Kannenhof

Kannenhof City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	about 190 m
Postal code :	42651
Area code :	0212
Location of Kannenhof in Solingen

Kannenhof is a district in the Solingen district of Mitte .

The first larger housing estate of the Solinger Spar- und Bauverein (SBV) from the mid-1920s and a large housing estate of LEG Immobilien (LEG) that was built in the 1970s are located at Kannenhof . The former botanical garden , today's Gustav-Coppel-Park , the Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule and the Coppelstift , whose names all go back to the Solingen entrepreneurial family, are located at the Kannenhof .

location

The district of Kannenhof is located east of the Solingen city center. To the south, the Städtgesmühler Bach and the Hippergrund separate the Kannenhof from the Meigen district . To the west, the Kannenhof merges into the eastern city center. To the northwest lies Klauberg , on a ridge in the northeast lies the settlement of Hasseldelle . To the east lies the Altenbau farm and on the banks of the Wupper the paper mill .

history

Settlement origins up to the 19th century

Courtyard building of the Kannenhof, half-timbered house Alfred-Nobel-Strasse 14

The roots of the Kannenhof can be found in the first half of the 17th century. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the soldier leader Werner von Cann settled on the extensive area east of Solingen and south of Klauberg . Based on his surname and the place name Klauberg, which existed as early as 1244, the area was named Kannenklauberg or Cannenklauberg from the end of the 17th century . Later the name Kannenhof caught on. The court belonged to the Honschaft Solingen within the office of Solingen. Like the Keusenhof in Ohligs , the Kannenhof was also a so-called saddle farm , which at the request of the sovereign had to provide a saddled horse or a fully equipped rider. On July 15, 1756, both saddle farms were released from their obligation in return for an annual fee of 8 gold guilders . The original courtyard building of the Kannenhof is still there, the large two-story half - timbered house with a half- hipped roof is on Alfred-Nobel-Strasse.

With the introduction of the Mairien in 1808, the Kannenhof was assigned to the Mairie and later the mayor's office of Dorp . In 1815/16 there were 35 residents. The place, which was categorized as court towns according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district in 1832 , had four residential buildings, a factory or mill and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 43 residents lived in the place, nine of them Catholic and 34 Protestant.

In 1856 the mayor's office in Dorp was granted town charter. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , six houses with 60 inhabitants are given for the Kannenhof in 1885. With the incorporation of Dorper to Solingen in 1889, the Kannenhof also became a district of Solingen. In 1895 the district had six houses with 59 inhabitants. In 1905 there are six houses and 56 inhabitants.

From the second half of the 19th century, the district experienced a considerable structural development. The development of the city of Solingen spread further and further east over the Wupperstrasse. The side streets such as Baumstrasse, Eckstrasse and Bleichstrasse were also densely built. As a result, the population of Solingen continued to grow. In 1901/1902 a Catholic elementary school was established at Kannenhof , which later became the Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School, which is now called the Alexander Coppel Comprehensive School. In 1912 the industrialist Gustav Coppel donated the Coppelstift to the city of Solingen on Wupperstrasse at Kannenhof as a counseling and recreation center for mothers and the sick.

SBV housing estate (1925–1926)

House on the Kannenhof

In order to put an end to the increasing housing shortage, the Solingen savings and construction association was founded in 1897 . In his new building activities, he initially concentrated on individual projects in various parts of the city. In the first half of the 1920s it was decided to start a first major urban development project. For this purpose, the city of Solingen acquired a 2,000 square meter plot of land at Kannenhof in 1924 . An architectural competition was held, won among others by Franz Perlewitz, who had already carried out other building projects for the association. In the spring of 1925, construction of the Kannenhof settlement began. By 1926, 60 two-and-a-half-storey semi-detached houses in a functional, modernist style with spacious gardens were built along the newly laid out Am Kannenhof street . Different architectural details as well as two space-like expansions should ensure a varied settlement image from house to house.

SBV residential buildings at Kannenhof

The Kannenhof settlement was not only the first larger settlement of the savings and construction association, but also pioneered the ideals of cooperative building in Solingen with the construction of two community facilities. Under its managing director Hermann Meyer, the savings and construction association had planned the construction of a central steam laundry at Kannenhof from the start . Meyer and Perlewitz were inspired by such an institution on a trip to Vienna , during which they visited, among other things, the local people's apartment buildings. After the laundry was built, the residents of the settlement could do their laundry there for a small fee. Since the laundry of the Kannenhof settlement was underutilized, residents of other settlements were also allowed to wash their laundry at the Kannenhof. The laundry at Kannenhof was operated until 1976 and the building was then demolished. It originally served as a model for the wash house in the Weegerhof estate in Höhscheid, which still exists today .

The second community facility was the large and representative cooperative home of the settlement. The restaurant was built in 1927 with a day service room, event rooms and a large hall with a capacity of more than 400 seats. With these dimensions, the facility became the center of cooperative life in all of Solingen. After the war destruction, the buildings of the cooperative home were demolished after the end of the Second World War .

post war period

Houses on Alfred-Nobel-Strasse

The area between the old housing estate of Kannenhof and today's Alexander-Coppel-Gesamtschule was only sparsely populated until the 1950s. The first new buildings were built in 1956, and Alfred-Nobel-Strasse was built in 1967 as the later access road to the LEG new housing estate south of the comprehensive school. A new large housing estate was built at this point until the late 1970s. Today, in addition to a municipal kindergarten , the Kannenhof municipal children's house is also housed there.

literature

• Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city . Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Duisburg 1969.
• Armin Schulte, Manfred Krause / Solinger Geschichtswerkstatt e. V. (Ed.): Selbstverlag, Solingen 1997, ISBN 3-9805443-1-1 .

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Marina Alice Mutz: Kannenhof. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved May 5, 2016 . 
2. ^ Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city . Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Duisburg 1969.
3. ↑ Hans-Georg Wenke: Klauberg. In: solingen-internet.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
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. ↑ ^{a b c} Armin Schulte: Building and living together - 100 years of Solingen housing cooperatives . Ed .: Manfred Krause / Solinger Geschichtswerkstatt e. V. Self-published, Solingen 1997, ISBN 3-9805443-1-1 .
9. ↑ Spar- und Bauverein Solingen: Kannenhof settlement. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .