Windfoche (Wuppertal)

Windfoche City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	285 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	42399
Area code :	0202
Location of Windfoche in Wuppertal

Windfoche is a locality in the Wuppertal residential area Herbringhausen in the district of Langerfeld-Beyenburg .

geography

The location is 285  m above sea level. NHN on Landesstraße 411 on a ridge between the Herbringhauser Bach and the Hengstener Bach south of the Beyenburg localities of Sondern and Siegelberg . To the south are the farms of Niedersondern and Obersondern . To the west is the Sondernbusch forest area .

In Windfoche, a driveway for the hamlet of Herbringhausen branches off from the L411.

history

Windfoche was built as a street settlement at the beginning of the 19th century and has grown steadily to its present size; the youngest houses have been built in recent years. A new building area between the housing estate Siegelberg and Windfoche has expanded to the respective local border in recent years, so that Windfoche is gradually in danger of losing its status as an independent settlement.

Today's Steinhauser Straße next to Windfoche and further along the state road 411 in the direction of Lennep were part of the Cologne – Dortmund military route in the Middle Ages and so there was a barrier at Windfoche in the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr . Around 1813 the road from Lennep to Beyenburg (today Landesstraße 411) was built, which replaced the old Heerweg between Windfoche and Beyenburger Brücke .

In 1815/16 there were 27 people living in the village. In 1832 Windfoche was part of the Walbrecken Honschaft , which now belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place called workers' housing at that time had five residential buildings, an agricultural building and a manufacturing facility. At that time 57 people lived in the place, ten Catholic and 47 Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, four houses with 37 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
2. ↑ 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.