Weuste (Schwelm)

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Weuste
City of Schwelm
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 224 m above sea level NN
Weuste (Schwelm)
Weuste

Location of Weuste in Schwelm
Weuste in 2001
Weuste in 2001

Weuste is a hamlet in the town of Schwelm in the Ennepe-Ruhr district .

Location and description

Weuste is located on the southern edge of the Schwelm urban area near the Wupper, west of the Wuppertal district of Beyenburg . The river forms the border between the two cities and at the same time between the two administrative districts of Düsseldorf and Arnsberg .

Neighboring towns are Brambecke , Vesterberg and Dahlhausen on Schwelmer and Zur Gute Hoffnung and In der Grüne in Wuppertal's urban area, as well as the Beyenburgerbrücke in the area of ​​both cities . The Brambecke flows through the village .

history

Directly past Weuste, an early medieval and, according to another opinion, even prehistoric old road from Cologne to Dortmund, the trade, pilgrimage and military route Cologne – Dortmund , ran right up to the construction of the road towards the end of the 18th century . In the forest above Weuste, numerous deep bundles of ravines of this medieval main traffic connection have been preserved, which crossed the Wupper at the nearby Beyenburg Bridge , first mentioned in 1336 . The Beyenburger monastery with the associated monastery church Sankt Maria Magdalena in the neighboring village also served the pilgrims on the Way of St. James as a stopover.

The Mehrenberger brand roll was kept in Weuste , in which the peasant usage and property rights of the nearby Mehrenberger Mark were listed. In the event of disputes, the place was also the place of jurisdiction.

The location is marked as Auf der Weuste on the situation chart of the Fabrickendistricts in the high court of Schwelm from 1788 , the Prussian first recording from 1840/1844 lists the location as Wöste .

Until 1807, Weuste belonged to the Schwelm farmers of the Wetter district in the county of Mark . From 1807 to 1814, Weuste was part of the Mairie Schwelm in the arrondissement of Hagen due to the Napoleonic communal reforms in the Grand Duchy of Berg . In 1818, 24 and around 1822, 20 people lived in the village, which was categorized as four farms and after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement, it belonged to the Schwelm mayor in the Hagen district .

In 1839 Weuste was assigned to the Steinhauserberg school district within the farmers / rural community Schwelm in the Schwelm mayor's office in the Hagen district . In 1843 the mayor's office was converted into the Schwelm office. The place categorized as courtyards according to the place and distance table of the government district Arnsberg had five houses and one farm building at that time. At that time there were 40 people living in the village, all of them Protestant denominations.

1887 Schwelm county seat was the inside of the Prussian province of Westphalia newly established district Schwelm and the rural community Schwelm the Office Schwelm was also combined with the previously amt free township Schwelm to advanced Schwelm. Weustes affiliation to Schwelm was retained.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Helbeck : Schwelm. History of a city and its surroundings . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Association for local history Schwelm, Schwelm 1995.
  2. ↑ a b Gerd Helbeck, "Beyenburg - History of a place on the Bergisch-Märkische border and its surrounding area" , Volume I (The Middle Ages: Basics and Ascent)
  3. ↑ a b c d Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, sorted according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
  4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 5 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1823.