List of street names in Solingen (A – H)

Overview of the districts of Solingen

The list of street names in Solingen (A-H) contains all streets and places in this letter range of the Bergisch city of Solingen as well as an explanation of the origin of the name, as far as known, an allocation to the respective city districts as well as the subject area of ​​the division plan for the naming of Streets, paths and squares.

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• In the column meaning , explanations of the origin of the name (such as places, personalities or historical events) are given, as well as the links to existing articles.
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Street name	district	if applicable, allocation plan	meaning	Remarks
Aachener Strasse	Ohligs	German cities	Aachen , a major city in North Rhine-Westphalia	The street (like today's Lennestrasse) was originally just a section of the Marktstrasse, which was named after the Ohligser Markt, which it passed; on May 23, 1935, it was named Admiral-Hipper-Strasse, after the naval officer of the First World War, Franz von Hipper , to banish militaristic symbols, the street was probably renamed Aachener Straße in 1946
Evening street	Höhscheid		Evening , later part of the day	The lunch and evening street in this Gründerzeit neighborhood go to the pre-existing Morgenstraße back, which is derived from an old corridor designation, later, both roads were hinzubenannt in supposed analogy, the initial naming of the evening street took place on March 1, 1904
Abbey Path	Graefrath	Church history	Abbey , monastery
Abtsfeld	Höhscheid		Field name
Ackerstrasse	Ohligs		Arable , agricultural land	The small street may be adjacent to former arable land, today the Kronprinz company is located there
Adalbertstrasse	Merscheid		Adalbert von Prussia (1811–1873), Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Navy, pioneer for the expansion of the shipping fleet
Adlerstrasse	center		Eagle , bird of prey that plays an important role in symbolism and heraldry
Adolf-Clarenbach-Strasse	Forest		Adolf Clarenbach (1497–1529), martyr of the Bergisches Land	On the occasion of the theologian's 450th birthday, the Protestant district synod in 1933 asked for double street names to be renamed after the reformers Luther , Clarenbach and Melanchthon ; Clarenbachstrasse (formerly Bergstrasse) was given its name on November 3, 1933
Adolf-Kolping-Strasse	Forest		Adolph Kolping (1813–1865), German Catholic priest and founder of the Kolping Society	The section that previously belonged to Ohligs was called Siegesstraße, the section that belonged to Wald was called Kamper Straße, both sections were combined to form Siegesstraße in 1935 and were given their current name around 1946/1947 to ban National Socialist symbols
Adolfstrasse	Höhscheid		Adolf , male first name	The street was named on July 3, 1906
Agnesstrasse	center	Female first names	Agnes , first name
Ahornstrasse	Graefrath		Maple , tree species of the horse chestnut family	formerly Adlerstraße, renamed due to duplication after the town union, maples actually line the street on one side
Ahrstrasse	Ohligs	German rivers	Ahr , river in Rhineland-Palatinate
Acacia path	center		Acacia , species of the mimosa family
Alberichweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Alberich , figure of the Nibelungen saga
Albertus-Magnus-Strasse	Graefrath	Philosophers and scholars	Albertus Magnus (1200–1280), German scholar and bishop
Albrechtplatz	center		Albrecht von Prussia (1809–1872), Prussian Prince and Colonel General
Albrechtstrasse	center		see Albrechtplatz
Alemannenstrasse	At the height		Alemanni , Germanic tribe	formerly Friesenstrasse, the renaming of the street to the thematically fitting Alemannenstrasse took place on April 26, 1935 due to the duplication of the old name
Alexander-Coppel-Strasse	center		Alexander Coppel (1865–1942), Solingen entrepreneur and Jew murdered by the Nazis
Alexanderstrasse	center		Alexander , male first name	The street was given its name on June 14, 1904, after it was previously known as Ackerstraße as an unpaved road. The idea for the name came from the residents of Lüttges, whose son was called Alexander
Alfred-Nobel-Strasse	center	Nobel Prize Winner	Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, namesake of the Nobel Prize	The access road to the Kannenhof development area was named in 1967
Avenue street	Graefrath		Avenue , path bordered by trees at the side	Despite its name, this street was never an avenue
Allgäustraße	center	German landscapes	Allgäu , landscape of Upper Swabia
Alsenstrasse	Forest		Alsen , Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to which the Prussian troops crossed in 1864 and thus brought about victory	In this residential area, two streets bear the names of significant places in the German-Danish War , Alsen- and Düppelstraße
Old Heerstrasse	Forest		possibly historic route taken by Russian military units in 1813	The former Hermannstrasse received its new name due to the duplication on April 26, 1935
old street	Forest		to the historic center of Wald, into which the road leads	The street was named on January 29, 1877
Old brick factory	Graefrath		after the old brickworks formerly located there on the Unterflachsberg	Location of one of the total of 20 different brickworks in Solingen, operations ceased after 1979 and the building in Gräfrath torn down, today an industrial park
Altenbau	center		Location Altenbau , possibly a place of old ore and coal extraction, so a mining
Altenberger way	Merscheid		Altenberg Abbey , centuries-old Cistercian abbey near Odenthal in the Bergisches Land	The nearby Gut Untengönrath belonged to the Altenberg monastery for a long time, in this context the renaming of the former Sonnenstraße took place on April 26, 1935
Altenfeld	Graefrath		Altenfeld court	The name already existed before 1715
Altenhof	Forest		Altenhof court
Altenhofer Strasse	Forest		see Altenhof	The street received its name on January 29, 1887, initially on the upper section, the section from Brüderstraße to Haaner Straße belonging to Ohligs was first called Friedrichstraße, but also Altenhofer Straße since the mid-1930s
old market	center		Original, first marketplace in Solingen	The name already existed before 1684
Altmarkstrasse	center	German landscapes	Altmark , region in the north of Saxony-Anhalt
Alzenauer way	At the height	Silesia, Goldberg sponsorship	Alzenau (today Olszanka ), city in south-western Poland
On the little mountain	At the height		Field name	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
On the Buschberg	Höhscheid		Field name	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the ditch	Graefrath		Wall moat, part of the former Graefrath fortifications
At the Hecker Gang	Forest		after the farm name Hecken , the word gang stands for a damp meadow	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At Kampsiepen	Höhscheid		Field name	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the Kannenhof	center		District Kannenhof , the name is derived from the surname of the soldier's leader and lieutenant captain Werner von Cann, who probably settled there after the Thirty Years' War .
At the Neumarkt	center		to Neumarkt , which is on the street	The original dirt road led to fields of the Arns family over why he was initially called Arns- / Arndt alley, the new market was created in 1867, with the expansion of the road it was called High Street, on May 25, 1933, the street was Schlageterstraße renamed In the course of denazification, the name was changed on June 25, 1945
At the Pohlingsfeld	At the height		Field name, see Pohlingshof	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the Siebels	At the height		Court of Siebels	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the Siefen	Forest		Field name, the word siefen stands for a damp meadow	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the city garden	Merscheid		to the adjacent, formerly so-called Stadtgarten park in Lochbachtal	The street was named on April 26, 1935
At the south park	center		after the adjoining Südpark around the old main station	The street was named Lagerstraße (after the adjacent goods halls) between May 12, 1896 and when the South Park was redesigned in the 2000s.
At the Vogelsanger bush	Forest		Field name, after the court name Vogelsang , the designation Busch indicates a wooded area	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the forest bush	Forest		Field name, the designation bush indicates a wooded area
On the wall	Graefrath		Part of the former Gräfrath fortifications	In 1734 the ramparts were still there
At the orphanage	Ohligs		Field name, around 1869 there were two houses belonging to a Weiss or Weiß family on the site of today's street, so the area was given the dialect name of the little house	The new street was given its name in 1990 based on the old field name
At Wittenberg	Höhscheid		Field name	The street was named Herbert-Norkus- Weg on March 31, 1938, and the name was changed on June 28, 1945 in the course of denazification
Amelungenweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Amelungen , Gothic ruling family
Ammerweg	Ohligs	German rivers	Ammer , left tributary of the Neckar
Amorweg	Graefrath	Mythical deities	Cupid , Roman god of love
Amselstrasse	Ohligs		Blackbird , species of bird of the genus Real Thrushes	formerly Finkenstraße, the name of the street was changed on April 26, 1935
Official gate	center		Parallel street to the Neutor, but such a named gate never existed in Solingen
On the oaks	At the height		after the oak trees that originally lined the path	The originally narrow dirt road with the oaks on the edge was given this traditional name after its expansion into a road in the 1980s, the name was given on February 18, 1981
At the youth hostel	Castle		after the Burg youth hostel on this street
At the Foche	Forest		Foche living space , this is probably derived from the windfoche, i.e. a place exposed to the wind	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
At the mark	At the height		?
Andersenstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Robin Christian Andersen (1890–1969), Austrian painter
Andreasstrasse	Merscheid	Male first names	Andreas , first name	The street was initially called Krügerstraße from August 13, 1901 after Paulus Krüger , President of the South African Republic , the name was given during the Boer War (1899-1902) in connection with the neighboring street, Dewetstraße (today Wolfgangstraße), the renaming of Krügerstraße took place after the Second World War, probably in 1946 or 1947
Start street	Ohligs		Field name, after a name at the beginning
Angerscheid	Castle		Angerscheid location
Ankerstrasse	Ohligs		after the pub Im Anker, which was previously located there, and also after the local location of the same name, Anker
Annastrasse	center	Female first names	Anna , first name
Apple tree	Forest		Apple tree location , the name apple tree probably transferred from the tree of the same name to the farm	Individual trees were often used to name courtyards
Argon way	Höhscheid		Argonne , French hill country, often a theater of war for the Germans	The street was named after the construction of the SBV housing estate as a sign of the territorial claims of the Greater German Reich on April 26, 1935
Astern Street	At the height		Asters , genus of plants within the sunflower family
Aue	Graefrath		Local situation Aue , the Aue is a river meadow, here the Wupperufer
Auenberg	At the height		Auenberg residential area , possibly a hill above a river meadow
Auer Kotten	Höhscheid		after the Auer Kotten, court name Aue
Auer way	center		the road leads to the Gräfrather Aue
On the small square	At the height		Field name, a field is a small field	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
On the gate field	center		Field name	When naming streets in new development areas, historical field names of the area are often used
Aufderbech	At the height		Hofschaft Aufderbech , the word Bech derives from Bach from
At the height	At the height		Hofschaft Aufderhöhe, according to the location of the Hofschaft on the mountain between the Landwehr and the bridge, i.e. on the height	The name already existed before 1642
On the higher street	At the height		see Aufderhöhe
August-Dicke-Strasse	center	Sword smiths and citizens of old Solingen	August Dicke (1859–1929), Lord Mayor of Solingen from 1896 to 1928, initiator of the city association and honorary citizen	The naming of the new SBV housing estate north of Weyersberg caused controversy in the city council in 1953, and the cooperative's suggestions for Rudolf-Schwarz- and August-Dicke-Strasse were followed, and Woltmannweg became Ernst-Woltmann-Strasse
Augustastrasse	center		Empress Augusta (1811–1890), wife of Emperor Wilhelm I.	The street was named on September 15, 1889
Augustinerstrasse	Forest		after the Augustinusheim formerly located on the street	formerly Neustraße, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Bachstelzenweg	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	White wagtail , species of the genus of stilts
Bach gate	center		South-eastern city gate of the former Solingen old town
Bakershof	Merscheid		Hofschaft Bäckershof , derived from the family name Bäcker
Backesheide	Graefrath		Local situation Backes Heide , perhaps from Backes = Backhaus derived
Badstrasse	At the height		after a swimming pond that used to be there
Bahnhofstrasse	center		Location of the old main train station	The street got its name at the time of the Reichsbahnhof "Solingen Hauptbahnhof" on July 26, 1910
Bahnstrasse	Ohligs		after the course of the road that follows the railway tracks, also the location of the Solingen main station (formerly Solingen-Ohligs)
Baldungweg	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Hans Baldung (1484 / 5–1545), German painter, draftsman and engraver
Balkhausen	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Balkhausen on the Wupper , the name derives most of beams in the meaning bridge, so a bridge over the river from
Balkhauser way	Höhscheid		see Balkhausen
Belt mill	Graefrath		after the gang mill , this is in the bands , so in the wet area, location mill
Barbaraweg	Graefrath	Female first names	Barbara , first name
Cash	At the height		Hofschaft Barl , one of the oldest Hofschaft in Solingen
Barler Street	Ohligs		see Barl
Basalt path	Castle	Minerals and rocks	Basalt , basic volcanic rock
Farmer's Bull	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Bauermannskulle , probably a hollow or hollow that belonged to a farmer named Bauermann	For the street names of the new building area on Bauermannskulle, which was built in the 1980s, historical hallway and tub names were chosen, and the farm of an Abraham Baurmann in der Kullen was first mentioned in 1705
Tree road	center		Access road to the old Kannenhof Botanical Garden, today's Gustav-Coppel-Park
Bauskotten	Forest		after the former Bauskotten , a Schleifkotten after the family name Baus
Bausmühlenstrasse	Forest		after the Bausmühle , a historic mill on the banks of the Itter , the name is derived from the owner's name Baus	The street was called Eschbachstraße until 1975 and lost it after the incorporation of the city of Burg in favor of the street of the same name there
Construction road	Ohligs		?
Bavert	Forest		Hofschaft Bavert , originally Baverode, Wenke suspects a family name as the origin, the ending -rode indicates clearing	Court name already existed before 1300
Baverter Strasse	Forest		see Bavert
Bayernweg	center	German landscapes	Bavaria , country in the south of Germany
Bebelallee	Merscheid / forest		August Bebel (1840–1913), German politician and one of the founders of the organized social democratic labor movement in Germany	In 1901 the lower part was called Kaiserstraße, the upper part from Lochbach to Weyerstraße was called Königstraße, in 1922 the entire street was renamed Republikstraße, in 1933 it was renamed Litzmann-Allee, and in 1946 the street was given its current name
Mug road	Forest		Hofschaft Bech , Bech means brook , the Hofschaft is located on Lochbach	Court name already existed before 1690
Bechsteinstrasse	Graefrath	fairy tale	Ludwig Bechstein (1801–1860), German writer, librarian, archivist and pharmacist, known for his collection of German folk tales
Beckmannstrasse	Höhscheid		after the former Beckmann brewery, which was located there and whose property cut up the newly constructed street	The road was laid out in 1905 and was named on November 17, 1905
Beethovenstrasse	Merscheid / center		Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer	In 1832 the street was only a poorly maintained communal route and yet the main connection between Solingen and Düsseldorf, and carried the place name Dingshaus, in 1889 it was renamed Victoriastraße (after Empress Victoria ), and it was renamed again to ban imperial symbols 1922
Behaimweg	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Martin Behaim (1459–1507), German cartographer, astronomer and cosmographer
Behringstrasse	Forest		Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917), German bacteriologist and serologist and winner of the first Nobel Prize for Medicine	The street got its name on March 21, 1912
Belfortstrasse	Merscheid		Battle of Belfort , Battle of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871	In this large pre-war residential area of ​​Merscheid, many streets bear the names of battle sites in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871; Belfortstrasse got its name around 1905
Belliniweg	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Gentile Bellini (1429–1507), Venetian painter	The street used to be part of the Felder Hof ; the name was changed in the course of the reorganization of the court on May 21, 1976
Benrather Strasse	Ohligs		Benrath , district of Düsseldorf, at the time the street was named, the independent town of Benrath am Rhein
Berg-Isel-Weg	Merscheid	Mountain names	Bergisel , mountain in the Alps	The street got its name in the first half of the 1980s in honor of the successes of Rosi Mittermaier on the mountain of the same name in the Alps in 1976, the name suggestion probably had the full support of Solingen FDP councilor and avowed alpine lover Walter Freund
Bergerstrasse	Höhscheid		Peter Daniel Berger (1804–1873), businessman and mayor of Höhscheid from 1849 to 1873	The community path between Neuenhof and Unterhöhscheid, which has been recognized since the middle of the 19th century, was given its current name on June 4, 1883
Mountain field	Höhscheid		Field name, probably the field of the Berg family who owned it	When naming the streets in the Bauermannskulle development area, historical land names from the original map from 1829 were used; the fields west of the Höhscheider Hof were named Bergfeld
Mountain road	center		the property of the Berg family was on this street, and it may have been named in honor of the Kommerzienrat Gustav Berg
Berndtstrasse	center		The street was expanded by the owner and contractor at the time, Stockhocko, whose widow was named Berndt
Bertha-von-Suttner-Strasse	center	Nobel Prize Winner	Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Austrian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Bertholdstrasse	Forest		Rudolf Berthold (1891–1920), German fighter pilot in the First World War	The former Hochstraße was renamed on April 26, 1935 due to the duplication of the street name, in keeping with the topic of the fighter pilots of the First World War, which was assigned to forest, many streets with militaristic symbols were renamed after the Second World War, but Bertholdstraße kept its name
Bertramsmühle	Castle		Hofschaft Betramsmühle , so a mill of the family owners Bertram
Bertramsmühler way	Castle		see Betramsmühle	The street got its name on July 20, 1935
Beuthener Strasse	Forest	East German city names	Bytom , city in Poland
Bicksfeld	At the height		Field name
Bielauer way	At the height	Silesia, Goldberg sponsorship	Bielau , village in Poland
Bimerich	Graefrath		Location Bimerich , possibly derived from the word Bimer , a kind of Krammetsvogel , but possibly also derived from the ending -merich alias -nberg , according to other sources the word can also be interpreted as Bienenberg
Bimericher Strasse	Graefrath		see Bimerich
Birch trees	Castle		Hofschaft Birken , probably derived from the family name Birk
Birkendahl	At the height		Hofschaft Birkendahl , the ending -dahl meaning -tal , so a valley with birch trees	The field name already existed before 1488
Birch pond	center		after a pond that was previously located there and surrounded by birch trees	The previous Schillerplatz was renamed on April 26, 1935
Birkerstrasse	center		after the birch pond and the former birch street
Birkhauser Busch	At the height		Flurname as well Börkhaus derives Birkhaus well of birch from	The streets in new development areas are often named after historical field names
Bismarckplatz	Höhscheid		Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), German politician and statesman, honorary citizen of Solingen, Wald and Gräfrath	In the pre-war districts around Bismarckplatz and Bülowplatz, some streets still bear the names of Prussian generals and statesmen; the square was now (1922–1933) Bebelplatz and received its original name on March 4, 1902
Bismarckstrasse	Höhscheid		see Bismarckplatz	The street got its name on March 4, 1902
Bleichstrasse	center		after the bleach next to an old washing pond, i.e. a meadow on which the laundry was hung up to dry
Blücherstrasse	Merscheid		Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian Field Marshal General, who excelled in important battles	Some streets east of Bebelallee still bear the names of Prussian generals, Blücher-, Roon- and Moltkestrasse
Flower Street	center		Flowers , slang term for decorative blossoms	As a footpath between various gardens until the last third of the 19th century, the street was given the obvious name, and there were various gardeners there
Flower valley	Graefrath		Location Blumental
Blumentalweg	Graefrath		see Blumental
Blythweg	At the height	Solingen's international friendship between cities	Blyth , Solingen's twin town in Great Britain
Boeckersberg	Aries		Field name, possibly after the family name Böcker or Böker
Böcklinstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss painter
Bodlenberg	Ohligs		after the noble family von Bodlenberg , who owned some lands in the area of ​​today's Ohlig	The name already existed before 1241
Bogenstrasse	Ohligs		after the arched course of the road	The street got its name on August 23, 1904
Bonner Strasse	Aufderhöhe / Ohligs		Bonn , big city in North Rhine-Westphalia	formerly Kölner Strasse, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Borchertstrasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), German writer
Börkhaus	At the height		former Börkhaus court , possibly derived from birch
Börsenstrasse	Aries		after the stock exchange, a place for goods transactions	The former Widderter Straße was named Börsenstraße in December 1889, after the historical field name Auf der Börse . Shortly before the First World War, the street in the direction of Solingen was extended to its present size
Messenger path	Merscheid		after the messenger	In the housing estate north of the Hofschaft Dahl, which was known for its judicial system, some streets bear the names of the judicial system, which was named on October 18, 1955
Bozener Strasse	Höhscheid		Bolzano , municipality in South Tyrol	The street was named as a sign of the territorial claims of the Greater German Reich, formerly Hindenburgstrasse, after President von Hindenburg , renamed on April 26, 1935
Brabanter Strasse	Ohligs		Flurname suspected Brangs, the name Brabant (= wasteland) for this area could in view of the Dutch countryside have originated
Fallows	Höhscheid		Hofschaft fallow land , the term fallow land is derived from fallow land
Brahmsstrasse	Forest	Composers	Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), German composer, pianist and conductor
Brander way	At the height		derived from the court name Brand	The name already existed before 1715
Fire pond	Graefrath		after the now filled fire pond that was on the square	It was named on April 26, 1935
Brauereistrasse	Höhscheid		Location of the old Höhscheider brewery
Breidbach	Aries		Hofschaft Breidbach , derived from a wide brook
Breidbacher Tor	center	Historical names	one of the eastern city gates to the old town of Solingen	The name already existed before 1488
wide street	Höhscheid		?
