Hedgehog forest

Hedgehog forest City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	about 170 m
Postal code :	42719
Area code :	0212
Location of Igelsforst in Solingen
Hedgehog forest

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

geography

Igelsforst is located in the Wald district of Solingen , near the border with the neighboring town of Haan . The location is on a hillside above the Ittertal immediately northeast of Obenitter with the Ittertal amusement park . To the west, Lindersberg and the artificially created Itter reservoir are connected . On the ridge north of Igelsforst are Widerschein and Kotzert , in the west is sunshine and behind the city limits of Haan is the district of Kneteisen .

etymology

The field designation Igelsforst has been documented since the 15th century. Forest is a common name for a forest, the term hedgehog can possibly actually be traced back to the animal species ( nhd. Hedgehog ).

history

In 1715 in the map Topographia Ducatus Montani , Blatt Amt Solingen , by Erich Philipp Ploennies , the place is recorded with a farm and already named as hedgehog forest . The court belonged to the Itter Honschaft within the Solingen office. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 also lists the place as a hedgehog forest . The Prussian first recording of 1844 lists the place as a hedgehog forest, as does the topographical map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871.

After the establishment of the Mairien and later mayor's offices at the beginning of the 19th century, the place belonged to the mayor's office in Wald , where it was located in corridor I. ( Wittkull ). In 1815/16 16 people lived in the hedgehog forest, known as a hamlet , in 1830 18 people . In 1832 the place was part of the first village honors within the forest mayor's office. The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had four residential buildings and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 17 residents lived in the place, three of them Catholic and four Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with eight houses and 62 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, seven houses with 52 inhabitants are given for Igelsforst . In 1895 the district had four houses with 65 inhabitants, in 1905 five houses and 50 inhabitants are given.

In 1838, the first private school in Lindersberg opened in a former private house in Igelsforst. It was built primarily at the request of the residents of the Westersburg court . School operations began on October 15, 1838 in a building built by local resident Gottlieb Linder as a home for his mother-in-law.

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929 Igelsforst became a district of Solingen. The old school building in Igelsforst, the quarry stone house complex Igelsforst 2, 4, has been a listed building since 1985 .

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1. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
2. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
3. ^ 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.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Royal Statistical 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
10. ↑ Marina Alice Mutz: Hedgehog Forest. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved December 17, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Solingen Monument List ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Solingen, July 1, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2016 (PDF, size: 129 kB).