Whale bridges
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Whale bridges
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 39 ″ E
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| Height : | 301 m above sea level NHN | |
| Postal code : | 42399 | |
| Area code : | 0202 | |
Location of Walbrecken in Wuppertal |
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 View of whale bridges
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Walbrecken (the old spelling Wallbrecken is also used in literature ) is a hamlet in the Wuppertal residential district of Herbringhausen in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The hamlet is in the immediate vicinity of the hamlet of Spieckern .
geography
The place is surrounded by agriculturally used plateaus at 301 m above sea level. NHN south of Beyenburg in the basin of the Lohbach stream . Walbrecken is the starting point for several marked hiking trails .
Etymology and history
The exact origin of the name is unclear. The final syllable -brecken probably indicates a broken , i.e. plowed field.
Walbrecken was first mentioned as Walebreke in the first half of the 12th century (1150) . Whether whale breeches are actually meant by this initial mention has not yet been clarified with absolute certainty.
In the Middle Ages, Walbrecken was the titular place of the honor of the same name in the Lüttringhausen parish of the Beyenburg office , to which another 15 surrounding farms belonged. In 1547 a dwelling is 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 Walbreck on the Topographia Ducatus Montani .
In 1815/16 there were 22 residents in the village. In 1832 Walbrecken was still part of the Walbrecken Honschaft, which belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district, the place was called Wallbrecken at that time and at that time owned three residential buildings and four agricultural buildings. At that time there were 22 people living in the village, all of them Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, four residential buildings with 41 inhabitants are given.
Clubs and culture
- Trumpet Choir Walbrecken
- CVJM Walbrecken - with its own youth home
- Wallbrecken volunteer fire department
Walbrecken had had its own school since 1829, which existed until 1967 when the last teacher, Karl Drees, retired.
literature
- Hans Kadereit: Where there is still celebration, reeling and gelling - a historical illustrated book . RGA-Buchverlag, Lüttringhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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 .
- ^ Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ 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.