Lower Steinbeck
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Lower Steinbeck
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 7 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 13 ″ E
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| Height : | 149 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Untere Steinbeck in Wuppertal |
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Untere Steinbeck , until the middle of the 19th century Unterste Steinbeck , was a locality in the Bergisch city of Wuppertal shortly before the confluence of the Hatzenbeck, which runs underground here, in the Wupper . She was lying in the streets today Gravelottestraße corner Tannenbergstraße .
Untere Steinbeck is to be distinguished from the localities of Obere Steinbeck and Mittlere Steinbeck , which were upstream on the Hatzenbeck, which was still called Steinbeck until the early 20th century. Today the entire area of the three courtyards is referred to as Steinbeck by the population.
Location and description
The local situation is to the west of the living quarters Elberfeld-Mitte in the district Elberfeld at an altitude of 149 m above sea level. NHN . Already towards the end of the 19th century it was incorporated into the inner-city development of Wuppertal.
Neighboring locations in the 19th century were In der Hütte , the settlement core of Arrenberg , Obere Steinbeck, Mittlere Steinbeck, Ochsenkamp , Am Brill , Aue and Ohligsmühle .
Etymology and history
Beck is a Middle Low German form for Bach, Steinbeck therefore means Steinbach. Steinbach and Steinbeck are arbitrarily interchangeable synonyms for the stream and the place name and have been used differently in history depending on the source. The name of the farm goes back to its location on the stream of the same name.
Untere Steinbeck goes back to a medieval and early modern court. A Steinbeck farm was mentioned in a document as early as 1428. At that time he belonged to the Elberfeld Church in the Elberfeld parish in the Bergisch Amt Elberfeld . On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, the farm is listed as Steinbach . A location is also recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as it is on the first Prussian survey from 1843.
In 1815/16 the place had 92 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the Steinbeck and Arrenberger Rotte of the rural outskirts of the parish and the city of Elberfeld. The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , was designated as in the lowest Steinbach and at that time had nine residential houses and 14 agricultural buildings. At that time, 79 residents lived in the place, eleven Catholic and 68 Protestant faith.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836