Foche

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Foche
City of Solingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : about 230 m
Postal code : 42719
Area code : 0212
Foche (Solingen)
Foche

Location of Foche in Solingen

Foche is a residential area in the Bergisch city ​​of Solingen . The Foche was an important industrial location for Solingen, companies like Krups , Gottlieb Hammesfahr or Flora Frey have their roots there or operate large plants. In addition, the Foche was one of the first centers of the mechanized cutlery industry in the Solingen area in the 19th century .

geography

The Foche is located in the Wald district near the city limits of Gräfrath . The living space is on a ridge north of Heide , south of Nümmen , west of the center and east of Demmeltrath on Landesstraße 85, Focher Straße, which bears the name of the farm.

etymology

The place name Foche stands for a place exposed to the wind . Windfoche is a common place name in other regions as well.

history

The original Foche court is recorded in 1715 on the map of Erich Philipp Ploennies northeast of Heide on the northern side of the connecting road Wald-Zentral as Foggen . It was located on the road connecting Benrath and Gräfrath to Provincial Road via Wald, Ohligs and Hilden , which was also named after the Foche: Benrath-Focher Provincial Road . The Foche belonged to the Honschaft Ketzberg within the office of Solingen . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 lists the place as aufd Vochen , the Prussian first survey from 1844 as Voche . In the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, the place is recorded as Foche directly on Provinzialstrasse.

After the establishment of the Mairien and later mayor's offices at the beginning of the 19th century, the village belonged to the mayor's office of Gräfrath . 24 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16. In 1830, 28 people lived in the Aufr Fochen , known as the hamlet . In 1832 Foche was still part of the Honschaft (Ketz-) Berg within the Gräfrath mayor. The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had four residential buildings, a factory or mill and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, 17 residents lived in the village, all of whom were evangelicals. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with four houses and 26 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, five houses with 46 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the district had 17 houses with 142 inhabitants, in 1905 33 houses and 320 inhabitants are given.

The name of the court itself was no longer used as a street name when the Graefrath city councilors named their part of the former Provinzialstraße Focher Straße on February 1, 1898. Later the last half-timbered houses belonging to the court were laid down. At that time, the area around the Foche had already advanced to an important industrial location. Away from urban development, the companies Rauh, Engels and Gottlieb Hammesfahr settled on the Foche in the 19th century, and found enough space there for mechanized production . In this context, by the end of the 19th century, five factory owner's villas , including three belonging to the Hammesfahr family , were built on the short section of Focher Strasse in the Gräfrath area .

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, the Foche became a district of Solingen. The industrial site of Foche gradually declined from the 1970s onwards. The Gottlieb Hammesfahr company went bankrupt in the early 1970s. The Walder household goods manufacturer Krups took over the company premises without further ado and continued to produce household appliances there until 1993 , when production was relocated to the new Euro warehouse at Nümmener Feld. In October 1973, also the Gesenkschmiede Walter went to God with works at the Foche and the scraper with around 580 employees in the bankruptcy . The last industrial wastelands along Focher Straße were torn down in the 1990s, and the site was to be re-used as a retail and residential location. An industrial complex that was formerly used by the seed producer Flora Frey off Focher Strasse has been converted into living space. On June 27, 2002 ground Krups opened on the former one food - discounter 's store. From the mid-2000s on, a new residential area was built on Nümmener Feld, which today extends from Pina-Bausch- Strasse to Foche.

Four of the five factory owners' villas from the founding era are still standing on the Foche today, including the home of Carl August Rauh at Focher Strasse 15, Villa Focher Strasse 20 by Gustav Hammesfahr, Villa Focher Strasse 44 by Fritz Hammesfahr and the hidden house by Ernst Hammesfahr at Focher Straße 60. The Krups owners' mansions were built on the former Grenzstraße (today Heresbachstraße) west of the Foche and are still there today.

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