Wolfskuhle (Ronsdorf)
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Wolf's Hollow
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 49 ″ E
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| Height : | 344 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area code : | 0202 | |
Location of Wolfskuhle in Wuppertal |
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Wolfskuhle is a locality in the mountainous city of Wuppertal . The location emerged from a medieval courtyard.
Location and description
The location is 344 m above sea level. NHN in the area of today's streets Kurfürstenstraße , Parkstraße ( Landesstraße 419 ) and Zur Wolfskuhle in the residential area of Ronsdorf-Mitte / Nord in the Ronsdorf district . Wolfskuhle is the highest point in the former town of Ronsdorf. As an independent settlement area, Wolfskuhle is no longer perceptible today, the yard is occupied by today's residential buildings and the route of Landesstraße 419.
Etymology and history
The name Wolfskuhle indicates the existence of a trap of the same name for wolves , a Wolfskuhle .
Wolfskuhle was first mentioned in a document in 1352. It was in the parish of Lüttringhausen in the Bergisches Amt of Beyenburg . After its founding, it later belonged to the parish of Ronsdorf. In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr passed Wolfskuhle .
Wolfskuhle was located on a coal route from Barmen to Ronsdorf in the early modern times .
From 1902 to 1903, a water tower was built in Wolfskuhle by the city of Ronsdorf (united with other cities in Wuppertal in 1929) to supply drinking water , in which the water from the Ronsdorf dam was pumped up. To the north of the location, the Diedenhofen barracks was built in 1936 as part of the National Socialist armament . A villa ( Villa Braus ) near Wolfskuhle was integrated into the barracks as an officers' mess.
The water tower and a well-known restaurant "Die Wolfskuhle", which presumably dates back to before the 19th century, were destroyed in the air raids on Wuppertal and were then removed. With the construction of Landesstraße 419, the local situation underwent another major redesign.
The forest line of the Ronsdorf-Müngstener Railway ran through Wolfskuhle until it was closed .
The journalist and local writer Engelbert Wüster was born in Wolfskuhle.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1246 to 1699. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Drawing of the restaurant on ronsdorf-wektiven.de
- ↑ Engelbert Wüster : " Die Wolfskuhle (1929) " in: Günter Konrad (Hrsg.): " Living past - history and stories about Ronsdorf ", Wuppertal, 2002
