Zenzhäuschen (Wermelskirchen)

Zenshäuschen is a residential area in Wermelskirchen consisting of three or four houses in the extension of Thomas-Mann-Straße.

As early as 1746, Wilhelm Zenses received reimbursement of war costs for boarding and housing Hungarian hussars. So at that time he had an inn on the so-called Kratzkopf in front of the Chaussee, today's Berliner Strasse.

In 1759, on September 29th, Johan Wilhelm Zenses bought a building site above Kenkhausen from the electoral domain administration. Also documented before the notary Pfleger, Wermelskirchen, in the document Rep. 485f., No. 128. On February 11, 1770, he married Maria Catherina Schmidt. He was also a postman by profession and in 1783 issued a bond of over 200 thalers. In 1804 Wilhelm Zens and his son-in-law Johan Dorpmüller paid five thalers 10 stüber to the hundred sheet (a tax measure) of the village dignity. In 1806 and 1809, the Johan Wilhelm Census paid 15 leaseholds or land rent on 39 rods of arable land near Hof Kenkhausen to the Solingen domain rentier. 1813 the widow Wilh. Dorpmüller, Maria Elisabeth Zenses notarized a confirmation in front of the notary Pfleger. In 1830, the grandson of the Wilhelm Zensus, Peter Arnold Dörpmüller, was the owner of cadastral article 59, tall under 1 acre, with a house in hall 4, parcel 55.

Another owner was Wilhelm Fleschenberg in 1866. In 1884 the son Carl Fleschenberg sold to Friedrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer.

In later decades the tram to Remscheid was led through the narrow alley between the houses. Today this narrowness is an obstacle for the bike path that runs along the former railway line.

literature

• Breidenbach, NJ: Old farms and houses in the Wupperviereck in Wermelskirchen ... Wermelskirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-980-2801-2-9 , pp. 252f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′  N , 7 ° 13 ′  E