Middle knitter

Middle knitter City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 22 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 4"  E
Height :	about 135 m
Postal code :	42719
Area code :	0212
Location of Mittelitter in Solingen
Half-timbered house in Mittelitter

Mittelitter is a locality in the mountainous city ​​of Solingen .

geography

Mittelitter is located in the Wald district of Solingen , near the border with the neighboring town of Haan . The location is on the Itter , which lies in a valley between sunshine , reflections and kneading iron in the north and the southern ridge on which Wittkuller Straße runs. The Ittertalstraße runs parallel to Itter from Lindersberg to Unteritter through the village. To the north-east of Mittelitter is Obenitter with the historic Ittertal amusement park . Itterberg , Wittkulle , Friesenhäuschen and Rolsberg are to the south and south-east respectively .

etymology

The place name -itter appears in the three former courtyards Oben-, Mittel- and Unteritter. Oriented to their course, the farms are located on the Itter brook, which rises near Gräfrath and flows into the Rhine in Düsseldorf - Urdenbach and which is documented as Ytter in 1218/31 and as de Itre in 1263 . The word Itter probably comes from the  Latin- Indo-European, because  itera  means " the water from the height ". Dittmaier sees a fading form of the root word ait ( "swell" ) in the river name .

history

The location of Mittelitter can be traced back to the 18th century. In 1715 in the map Topographia Ducatus Montani , Blatt Amt Solingen , by Erich Philipp Ploennies , the place is recorded with a farm and as m. Itter named. The court belonged to the Itter Honschaft within the Solingen office. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place. The Prussian first recording of 1844 lists the place as Mitt. Itter, in the topographic map of the administrative district of Düsseldorf from 1871 the place is recorded as Mtl. Itter .

After the establishment of the Mairien and later mayor's offices at the beginning of the 19th century, the place belonged to the mayor's office in Wald , where it was located in corridor I. ( Wittkull ). In 1815/16 82 people lived in the hamlet called Mittel-Itter , in 1830 92 people . In 1832, under the name Mittel Itter , the place was part of the first village honors within the forest mayor. The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf government district , had 22 residential buildings, two mills or factories and 15 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 100 residents lived in the place, eight of them Catholic and 92 Protestant. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with 26 houses and 150 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, 30 houses with 201 inhabitants are given for Mittel Itter . In 1895 the district had 28 houses with 175 inhabitants, in 1905 29 houses and 206 inhabitants are given.

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Mittelitter became a district of Solingen. Most of the half-timbered houses in Mittelitter were demolished in the 1960s, what remained was a half-timbered structure that forms a narrow street near the entrance from Ittertalstrasse to the Ittertal leisure facility . This complex (Ittertalstrasse 92, 94) has been a listed building since 1985 .

Ittertal outdoor pool and ice rink

In Mittelitter, on the banks of the Itter (address Mittelitter 10), there is also a large leisure facility with an outdoor pool and an open-air ice rink . The leisure facility also offers space for other sports such as beach volleyball , basketball and soccer . There is also a restaurant on the premises with the quince .

The roots of the leisure facility lie in the so-called Strandbad Ittertal, which was built between 1913 and 1916 on the private initiative of the industrialist Carl-Friedrich Ern from the forest . Ern was the founder of the razor factory named after him with its headquarters on the Wittkulle. After the completion of the bath, it drew its water from two wells that had been drilled in the nearby mountains. After the First World War , water pollution from industry and neighboring residential areas in particular caused problems for the quality of the lido water . As a result, a reservoir with a dam was created above the lido , which was fed from the Holzer Bach . The construction costs of around 200,000 marks were taken over by the district of Solingen in 1927/1928 , as well as the towns of Gräfrath , Wald and Haan . After the city union in 1929, the city of Solingen took over the spa in 1936.

During the Second World War, both the Ittertal lido and the adjacent Ittertal Schleifer and Local History Museum , which had opened in Trinnskotten in 1927, were badly destroyed in the air raids on Solingen . While the former Trinnskotten was torn down, the lido reopened after being rebuilt. In 1975 the pool was expanded to include an outdoor ice rink. On October 1, 1987, the Ittertal lido became the non-profit sports and culture center Ittertal GmbH . After this gGmbH was on extremely shaky financial ground in the second half of the 2000s, operations had to be stopped in 2008. Then the Förderverein Ittertal e. V. , who has been running the swimming pool and the ice rink since May 2009 on a voluntary basis under new management. The development association is supported by numerous private donors and sponsors from the Solingen economy. In cooperation with Neue Arbeit Ittertal GmbH , long-term unemployed people in particular are offered employment opportunities.

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1. ↑ Hans Brangs:  Explanations and explanations of the corridor, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen , Solingen 1936
2. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
3. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Dittmaier : Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
4. ^ City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
5. ^ Topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district . Designed and executed according to the cadastral recordings and the same underlying and other trigonometric work by the Royal Government Secretary W. Werner. Edited by the royal government secretary FW Grube. 4th rev. Edition / published by A. Bagel in Wesel, 1859 / Ddf., Dec. 17, 1870. J. Emmerich, Landbaumeister. - Corrected after the ministerial amendments. Ddf. d. Sept. 1, 1871. Bruns.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836
7. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
11. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909
12. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Ittertal walk. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved December 11, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Solingen Monument List ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Solingen, July 1, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2016 (PDF, size: 129 kB). 
14. ↑ The Ittertal leisure facility website at maphira.de, accessed on December 11, 2016
15. ↑ Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke:  Solingen - Big City Years 1929-2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-8313-1459-4
16. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Lido Ittertal. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .