Ketzberg

Ketzberg City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	about 190-220 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location of Ketzberg in Solingen
Ketzberg with the old farmer's castle

Ketzberg is a residential area in the Solingen district of Gräfrath . The place is divided into Oben- and Untenketzberg, which today merge seamlessly due to the structural density.

geography

Ketzberg is located in the southeast of Gräfrath on the slopes sloping towards the Wupper east of Lützowstraße. To the west, directly on Lützowstrasse, is the Rauenhaus location , next to it are the Ketzberg Protestant cemetery and the Ketzberg church. To the north of Ketzberg is Unter zum Holz , to the east are Schafenhaus and Aue , and to the south are the farms of Külf and Rathland . To the southwest is Ringelshäuschen .

etymology

In early documents, today's Ketzberg farm is referred to as Kicenberch . This could speak for a derivation of the word from ( deer ) fawn .

history

Ketzberg is one of the oldest courts in the area around the former town of Gräfrath. In Ketzberg is located between two half-timbered houses still an old peasant fortress of rubble stone bearing the name Gemür carries (= walls) and their construction can be dated to the 12th century, the roots of Ketzberg are therefore at least in this century. The place is also mentioned in the collection register of the Gerresheim Monastery , which was created under Abbess Guda (1212/1232). A tirricus scerping is also named as the second person liable to pay interest in the lifting register . This is interpreted as a job title, namely as a kind of metal worker. Heinz Rosenthal suspects that this is an early testimony to Solingen's industrial history.

In 1303 Ketzberg is mentioned as belonging to the Villication of the Oberhof Lüntenbeck , whose landlord was the Gerresheim Monastery. From the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, Ketzberg was the titular place of the Honschaft Ketzberg , a lower administrative district of the parish of Wald within the Bergisch office of Solingen . Ketzberg himself also belonged to this honor . A Heydenricus de Kicenberch is mentioned in documents in 1312/31 , the word Kicenberch is interpreted as Ketzberg. Since at least the end of the 18th century there was a court school in Ketzberg . The original building, a small half-timbered building with numerous extensions, is still in Untenketzberg today.

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 Kezberg . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 lists the place as Ketzberg. In the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, the court is also listed as Ketzberg .

After the Mairien and later mayor's offices were founded in the early 19th century, Ketzberg belonged to the Gräfrath mayor's office . In 1815/16 148 people lived in the village. In 1830 there were 102 people in Ober-Ketzberg and 62 in Unter-Ketzberg . In 1832 the place was still part of the Honschaft (Ketz-) Berg within the mayor's office of Gräfrath. The place, which was categorized as a Hofstadt according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had two public buildings, 22 residential buildings, nine factories or mills and 32 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 168 residents lived in the place, including 26 Catholic and 142 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with 37 houses and 279 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, 41 houses with 307 inhabitants are given for the place. In 1895 the district had 48 houses with 268 inhabitants, in 1905 50 houses and 289 inhabitants are given.

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, the Hofschaft became a district of Solingen. The half-timbered houses around the old country castle stands since 1984 under monument protection .

Buildings

Grumpy

The old farm castle from the 12th century, the so-called Gemür , is located between the half-timbered houses Obenketzberg 31 and 33, which were attached to it. It is a square, three-storey quarry stone tower with a height of about 9 to 10 meters and partly one meter thick outer walls. This was probably used as a shelter by the residents of the court in case of danger, for example from approaching soldiers. Perhaps it also served as a lookout . Farm castles were not uncommon in the entire Bergisches Land , and one is said to have been in the nearby Paashaus court up to around 1900.

Ketzberg Church

Protestant church

The Protestant church Ketzberg is located in Ringelshäuschen above Ketzberg on Lützowstraße, opposite Tersteegenstraße, which was also called Kirchstraße until 1935. To the north of the church are the Protestant cemetery and the cemetery chapel. The foundation stone was laid on June 18, 1871, and the building was inaugurated on October 23, 1873. The cemetery chapel was built in 1896.

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1. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
2. ^ ^{A b} Marina Alice Mutz: Ketzberg - Das Gemür. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved June 7, 2016 . 
3. ^ Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city . Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Braun, Duisburg 1969, DNB 457973358 .
4. ↑ Hans Brangs: Explanations and explanations of the corridor, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen , Solingen 1936
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6. ^ 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.
7. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
8. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
9. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ 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.
12. ↑ 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.
13. ↑ 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 July 3, 2016 (PDF, size: 129 kB). 
14. ↑ Marina Alice Mutz: Evangelical Church Ketzberg. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .