Tippelskotten

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The Tippelskotten is a former Schleifkotten in Wuppertal - Ronsdorf in the Gelpe valley around 175 meters up from the former Jasperskotten . The desert is protected as a ground monument.

State of preservation

The state of preservation is described in the ground monument entry as follows: The approximately 50 centimeter wide upper ditch has been preserved and is easily recognizable in the terrain; it flows into a hammer pond after a curved course . It is limited by a flat earth wall on the side of the stream. The battle is no longer recognizable.

The hammer pond is silted up in the upper third, rust-red, iron-rich mud is visible in places . The pond is bordered towards Gelpe by a well-preserved and overgrown earth dam about one meter high. The schöttstelle in the pond dam has been washed out.

The easily recognizable location of the Kottens was behind the dam and can still be seen in parts as the remains of walls. The red-gray sandstone masonry was built using the quarry stone technique; its parts presumably come from a small quarry on the slope above the pond.

The underground trench is also well preserved, it is led through a barrel-shaped passage and is only indistinctly limited by the stream. At the same time it represents the upper trench of the Jasperskotten, which is also protected as a ground monument with its own entry. During a short collection in and around the underground, several remains of slag were found.

history

The first documented mention of the Schleifkotten as " Schleipkotten von Godthartz erben uffm Cronenbergk " dates back to 1607, but according to Stursberg it is older. In 1696 he is in the possession of a Peter Jacobs on the west , who paid a gold guilder for water knowledge. The Kottenanlage was finally licensed on August 16, 1768.

Around 1800 the Kotten belonged to the community of heirs Engel Jansen auf der Gelpen . The payable tax was 1 Reichstaler and 32 bus . An entry of the Kottens is not recognizable on the original map from 1815, neither as a dam nor as a building. For the years 1829 and 1834 Peter Jansen and his widow Jansen were named as the owners of the Schleifkottens, who made drills and small tools there with the help of a servant . The Jasperskotten was also owned by the Jansen family.

The Kotten had two inlets for two overshot water wheels that drove two channels and a fan . However, one of the channels was expanded again, as the water level was never enough to operate both waves at the same time. On the shaft were two whetstones and a blown disk . Due to a lack of water, the Kotten was often out of order from May to November. The power of the waterwheel is given as four hp .

In 1853 the owner of the concession changed, now Peter Jansen and a Carl Noltzen grind there . In 1867 Peter Jansen left and Carl Noltzen continued to operate the plant together with an Abraham Pickart zu Mühlenberg . Under Noltzen, the waterwheel now drove four grindstones and a blown disk. Since the underground trench of the Tippelskottens was also the upper trench of the Jasperskotten downstream, the question of the usable amount of water turned out to be complicated. A gauge attached to a tree finally indicated that the water level in the shared ditch was too high and thus an impending backwater blocking the Tippelskotten.

In 1874 Abraham Pickart was the sole owner of the Kottens, then until 1884 a merchant named Abraham Löwental . In that year Gustav Pickart zu Mühlenberg took over and produced until 1895. Now the blacksmith Karl Tippel zu Dahl ( Ober- or Unterdahl ), together with his wife Gertrud Weppler and a master plumber Heinrich Griffel from Dortmund, was named as the owner. The complex is also listed under the name Tippelskotten in the list of archaeological monuments. The demolition took place in 1913.

The protection as a ground monument took place on February 3, 1997 with the entry in the list. The dam, the ditch systems and the remains of the company building are therefore protected. Further remains of the Kotten building can be assumed to be underground.

literature

  • Egon Viebahn: hammers and grinding balls in the Gelpe valley . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87093-033-0 (extended new edition 2003)
  • Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid . Volume 3: From Gerstau to Haddenbach with Gelpetal and Ibach . Publisher: Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2002, ISBN 3-9800077-3-1

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The entry in the ground monument relates to:
    Egon Viebahn: Hämmer und Schleifkotten in the Gelpetal. Wuppertal 1985, p. 76f
  2. ↑ E. Erwin Stursberg : " History of the iron and steel industry in the former Duchy of Berg ", Remscheid, 1964

Web links

  • Entry in the Wuppertal soil monument list

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '12.7 "  N , 7 ° 9' 46.6"  E