Grunenburg

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Grunenburg
City of Solingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : about 120 m
Postal code : 42651
Area code : 0212
Grunenburg (Solingen)
Grunenburg

Location of Grunenburg in Solingen

Grunenburg is a court in the east of the Bergisch city ​​of Solingen . The first Solingen waterworks was built there in 1883 and, five years later, the first Solingen electricity company for power generation .

location

The Wupper at the level of the Hofschaft Grunenburg with the bridge that has since been demolished

Grunenburg is located in the wooded valley between Bundesstraße 229 , Remscheider Straße , which leads via Müngsten to Remscheid , and the Wupper . Grunenburg is accessed by a spur road from the B 229 before it goes up in serpentines to Solingen. The name of the court was borne by the Grunenburg bridge , which has since been abandoned and made it possible for the narrow-gauge railways of the Ronsdorf-Müngstener railway to cross the Wupper. The Windfelner Bach flows into the Wupper near Grunenburg . Only a few houses belong to the court itself.

history

Grunenburg was mentioned in a document as early as the 14th century. Like the neighboring Windfeln court , Grunenburg was owned by the Order of St. John in the 17th century .

The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm as Gronenburg . He is represented there with the symbol of a Freihof . In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergische Honschaft Dorp in the office of Solingen . In 1815/16 there were 22 people living in the village, in 1830 there were 23 people.

In 1832 Grunenburg belonged to the mayor's office of Dorp under the name of Grünenburg . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had two houses, a factory or mill and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were seven people living in the village, two of whom were Catholic and five were Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, three houses with 21 inhabitants are given. On January 1, 1889, the mayor's office and town of Dorp and Grunenburg were incorporated into the town of Solingen. In 1895 the place had four houses with 34 inhabitants, in 1905 four houses and 27 inhabitants.

On January 1st, 1883, a waterworks was put into operation on the Wupper near Grunenburg , which took drinking water from the bank to supply Solingen and pumped it up to the water tower at Krahenhöhe . The pumps, driven by steam engines, required hard coal as fuel, for which the Ronsdorf-Müngstener railway was extended across the Wupper. The waterworks was shut down in July 1903 after the Solingen drinking water dam and the Glüder waterworks went into operation .

In addition to the waterworks of was obtained from Bergisch Electrizitätswerk mbH on the former location Kirschberger Kottens 1898 Bergische power company built the first power station of Solingen. The bank area was extensively redesigned for the run-of-river power plant and the Wupper dammed. In 1906 today's RWE took over the plant and operated it until the 1970s. In the early days, the water generators were supported by steam engines, which also powered generators. For these, too, coal was transported via the railway line. In the 1970s the power station was demolished.

In the courtyard there are several half-timbered houses of the Bergisch style . The half-timbered building complex Grunenburg 1, 2, 4 is October 9, 1984 under monument protection .

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  1. ↑ http://www.tetti.de/SOLINGEN/SENGBACHTALSPERRE/rosenthal.html Information on the waterworks and the Hofschaft on tetti.de , accessed on February 17, 2015
  2. ↑ http://www.tetti.de/SOLINGEN/Grunenburg/ Kurzportrait on tetti.de , accessed on February 17, 2015
  3. ↑ a b 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 ( digitized edition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Beate Battenfeld : Pumping, storing, distributing. Relicts of early water supply , publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Abt. Solingen; Solingen 2004