Windgesheide

Windgesheide City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	84 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Location of Windgesheide in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Windgesheide , also called Windgeshaide in the first half of the 20th century , is a district of the city of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district that emerged from a courtship .

Location and description

Windgesheide is located in western Leichlingen between the state road L288 and the Gruiten – Cologne-Mülheim railway line and is now part of the western suburb of Leichlingen. Today's district includes several neighboring Leichlingen residential areas that were still recognizable as independent until the middle of the 20th century. When the gaps in the residential and commercial development were closed, the name of the Windgesheide residential area was transferred to the entire local area created.

The residential areas Stockberg , Am Adler , Hüttchen , Merlenforst , Bahnhof and Bockstiege are also part of the local area, all of which are located within a 200-meter radius of the original settlement center of Windgesheide. This is at the eastern end of Neustraße , which had a level crossing over the railway line until the middle of the 20th century. This was replaced in the 1960s by a footbridge at the level of the Merlenforst residential area in the north.

To the west of Windgesheide, in the urban area of ​​Langenfeld, were the Leichlinger Sandberge , which were largely removed for sand mining, and the Langenfeld motorway junction . Further neighboring areas are Kellerhansberg , Unterschmitte , Roßlenbruch , Scheresberg , Kaltenberg and Bremse . Ziegwebersberg and Staderhof have retained their independent location.

history

The original settlement core of Windgesheide was east of the Sandstrasse , an old road from Aufderhöhe to Opladen and today's state road L288. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows a local area under the name Windgesheide , which also included the Hüttchen and Merlenforst residential areas, which were independently described at the time. The Prussian first recording from 1844 shows the place, but only the neighboring Merlenforst is labeled; also on the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830.

In 1832 Windgesheide belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen . The place, which was categorized as arable property according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential house and two agricultural buildings at the time. At that time, three residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant. In 1867 the Gruiten – Cologne – Mülheim railway line was opened near Windgesheide.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, two houses with ten residents are given. In 1895 the place had four houses with 24 inhabitants, in 1905 five houses and 21 inhabitants.

In 1901, the residents applied to rename their newly built houses between Windgesheide and Am Adler / Stockberg to Neustraße . From the middle of the 20th century, the gaps in the residential and commercial development with the neighboring residential areas were closed and Windgesheide became part of the western suburb of Leichlingen.

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.
3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
5. ↑ Neustraße at www.geschichte-leichlingen.de. Retrieved April 17, 2015 .