Bremsheyplatz	Ohligs		after the former Ohligs pocket umbrella factory Bremshey	With several thousand employees at times, the company was one of the largest employers in the city before it went bankrupt and was dissolved in 1982
Breslauer Strasse	Forest	East German city names	Wroclaw , capital of Lower Silesia
Brigitteweg	center	Female first names	Brigitte , first name
Brockenberg	Höhscheid		Field name
Brockenstrasse	At the height	Mountain names	Brocken , highest mountain in the Harz
Broßhauser Strasse	Ohligs		former Hofschaft Broßhaus , derived from the family name Broch (formerly Brochehaus), the family was active in the field of swordsmiths in the 17th century	The name already existed before 1715
bridge	Höhscheid		Location bridge , the road Höhscheid – Aufderhöhe leads at bridge over the Nacker Bach
Brueckenstrasse	center		after the now-demolished bridge that was on the road and the rails of the railway Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Solingen crossed
Brucknerstrasse	Forest	Composers	Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer
Brothers Street	Forest		Brothers , male siblings	The street was built in 1888 and was given its current name in the same year
Brühler Berg	Höhscheid		Field name, derived from the court name Brühl, which describes a damp lowland covered with bushes	The name Brühl already existed before 1706
Brühler Strasse	Höhscheid		see Brühler Berg	The street was given its current name in 1875
Brunhildweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Brunhild , mythical figure of the Nibelungen saga
Brunnenstrasse	Ohligs		after the Mankhauser Brunnen (Pött), to which the street leads
Buchenstrasse	Merscheid		Beech , deciduous tree
Büchnerstrasse	At the height	Poet of the German-speaking area	Alexander Büchner (1827–1904), German-French writer and professor of literary history
Buckwheat Hill	At the height		Field name, a hill overgrown with buckwheat	The area around the mountain was discovered as a near-natural residential area at the beginning of the 1950s, and the newly laid road was named in 1951
Buckerter Street	Forest		Local situation Buckert , possibly of art for farmland derived
Ironing Street	Höhscheid		probably the former location of a (bag) ironing factory, some of which were in the upper district of Solingen
Bülowplatz	Höhscheid		Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), German politician and statesman	In the pre-war districts around Bismarckplatz and Bülowplatz, some streets still bear the names of Prussian generals and statesmen; the square was now called Liebknechtplatz (1922–1933) and received its original name on March 4, 1902
Bülowstrasse	Höhscheid		see Bülowplatz	The street got its name on March 4, 1902
Bünkenberg	Aries		Field name	The name already existed before 1488
Bunsenweg	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist
Burger height	Castle		Location Burger Höhe , a mountain towering towards Solingen north of Burg
Burger country road	Castle		rural connection route between Burg and Solingen, former provincial road	The street was built in 1824/1825 and was given its original name Burger Chaussee on December 1, 1903, before it was given its current name after the First World War
Burgstrasse	center		Location of the Schützenburg, which burned down in 1957 and was rebuilt as a theater and concert hall in the early 1960s	In 1875 the street was given its first name Vorspeler Weg, on November 24, 1885 the name was changed to Burgstraße and the street was expanded, part of it became Adolf-Hitler-Platz in the mid-1930s, and Hitlerplatz became a street on June 28, 1945 Am Schlagbaum , 1946/47, it got its old name back all the way
Castle valley	Castle		Burgtal location , probably derived from the nearby town of Burg, the Burgtal location is deep in the valley of the Eschbach
Burgtalstrasse	Castle		see Burgtal
Burgunderstrasse	Graefrath	Old German tribes	Burgundians , East Germanic people
Büschberg	center		Hofschaft Büschberg , the name comes from a mountain lined with bushes	The name existed before 1715
Büschberger Strasse	Merscheid		see Büschberg
Buscher field	Graefrath		Local situation Buscher Feld , the word Busch indicates a wooded area
Buscher way	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Busch, since 1935 to distinguish Elsterbusch , Busch stands for a wooded area	The street was named Felix-Alfarth- Weg on March 31, 1938 , and the name was changed on June 28, 1945 in the course of denazification
Bussardweg	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Buzzard , genus of the hawk family
Bussche-Kessel-Weg	At the height		Julius von dem Bussche-Ippenburg called von Kessel (1805–1861), District Administrator of the Solingen District (1836–1850), heir to Hackhausen Castle	The street was named Kesselstraße on August 23, 1903 on the section Schloss Hackhausen –Bahnunterführung, for the other section the name Tannenstraße was chosen, after the town union, both sections were given their current name on April 26, 1935, after the town merged with the wish to call part of Bonnerstrasse that, could not enforce
Buxhaus	Forest		Hofschaft Buxhaus , possibly after the family name Buck	The name existed before 1715
Cäcilienstraße	center		Cecilie zu Mecklenburg (1886–1954), last Crown Princess of the German Empire	The spelling with ä instead of e is due to an error made by the municipal clerk; the street was named on September 3, 1912
Cantorweg	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Moritz Cantor (1829–1920), first professor for the history of mathematics in Germany
Carl-Hugo-Pott-Weg	Höhscheid		Carl Hugo Pott, in 1904 founder of the Solingen cutlery manufacturer Pott	Until its takeover by Seibel GmbH, the move to Mettmann and the subsequent demolition of the company buildings in 2007, Pott's headquarters were at this location (Ritterstraße 28)
Carl-Russ-Strasse	Forest		Carl Russ (1838–1925), a Swiss chocolate manufacturer born in Wald, made an honorary citizen of Walder on February 12, 1908	The short connecting road was rebuilt and was given its name on December 4, 1997
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Strasse	center	Nobel Prize Winner	Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), German writer, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Carl-Zeiss-Strasse	Forest	Researcher and inventor	Carl Zeiß (1816–1888), German mechanic and entrepreneur
Caspersbroich	Ohligs		Field name, Caspar von Perdsdorf was the builder of Caspersbroich Castle in 1472
Caspersbroich way	Ohligs		see Caspersbroich	formerly Schloßstraße, the path got its current name on April 26, 1935
Caspersfeld	Aries		Field name, derived from the personal name Casper or Caspar
Chalonweg	At the height	Solingen's international friendship between cities	Chalon-sur-Saône , twin town in France since 1960
Charlottenstrasse	Forest		possibly Charlotte , female first name
Cheruskerstrasse	Graefrath	German tribes	Cherusci , Germanic tribe
Christian-Morgenstern-Weg	Ohligs	Poet of the German-speaking area	Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), German poet, writer and translator
Christinaweg	Graefrath	Female first names	Christina , first name
Corinthstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), German painter	formerly Sternstrasse
Corneliusstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867), German painter
Cranachstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), painter and graphic artist	formerly Querstraße, renamed due to duplication after the city union on April 26, 1935
Cronenberger Strasse	center		Road to Cronenberg , formerly an independent municipality and today's district of Wuppertal
Czimatisplatz	center		Ludwig Czimatis (1861–1942) came to Solingen at the turn of the century. The Privy Dr. phi. Ludwig Czimatis fought against the disease silicosis . As a trade council, it ensured cleanliness and hygiene in the cottages in order to reduce the high mortality rate.	On the square south of the tax office there is also the so-called Czimatis monument, which was erected in memory of the reformer, the former Wupperplatz was named Czimatis' in 1978
Dahl	Merscheid		Hofschaft Dahl , Dahl meaning valley
Dahler Busch	Merscheid		see Dahl	Undeveloped areas at court houses bear the name of the adjacent court house and a suitable landscape designation, here the ending Busch , which suggests a wooded area
Dahler Strasse	Graefrath		leads to the Focher Dahl estate	The field name Dahl occurs several times, later place names ( Focher Dahl) were added to differentiate between the courts
Dahlerfeldstrasse	Merscheid		Field name, derived from the name of the Dahl estate , meaning valley	Undeveloped areas near Hofschaften bear the name of the adjacent Hofschaft and a suitable landscape designation, here the ending -feld , which suggests a formerly agricultural area
Daimlerstrasse	Forest	Researcher and inventor	Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), German engineer, designer and industrialist, inventor of the automobile
Damaschkestrasse	center		Adolf Damaschke (1865–1935), educator and leader of the land reform movement
Danziger Strasse	Forest	East German city names	Gdansk , city in Poland	The residential area was created after the Second World War for the refugees from the east
De-Leuw-Strasse	Graefrath		Friedrich de Leuw (1792–1861), German ophthalmologist and Privy Councilor, lived in Gräfrath until 1861 and practiced there for a long time; made Graefrath a health resort
Degenhof	center		Epee , stabbing weapon	Solingen is known as the city of blades, so some streets are named for edged weapons or cutlery
Degenstrasse	center		see Degenhof	The street newly constructed street got its name on July 20, 1935
Dent	At the height		Hofschaft Delle in the meaning of valley, depression
Dellenfeld	Graefrath		Field name, derived from dent meaning valley, depression
Deller Street	Forest		Delle living space meaning valley, depression
Demmeltrather Strasse	Forest		former Hofschaft Demmeltrath , the ending -rath indicates a clearing	The street was previously called Körnerstraße, renaming due to duplication probably only after 1935 (?)
