Sunflower (Wuppertal)

Sunflower City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	293 m above sea level NHN
Location of Sonnenblume in Wuppertal

Sonnenblume is a location in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The location is in the north of the Uellendahl-West residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district at an altitude of 293  m above sea level. NHN on the street Westfalenweg at the junctions of the street Sonnenblume and Kohlstrasse . The location is now part of the closed development on Westfalenweg .

Neighboring locations are the courtyards and locations Grünenbaum , In den Siepen , Untere Sonnenblume , Webershaus , Schneis and Am Hartkopfshäuschen and the immediately neighboring locations Sonnenschein and Neuensonnenschein . A bus stop there is called Sunflower . An allotment garden set up in the vicinity from 1970 also bears the name sunflower.

In the local dialect the place was also called Schmer Emma .

history

In the 19th century, Sonnenblume was one of the suburbs of the farmers and the parish Dönberg in the Hardenberg mayor's office , which was renamed Neviges in 1935 . From 1816 to 1861 it belonged to the Elberfeld district and from 1861 to the old Mettmann district . At that time the place was right on the border between the farmers and the Uellendahler Rotte of the Lord Mayor of Elberfeld .

The place is unlabeled on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and marked as a sunflower on the Prussian first survey from 1843 .

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, a house with ten residents is given for Sonnenblume.

At Sonnenblume a coal route ran from Sprockhövel to Elberfeld (here today's Westfalenweg and Kohl (en ) strasse ), on which in the late 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century hard coal ran from the mines in the southern Ruhr area to the factories in Wuppertal, which at that time was the industrial heart of the region.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Dönberg was split off from Neviges and incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal with other Neviges villages outside Dönberg, including Sonnenblume. The city boundary between Wuppertal and Neviges ran north of Sonnenblume until 1975, and to the south of it ran from Neviges to Elberfeld until 1929. As a result of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia , Neviges came to the city of Velbert at the beginning of 1975 , and the rest of the Dönberg was also incorporated into Wuppertal. As a result, sunflower lost its border position.

Gasthaus Zur Sonnenblume and Schmer Emma

In the sunflower there was a restaurant built in 1838, which was called Zur Sonnenblume and was owned by the Schmitz family for generations . A landlady of the inn by the name of Emma Schmitz , called Schmer Emma , has entered the consciousness of the population as a local original. She is described as an "older, plump, good-naturedly smiling woman with a kitchen apron tied in front of her," whose apron is said to have often been "greasy", as a specialty of the inn were Dönberger mares smeared with butter . This fact or the activity of lubricating the mare earned Ms. Schmitz the well-known nickname Schmeer Emma (= lubricating Emma ). The inn was a popular Sunday excursion destination, and a popular dance hall after the Second World War. The inn, abandoned in the 1980s, burned down in 2003 and was demolished shortly afterwards.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge, Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Kohlenwege on Ruhrkohlenrevier.de
4. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung of July 7, 2011