Straw hat

Straw hat City of Haan Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 26"  E
Height :	approx. 195 m
Location of Stropmütze in Haan

The location Stropmütze belongs to the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Haan in the Mettmann district and is part of the Gruiten district .

Location and description

The location, which goes back to the name of a farm, is in the east of the city of Haan near the city limits of Wuppertal ( Vohwinkel district ) and Solingen ( Gräfrath district ). The location is on Gruitener Straße, which is classified here as Landesstraße 357. Neighboring locations are Obgruiten , Gütchen , Polnische Mütze , Bollenheide , Irdelen , Holthausen , Höfgen , Kriekhausen , Windfoche and Brotzhecke .

The location is connected to public transport via a stop on the O1 low-floor bus, which runs between Haan and Gruiten . The rest area of ​​the federal highway 46 in the vicinity is named after this location.

History and etymology

Stropmütze was part of the Oberste Honschaft Haan in the Bergisch Amt Mettmann in the early modern times . The location is documented for the first time with "Jacob Klophausen ahn der Stropfmutzen" in the list of homage from 1731.

There are different speculations about the origin of the name, a connection with the localities Polish cap and Klappmütze is obvious.

Individual evidence

1. ^ For two years Dixie-Klos at the rest area Stropmütze Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from April 21, 2009
2. ↑ Old place names in Haan and Gruiten in the period 1600 to 1800 zeitspurensuche.de, accessed October 2010
3. ↑ Stropmütze zeitspurensuche.de, accessed October 2010
4. ↑ Old houses and courtyards ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. zeitspurensuche.de, accessed February 2010 
5. ↑ Die Klappmütze and other old farms in Gruiten , accessed October 2010