Ohligs

District Ohligs City of Solingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	August 1, 1929
Postcodes :	42697, 42699
Area code :	0212
Location of the Ohligs district in Solingen

Today, Ohligs is the most populous district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Solingen and with over 43,000 inhabitants a popular place to live and work on the Rhine between Düsseldorf and Cologne .

When they wanted to build a railway line between Haan-Gruiten and Cologne-Deutz in the 1860s , an optimal route was only possible through the Ohlig court. At that time, the Ohlig court belonged to the district of Solingen . An unused wasteland in Ohligs was chosen as the station location (today Solingen main station ). The commissioning of the station caused enormous economic growth in Ohligs. The economy developed so strongly that the local politicians at the time decided to rename the neighboring town of Merscheid Ohligs. The name was changed on August 11, 1891. By political resolution and against the will of the citizens of Ohlig, Ohligs was united with the cities of Graefrath , Höhscheid , Wald and Solingen to form the new city ​​of Solingen on August 1, 1929. Together with the urban districts Aufderhöhe and Merscheid , the most populous district of Solingen, Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid, was created .

Solingen main station in the Ohligs district (here the main entrance on the front)

Ohligs-Mitte (here Düsseldorfer Straße)

Ohligser local recreation area (here the Stiehlsteich)

Ohligser Hofschaft Maube

Ohligser Hofschaft Scharrenberg

geography

location

Ohligs is part of the Mittelberg plateau . The rocks consist mainly of Devonian slate , greywacke and sandstone . To the west, the district slopes down towards the Bergische Heideterrasse . Ohligs is about 100 meters above sea ​​level . The district is relatively flat and Solingen's lowest point is in the Ohligser Heide recreation area , 53 meters above sea level. The highest point of Ohligs is on the upper Hackhauser Straße at the location of today's parish church of St. Joseph. The district of Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid has a size of 21.86 km² .

Neighboring districts and cities

The cities of Haan in the north and Langenfeld in the southwest are directly connected to Ohligs. In the east it is the Solingen districts of Wald, Merscheid and Höhscheid, in the south it is the Solingen district of Aufderhöhe that is adjacent. The distance to Solingen city center is approx. 9 kilometers. The twin town of Ohligs in the northwest is the town of Hilden (approx. 57,000 inhabitants). Hilden and Ohligs have grown together to form a common urban space in the last few decades. The city limits can only be recognized by the different names of Landesstraße 85, which is called Walder Straße on the Hilden side of the city and in Ohligs Hildener Straße.

Hilden	Haan	Forest
Hilden		Merscheid
Langenfeld	At the height	Höhscheid

Ohligs is about 20 kilometers southeast of Düsseldorf and about 33 kilometers north of Cologne .

climate

Ohligs is located in the north-west of Germany's climatic area, whereby the maritime , subatlantic climate leads to normally warm summers and relatively mild winters. Influences of the local topography lead to different characteristics of the climate parameters temperature and precipitation . It often happens in winter that a few centimeters of fresh snow falls in Solingen-Gräfrath, which is much higher up , while it rains at the same time in the geographically deeper and shallower Ohligs. The annual mean temperature is 10.2 ° C.

Solingen
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J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     125   6th 1     102   8th 1     93   11 2     50   15th 4th     53   19th 8th     82   23 12     67   25th 13     85   24 13     76   20th 10     74   15th 7th     105   10 4th     113   8th 3 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source:

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Solingen Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 5.6 7.7 10.7 15.3 19.0 23.0 24.5 23.9 20.2 15.0 9.8 8.0 O 15.3 Min. Temperature (° C) 0.6 0.7 2.0 4.1 7.9 12.1 13.0 12.7 9.6 7.2 3.5 2.9 O 6.4 Temperature (° C) 3.1 4.1 6.3 9.8 13.5 17.6 18.7 18.1 14.5 10.9 6.7 5.5 O 10.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 125 102 93 50 53 82 67 85 76 74 105 113 Σ 1,025 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 5 5 4th 3 1 1 O 3.3 Rainy days ( d ) 21st 16 18th 15th 13 15th 14th 15th 15th 16 18th 20th Σ 196 Source:

Natural spaces

Ohligser Heide

Heathland (here the Ohligser Heide )

The 1.47 km² large Ohligser Heide was an unforested heathland until the middle of the 20th century. In the course of reforestation between 1877 and 1914, it is now the largest spruce forest in Solingen. Efforts have been made since 2002 to restore the heather to its original character. The current (pure) spruce forest is to be partially converted into a wet heather with birch , oak and beech trees to create a new biotope .

“Oaks and beeches belong in our region. It therefore makes sense that they replace the spruce stands. "

- Hartmut Hoferichter, Solingen City Director

Biologists, landscapers and forest managers extract non-local plant species and create new bodies of water. The Ohligser Heide has been registered with the European Union as a flora and fauna habitat since 1998 . Linked to this is the obligation to preserve both the typical plants and the animal species associated with them. The maintenance of the heathland is a permanent task, against this background moorland snouts are also used. The Moorschnucken eat grass and keep the meadows short. The restoration of the Ohligser Heide is funded 100% by the European Union and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is part of the “Atlantic Sand Landscapes” project. The heath is accessible by numerous cycle paths and is considered a nature reserve of special importance because of the species that occur there.

Hackhauser Forest

Hackhauser Wald (here Hackhausen Castle)

The Hackhauser Forest was named after the Hackhausen mill . This mill was already in operation around 1640 and no longer exists today. Immediately to the northwest of the mill was the old moated castle Hackhausen , which burned down in 1887 . Today the moated castle, which was restored in 1907, is used privately. The private property is not open to the public. The Hackhausen forest is now divided by Bonner Strasse (Landesstrasse 228). Bonner Strasse connects Ohligs with the Wiescheid district of Langenfeld .

Ittertal

Ohligser Ittertal (here the Caspersbroich Castle)

The Ittertal is an approx. 2 km wide and 10 km long valley area along the eponymous Itter stream . In the regional plan, this area is also referred to as the Solingen Bachtäler green belt . The Itter has several source streams in Solingen-Gräfrath and flows into the Rhine approx. 20 km further south-west near Düsseldorf-Benrath . During the years of industrialization, the valley was often built up from the edges, so that now only a relatively narrow but green strip remains on the valley floor. This strip represents a valuable connection between different biotopes, so that an exchange of flora and fauna between the valley of the Wupper and the Rhine is possible. Caspersbroich Castle, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is located east of the railway embankment in Ittertal . The main thoroughfare on the ridge is Weyerstraße, which connects Ohligs with the Wald district. The Stiehlsteich, a reservoir formerly created by the Accuride company (formerly Kronprinz), is located north of Weyerstrasse and is now very popular as a local recreation area. To the south of Weyerstraße, around Deusberger Straße, there is a housing estate that partly sloped heavily into the Lochbachtal and was built from 1895 onwards and expanded in the post-war period.

District description

The Solingen district of Ohligs is located on the Rhine between Düsseldorf and Cologne. The Ohligs population differentiates their district into Mitte, Unterland and Oberland.

Ohligs center

The main train station and the directly adjacent Düsseldorfer Straße today together form the urban center of Ohligs-Mitte. The axis between the main train station and Ohligser Marktplatz characterizes community life in the district today. As a pure pedestrian zone, the approximately 1 km long Düsseldorfer Straße has an almost closed residential area with numerous retail shops. The three-story houses from the time between the founding of the Reich in 1871 and the First World War in 1914 are particularly typical. Many listed factory owner's villas from this period are also located in Ohligs-Mitte, especially along Wilhelmstrasse. In many places, Ohligs-Mitte was able to retain its small-town flair due to the lack of destruction during the Second World War and despite various demolitions in the post-war period . A large part of Ohligs-Mitte, with its architecture, is now considered to be ideal for a small German town in the Wilhelminian style (1871-1914).

Ohligs-Unterland

The Unterland runs west of the main station to the city of Hilden and is bordered by the A3 motorway . Various residential areas characterize the lowlands, whose origins date back to the founding period around 1870. In the Unterland there is the Catholic St. Lukas Clinic, the public outdoor swimming pool Heide, Solingen's largest playground, the Engelsberger Hof, the Solingen bird and animal park on Hermann-Löns-Weg and the Ohligser Heide nature reserve.

