West (Wuppertal)

west City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '22 "  N , 7 ° 9' 40"  E
Height :	212 m above sea level NHN
Location from the west in Wuppertal

West is a locality of the mountainous city ​​of Wuppertal . The local situation emerged from one of the medieval courtyards of Barmen .

Location and description

West lies in the north-west of the Clausen residential area in the Wuppertal district of Barmen, directly on the old city limits and today's city limits to Elberfeld . The original courtyard was located in the area of ​​today's streets at the corner of Am Schnapsstüber and Clausenstraße . Since the middle of the 20th century, the west has been part of the larger Clausenhof area.

Etymology and history

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

West describes the location of the farm as one of the westernmost farms in the Barmen farming community .

The earliest secured with date mention the West than to the west ( to the west ) comes from the Beyenburger office account (settlement of Rentmeister's to the Bergisch-ducal Kameralverwaltung ) of the year 1466. From this it appears that the living space the West at that time a cottas , so a smaller yard, was. In 1715, West is listed on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies as adWestern .

Due to inadequate source material it is not occupied, but possible for West to the mentioned already in 1245 "goods in Barmen" ( " Bona de Barme ") in the Electoral Cologne was one area that by Count Ludwig von Ravensberg as allod into possession the Count von Berg passed under Count Heinrich IV . Territorially, the area around the west was part of Unterbarmen from the late 14th century in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg and was part of the Barmen peasantry. Ecclesiastically it belonged to the parish of Elberfeld until its own parish in Barmer was established . With the other farms in the Barmen farming community, Westen was part of the Beyenburg office of Berg until 1806.

In the late Middle Ages the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr ran near Westen . In old descriptions of the course, the west is the northernmost documented point of this Landwehr.

In 1815/16 the place had 180 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to Section 1 of the rural foreign citizenship of the city of Barmen . The place, categorized as individual houses according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had 17 residential buildings and six agricultural buildings at the time. At that time there were 137 inhabitants, 24 Catholic and 113 Protestant.

The location was independent until the first third of the 20th century, then merged with the growing residential development around the neighboring Clausenhof and the large Clausen industrial area.

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. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836