Denise-Ligier-Weg	At the height	Solingen's international friendship between cities	Denise Ligier (1915–1989), head of the cultural office of the French town of Chalon-sur-Saône for decades , who campaigned for the town twinning with Solingen and received the Solingen ring of honor in 1988	In recognition of their services, a newly constructed street immediately adjacent to Chalonweg was named Ligiers in a new development area in Aufderhöher on the Siebels
Derfflingerstrasse	Graefrath		Georg von Derfflinger (1606–1695), electoral Brandenburg field marshal and governor of Pomerania	In the pre-war housing estate west of the Bärenloch four streets still bear the names of famous Prussian generals, Derfflinger-, Nettelbeck-, Seydlitz- and Yorckstraße; the street was previously called Buchenstraße and was renamed after the association of towns
Deusberg	Ohligs		Hofschaft Deusberg , after the family name Deus	The name already existed before 1715
Deusberger Strasse	Ohligs		see Deusberg	The street got its name in April 1884
Deutzerhofstrasse	Forest		after the Deutzer Hof, a property within the Deutz Abbey in the former parish of Wald
Deutzmannstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Willi Deutzmann (1897–1958), forest painter
Devarannestrasse	Forest		Johann Christian Claudius Devaranne (1784–1813), freedom fighter; Innkeeper and iron merchant from Wald	formerly Mittelstrasse, renamed on April 26, 1935
Diamond way	Höhscheid	Minerals and rocks	Diamond , carbon gemstone
Diepenbrucher Strasse	Ohligs		former Diepenbruch farm , Diepenbruch is derived from the deep break
Diesel road	Forest	Researcher and inventor	Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German engineer and the inventor of the diesel engine
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse	Graefrath	Church history	Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
Dietrichstrasse	center	Legends	Dietrich von Bern , one of the most famous mythical figures of the German high and late Middle Ages
Things way	Merscheid		Dinger, Middle High German expression for judges	In the housing estate north of the Hofschaft Dahl, which was known for its judicial system, some streets bear the names of the judicial system, which was named on October 18, 1955
Dingshauser Strasse	Merscheid		Dingshaus dwelling place , derived from the term thing for court
Jackdaw Path	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Jackdaw , species of the genus ravens and crows
Bullfinch Path	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Bullfinch , also called bullfinch, species of bird from the finch family
Donaustraße	Graefrath		not named after the river, as an old name speaks of the Old Danube , origin unclear
Dönhoffstrasse	center		Friedrich Dönhoff (1863–1943), District Administrator of the Solingen district (1894–1900), initiator of the improvement of health protection, co-founder of the metal college	On the Mangenberger Grund of the farmer Heinrich Pritschau were built around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 19th century, a total of nine access roads for a new residential area, including Dönhoffstrasse, which was named in November 1900
Dornsiepen	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Dornsiepen , the expression Siefen stands for a damp meadow, i.e. a watercourse under thorns	The name already existed before 1488
Dorotheenstrasse	center	Female first names	Dorothee , first name
Dorper Street	center		Dorp , formerly an independent town, incorporated into Solingen in 1889	The street was called Hipperstraße until 1890, on the street stood the first town hall of Dorp, which was named after the largest court in town, the Dorperhof
Dorperhof	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Dorperhof , largest and eponymous yard of the mayoralty Dorp	The name already existed before 1488 and at the beginning of the 19th century passed from the Hofschaft to the entire Honnschaft, as it was customary for the Honnschaft to be named the largest court in the district
Drachenfelsstrasse	At the height	Siebengebirge	Drachenfels , mountain in the Siebengebirge
Dresdener Strasse	Ohligs	German cities	Dresden , capital of Saxony
Drosselstrasse	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Thrush , species of songbird	From April 26, 1935, the street was initially named Hartmannsweiler Weg, in memory of the fighting on Hartmannswillerkopf in World War I, and around 1946/1947 it was renamed Drosselstraße to ban militaristic symbols
Duldgenstaler Strasse	Forest		Dultgenstal residential area , named after the family name Dältgen
Dunkelnberger Strasse	Ohligs		after the old court name Dunkelnberg
Düppelstrasse	Forest		Location Düppel in Denmark, where the battle of the Düppeler Schanzen took place in 1864	In this residential area, two streets bear the names of significant places in the German-Danish War , Alsen- and Düppelstraße
Dürener Strasse	Ohligs	German cities	Düren , district town in North Rhine-Westphalia	The street was initially called Elisenstraße and was renamed Graf-Spee-Straße on April 26, 1935 due to duplication, in honor of the imperial naval officer Maximilian von Spee , as street names from the naval context were intended for Ohlig, to ban militaristic symbols after the second The street was probably given its current name in 1946
Dürerstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), German painter and graphic artist	formerly Baustraße, the street got its current name on April 26, 1935
Düsseldorfer Strasse	Ohligs	German cities	Düsseldorf , capital of North Rhine-Westphalia
Dycker Field	Graefrath		former court of Dyck , Dyck meaning pond	The name already existed before 1715
Dycker Street	Graefrath		see Dycker field
Eckehardweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Eckehard, protagonist of the Nibelung saga
Eckstrasse	center		probably owed to the vernacular, the house on the street was between the Hippe and Bock courts
Corner stump	Forest		Hofschaft corner stump , possibly derived from oak stump
Ivy path	center	Botany shrubs	Ivy , evergreen climber
Eggenweg	Höhscheid	Garden and farm implements	Harrow , cultivator
Egmontstrasse	Forest		Egmont , tragedy by Goethe
to honor	Forest		Courtship honor , naming probably hardly by arrangement in honor of St. Catherine, rather old phonetic form of the tree name Ahorn : Urgerm. * ahira- , dan. aer , in Rhenish dialects also ire , eren , berg. hear .	The name already existed before 1715
Ehrenstrasse	Forest		see honor
Eibenweg	center	Botany trees	Yew trees , evergreen shrubs or trees
Eichendorffstrasse	At the height		Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857), poet and writer of German Romanticism
Oak Street	Höhscheid		after the opportune formerly on the road Hofschaft Eichholz, whose name from a oak wood derived	The street was called Eichenstrasse until December 8, 1937, when it was changed to Ludwig-Knickmann- Strasse , this change was reversed in the course of denazification on June 28, 1945
Eick	center		Hofschaft Eick , meaning oak
Eickenberg	At the height		Hofschaft Eickenberg , the name describes a mountain lined with oaks
Eiderweg	Ohligs	German rivers	Eider , the longest river in Schleswig-Holstein
Eifelstrasse	Merscheid		Eifel , German low mountain range	The street originally called Bismarckstraße, like other Merscheider streets, initially bore the name of a Prussian general or statesman; due to the duplication, the name was changed to Kluckstraße after Colonel General Alexander von Kluck on April 26, 1935, and the name was changed in 1946/1947 to ban military symbols
Own	Forest		Hofschaft Eigen , the name designates an own property in contrast to the common land or the feudal system
Own mountain	Forest		Local location own mountain , see own	Areas bordering on Hofschaft had the name of the Hofschaft and a suitable landscape designation, here the ending -berg , which suggests a hilly environment
Own field	Forest		Location own field , see own	Areas bordering on Hofschaft had the name of the Hofschaft and a suitable landscape designation, here the ending -feld , which suggests an open space
Island	center		Field name, derived from one's own land , i.e. one's own property, in contrast to the feudal system or common land , the name may have come about as a joke	The field name already existed before 1684
Einsteinstrasse	Ohligs	Researcher and inventor	Albert Einstein (1879–1955), theoretical physicist	The streets south of Deusberger Strasse were given the names of Prussian generals in the second half of the 1930s, and the street called Einsteinstrasse since 1946/1947 was named Hötzendorfstrasse in memory of the Austrian Field Marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Eintrachtstrasse	center		possibly for harmony, the peaceful cohesion within a group
Eipaßstrasse	Forest		Hofschaft Eipass
Eisenstrasse	center		Iron , chemical element	The small street is on the edge of an industrial area
Eislebener Strasse	Ohligs	German cities	Eisleben , city in Saxony-Anhalt, one of the two Luther cities	The street was originally called Kurz Straße, because of the duplication of the old name it was named Kanonierstraße on April 26, 1935 at the suggestion of the Artillery Association , to banish militaristic symbols it was probably given its current name in 1946 due to its proximity to Wittenbergstraße
Elbestrasse	Ohligs	German rivers	Elbe , river to the North Sea
Elbinger Strasse	Forest	East German city names	Elblag , city in Poland
Elisabethweg	center	Female first names	Elisabeth , first name
Elisenstrasse	center		after Elise Everts born Kirschbaum, whose husband Julius Everts owned the property on the street
Ellerstrasse	Ohligs		Eller , a district of Düsseldorf, then an independent city and suburb of the Rhine metropolis	The former Hildener Strasse was renamed Ellerstrasse on December 8, 1893 in favor of the new Hildener Strasse
Elsa-Brändström-Strasse	center		Elsa Brändström (1888-1948), Swedish philanthropist , Angel of Siberia called	The former Mittelstrasse was renamed due to the duplication of the street name after the city association on June 16, 1935, initially with the Germanized spelling Elsa- Brandström- Strasse , in 1962 the German Association of Cities advocated the original spelling of Brändström , but the street name was changed in Solingen not until August 16, 1985
Alsatian street	Ohligs		Alsace , landscape in eastern France	The German claim to ownership of Alsace-Lorraine was expressed in the form of the street naming
Else-Lasker-Schüler-Strasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), well-known Wuppertal poet	The street opens up a new development area and was named that way when it was built in 2009
Magpie bush	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Elsterbusch , meaning a bush in which magpies reside
Elsterbuscher way	Höhscheid		see Elsterbusch
Emdenstrasse	Ohligs		SMS Emden , German warship (1908), incapacitated on November 9, 1914	The street was initially called Eintrachtstraße and was renamed Emdenstraße on April 26, 1935 due to the duplication of the name, as Ohlig's street names were intended from the context of the imperial navy, the street kept its name even after the major renaming campaign in 1946 in Ohligser Inner city, this may be due to the fact that the street name indicates less clearly militarism
Emilienstraße	center		Emilie Köbeler (* 1843), superior in the hospital on Potsdamer Strasse	On the street there was a home of the Protestant community, which Emilie Köbeler helped to build
Emmastrasse	Höhscheid		?
