Spieckern

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Spieckern
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 311 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 42399
Area code : 0202
Spieckern (Wuppertal)
Spieckern

Location of Spieckern in Wuppertal

Spieckern is a hamlet in the Wuppertal residential district of Herbringhausen in the district of Langerfeld-Beyenburg in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany . The hamlet is in the immediate vicinity of the hamlet of Walbrecken .

geography

View of Spieckern

The place, surrounded by agriculturally used plateaus, is 311  m above sea level. NHN south of Beyenburg . The Hengstener Bach rises in the village. In the hamlet an equestrian facility and is Löschzug Wallbrecken the volunteer fire home.

Spieckern is the starting point for several marked hiking trails . The Wuppertal circular route and the Rhenish Way of St. James cross the hamlet.

history

In the Middle Ages, Spieckern, first mentioned in a document in 1471, belonged to the Walbrecken honors in the parish of Lüttringhausen of the Beyenburg office along with 15 other farms . In 1547 two dwellings are documented. At that time the court was part of the Mosblech court association , which was an allod of the Bergisch dukes . In 1715 the hamlet is referred to as Spickert on the Topographia Ducatus Montani .

In 1815/16 there were 77 people living in the village. In 1832 Spieckern was still part of the Walbrecken Honschaft, which now belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as a village community designated place was Spicker called and had at that time 17 houses and eleven farm buildings. At that time there were 106 residents in the place, ten Catholic and 96 Protestant. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, 13 houses with 105 inhabitants are given.

literature

  • Hans Kadereit: Where there is still celebrations, reels and delights , a historical illustrated book Lüttringhausen, RGA-Buchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 .
  2. ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
  3. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  4. 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.