Way of the Cross (Solingen)

Way of the Cross City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	about 220 m
Postal code :	42655
Area code :	0212
Location of Kreuzweg in Solingen

Kreuzweg is a residential area in the Mitte district of Solingen .

geography

Kreuzweg is located on the ridge south of the Lochbach valley in the west of the Solingen district of Mitte. The state road 141n (L 141n / Viehbachtalstraße), which has been converted into a motor vehicle, runs directly past the village in a valley cut . The place is roughly at the intersection of Lehner, Beethoven and Kreuzweger Straße. The Lehner Straße leads in a northerly direction via Lehn into the Dältgenstal . To the west are Kleinenberg and Dingshaus . On the other, eastern side of Viehbachtalstraße are the bus depot of Stadtwerke Solingen and the waste incineration plant . Mangenberg and Obengönrath are south of Kreuzweg .

etymology

The place takes its name from the old field name Am Kreuzweg . There the paths crossed Wald - Dülle- genstal - Mangenberg (today roughly Lehner- and Dältgenstaler Strasse) and Ohligs ( Merscheid ) - Mangenberg (Merscheider and Beethovenstrasse).

history

The settlement at the Kreuzweg probably originated in the first half of the 19th century. The place belonged to the mayor's office forest within the district of Solingen . The topographical record of the Rhineland from 1824 does not yet record the place and the Prussian first record from 1844 as Ob: Lehn . In the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, however, the place is not recorded. It appears for the first time in the 1893 edition of the Solingen measuring table of the official topographic map 1: 25,000, labeled as a way of the cross on maps . 

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place as Lehnerkreuzweg 1871 with 29 houses and 227 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, 46 houses with 349 inhabitants are given for Kreuzweg .

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Kreuzweg became a district of Solingen. As one of the few actually realized sections of the planned Autobahn 54 , a four-lane motor road through the Viehbachtal was built at the end of the 1970s on the section from An der Gemarke to Mangenberg . This section of the Viehbachtalstraße, dedicated as L 141n, was opened to traffic on August 31, 1979. After numerous complaints from residents about too much noise, a number of measures for improved noise protection were introduced in the following year . The construction of the Viehbachtalstraße between Mangenberg and the Frankfurter Damm past Kreuzweg took place until 1981. However, there was no further expansion; the A 54 was never completed.

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1. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
2. ↑ Hans Brangs: Explanations and explanations for the corridor, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen . Solingen 1936
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. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
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. ↑ Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke:  Solingen - Big City Years 1929-2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-8313-1459-4