Ohligs-Oberland

Ohligs-Oberland (here the Galileum Solingen )

The Oberland is the eastern part of Ohligs and extends from the main train station to Bebelallee. Today the Bebelallee forms the eastern border to the Solingen districts of Wald and Merscheid. The area to the east of the main train station has become much more attractive thanks to various new buildings, such as the Codecentric AG headquarters and the Galileum (observatory with planetarium). A 6000 m² hotel for the Ohligs district will be built on the back of Solingen's main train station by autumn 2022. As a hotel operator, Holiday Inn Express will run the establishment in the mid-price segment as a three-star hotel . The new hotel, which will have over 150 rooms, is to be built for around € 20,000,000. In addition, there are costs for the construction of a hotel forecourt by the city of Solingen. A 400 m² restaurant with outdoor seating is planned on the ground floor, which can also be used as a non-hotel guest. The new building runs in a V shape from the lower Steinstrasse / corner of Sauerbreystrasse and thus encompasses the rear of the Solingen main station. The hotel will have five floors and 54 parking spaces. The three-star hotel is being built by the project development company Hotel Solingen GmbH. The special feature: the new hotel building means that in future there will be direct access to the back of Solingen's main train station from Steinstraße. The hotel is aimed primarily at trade fair guests from Cologne and Düsseldorf.

A new development area of ​​around 10,000 m² is to be built by 2030 along Hansastraße in the east of Ohligs and is to be named Hansa-Quartier.

Residential quarters

Ohligser Hofschaft Engelsberg

There are many residential areas within Ohligs . Some of them are typical Bergische Hofschaften , the boundaries of which are not precisely defined. The following list contains the largest residential areas in Ohlig:

• Bahnhofsviertel, Brabant, Broßhaus, Buschfeld, Caspersbroich , Deusberg, Engelsberg , Engelsberger Hof, Hackhausen, Hansa-Quartier, Keusenhof, Kuckesberg, Kovelenberg, Mankhaus, Maubes , Monhofer Feld, Olbo-Park, O-Quartier, Poschheide , Scharrenberg, Schnittert, Suppenheide, Heimspiel settlement on Hermann-Löns-Weg, Wilzhaus, Verlach

Housing market

Solingen's westernmost district is becoming increasingly popular as a place to live. Families with children are more oriented towards the rural Aufderhöhe district , while many commuters and singles prefer Ohligs as their main residence due to the proximity to the Rhine. The very good transport connections through the main train station and the extensive range of retail outlets have led to an enormous demand for condominiums in Ohligs .

Currently (2020) the new building costs in Solingen are around 3500 euros per square meter. The Solingen city administration supports the construction of residential houses and has created a cadastre with possible building plots.

According to Haus & Grund Ohligs eV, up to 90 potential new tenants register for a vacant apartment in the districts of Ohligs and Aufderhöhe , while there are fewer than 10 interested parties for Solingen-Mitte . The cold rents in Ohligs are on average between 9 and 11 euros per square meter. According to real estate agents, the very strong demand for condominiums in the Solingen district of Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid will last as long as prices on the Rhine stagnate at a high level.

etymology

Etymologically , the origin of the word for Ohligs has not yet been scientifically clarified. Local researchers and historians disagree on the origin, meaning and distribution of the name Ohligs.

The oldest verifiable written mention of the place name Ohlig was discovered at the end of the Thirty Years War in a baptismal register from 1647 of the Protestant parish of Solingen-Wald . The former mayor of Ohligs, Paul Sauerbrey , represented the thesis:

“It is not possible to explain the origin of the name of our city perfectly. Historians have argued about this and will hardly come up with a historically sound explanation in the future either. As in many cases with the establishment of communities, in the case of our city, too, the name of a person will have been inherited and given the name to the first settlement. Since the name Ohliger is still represented in the area today, this assumption still has the appearance of a possibility. "

- Paul Sauerbrey, Mayor of Ohligs from 1922 to 1929

history

Beginnings to French occupation (around 1630–1808)

Map by Erich Philipp Ploennies : Individual farms (around 1715) in what was then the greater Solingen area

The area that today belongs to Ohligs was due to its dense forests and impassable terrain, presumably largely uninhabited until the 17th century . As in the entire region of the Bergisches Land , so-called single farm settlement with very few residents was initially common. The original core town of Ohligs probably emerged as a simple clearing settlement around the former Olligs-Hof from 1630 . The Olligs-Hof, which no longer exists today, stood on the lower Düsseldorfer Straße (today Café Italia 90) and had various stables and barns in the form of a few agricultural outbuildings at the junction to the Heiligenstock . The Olligs-Hof was mentioned as early as 1714 on a card that happened to be found in the archive of the former Ohligser Post. Some historians assume that the name Ohligs goes back to this old farm name Olligs-Hof . A short stretch of road between Eller and Bonner Strasse is now called Im Ohligs and is reminiscent of this old farm name. The Ohligs indigenous population , mostly simple farmers and craftsmen, have 100% self-sufficient .

The former clearing settlement of Ohligs developed over centuries into a small court between Düsseldorf and Cologne.

In addition to the Ohlig court, there were numerous others, such as Schnittert, Barl, Hüttenhaus or Maubes, whose centuries-old half-timbered houses still exist today and are listed . Around 1715 no settlement core had developed in the Ohligs area. The map by Erich Philipp Ploennies only shows various individual farms as well as isolated sanding cottages , which were mainly on the banks of Viehbach , Lochbach and Itterbach . The history of the Hackhauser Mühle can be traced back to the year 1639. The Broßhauser Mühle and the Scharrenberger Mühle am Viehbach were only mentioned in 1715. Of the total of 41 farms that gave the Deutzer Fronhof the field and bag tithe in 1788, 19 were in the area of ​​the later mayor of Merscheid / Ohligs. These were (today's spelling): Poschheide, Engelsberg, Untermankhaus, Scharrenberg, Wahnenkamp, ​​Suppenheide, Kullen, Rennpatt, Hüttenhaus, Bockstiege, Piepers, Ohligs, Scheidt, Potzhof, Brabant, Diepenbruch, Broßhaus, Kottendorf and Kuckesberg. The farms of Garzenhaus , Heipertz and Monhof had to deliver the fruit tithe.

All courts in the then greater Ohlig area were subordinate to the Duchy of Berg until the French occupation in 1808 .

French occupation (1808-1815)

From the French period (1808–1815), painting by Ernst Henseler

The Duchy of Berg was last owned by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph due to inheritance . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to the French Emperor Napoleon I in exchange for the Principality of Ansbach . Under Emperor Napoleon, the Duchy of Berg became a Grand Duchy and was completely secularized . Napoleon appointed Joachim Murat as the new Grand Duke, who by a decree of October 13, 1807 reorganized the municipal responsibilities in his Grand Duchy. The German nobility lost their possessions in Ohligser territory and in the course of a local reorganization of the local authority , a mairie was founded under the French occupation forces in 1808 , which was named the largest court at the time: Merscheid. The Ohligs settlement area was under Merscheid administration from 1808, which in terms of size and settlement density was even more important at that time than the neighboring small court of Ohlig, which had very few houses. The Mairie Merscheid emerged from the old five honors of the parish of Wald, namely Schnittert, Barl, Bavert, Limminghofen and Hackhausen. These five honors are still considered to be the Ohligs country of origin.

The French era ended with Napoleon's military defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Overall, the French occupation, which lasted only seven years in the greater Solingen area (1808–1815), was marked by few successes. Above all, there were no real supporters of the Francophone reform policy in the Bergisch population, unlike in the areas on the left bank of the Rhine (Aachen, Cologne, Bonn) where the French period lasted about twenty years. The German landed gentry remained critical because of the inadequate agricultural policy, the clergy lost massive amounts of authority due to the secularization and the introduction of the separation of powers, and the merchants' guild , which actually had to benefit most from the liberal economic reforms, was replaced by the Napoleonic wars and the resulting collapse of sales markets abroad weakened rather than strengthened. The bulk of the Solingen population (over 90%), especially the simple farmers and artisans, suffered the most from the French reprisals , and the precarious families in particular suffered the consequences of the forced recruitment by the Grande Armée .

Under Merscheid administration (1815-1891)

In 1815 the Mairie became a Prussian mayor's office . The then new mayor's office Merscheid became part of the Solingen district within the Düsseldorf administrative district . The original cadastre from 1830 shows clear settlement core formations for Ohligs and even more so for Merscheid. Around 1830, a real village structure had already formed in Merscheid, where around 3,500 people lived at that time. At the beginning of the 1830s, with fewer than 500 inhabitants, Ohlig's court was rather sparsely populated and purely agricultural. Weyerstraße, which connects Ohligs with the city of Wald, became the preferred residential area from 1840 and quickly became the center of community life. The mayors of Merscheids also had their official seat there. From 1817 to 1848 the mayorships of Wald and Merscheid were also administered in personal union. In this way, the cost of the mayor's salary could be shared.