Emscherstrasse	Ohligs	German rivers	Emscher , tributary of the Rhine	formerly Feldstraße, the name of the street was changed on April 26, 1935
Engelsberg	Ohligs		Engelsberg residence , after the family name Engels
Engelsberger Hof	Ohligs		Field name, derived from the Engelsberg family, who first settled there around 1800
Duck pond	center		There were two fire ponds ( puddles ) there until they were filled in in 1800 , hence the vernacular word “Entenpfuhl” denotes a duck pond	The place name, which has been documented since 1800, only became the official street name for the square below the Ufergarten on April 26, 1935; the name was later lost, and it was not until 1957 that the street name was officially returned as part of the reconstruction of the inner city
Enzianweg	At the height	Botany flowers	Gentians , genus of the gentian family
Erasmustraße	Graefrath	Church history	Erasmus von Rotterdam (around 1467–1536), Dutch theologian and philosopher
Heir house	center		Living space heritage house , the name probably has an inherited property back	The street got its name on October 30, 1930
Erbslöhstrasse	Forest	Aviation pioneers	Oskar Erbslöh (1879–1910), Wuppertal aviation pioneer	formerly Feldstrasse, renamed on April 26, 1934
Req	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Erf , the name is probably derived from Erbe, i.e. an inherited property	The name of the court already existed before 1488
Erfer Strasse	Höhscheid		see Req
Recreation street	Merscheid		?	The street was named at the suggestion of the Merscheid casino company
Erich-Kästner-Weg	Ohligs	Poet of the German-speaking area	Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German writer
Erikaweg	At the height	Botany cereal crops	Erika , Latin name for the heather
Erlenstrasse	Ohligs		Alder , deciduous tree	formerly Fichtenstrasse, renamed on April 26, 1935 due to the risk of confusion with Fichtestrasse
Ernst-Barlach-Strasse	Forest		Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), German writer
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Weg	Höhscheid	Politician	Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), German-national writer 1848 as MP for Solingen in the Frankfurt National Assembly moved	The street got its name after the construction of the Weegerhof settlement on March 16, 1928
Ernst-Moritz-Franzen-Strasse	Forest		Ernst Moritz Franzen (1866–1956), Walder citizen, alderman and last honorary citizen of Wald	The street was previously part of Dältgenstaler Straße, after Franzens death, Walder politicians suggested honoring him with a street name and argued that Dältgenstaler Straße should only begin on Poststraße, which was finally decided in 1959
Ernst-Walsken-Weg	Castle		Ernst Walsken (1909–1993), Solingen painter and resistance fighter	The newly laid road got its name in 2013
Ernst-Woltmann-Strasse	center		Ernst Woltmann (1868–1932), co-founder of the local newspaper Volksblatt , chairman of the board of directors of the Solingen savings and construction association	The naming of the new SBV housing estate north of Weyersberg caused controversy in the city council in 1953, and the cooperative's suggestions for Rudolf-Schwarz- and August-Dicke-Strasse were followed, and Woltmannweg became Ernst-Woltmann-Strasse
Erzgebirgestraße	Merscheid	Mountains	Ore Mountains , German-Czech low mountain range
Eschbach	Forest		Hofschaft Eschbach , a brook lined with ash trees	The name can be traced back to 1492
Eschbachstrasse	Castle		Eschbach , a tributary of the Wupper , flows into the Wupper in Burg	The road follows the course of the river
Eschenweg	Merscheid		The name of the street is derived from its old name Äschenweg , a path paved with ashes	The street officially got its name on April 26, 1935
Espenweg	center	Botany trees	Aspens , a species of the poplar genus
Estherweg	center	Female first names	Esther , first name
Eulerweg	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician who is considered one of the most important mathematicians because of his contributions to analysis, number theory and many other areas of mathematics
Eulswaag	center		Location Eulswaag , perhaps after the family name Eul	The name already existed before 1488
Evertsaue	Aries		Location Evertsaue , after the family name Everts, a floodplain is a river meadow
Falkenstrasse	Ohligs		Falcon , bird of prey	The street got its name on February 21, 1928
Fallerslebenweg	Forest	Philosophers and scholars	Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), German poet and Germanist, author of the song of the Germans	The street got its name on April 26, 1935
Fasanenstrasse	Forest		Pheasant , species of bird
Feldbergstrasse	At the height	Mountain names	Feldberg , highest mountain in the Black Forest
Fields yard	Forest		Hofschaft Felder Hof , Felder are agricultural land	Two farms in Feld are shown on the Ploennies map from 1715
Fields road	center		the street is named after the former Hofschaft I. Feld in Dorp , whose name can be derived simply from field , i.e. an agricultural area	The street was previously called I. Felder Straße, there were three more Feld farms in Dorp (II. Feld, III. Feld, IV. Feld) as well as a II. And IV. Felderstraße
Feldstrasse	Castle		?
Rock cellar	center		Location Felsenkeller , after a corridor carved into the rock that was formerly used as a beer cellar by the local brewery
Feuerbachstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880), German painter of late Romantic painting	formerly Flandernstrasse (in memory of the heavy fighting in World War I), renamed on March 25, 1947
Fichtestrasse	center		Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), German philosopher, who especially with his Addresses to the German Nation became famous
Finkenstrasse	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Finches , family of the order passerines	The street got its name on May 23, 1919
Fishing route	Höhscheid	Constellations of the zodiac	Pisces , constellation
Flensburger Strasse	center		Flensburg , independent city in Schleswig-Holstein	The city of Flensburg was the center of the Schleswig voting area in 1920 on the state affiliation of the region and voted with a large majority in favor of affiliation to the German Empire, the former Mozartstrasse was given its current name on June 15, 1935 in positive memory of this event
Fleußmühle	center		after the Fleußmühle , which takes its name from the family name Fleuß, which has changed over the centuries (Fluss, Flüß, Flues)
Lilac way	At the height	Botany flowers	Lilac , genus of the olive family
Flockertsberg	Graefrath		Location Flockertsberg , after the family name Flockert
Flockert wood	Graefrath		Location Flockertsholz , after the family name Flockert	The name already existed before 1715
Flockertsholzer Weg	Graefrath		see Flockertsholz
Florastrasse	center		after a summer house on the street called In der Flora , which its owner gave him
Foil path	center		Foil , fencing weapon	Solingen is known as the city of blades, so some streets are named for edged weapons or cutlery
Hallway	center		derived from the name In der Flur , which an adjacent property bore	The original name of the street was Kämpchenstraße before it was renamed Birkerstraße II
Focher Dahl	Graefrath		Hofschaft Focher Dahl , the Foche is derived from a place exposed to the wind, Dahl means valley; the court is therefore in the valley of the place exposed to the wind	Before 1935, the name of the court was just Dahl; the name was changed on April 26, 1935 to distinguish it
Focher street	Gräfrath / forest		Foche residence , presumably derived from Windfoche, i.e. a place exposed to the wind, Windfoche is a common place name	The field name Foche existed before 1715
Föhrenstrasse	center		after the pine tree, i.e. the pine
Fontanestrasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German writer and licensed pharmacist
Forest road	Ohligs		?	The northern section of the forest road was known until 1935 Cross Street, due to the doubling of the latter name, he was also Forststraße replaced
Frankenplatz	Forest	Old German tribes	Franconia , Germanic tribe
Frankenstrasse	Forest	Old German tribes	see Frankenplatz
Frankfurter Damm	Forest		Frankfurt am Main , a major city in Hesse, the fifth largest German city	Road construction began in 1934 as an emergency project, but was not completed, in September 1948 the unfinished road was given its current name in memory of the city that was important for the development of democracy (100 years after 1848 ) and the name Damm , as it is the embankment of the The corkscrew route follows, on February 11, 1967 the road was inaugurated in its current size
Franklinplatz	Ohligs	Researcher and inventor	Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), North American printer, publisher, writer, scientist, inventor, and statesman	The streets south of Deusberger Strasse were given the names of Prussian generals in the second half of the 1930s, while the street called Franklinplatz in the course of the demilitarization of street names since the summer of 1946 was initially given the name Schlieffenplatz in memory of the Prussian officer Alfred von Schlieffen
Fraunhofer Street	Ohligs	Researcher and inventor	Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), German optician and physicist
Liberty Street	Forest		after freedom	The street was named for political reasons before Hitler came to power (freedom, equality, brotherhood)
Freiligrathstrasse	center		Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876), German lyric poet, poet and translator
Peace Valley	Graefrath		Field name, location Friedenstal	The street was named on April 26, 1935, but the name already existed
Friedenstrasse	At the height		after peace	The street was named as a political statement
Friedrich-Albert-Lange-Strasse	Forest		Friedrich Albert Lange (1828–1875), Walder philosopher
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse	Forest		Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), German politician and Reich President	Before the Second World War, the street was part of Walder Hauptstraße, on April 26, 1935, the name was changed to Göringstraße, after Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring , in the course of denazification the street was given its current name on June 28, 1945
Friedrich-Engels-Weg	Höhscheid	Politician	Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German politician, entrepreneur and philosopher	The street bore the name Friedrich-Engels-Weg until April 22, 1933, before it was renamed Horst-Wessel -Weg, which was reversed on June 28, 1945 in the course of denazification.
