinenviertel because the majority of the first time recipients were employees of the Reichspost , especially postmen . The mail carrier wore long sleeveless capes, the cloaks to protect themselves from the rain.

The staircase in the quarter between the Bredter road and Teutonenstraße that Pelerinentreppe , got its name or official road designation on March 5 of 2008.

From the end of 2013, GWM will be building more multi-family houses as a climate protection settlement in North Rhine-Westphalia on Friesenstrasse .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wuppertal nicknames: Lookup to the series Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from July 7, 2010
  2. ↑ Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  3. ↑ Pelerinenviertel ( memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on frankenplatz.de, accessed October 2013
  4. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  5. ↑ More than 100 years ago, post officials built apartments there Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from October 11, 2013
  6. ^ A climate protection settlement Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from October 11, 2013 is being built in the Pelerinenviertel
  7. ↑ Brief information: Wuppertal-Pelerinenviertel climate protection settlement on 100-klimaschutzsiedlungen.de, accessed October 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 39 ″  E