First Merscheid parish hall at Weyerstraße 75 (built in 1868)

The mayor's office of Merscheid was granted city rights on September 24, 1856 as part of the Prussian city order .

When the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft wanted to build a railway line between Haan-Gruiten and Cologne-Deutz , an optimal route was only possible through the Ohligs settlement area. Many surrounding courts had to give way for the construction of the embankment required for this. The former courts of Kullen and Kulltappen serve as an example. An unused wasteland belonging to the Ohlig court was chosen as the station location. The then new station was officially put into operation on September 25, 1867 under the name Ohligs-Wald station . At that time, Ohligs-Wald station was the first station in the greater Solingen area. In 1867, a branch line was built from Ohligs to Solingen-Mitte to the Weyersberg train station. The connection to the railway network resulted in above-average economic growth in the Ohlig court. The location west of the train station quickly became the preferred settlement area from the 1870s onwards, with retail and residential developments becoming more and more densely populated.

In order to set up a weekly market , the Merscheid city administration bought a piece of land on Aachener Strasse in 1866, which is now used as Ohligs market square. In 1868 a town hall was built above the Engelsberg court. It was used by the then mayor Kelders until 1876. Around 1875 a local statute was issued that provided for the establishment of alignment plans.

The railway line separated Ohligs into two parts, the Oberland in the east and the Unterland in the west. So that it was still possible to cross the line, the railway erected a cable bridge 48 meters long and 1.50 meters wide at the level of the station in 1878. This rope bridge was too narrow for the mass of pedestrians and the stairs too steep. In 1884 a new stone bridge was built, which was now 2.05 meters wide and was popularly known as the Jammer Bridge , as it was also insufficient for the traffic. Despite protests from the population, the bridge remained standing. It was later rebuilt as a concrete bridge and has been called the Berliner Brücke ever since. After the construction of the corkscrew railway, the city of Wald received its own station in 1890, the then new Wald station. The addition of the forest name was dropped in Ohligs and the station was officially called Bahnhof Ohligs from 1880 to 1929 . In 1890 Ohligs was connected to the telephone network.

The Catholic parish in Ohligs has its origins around 1850 and had less than 100 parishioners. At that time the Catholics in Ohligs still belonged to the parish of St. Katharina in Wald. From 1862 to 1891 there was also a Catholic church on Hackhauser Strasse which was demolished for lack of space. At the beginning of the 1890s, the Catholic community in Ohligs already had over 700 members. For this reason, the current parish church of St. Joseph was built from 1891 to 1893, on Ohlig's highest geographical elevation, on the upper Hackhauser Strasse . On March 19, 1893, the pastor at the time, Joseph Joisten, officially blessed and consecrated the church. The Catholic church was built in the brick Gothic style with five portals. The church, which by the way shares house number “4” with Cologne Cathedral , is today the “landmark of Ohligs” with its 27 meter high bell tower.

The Catholic parishes of St. Joseph (Ohligs), St. Katharina (Wald), St. Mary's Conception (Merscheid) and Liebfrauen (Aufderhöhe) united on January 1, 2019 to form the new Catholic parish of St. Sebastian. With over 16,000 parishioners, St. Sebastian is the largest Catholic parish in Solingen. The administration and the seat of the leading pastor Meinrad Funke (responsible for all Catholics in Solingen-West) is at Hackhauser Straße 10 in Ohligs.

The first Protestant parish was founded in Ohligs around 1860. Under the direction of the Hilden church builder, Gogarten, the first Protestant church was built in Ohligs between 1865 and 1866, today's Protestant town church on Wittenbergstrasse. On August 15, 1866, the Lutherans from Ohlig inaugurated their church on Wittenbergstrasse. The Protestant town church is over 150 years old and is the oldest church in Ohligs. In 1887 a Protestant cemetery was established west of Bonner Strasse, which was expanded in 1896 and 1907.