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse	center		Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector (1620–1688), Elector of Brandenburg, creator of the unified Brandenburg-Prussian state, a standing army and civil service
Friedrichsaue	Aries		Location Friedrichsaue presumably based on Friedrichstal, a floodplain is a river meadow (here the Wupperufer )
Friedrichshöhe	Aries		Location Friedrichshöhe , presumably based on Friedrichstal, above residential area
Friedrichstal	Aries		Hofschaft Friedrichstal , presumably after the family name Frieder	The name of the court already existed before 1487
Friedrichstaler Strasse	Aries		see Friedrichstal
Friedrichstrasse	center		Friedrich III. (1831–1888), German Emperor and King of Prussia in the three emperor year of 1888	The street was named Friedrichstrasse until January 6, 1939, when the name was changed to Ludwig-Woltmann- Strasse; in the course of denazification, this change was reversed on June 28, 1945
Friesenstrasse	Forest		Location Friesenhäuschen , the name is derived from the family name Friese	The street got its name on June 18, 1901, when the city of Wald gave a name to some previously unnamed streets in the urban area
Fritz-Haber-Strasse	center	Nobel Prize Winner	Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist
Fritz-Reuter-Strasse	Höhscheid		Fritz Reuter (1810–1874), one of the most influential poets of the Low German language	The street already existed before the construction of the SBV settlement and therefore does not bear the name of a politician like its neighbors; it was previously called Erfer Weg from November 9, 1897 and became Fritz-Reuter-Strasse on December 2, 1912
Fronhof	center		after the Fronhof of Altenberg Abbey in Solingen, the Fronhof is the residence (= courtyard) of the lords (= Fron-), namely the lords of Solingen	According to a document, the name was introduced as Vroynhof in 1363 , the Lords of Solingen are mentioned in a document as early as 1168
Spring road	At the height		Naming without a special reason
Fuchsweg	Forest		Fox , mammal
Drove	Forest		Hofschaft Fuhr , possibly derived from the route	The name of the court already existed before 1715
Carriage road	Forest		see Fuhr
Fürk	Merscheid		Hofschaft Fürk , the name is probably derived from the Föhrenbaum (the pine )	The name of the court already existed before 1645
Fürkeltrath	Graefrath		Hofschaft Fürkeltrath , probably the clearing (= rath) of the pine trees (the pines )
Fürker Irlen	Merscheid		Location Fürker Irlen , Irlen is derived from Erlen , the addition Fürker indicates a location near the Hofschaft Fürk	The street was previously called Irlen, to distinguish it from the Höhscheider Irlen, the place name Fürker was added on April 26, 1935
Fürker Street	Merscheid		see Fürk
Fürkerfeldstrasse	Merscheid		see Fürk
Gabelsberger Strasse	Höhscheid		Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789–1849), German stenographer, founder of the German shorthand	The nomination took place on October 3, 1911 at the request of the Solingen Stenographers Association Gabelsberger
Fork road	Höhscheid		Fork , part of the cutlery	Solingen is known as the city of blades, so some streets bear the names of edged weapons or cutlery, originally there was a Messer-, a Gabel- and aakenakenstraße in this residential area, theöffelstraße was renamed Wiener Straße, the street got its name on June 9th 1903
Garrison Street	Graefrath		after the Landwehr battalion housed in the 1803 secularized Gräfrath monastery rooms , hence the name parade ground (today sports ground Flockertsholz )	Formerly Freiheitstrasse, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
gardenstreet	Graefrath		Naming without a special reason
Gartnerstrasse	Merscheid	Craftsman	Gardeners , gardeners
Garzenhaus	Forest		Hofschaft Garzenhaus , after the family name Garze	The name already existed before 1715
Gas street	Höhscheid		after the municipal gasworks formerly located there
Gauss way	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist
Gazelle Street	center		after the company Gebr. Krusius, who built the first houses on the street and used the word mark u. a. led a gazelle
Gebhardtstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Eduard Gebhardt (1838–1925), German painter
Geibelstrasse	Merscheid		Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884), German poet	To the south of the city garden, three streets bear the names of famous writers, Grabbestrasse, Gellertstrasse and Geibelstrasse
Geilenberg	Merscheid		Hofschaft Geilenberg , based on the old German family name Geido	The name already existed before 1488
Geilenberger way	Merscheid		see Geilenberg
Gellertstrasse	Merscheid		Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), German poet and moral philosopher of the Enlightenment	To the south of the city garden, three streets bear the names of famous writers, Grabbestrasse, Gellertstrasse and Geibelstrasse
Georg-Herwegh-Strasse	Höhscheid	Politician	Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), revolutionary German poet	The street was named in the course of the construction of the SBV housing estate Weegerhof on March 16, 1928
Georgestrasse	Forest		Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet	The reason given by Brangs: “Prophet of the dawn of the new empire ”, the street was previously called Schillerstraße, the name was changed on April 26, 1935 because of the duplication
Geranium Path	At the height	Botany flowers	Geranium , genus of the cranesbill family
Gerberstrasse	Graefrath		after a tannery that used to be on this street
Gerhard-Hebborn-Strasse	At the height		Gerhard Hebborn (1878–1967), first elected honorary mayor of Solingen (1946–1948)	In the new SBV housing estate Börkhauser Feld, the newly laid streets have been bearing the names of famous Solingen citizens and mayors with contacts to the Spar- und Bauverein Solingen since the beginning of the 2000s
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse	At the height		Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), writer of German naturalism
Court Street	center		Location of the district court until 1875 (formerly: Friedensgericht )
Germanenstrasse	Graefrath	Old German tribes	Germans , tribe
Gernotweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Gernot , one of the Burgundian kings in the Nibelung saga
Gertrudisstrasse	center	Female first names	Gertrudis , first name
Health street	At the height		Location of the Bethanien Hospital (a sanatorium at the time the street was named )	The street got its name on May 17, 1900
Gillich	At the height		Field name, court of Gillich
Gillicher Dahl	At the height		Local location Gillicher Dahl , Dahl is derived from Tal , the addition of Gillicher indicates a location near the Gillich court	Before 1935 the court name was only Dahl, on April 26, 1935, the place name Gillicher was added to distinguish it from the other court houses of the same name in the city
Gillicher Strasse	At the height		see Gillich	formerly Schützenstraße, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Gorse path	center	Botany shrubs	Gorse , genus of the legume family
Giselherweg	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Giselher , protagonist of the Nibelungen saga
Gläßnerstrasse	Höhscheid		Louis Gläßner (1844–1920), mayor of Höhscheid from 1881 to 1911	The Höhscheid city council called the connecting road between Hossenhaus and Mittelpilghausen on July 18, 1899, Spring Road, when the renaming was due to duplicate the name, the administration proposed the renaming to Mittelpilghauser Weg at the end of 1934, but a decision was made in honor of Gläßner on April 26, 1935 different
Gleiwitzer Strasse	Forest	East German city names	Gliwice , city in Poland
Glockenstrasse	Höhscheid		on the street is the Catholic parish church of St. Suitbertus with its church bells	The street was formerly called Grenzstraße after the Höhscheid – Solingen city border, after the town union there were three border roads in Solingen, the pastor of St. Suitbertus suggested that it be renamed Suitbertusstraße in 1933, the city favored the entire street in 1934 (+ Hohlstraße) the name Obenpilghauser Weg, this failed because of the business associations, on April 26, 1935 the street became Glockenstraße at the request of the residents
Gluckstrasse	Forest	Composers	Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German pre-classical composer
Glüder	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Glüder	The court name has existed since before 1672
Goebenstrasse	Höhscheid		August Karl von Goeben (1816–1880), Prussian general who celebrated a victory in the war against the French on January 19, 1871 near Saint-Quentin	In the pre-war districts around Bismarckplatz and Bülowplatz, some streets still bear the names of Prussian generals and statesmen; the street was named on March 4, 1902
Goerdelerstrasse	center		Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), German politician (DNVP) and resistance fighter, local politician in Solingen	The street is one of the few streets in downtown Solingen without a historical model and was intended to relieve the lower main street from individual traffic.It was laid out in the early 1950s and was extended to Mühlenplatz on July 24, 1952 at the suggestion of the city director Gerhard Berting took place only in 1966/1967
Goethestrasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), one of the most important German poets
Goldberger way	At the height	Silesia, Goldberg sponsorship	Goldberg , a city in Poland, Solingen took over the sponsorship in 1955
Gold road	Ohligs		?
Gönrather Strasse	Merscheid		after the three farms Gönrath ( Unten- , Mittel- , Obengönrath ), the name probably means otherworldly clearing	The name has been around since 1488
gutter	At the height		Location Gosse , the name suggests a sewer channel	The name already existed before 1488
Gotenstrasse	Forest	Old German tribes	Goths , East Germanic people
Götsche	Ohligs		Field name
Gottfried-Kinkel-Weg	Höhscheid	Politician	Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882), German theologian and politician	The street was named in the course of the construction of the SBV housing estate Weegerhof on March 16, 1928
Gottlieb-Heinrich-Strasse	Forest		Gottlieb Heinrich (1856–1921), Mayor of Wald from 1888 to 1920	formerly Gasstrasse after the local gasworks, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Goudastrasse	Höhscheid		Gouda , city in the Netherlands, Solingen's twin town since 1957
Grave road	Merscheid		Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836), German playwright from Vormärz	To the south of the city garden, three streets bear the names of famous writers, Grabbestrasse, Gellertstrasse and Geibelstrasse
Grabenstrasse	Ohligs		?
