Sondernbusch
Sondernbusch or Im Sondern is a forest area in the east of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Wuppertal .
The forest extends between the valleys of the Herbringhauser Bach in the west, the looped Wupper in the north and the Lohmühlenbach and Landesstraße 411 in the east. The settlements and farms of Sondern , Ober- and Niedersondern are named after the forest . The south extends to the locality Obersondern. The terrain is topographically strong, the difference in altitude between the lowest point on the Wupper and the one in the locality of Sondern is 120 meters.
The route of the disused Wuppertal Railway runs along the Wupper at the foot of the forest area; the northern foothills of the Bergsporn are crossed by the Beyenburger Tunnel . The Wuppertal circular route and other local hiking trails cross the forest, and there is a sports field at the altitude.
Etymology and history
The name Sondernbusch comes from its function as a ducal Kameralwald , which, in contrast to the rural Markwald , had its own, i.e. special rights of administration. In 1715 the forest is marked on the Topographia Ducatus Montani as a special bush .
A forest map from 1799 provides information about the extent of the Kameral forest. Two lines of the Bergische Landwehr crossed the forest. Since the Middle Ages , part of the Cologne – Dortmund military route has run along the western edge .
At the foot of the wooded ridge on the Herbringhauser Bach was the Untere Herbringhauser Dam , on the course of the brook itself there were three water- powered hammer mills that were lost in the 19th century : the Oberste Herbringhauser Hammer , the Mittlere Herbringhauser Hammer and the Unterste Herbringhauser Hammer (also called Grabers Hammer ), whose last building had to give way to the dam. The Beyenburger Lohmühle was located on the Lohmühlenbach .
In the north, in a Wupperschleife near Dahlhausen, the Erfurt und Sohn paper mill was established , which invented woodchip wallpaper there and still produces it today.
In order to Good Hope mentioned spur on the north side of the bush But a large-scale quarry has been created since the late 19th century. This eight-hectare, 55-meter-deep quarry was backfilled as a Wuppertal garbage dump from 1953 to 1974, and the surface was renatured.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ E