Kneading iron

Kneading iron City of Haan Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	189 m above sea level NN
Location of modeling iron in Haan

Kneteisen is a court in the Bergisch town of Haan in Germany .

Location and description

The Hofschaft is located in the east of the city of Haan above the Ittertal on the city limits of Solingen , whose village Sonnenschein is directly adjacent. Other neighboring districts are Kneteisens Bellekuhl , neighboring mountain , Zwengenberg and mid Litter , hedgehogs forest and reflection on Solinger city.

history

The kneading iron, first mentioned in a document in 1537 as Auf dem Knetyser , was part of the Mittelhonschaft Haan in the Bergisches Amt Solingen in the early modern period . The estate of the Hilden Vicarie was subject to tax by 1618 at the latest . In 1581 a Schleipkothen was mentioned in the Knetiser Banden , which was located on the Itter.

With 48 Cologne acres (approx. 15 ha ) including seven acres of forest, Kneteisen 1731 was one of the larger Haaner farms. In 1809 eleven people lived on the farm, in 1830 thirteen. In 1876, a leopard escaped from a traveling menagerie at the Elberfeld fair and was shot by the Haan citizens in a barn on the estate. Since then the farm has been nicknamed the Leopard Court . Until 2006 a weather vane in the form of a big cat was blowing on the barn.

On November 21, 1944, Canadian flight lieutenant Albert Edward Steeves landed seriously injured in his parachute in the immediate vicinity of Gut Kneteisen. Steeves was the pilot of the English bomber Handley Page Halifax with the serial number NP810 and identification EQ-H, which was previously shot by a German night fighter and shortly afterwards hit in Hochdahl - Trills . That same evening Steeves was taken to Haaner Sankt-Josefs-Krankenhaus, from where he was taken prisoner of war two weeks later. He survived the war and died in Canada in 1986.

In the municipal directory of 1895, Kneteisen is listed as a Haaner place in the Mettmann district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} zeitspurensuche.de: Old houses and courtyards ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Sources on Haan history, Volume 2, Artur Neuhaus, Haan - Observations and events during flights and attacks by the enemy air force 1940–1945 , Haan 2012
3. ↑ Hanna Eggerath, Thomas Boller: The old aircraft engine from Hochdahl-Trills - The history of the Halifax NP810-EQ-H. Sutton-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-166-0
4. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.