Sunshine (Dönberg)

sunshine City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	289 m above sea level NHN
Location of sunshine in Wuppertal

Sunshine 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 289  m above sea level. NHN on the Westfalenweg road at the junction to Schneis . The name "Sonnenschein" is mostly no longer in the minds of the population as an independent name for this location; the original residential area has been incorporated into the residential development along the Westfalenweg.

Other neighboring locations are the courtyards and locations Obenrohleder , An der Roster , Am Gebrannten and the immediately neighboring locations Bratwurst and Neuensonnenschein .

In the local dialect the place was also called Besthüsken .

history

In the 19th century, Sonnenschein 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 sunshine on the Prussian first survey from 1843 .

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, a house with 17 inhabitants is given for sunshine.

In the sunshine, a coal route ran from Sprockhövel to Elberfeld , on which coal was transported from the mines in the southern Ruhr area to the factories in Wuppertal in the late 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century , which at that time was the industrial heart of the region was. Today it is known as the street Westfalenweg .

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 Sonnenschein. The city boundary between Wuppertal and Neviges ran north of Sonnenschein until 1975, and immediately south of it that from Neviges to Elberfeld until 1929. As a result of the regional reform of 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, Sunshine lost its border position.

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