List of street names in Solingen

The list of street names in Solingen contains all streets and squares of the Bergisch city of Solingen as well as an explanation of the origin of the name, if known, an allocation to the respective city districts as well as the possibly affected topic of the official classification plan for the naming of streets, paths and squares.

history

Many centuries were mainly Flurnamen the official place names. With new settlements, sooner or later the name of one of the first residents was often carried over to the expanding settlement. An example of this is the Garzenhaus court , where the name is probably derived from a man named Garz or Garze, who had his house there. Just as often, field names are borrowed from geographical conditions, for example the Aufderhöhe court, which gets its name from its altitude between the Landwehr and the bridge, or the Rathland court near Gräfrath, whose name suggests cleared land. In the cities, some place names are borrowed from the area, for example the names of the city gates of Solingen's old town were retained even after the city wall was torn down (in some cases to this day).

From the 1870s, the first streets in the upper district of Solingen were given an official street name, while the vernacular had already given individual paths a name, for example Werwolf street . The provincial roads were the main names among the first official names . The town of Wald, for example, named the streets in its center for the first time in the mid-1880s. The basis for the names was mostly formed by the field names, some of which have existed for centuries, as in the case of Altenhofer Straße, which was named in 1887 after the Altenhof estate through which it runs. Court names mostly remained unchanged and soon formed the official name of the building. At the beginning, personal names were still rare, if they occurred they were almost exclusively made with the person's last name . Simple names like Gartenstrasse or Kirchstrasse were far more common in the early days.

In the early days up to the First World War , new settlement areas emerged, especially outside the old city centers. Even then, the new streets were given thematically matching names, for example the settlement south of Friedrichstrasse in the city center, in which Saar , Main , Neckar and Moselstrasse bear the names of German rivers. Symbols of Prussia or the Empire were also popular , including Roonstrasse, named after Prussian generals, and Seydlitzstrasse .

In 1929 the five cities of the upper district of Solingen, namely Graefrath , Wald , Ohligs , Höhscheid and Solingen, were merged to form the new city of Solingen. So it happened that some street names were duplicated or even triple in the city area. In the following years, individual renaming took place before politicians agreed on an official classification plan for the naming of streets, paths and squares for the purpose of structuring, which divided the urban area into various areas with different topics such as botany trees or East German city names . before on April 26, 1935 around 200 streets were suddenly given a new name. Some names were given against the background of National Socialism , such as the renaming of part of Kölner Strasse to Strasse der SA in 1937. During the wave of renaming in 1935, two militaristic priorities were set: Ohligs received street names from the Imperial Navy, Wald received names from Fighter pilots of the First World War. Soon after the end of the war, in the course of denazification, at least the streets that had a direct connection to Nazi Germany were renamed. However, some streets kept their name and some of them still bear it today, as in the case of the Lüderitzweg, which was named in honor of the German-Southwest African landowner Adolf Lüderitz and whose name is viewed critically today due to the attitude towards colonialism . A renaming took place in 2010 in the case of Hindenburgplatz, which bore the name of Paul von Hindenburg , who appointed Hitler as Reich Chancellor in 1933 .

With the new housing estates of the 1950s and 1960s, new street names had to be found. When the town of Burg was incorporated into Solingen in 1975 , some renaming took place again, mainly in Burg itself. The division plan was expanded and partially renewed, but the castle itself was not included in the plan. In 1976 the reorganization program for the court was implemented by the city of Solingen. In the course of this, many courts were reduced in size by post, as some streets were given their own names or were already assigned to other streets. The main reasons for this were the partly opaque numbering within the courts and the resulting security concerns. In the case of the Hofschaft Unter and Obenrüden , the changes made in 1978/1979 were withdrawn after extensive protests among the population.

After the assassination attempt in Solingen in 1993, it quickly became clear that politicians wanted to remember the event with a street name. But it was not implemented until 2012 and the space in front of the multi-generation house in the northern part of the city was named Mercimek-Platz. Since the list of people who are to be honored with a street name in Solingen is long, in recent new building projects, regardless of the naming plan, more and more personalities whose honor has been a long time coming, as happened in the case of Tilde-Klose-Straße in Ohligs or the Pina-Bausch-Straße in Wald.

Sublists

Due to the large number of streets and squares, the list is divided into three alphabetically sorted sub-lists:

Web links and literature

• Hans-Georg Wenke: Town and street names on solingen-internet.de , accessed on September 6, 2015
• Marina Alice Mutz: On the meaning of old place and field names in Haan, Hilden, Wuppertal and the surrounding area on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on October 24, 2015
• Hans Brangs: Explanations and explanations of the names of the corridors, places, farms and streets in the city of Solingen , Solingen 1936
• City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
• City of Solingen: Distribution plan for naming streets, paths and squares (updated version)
• Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke: Solingen - Big City Years 1929–2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1459-4 .

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1. ↑ Solinger Tageblatt, from the series Our Street / Searching for Traces / Street Name
2. ↑ Proposal for resolution on Mercimek-Platz ( memento of the original from December 23, 2015 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. on solingen.de , accessed on December 19, 2015 
3. ↑ Bernd Bussang: Who is worthy of a street name? In: Solinger Morgenpost. March 27, 2013, accessed December 19, 2015 .