City of Ohligs (1891–1929)

Ohligs, with its neighboring communities (within the limits until 1929)

Loan for 50,000 marks from the city of Ohligs, signed by Mayor Paul Sauerbrey (1923)

The eminent population growth and the resulting financial strength of Ohligs became so strong in relation to Merscheid that it was decided on August 11, 1891 to rename the directly adjacent town of Merscheid Ohligs. In the same year, a new town hall was inaugurated at today's Merscheider Straße 3, which was clearly oriented towards the Ohligser train station and was occupied by the then mayor Paul Martin Trommershausen (1889–1903). At that time Merscheid had long since lost its importance to Ohligs. The then new small town of Ohlig was, during the Wilhelminism period (1890–1914), the fastest growing economic center in the district of Solingen. In the course of renewed border corrections between Wald and Ohligs, Ohligs ceded the Hofschaft Tiefendick and Scheuer to Wald in 1893/1894 . It can no longer be proven today whether Ohligs received the Krausen von Wald estate in return . On January 3, 1894, the Düsseldorf – Hilden – Ohligs line went into operation, making the station in Ohligs a crossing station .

Since it was renamed in 1891, Ohligs has become increasingly popular as a place to live and work. Private construction activity, especially in the Ohligser Unterland, did not stop, it grew every year. This is also made clear by the population of Ohligs, which rose by 22% between 1871 and 1910. At that time, the core area of ​​Ohligs was very densely populated with retail stores and residential developments. As early as 1910, the Ohligser city center had an almost closed development with three-storey buildings. In the high phase of Ohligs urban development (until 1929), the following public facilities were built: In 1895 a district court was built next to the Ohligs town hall , a slaughterhouse was opened on Hildener Straße and in 1897 the first hospital in Ohligs urban area was opened on Virchowstraße . From 1904 the Ohligser Festhalle on Talstraße served as the large assembly hall, which is still there today under the name Reyna Event Center .

Over the years, an urban area was formed, which was bordered by the Ohligser Heide in the west and the railway line in the east. The courts in the outlying districts (Barl, Maubes, Schnittert, Keusenhof, Wilzhaus and Kovelenberg) remained partially impassable and were sparsely populated. Overall, there was no clear separation between living and retail; mixed areas were predominantly formed. In 1910 there were ten practicing general practitioners in Ohligs, one eye - and one veterinarian . In 1912 a total of three pharmacies were licensed in the city. In 1920 an adult education center was founded in Ohligs and in 1923 the new forest cemetery was opened on today's Hermann-Löns-Weg.

City association until the Nazi seizure of power (1929–1933)

In 1928 the foundation stone for a public indoor swimming pool was laid on what was then Rathausstrasse (today Sauerbreystrasse). At that time, the planning for a new Bergische city was well advanced. The strongest opponent of a Bergisch metropolis had been the citizens of Ohligs. Due to the enormous economic power, Ohligs citizens and politicians fought together to maintain independence. At this point in time, at the end of the 1920s, the majority of the Ohligs urban society felt connected to the Rhine route; very few Ohligser saw themselves as Bergisch citizens .

Historically and culturally, Ohligs has always been a Rhenish outpost on the edge of the Bergisches Land. The very strong orientation of the citizens of Ohlig towards the Rhine and a possible city union of Ohligs with the cities of Hilden, Haan and the municipality of Richrath-Reusrath (today Langenfeld) to a new Rhenish city, was the more attractive solution for many Ohligs. The struggle under the leadership of the Social Democratic Mayor Paul Sauerbrey, who was against the merger all his life, was ultimately in vain. The Prussian Parliament decided on 10 July 1929 in Berlin with 210 Yes to 167 votes against with 73 abstentions the cities association. With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of ​​July 29, 1929, the town union of Ohligs with Gräfrath, Höhscheid, Wald and Solingen was officially and unchangeably decided. Solingen was chosen as the name of the then new German city. Even decades later, many (old) people from Ohlig were still talking about a forced union and never saw themselves as Solingen.

"May all work work for the benefit of the Ohligs population, and may they continue to strive to take their due place in the future city of Solingen."

- Paul Sauerbrey, Ohlig's last mayor, after the city union with Solingen in 1929

During the time of National Socialism (1933–1945)

Stolperstein by Paul Steeg at Düsseldorfer Str. 35

After Adolf Hitler came to power and was appointed the new Reich Chancellor , on February 7, 1933, violent clashes broke out between Communists and National Socialists in Ohligs. The first so-called protective prisoners were imprisoned in the Solingen police prison and in the Ohligs district court. The outdoor swimming pool in Aufderhöhe, also known as the Red Sea , built by working-class athletes, was renamed Horst-Wessel-Bad in 1933 . On May 21, 1936, Joseph Goebbels opened the new Reichsautobahn Cologne-Düsseldorf (today A3 ), which runs at the level of Ohligser Heide over Solingen's urban area.

