Obenflachsberg

Obenflachsberg City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 52 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	about 220 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location of Obenflachsberg in Solingen
Half-timbered houses in Obenflachsberg

Obenflachsberg is a residential area in the mountainous city ​​of Solingen .

geography

The Obenflachsberg farm is located immediately southeast of Unterflachsberg , south of Bergerbrühl and east of Focher Dahl in the Gräfrath district of Solingen . Obenflachsberg is located in a valley north of the center and west of the old brickworks commercial and industrial area, from which the federal road 224 separates the courtyard.

etymology

What the place name Flachsberg could be derived from has not been clearly established. A borrowing from the plant of the same name, i.e. the common flax , or the family name Flach is conceivable . An interpretation as a “flat mountain” is also conceivable.

history

One of the two farms in Flachsberg must have already existed in 1482, when a document from the Walder Church mentions an Isaak Weck zu Flachsberg who owes the church a pension. At that time, Obenflachsberg belonged to the Ketzberg honors within the Solingen office . In the map by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, only one farm called Flaxberg is recorded, which is located approximately at the level of Unterflachsberg. In the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the Prussian first survey of 1844 and in the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, both Flachsberger Höfe are recorded, of which only the southern one (Obenflachsberg) is referred to as Flachsberg . Around 1815, the old road from Vohwinkel via Gräfrath to Solingen was expanded into the Essen – Solingen provincial road, today's federal road 224.

After the Mairien and later mayor's offices were founded in the early 19th century, Obenflachsberg belonged to the Gräfrath mayor's office . In 1815/16, 218 people lived in the two Flachsberger Höfe, in 1830 there were already 258 people in the place known as the hamlet. The place was named on the Flachsberg at that time . In 1832 the Flachsberger Höfe were still part of the Honschaft (Ketz-) Berg within the Gräfrath mayor. The two Flachsberger Höfe, categorized as Hofstadt according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , owned a public building, 35 residential buildings, 18 factories or mills and 34 agricultural buildings in 1832. At that time, 246 residents lived in the village, 35 of them Catholic and 211 Protestant. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list 65 houses and 491 inhabitants for both places in 1871. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885, 61 houses with 377 inhabitants are given for Obenflachsberg. In 1895 the place had 59 houses with 349 inhabitants, in 1905 65 houses and 459 inhabitants are given.

Haribo factory on Obenflachsberg

In 1885, the company Dampf-Chocoladen & Zuckerwarenfabrik Gebr. Hillers was founded by the brothers Albert Hillers and Johann Wilhelm Hillers on Obenflachsberg. In later years, the company made a name for itself primarily with the production of peppermint candies. After economic difficulties, the company had to file for bankruptcy in 1974. Today the former company headquarters is a production site for Haribo , which took over the company after it went bankrupt.

In 1887 the Solingen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel railway line was laid past the site . With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Obenflachsberg became a district of Solingen. Of the many, partly verschieferten half-timbered houses that are in the top Flachsberg today, are under since 1984 six listed .

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6. ^ The communities and manor districts of the Rhine Province and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape XI , 1874, ZDB -ID 1467523-7 ( digitized ).
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