Wupperhof (Leichlingen)

Wupperhof City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	77 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Location of Wupperhof in Leichlingen (Rhineland)
View over the Wupperbrücke on the L427 road to Wupperhof

Wupperhof is a village in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district that emerged from a court .

Location and description

Wupperhof is located on the banks of the Wupper on Landesstrasse 427 northeast of the center of Leichling in the natural spatial unit of Lower Wuppertal at the foot of the steep slopes of the Leichling plateau known as the Wupperberge. The river forms the city limit to Solingen . The place borders on both sides of the nature reserve Wupperhang with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen . A bridge connects Wupperhof with Wüstenhof on the other side of the river. Other neighboring towns are Auerkotten , Heiler Kotten and Haus Hohenscheid . They are all on the other side of the Wupper in the city of Solingen.

There is a gastronomic establishment in Wupperhof, which, according to its own statements, has a tradition that goes back several centuries.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1488 as Wypper Hoeve . The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows a Freihof under the name Wupperhof . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish Witzhelden in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first survey from 1844 record the place unlabeled or as Wupperhof .

16 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16. In 1832 Wupperhof was still part of the parish Witzhelden within the Burscheid mayor . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had six residential buildings and nine agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 37 residents lived in the village, all of whom were evangelicals.

Due to the municipal code for the Rhine province, the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the Burscheid mayor and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . In 1885, the municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province lists 13 houses with 82 inhabitants. In 1895 the place had 13 houses with 57 inhabitants, in 1905 14 houses and 66 inhabitants.

Wupperhof was until the 1970s, starting point of the blade ring - mountain race on the national road 427, in turn, from 1954 part of the wheel heading was blade ring. On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Witzhelden was incorporated into Leichlingen with Wupperhof.

Personalities

• Carl Clauberg (1898–1957), gynecologist and SS doctor with the rank of SS group leader , made famous through human experiments and forced sterilization in concentration camps

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ Klingenring interest group. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 9, 2015 . 
7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 298 .