In the evening hours of November 9, 1938 , there were targeted attacks on Jewish citizens throughout Solingen, including in Ohligs. That evening, the apartment of the well-known Ohligs merchant Paul Steeg, who had a department store called Zentral-Basar on Düsseldorfer Strasse 35 until 1933 , was looted. After a right-wing mob stormed the apartment, the Steeg couple were forbidden to re-enter their apartment. That same night, the Steeg couple fled to Cologne-Neuehrenfeld , where Paul Steeg died of heart failure on November 11, 1938, in the Jewish Asylum at Ottostraße 85. He was only 64 years old. The Nazi perpetrators involved in the looting of the apartment were never identified. In 1940 the first Ohligs air defense tower was completed on Wittenbergstrasse. The Protestant parish of Ohligs had to provide a piece of the old cemetery free of charge for the construction of the tower. The air defense tower was at the Wittenbergstrasse-Parkstrasse junction. The Humboldt Gymnasium on the Ohligs district boundary was relocated to Thuringia in 1942 with the exception of three classes . The school building then served the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht until the end of the war in April 1945 .

Burial of the 71 murdered people from Wenzelnberg in front of the old Ohligser Rathaus (May 1, 1945)

On April 13, 1945, three days before the Americans marched into Ohligs, a killing squad consisting of the Gestapo and SS murdered 71 men from Remscheid and Wuppertal (not from Solingen) at Wenzelnberg in Langenfeld-Wiescheid . According to official information, the men were tied up there in pairs and shot in the neck . Locals also spoke of unshot men who fell tied up in the pit and were buried alive. The officer in charge and head of the firing squad was the then lawyer and SS-Hauptsturmführer Theodor Goeke (reported missing or declared dead since 1945)

The 303rd US Infantry Regiment reached the west of Solingen on April 16, 1945 and liberated Ohligs from the Nazi dictatorship. At the end of April 1945, American soldiers had the bodies of Wenzelnberg exhumed and buried on May 1, 1945 on the square in front of the Ohligser Rathaus. The population was obliged to take part in the funeral service, around 3000 people took part in the funeral service when specifically requested. It was not until 1965 that the corpses were exhumed again and buried again at Wenzelnberg, where a memorial has been located ever since. In total, over 5,000 Solingen citizens died in World War II (1939 to 1945) as a result of acts of war and / or the Nazi dictatorship.

Post-war period (1945 to 1970)

The spherical gas tank on Walter-Horn-Weg under construction (1957)

During the Second World War , the Ohligs district was largely spared from the bombs of the Allies . Major structural changes, in particular through various new buildings, only brought about the post-war period. Even streets that were previously only loosely built on were densely built, such as Deusberger Strasse and Bonner Strasse. In 1950, the large round bunker on Keldersstraße was demolished from the inside so that a new office building with a pastry shop and roof garden could be built. A new hospital was completed on upper Schwanenstrasse in 1962, the Catholic St. Lukas Clinic. In 1967 the old Ohligser train station was demolished and replaced by a modern, simple new building in the same place.

District development (1970 to 2006)

In 1970 the Ohligs bus station was massively enlarged. As a result of this construction work, the well-known iron house had to give way. Ohligs received a completely new traffic concept. In 1975, Düsseldorfer Straße was converted into a purely pedestrian zone , from now on Talstraße led traffic from east to west and Hackhauser Straße became a one-way street . As part of the preparations for an S-Bahn service on the Düsseldorf – Solingen line , the Solingen Vogelpark stop was built on Hildener Strasse, which was inaugurated in 1977. The 68 million D-Mark wastewater treatment plant on the city limits of Hilden was completed in 1997, and in the same year the 60,000 D-Mark historical Persil clock was officially inaugurated on Ohligser Marktplatz.

Modernization of the station district (2006 to 2019)

As a result of the Regionale 2006 , the station forecourt in Ohligs was completely redesigned. The following construction measures were implemented: Entrances to the main train station were converted to be barrier-free , the taxi rank was relocated by 50 meters to enable direct access to the upper Düsseldorfer Straße, the Bremsheyplatz was redesigned by demolishing the old fountains and installing a designer bench made of hardwood, and equipping the station underpass with a new color and light concept and a new multi-storey car park with 200 parking spaces. As part of the modernization offensive 2, an investment program by Deutsche Bahn AG , the reception building was renovated with energy-saving measures. All platforms were raised to a height of 76 centimeters and lengthened to 430 meters. The roofs of platforms 1, 3 and 8 were demolished and replaced by new buildings. The total construction costs amounted to around 9.5 million euros.

