Flockert wood

Flockert wood City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 44 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  E
Height :	about 235 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location of Flockertsholz in Solingen
Flockert wood

Flockertsholz is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Solingen .

geography

The location of Flockertsholz is on the slopes sloping down towards the Wupper east of Lützowstraße in the Gräfrath district . To the west is the sports field on Flockertsholzer Weg, the former Gräfrath youth hostel and the light tower , which is located at the highest point in the city of Solingen at almost 276 meters above sea ​​level . To the east are the localities of Flockertsberg and Friedenstal and the deserted area of Third Kotten . To the south are Laiken , Neuenhaus and the Hofschaft Oben zum Holz . To the north is Schieten . The Flockertsholzer Bach , which flows into the Wupper at Friedenstal, also has its source near Flockertsholz .

etymology

The word Flockertsholz denotes wood, i.e. a forest area that was owned by a person or family with the name Flockert.

history

In the map series Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Solingen , from the year 1715, the place is recorded with a farm and named as F. Holt . The farm belonged to the Ketzberg Honschaft within the Solingen office. The topographical record of the Rhineland from 1824 lists the place as a.Flokersholz, the Prussian first record from 1843 as Flockertsbergerstrasse. In the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, the court is listed as the Flockertsbergerhof .

After the Mairien and later mayor's offices were founded at the beginning of the 19th century, Flockertsholz belonged to the Gräfrath mayor's office . In 1815/16 eleven people lived in the village, categorized as a peasantry, in 1830 twelve people. In 1832 Flockertsholz was still part of the Honschaft (Ketz-) Berg within the Gräfrath mayor. The place, which was categorized as an arable farm according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential building, a factory or mill and four agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 24 residents lived in the place, eight of them Catholic and 16 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with three houses and 27 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, a house with six inhabitants is given. In 1895 the district owned a house with six inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and ten inhabitants are given.  

In 1822 the 40th  Landwehr Battalion had moved into the building of the 1803 secularized Gräfrath monastery as barracks. For the soldiers barracked there, a parade ground was  created above Flockertsholz  . This was immediately adjacent to the light tower and unused for many years, converted into a sports field between 1923 and 1924. In the first half of 2004 the pitch was converted into an artificial turf pitch . Today the Gräfrath ball game club uses it as its home ground.

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Flockertsholz became a district of Solingen. A youth hostel opened above Flockertsholz in 1962. This was taken over in 2015 by the nearby Central Technical School of the German Confectionery Industry to accommodate its students. In Flockertsholz there is now a riding school as well as a kindergarten .

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  Flockertsholz riding stables

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  Access to the Flockertsholz

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  Light tower and sports field

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1. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
2. ^ Topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district . Designed and executed according to the cadastral recordings and the same underlying and other trigonometric work by the Royal Government Secretary W. Werner. Edited by the royal government secretary FW Grube. 4th rev. Edition / published by A. Bagel in Wesel, 1859 / Ddf., Dec. 17, 1870. J. Emmerich, Landbaumeister. - Corrected after the ministerial amendments. Ddf. d. Sept. 1, 1871. Bruns.
3. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ 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.
11. ^ Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a City , Volume 2, Walter Braun Verlag, Duisburg 1972, ISBN 3-87096-103-1
12. ^ History of the sports field on bv-graefrath.de , accessed on June 5, 2015.
13. ↑ Pictures to Flockertsholz, Friedenstal u. a. from bilder-von-solingen.de , accessed on May 22, 2015
14. ^ Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from March 2, 2015, accessed on May 22, 2015