Graf-Adolf-Strasse	Castle		Adolf V von Berg († September 28 or 29, 1296), regent of the county of Berg from 1259 to 1296
Graf-Engelbert-Strasse	center		Engelbert von Berg , later called the Saint (1185 / 6–1225), as Engelbert I Archbishop of Cologne and as Engelbert II. Count von Berg	formerly Armenhäusergasse (until 1878), after the school was built in 1878 Schulstrasse, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Graf-Wilhelm-Platz	center		Wilhelm II von Berg , Duke von Berg, granted Solingen city ​​rights on February 23, 1374
Graefrather market	Graefrath		Market square in Graefrath	The square was previously called the Marktplatz and was expanded to include the district after the city union, renaming on April 26, 1935
Graefrather Strasse	Forest		to the formerly independent town of Graefrath	The street got its name in the 1880s
Border road	Ohligs		The street forms the city limits of Ohligs, Haan and Hilden	After the city union there were three border roads in Solingen, the Ohligser kept its name because it was the only one that still formed a city border, the borders between Wald and Gräfrath (today Heresbachstraße) and between Höhscheid and Solingen (today Glockenstraße) no longer existed It was named on October 25, 1889
Horror	At the height		Location abomination	The place name occurs in many places, e.g. B. also in Greuel (Remscheid)
Grillparzerstrasse	At the height	Poet of the German-speaking area	Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian writer who emerged primarily as a playwright
Grimmstrasse	center		after the Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), linguist and folklorist	formerly Arndstrasse, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Gröditzberg	At the height	Silesia, Goldberg sponsorship	Gröditzberg, elevation near Goldberg in Silesia
Grünbaumstrasse	Höhscheid		after the former court name Amgrün Baum , which was located nearby, but the background is not known	The street was named in 1894 based on the old court name
reason	Graefrath		Local situation basic , fundamental in the sense Valley
Grundstrasse	Höhscheid		after the Heidberger Grund (= Heidberger Tal), into which the road leads
Grunenburg	center		Hofschaft Grunenburg , according to a legend, there was once a hill fort there	The name already existed before 1715
Grünental	Aries		Field name
Grünewalder Strasse	Höhscheid		after a large restaurant Zum Grünewald , which was on the street, the vernacular carried the name to the entire street	The name of the street was Weeg or Weeger Straße until the middle of the 19th century, the vernacular gave a house on the street the name Amgrün Esel , which led the restaurant operator to choose its name
Grünstrasse	Ohligs		Naming without a special reason	The area belonged to the old Bockstiege estate for a long time; it was given its new name in the construction boom of the 1870s, and in the 1930s the renaming of the street to Admiral-Scheer-Straße was unsuccessful due to the business associations
Gudrunstrasse	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Gudrun, actor of the Nibelungen saga
Guntherstrasse	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Gundahar , legendary figure of the Nibelungen saga
Goodness	Forest		Hofschaft Gütchen , the name suggests a small estate	The name already existed before 1594
Gutenbergstrasse	Höhscheid		Johannes Gutenberg (around 1400–1468), inventor of modern letterpress printing	The street was named on May 21, 1908
Haaner Berg	Forest		Road on the mountain slope that slopes down to the neighboring town of Haan	previously also Haaner Strasse, renamed on April 26, 1935 as Haanerberg
Haaner Strasse	Forest		to the garden city of Haan
Haasenmühle	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Haasenmühle after the mill of the owners Hase or Haase that still exists today
Hawk height	Höhscheid	Zoology birds	Hawk , family of the order birds of prey
Hacketäuer Street	center		after the Hacketäuern, so members of the Infantry Regiment No. 16, in which many Solinger served
Hackhausen	Ohligs		Location Hackhausen , originally Hachhusen , possibly Hach is derived from Hagen (= piece of forest); also Hackhausen Castle	The court name existed before 1229
Hackhauser Strasse	Ohligs		see Hackhausen
Hagedornweg	At the height	Botany shrubs	Hawthorn , shrub genus
Hagenstrasse	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Hagen von Tronje , figure from the Nibelungen saga	The street was named Taubenstrasse before it was renamed Hans-Schemm- Strasse on June 15, 1935 , and in the course of denazification the name was changed to Hagenstrasse on June 28, 1945
Rooster house	Forest		former court of the Hahnenhaus , presumably after the family name Hahn
Hahnenhauser Feld	Forest		see Hahnenhaus
Hahnenhausstrasse	Forest		see Hahnenhaus	The street was previously called Jägerstraße and was renamed on April 26, 1935 because of the duplication after the city association
Hahnstrasse	Castle		?
Halfenweiherplatz	Forest		after the Halfenweiher ( pond ), one halfe managed the property against the payment of half the income (half winner)
Halfeshof	center		after the Halfeshof , Halfeshof is the newer name for the Windfelner Hof, which was managed by a so-called Halfmann, Halfe is derived from Halbgewinner, d. H. a tenant managed the property in return for half of the income	The street was officially named with the establishment of the Halfeshof youth welfare facility on April 11, 1910
Halfesweg	center		see Halfeshof
Hamburger Street	Ohligs	German cities	Hamburg , the second largest city in Germany
Hammerfeldweg	Höhscheid		the dirt road leads to the Kotter Hammer	Formerly Sommerstraße, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Hammerstrasse	Merscheid		the street leads to the former Dahler Hammer
Handelstrasse	Ohligs		Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759), German-British composer of the Baroque	formerly Richard-Wagner-Straße, renamed after the city association due to duplication
Hansastrasse	Ohligs		Hanseatic League , powerful alliance of cities in the Middle Ages	formerly Casinostraße, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Hans-Keßler-Strasse	Ohligs		Hans Keßler, Solingen local patriot and honorary ring bearer (1977)
Hartmannstrasse	Forest	Philosophers and scholars	Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), German philosopher
Hasencleverstrasse	Castle		named after the Hasenclever family of manufacturers in Remscheid, who, among others, came from Johann Peter Hasenclever (1810-1853), 19th century painter and the Burgher honorary citizen Moritz Hasenclever (1848-1907)	The street got its original name Moritz-Hasenclever-Straße in 1903, Moritz Hasenclever was chairman of the castle building association and an honorary citizen of the city of Burg from 1902 to 1907 , the council decided in 1974, one year before the connection between Burg and Solingen, to delete his first name
Hasseldeller Ufer	center		Hofschaft Hasseldelle , Hassel is derived from the hazel bush , a dent denotes a depression, the addition bank here refers to the banks of the Hasseldeller and the Stöckener Bach	The name was officially given on April 26, 1935
Hasseldeller way	center		see Hasseldelle	The name was officially given on April 26, 1935
Hasselstrasse	center		see Hasseldelle
Hate	Höhscheid		Hofschaftsname Hästen , probably derived from the words Hesten or Heister call, which according Brangs "young crippled trees" or artificially pruned trees to catch birds	In total there were three court estates with the name Hästen and three Hästener Straße, the name already existed before 1488
Hästener way	Höhscheid		see Hästen
Hauffstrasse	Graefrath	fairy tale	Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), German romantic writer, editor of Hauff's fairy tales
Haumannstrasse	center		Friedrich Haumann (1857–1924), Mayor from 1894 to 1896, then first Lord Mayor of Solingen until 1906	In the residential area to the northeast of the town hall, two streets bear the names of former mayors, Haumann and Van-Meenen-Strasse; Haumannstrasse was called Moltkestrasse until 1935
Main road	center		Main street and former main thoroughfare through the Solingen city center, today a pedestrian zone	In the 19th century, the street was named An der Börse after the location for goods trading, was then called Hauptstraße and was renamed Moeller-v.-d.-Bruck- Straße on June 15, 1935, and renamed on June 28, 1945 At that time the road reached north to the turnpike, but the part between Mühlenplatz and turnpike was named Konrad-Adenauer-Straße in 1976
House Grünewald	Graefrath		Haus Grünewald , a castle-like property with an English garden, built at the beginning of the 19th century
Little house	Forest		Local location little house
Haynauer way	At the height	Silesia, Goldberg sponsorship	Haynau , city in Poland
Hebbelstrasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863), German playwright and poet
Heckener Strasse	Forest		Field name, courtyard hedges , possibly derived from the hedge	The field name Hecken has existed since at least 1500, the street was previously called Untenscheidt, the name was changed on May 2, 1912 at the request of the residents
Hegelring	Forest	Philosophers and scholars	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher who is considered the most important representative of German idealism	The road leads in a ring through the high-rise estate
Heidberg	center		two Hofschaft Heidberg , a mountain with heather growing on the slopes ( Erika )	The court name already existed before 1488
pagan	Forest		Field name, Hofschaft Heide	The name has been around since 1594
Heider Hof	Graefrath		Field name, Hofschaft Heider Hof , i.e. a courtyard in which heather grows	The name already existed before 1715
Heidstrasse	Forest		Field name
Heidufer	Forest		Location Heidufer , a slope overgrown with heather
Healer Kotten	Aries		Healer Kotten , originally mentioned as Kotten in the Heel , so it could be a Kotten in the gorge	The name existed well before 1605
Healer street	Aries		probably derived from the name Heil
Heiligenstock	Ohligs		Former Hofschaft Heiligenstock , the name probably comes from an ancient beech tree (a tree stump that can sprout again), which tradition called sacred	The former school street after the Heiligenstock school was renamed on April 26, 1935 due to the duplication of the street name
Holy Born	Graefrath		Field name, according to a legend, there was a place at the Itter spring in pre-Christian times where worship services were held	The street got its name on July 20, 1935
Heinestrasse	center		Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), one of the most important German poets, writers and journalists of the 19th century	The street previously had the name Breitestraße, which was changed to Heinrich-Diehl-Straße on April 26, 1935 due to the duplication after the city union. In the course of denazification, it was renamed Heinestraße on June 28, 1945
Heisterbusch	Forest		Field name, a Heisterbusch is a sick or dead tree
Helenenstrasse	center		Karl Decker, whose first name was Helene, built the first five houses on the street after the female first name Helene
Heliosweg	Forest	Mythical deities	Helios , Greek sun god
Hellerweg	Castle		?
