Lichtenplatz, Wuppertal — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Lichtenplatz?

One tower stands over the whole quarter. Der Lichtscheider Wasserturm is the most conspicuous building in Lichtenplatz, and the Toelleturm gives its name to the villa quarter beside the Vorwerkpark. Four brooks run through.

Murmelbach, Auer, Kothener and Bendahler Bach are the watercourses that matter here, cutting the southern heights the quarter sits on. Woods make the boundary on two sides. Kothener Busch and Christbusch separate it from the valley, and the former Scharpenacken training ground lies along the southern and eastern edge toward Ronsdorf and Heckinghausen.

What is the history of Lichtenplatz?

Farms on Lichtscheid come first. A Beyenburg office account of 1466 names three of them, Wilhelms Lichtenscheid, Peters Lichtenscheid and Gockelsheid, along with the cottage Schafferts Kothe, and Capell stood in the present quarter at the same time. Neighbouring Buer belonged to a monastery.

It existed then too but lies in Ronsdorf-Mitte now, it owed dues to the Kloster Steinhaus in the Middle Ages, and a former chapel for the monastery's tenants is suspected at neighbouring Kapellen. Maps carry the name from 1715. Erich Philipp Ploennies records the place as grauleitschütt in the Topographia Ducatus Montani that year, and Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking's Charte des Herzogthum Berg names it Lichtenplatz for the first time in 1789.

It was a hamlet by 1832. The Düsseldorf district statistics of that year class it as a Weiler with fifty-five dwelling houses and twenty-five farm buildings, which is the shape it kept until Wuppertal grew up the hill to it.

Where is Lichtenplatz?

Lichtenplatz covers 3.42 square kilometres on the Wuppertal southern heights, separated from the valley by the Kothener Busch and the Christbusch, bordering Ronsdorf and Heckinghausen along the Scharpenacken and Elberfeld to the west.