Windgassen (Wuppertal)

Wind lanes City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 50 ″ E
Height :	305 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	42399
Area code :	0202
Location of Windgassen in Wuppertal
	View over Olpe in the valley towards Windgassen

Windgassen is a hamlet in the Wuppertal residential area of Herbringhausen in the Langerfeld-Beyenburg district .

geography

The hamlet consists of two settlement areas, which were previously divided into upper and lower wind lanes. Both settlement areas are surrounded by hilly agricultural areas west of the Herbringhauser Dam at 305 and 302 m above sea level. NHN near the city limits of Remscheid - Lüttringhausen . West lie Have mountain that Have Berger mill and Luckhauser cottas , north the hamlet Wefelpütt and Herbringhausen and south of the Hofschaft Olpe .

Etymology and history

In the Middle Ages, Windgassen, first mentioned in a document in 1350, belonged to the Garschagen district in the parish of Lüttringhausen of the Beyenburg office, along with nine other farms . In 1547, three dwellings are documented in a list of manual and clamping services . 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 H.Windgaten or n. Windgaten on the Topographia Ducatus Montani .

In 1815/16 63 people lived in the village. In 1832 Windgassen was still part of the Garschagen Honschaft, which belonged to the mayor's office in Lüttringhausen . According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the place called a hamlet had ten residential buildings, a factory and nine agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 52 residents lived in the place, eight Catholic and 44 Protestant faith. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, eight houses with 46 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

↑ 51 ° 13 ' N , 7 ° 16' E51.224488354722 7.2659186436111 300
^ ^A ^b 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.

[1] 51 ° 13 ' N , 7 ° 16' E51.224488354722 7.2659186436111 300

[helbeck-2] A ^b 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 .

[kießling-3] Hermann Kießling: Courtyards and farm associations in Wuppertal. Bergisch-Märkischer Genealogischer Verlag, Wuppertal 1977.

[Viebahn-4] Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836

[Gemeindelexikon1888-5] 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.