Helmholtzstrasse	Ohligs	Researcher and inventor	Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physiologist and physicist	The streets south of Deusberger Strasse were given the names of Prussian generals in the second half of the 1930s, and the street called Helmholtzstrasse since 1946/1947 was given the name Linsingerstrasse
Helsinkistraße	Höhscheid	European capitals	Helsinki , capital of Finland	The favorite for naming the new street was Berner Strasse, but then there would have been a risk of confusion with Bergerstrasse, so the street was given its current name on July 5, 1977
Henckelsstrasse	Höhscheid		Zwilling JA Henckels , world-famous cutlery company from Höhscheid	On this street opposite the company headquarters, the Zwilling company built a workers' housing estate at the beginning of the 20th century
Henri Dunant Street	center	Nobel Prize Winner	Henry Dunant (1828–1910), Swiss founder of the Red Cross
Henriettenstrasse	Forest		after a Henriette Dorp, whose family inherited the land on the street
Hensberg	At the height		Hofschaft Hensberg after the family name Hens	The name already existed before 1715
Henshauser field	Forest		former Henshaus court , probably also after the family name Hens
Henshauser Strasse	Forest		see Henshauser Feld
Herbert-Schade-Weg	Castle		Herbert Schade (1922–1994), Solingen athlete and Olympic medalist	The street of the new building area is located near the Herbert Schade sports complex on the Krahenhöhe
Herberger Strasse	Forest		Former Hofschaft Herberg , the obvious assumption that the name comes from a hostel, could not (yet) be confirmed according to Brangs
Herderstrasse	Höhscheid	Poets and writers	Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German poet, translator, theologian and history and cultural philosopher of the Weimar Classic	The street was previously called Wielandstraße and was renamed on September 5, 1911
Heresbachstrasse	Forest		Konrad Heresbach (1496–1576), German humanist and statesman at the court of the Bergisch dukes	The road on the city boundary between Gräfrath and Wald was named Grenzstraße on October 3, 1889, after the town union there were three border roads in Solingen, of which only the Ohligser was actually still on a city boundary, so on April 26, 1935 the in Höhscheid to Glockenstrasse and the one in Wald to Heresbachstrasse, after the proposal to name it after the Krups family did not prevail
Heribertweg	Aries		possibly Heribert von Köln (around 970–1021), Archbishop of Cologne
Hermann-Hesse-Weg	At the height	Poet of the German-speaking area	Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-speaking writer, poet and painter
Hermann-Löns-Weg	Ohligs		Hermann Löns (1866–1914), German journalist and writer with the ideal landscape of the heather, hunter, poet of nature and local history	The former Hasselsstrasse was given its current name on May 5, 1934, after the city was unified because of the risk of confusion with Hasselstrasse
Hermann-Meyer-Strasse	Höhscheid		Hermann Meyer (1887–1943), one of the influential managing directors in the early years of the savings and construction association and who worked there from 1912	The road was after its construction the name of Karl-Marx-Allee and leads to the SBV's flagship settlement Weegerhof , which was built in the 1920s, on 22 April 1933, the name was changed to Goebbelsallee by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels , renaming the course denazification on June 28, 1945
Hermannstrasse	Höhscheid		Hermann, incorrectly for Arminius , Cheruscan prince who defeated the Roman army under Varus in 9 AD
Ermine Street	Höhscheid		Ermine , animal name
Hertzweg	Höhscheid	Astronomers, mathematicians, geographers	Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist
Herzogstrasse	Merscheid		At the end of the 19th century, the pocket knife manufacturer Karl Gustav Rüttgers supposedly took care of the condition of the street as a resident, Rüttgers was nicknamed Herzog for reasons that are not clear today	The street got its name at the request of the residents in memory of Rüttgers, when the city of Merscheid left the streets in the town center at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. First given a name in the 19th century, the name Herzogstraße has been proven since 1901 at the latest
Hessenweg	center	German landscapes	Hessen , country in southwest Germany
Heukämchenstrasse	Forest		for a name
Hildebrandstrasse	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Hildebrand , actor of the Nibelungen saga	formerly Bergstrasse, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Hildener Strasse	Ohligs		Street leads to the neighboring town of Hilden	The street, which was previously named after the place name Trotshilden , was given its current name on December 8, 1893
Hillingweg	Aries	Solingen history, blade craft, peasantry	after the Bergisch Hillingfest, which was traditionally celebrated before marriage	The small street on the Vockerter side of the Weinsberg valley got its name in 1976
Raspberry trail	center	Botany shrubs	Raspberry , species of the rose family
Hingenberg	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Hingenberg , originally Hengenberg, Hengen could have been derived from behind , so Hingenberg means behind the mountain
Hintenmeiswinkel	Aries		Hofschaft Hintenmeiswinkel , together with Vormeiswinkel two courtyards Meiswinkel, with Meis- is probably meant the tit (bird)
Hintenmeiswinkeler Weg	Aries		see Hintenmeiswinkel
Hippergrund	center		Flurname, the centuries-old name is derived from Hippe , i.e. a goat, and Grund , a valley basin, made up of a goat meadow in the valley that was used by the townspeople
Hirschweg	Castle	Ungulates	Deer , forest animal
Elevated road	Ohligs		?
Hofchen	Aries		Field name	The name already existed before 1715
hope	Merscheid		Field name
Hofgerichtsweg	Ohligs		after the court court in the court of Schnittert	formerly Industriestraße, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935, the court court was not located on this street despite its name
Hofstrasse	Merscheid		after the Merscheider Hof, to which the street leads
height	Merscheid		Hofschaft Höhe , popularly in the height , the courtyard is halfway up the ascending road Ohligs – Merscheid – Mangenberg
Hohenfriedberger Strasse	Ohligs		Battle of Hohenfriedberg on June 4, 1745, in which Frederick the Great won against Austria and the Saxons
Hohenscheid	Höhscheid		Hohenscheid was once a knight's seat, probably also a hill fort and court, the name probably comes from the altitude and the expression Scheid for border (also in the sense of watershed )	The name already existed before 1488
Higher heather	At the height		Field name
Higher street	Merscheid		Hofschaft Höhe , popularly in the height , the courtyard is halfway up the ascending road Ohligs – Merscheid – Mangenberg
Hohlenpuhler way	Aries		Field name, formerly Hohlenpuhler Kotten, the bank of the Wupper rises so steeply to the north that a narrow gorge is created (= hollow), Puhl refers to a reservoir, the Kotten was in the gorge with its reservoir
Hohlstrasse	Höhscheid		according to the topography of the road, hollow in meaning steep towering , way up auftürmend
Höhmannsberg	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Höhmannsberg , derived from the family name Höhmann
Höhrath	Castle		Location Höhrath , south of Burg, the name is derived from Höh- , which expresses the location of the location on a hill and the ending -rath , which describes the clearing of the area currently built on
Höhscheider field	Höhscheid		Field name, Höhscheid denotes a border or watershed located at a height , the designation field was based on old field names
Höhscheider Hof	Höhscheid		the Höhscheider Hof is one of the oldest farms in the area and, as the Fronhof of the Altenberg Abbey, one of the starting points of the later town
Höhscheider Strasse	At the height		after the court name Höhscheid	The street was expanded from 1889 and received its current name in the course of this
Höhscheider way	At the height		see Höhscheider Strasse	The street got its name on April 26, 1935
Holbeinstrasse	Forest	Painter and sculptor	Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), important painter	formerly Bahnstrasse, renaming due to duplication on April 26, 1935
Hölderlinstrasse	At the height	Poet of the German-speaking area	Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), is one of the most important German poets
Holleweg	Graefrath	fairy tale	after the fairy tale figure of Frau Holle in the stories of the Brothers Grimm
Holsteiner Strasse	Forest		Holstein , at the time the street was named, the southern part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein
Elder path	At the height		Elder , a genus of plants in the musk herb family
Wood	Forest		Location wood , the name obviously derived from the wooded surroundings of the farm	The name already existed before 1715
Wooden yard	At the height		Local location Holzhof , a courtyard that was on or in the wood (= forest)	The name already existed before 1715
Holzkamp	At the height		Location Holzkamp , a field in or on the wood / forest	The name already existed before 1715
Holzkamper way	At the height		see Holzkamp
Hoppenböcken	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Hoppenböcken , the name is made up of the family name Hoppe and the term Böcken for beeches
horn	At the height		Hofschaft Horn , meaning corner, point, angle denotes a piece of land that protrudes pointedly into the water or into the forest or a neighboring field
Hossenhauser Strasse	Höhscheid		Hofschaft Hossenhaus after the family name Hosse
Hübben	Merscheid		Huebben court	The name already existed before 1488
Hubert-Mallmann-Weg	Höhscheid		Hubert Mallmann (1910–1994), longtime Solingen local politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia	The newly laid road got its name in October 2012
Hubertusstrasse	Ohligs		Hubertus , patron saint of hunting	Formerly Schützenstraße after Schützenburg and Schützenplatz, renaming to Hubertusstraße on April 26, 1935
Hill road	Forest		?
Hugo-Schaal-Weg	center		Hugo Schaal , long-time board member of the savings and construction association Cronenbergerstrasse / Schillerstrasse and council member	The street of the SBV residential area was named on November 2, 1955
Pods	At the height		Hofschaft sleeves , with the word are holly or Ilex meant	The name already existed before 1715
Humboldtstrasse	Forest		after the Humboldt brothers, Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German naturalist and Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German scholar and Prussian statesman	The high school located there, the Humboldtgymnasium, also bears the name of the Humboldts
Hunoldstrasse	Graefrath	Nibelung legend	Hunold, chamberlain and cellar master at the Gunthers court
Hunsrückstrasse	center	German landscapes	Hunsrück , German low mountain range
Huttenstrasse	Graefrath	Church history	Ulrich von Hutten (1488–1523), imperial knight and humanist, church critic, supporter of Luther	formerly Talstrasse, renamed due to duplication on April 26, 1935

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 corridor, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen. Solingen 1936.
• City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen. Self-published, Solingen 1972.

Sources and Notes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu} Hans Brangs: Explanations and explanations of the hall, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen . Solingen 1936.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd} Solinger Tageblatt from the series search for traces / street names
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae} Hans-Georg Wenke: town and street names. Retrieved October 23, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Marina Alice Mutz: Dorp. Retrieved October 23, 2015 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} City Archive Solingen: Chronicle 1945 ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 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. , accessed on January 22, 2016 (PDF document) 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Place names on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on December 25, 2015
7. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
8. ↑ Solinger Tageblatt of December 20, 2016, page 16 districts - street reminiscent of a privy councilor
9. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 (magazine of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, 74 - parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn), p. 187
10. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Engelsberger Hof. Retrieved October 24, 2015 . 
11. ^ Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from November 17, 2006, accessed on December 22, 2015
12. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Old schools and school buildings in Solingen - Ohligs. Retrieved October 24, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Marina Alice Mutz: Family Events - Engagement and Wedding. Retrieved October 24, 2015 .