Wolkenburg (Wuppertal)
Wolkenburg is the name of an elevation with a mountain spur in the Südstadt residential area in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal between the Kluser Höhe area and the Bendahler Bachtal . The name was also transferred to a thoroughfare of the same name at the foot of the elevation, which runs parallel to the railway line from Wuppertal-Elberfeld to Dortmund .
The mountain spur drops steeply on two sides into the valley of the Wupper and to the Bendahler Bach. On the spur is the public Klophauspark , which arose from the private garden of the villa of the fashion store owner Ludwig von Lilienthal . The Wolkenburg staircase leads with 147 steps from the street up to the spur.
The street Wolkenburg was named on April 19, 1898 as Wolkenburgstraße after it was previously listed as an unnamed part of the Bendahler Straße , into which it also flows. On January 18, 1901, the name was changed to Wolkenburg . In 1939, the road was still his term after the Director General of the German National Railroad and Reich Minister of Transport Julius Dorpmüller in Dorpmüllerstraße renamed. Because of its involvement in the National Socialist government, his support of the war policy through planning, construction and operation of ground-based war logistics and its responsibility for organizing the deportation trains to the death camps , the street was back to a Council decision in their original name on May 28, 1984 Wolkenburg changed back .
The origin of the name Wolkenburg has not been passed down, in particular nothing is known about a possible castle on the mountain spur, which would have been very suitable as a location. According to Wolfgang Stock, the name goes back to the Wolkenburg 62 building, which is said to have had this name at the time the street was first named. In fact, the name Der Borchberg (= "Der Burgberg") is already shown on the Elberfeld district map of Johann von der Waye from 1609 for the undeveloped local area and the elevation. This means that the appellative can be identified in the toponym much earlier than in the house built in the 19th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 40.1 ″ E