Before the Hardt (Barmen)

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In front of the Hardt
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 184 m above sea level NHN
Area code : 0202
Before the Hardt (Wuppertal)
In front of the Hardt

Location of Vor der Hardt in Wuppertal

Before the Hardt is a location in the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from a medieval Barmer court .

Location and description

The location is at an altitude of 184  m above sea level. NHN in the north of the Loh residential area of the Barmen district on today's Burgunderstraße / Rudolfstraße at the confluence of Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Weg . To the south of the locality there is an extensive allotment garden on the hillside of Hardtberg .

Etymology and history

Map of the courts in the area of ​​today's Barmen by Erich Philipp Ploennies (1715)

Vor der Hardt is a place-descriptive name that describes the location on the Hardtberg and the Elberfeld - Barmer border area Hardt , which has been known since the Middle Ages . Hardt , Hard , Har is a term for forest, forest height, mountain forest.

In the 17th century, Vor der Hardt belonged to the court association of the Oberhof Wichlinghausen in Oberbarmen and was an allod of the Count von der Mark . Territorially, the area around Vor der Hardt was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established . Within the office, Vor der Hardt was run by the Barmer farmers .

1715 Vor der Hardt is listed as Hart on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies . With the other farms in the Barmen farming community , Vor der Hardt was part of the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg until 1806. 180 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16.

In 1832 the place belonged to Section 1 of the rural foreign citizenship of the city of Barmen . The place, which was categorized as a single house according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had 17 residential buildings and six agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 137 inhabitants, 24 Catholic and 113 Protestant.

The location was independent under this name until the middle of the 20th century, but since then has been incorporated into commercial and residential developments on Rudolfstrasse .

literature

  • Walter Dietz: Barmen 500 years ago. An examination of the Beyenburger official accounts from 1466 and other sources on the early development of the place Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 12, ISSN  0522-6678 ). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
  2. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836