After the closure of the old main station in Solingen-Mitte, the Ohligser station was officially named Solingen's new main station on December 10, 2006 by Deutsche Bahn AG .

Redesign of Düsseldorfer Straße (since 2020)

One of the oldest streets in Ohligs is Düsseldorfer Straße. The road location around the then newly opened train station became a very popular residential area from the 1870s. As part of the former Löhdorfer Chaussee or Löhdorfer Kunststraße, today's Düsseldorfer Straße was given the name of the next city to the west: Düsseldorf. In a census in 1900, there were already 91 houses with 726 residents on Düsseldorfer Strasse. Until the 1960s, a tram drove on Düsseldorfer Strasse, which was converted into a purely pedestrian zone in 1975 . Today Düsseldorfer Straße is the longest connected shopping street in Solingen and the largest retail location in the Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district; it is also known as Dü for short in the Ohligser vernacular . The approximately 1 km long Düsseldorfer Straße, which goes from the main train station to Ohligser Marktplatz, is predominantly characterized by owner-managed retail stores. Today the restored house facades form a historical ensemble of grown urban structures from the early days .

By spring 2022, Düsseldorfer Straße will be modernized based on the ideas of a planning competition. The Ohligser shopping mile will be paved with a light concrete block and water-permeable joints , the current tree population will be renewed and adapted to the local conditions, at night the Düsseldorfer Straße will be re-lit with energy-saving LED street lighting. The Solingen city administration is investing approx. 4.8 million euros in the modernization of the Dü . The city's own contribution to the modernization measure amounts to 600,000 euros. In addition, Düsseldorfer Straße is always the main venue of Solingen's largest folk festival, the Ohligser Dürpelfest, in May.

Italian migration

Former Italian guest workers during German lessons (1962)

One of the largest Italian communities ( Comunità Italiana ) in Germany has formed in Ohligs .

On the basis of the German-Italian recruitment agreement concluded in 1955, a large number of Italians came to Ohligs from 1958 onwards. Almost all of the young guest workers at the time came from the northern Sicilian village of Trappeto . Over 70% of the residents of Trappeto emigrated to Ohligs. The demand for labor was so strong in the 1960s that z. B. Ohligs industrial companies OLBO and Gerling had their own recruiting offices in Trappeto. Most of the Italians in Ohligs live on Lennestrasse (near Ohligser Marktplatz), this street is also called Klein Napoli in Ohligs vernacular . In terms of the proportion of the population, Solingen is the third largest Italian city in Germany . According to the Solingen city administration, almost 6,000 Italian citizens live in Solingen.

"Families who once came from the Sicilian Trappeto and the surrounding areas are now living here in the third generation and have become real Solingen."

- Michael Morsbach, Chairman of the German-Italian Friendship Association

Demographics

Population forecast until 2040

On December 31, 2018, 43,063 people officially had a registered main residence in the entire city ​​district (Ohligs, Aufderhöhe and Merscheid together) .

Since the beginning of the 2010s, there has been a strong influx of young families from the Düsseldorf area (especially from Haan and Hilden), which is reflected in the moderately rising property prices in the city district. In 2018, 12,233 people from Ohligs had a migration background. The largest group of migrants are Ohligser of Italian origin. In the long term, according to the Solingen city administration, it can be assumed that the Ohligs population will grow. The statistics office of the city of Solingen expects an increase of at least 1,650 people for the west of Solingen by 2040. All figures are based on current data from the Solingen population register. The software used has established itself as a standard program especially for municipalities. This database is more precise and has proven to be more reliable than that of the IT.NRW regional office .

Population development and number of houses (1715 to 2019)

year	population	Number of houses	Urban space
1715	approx. 30 (average number of residents in a clearing settlement)	Max. 5	Olligs-Hof
1808	approx. 2,500 (under French occupation)		Mairie Merscheid
1827	3.814	530	Mayor of Merscheid
1843	5,221		Mayor of Merscheid
1871	8,772	1,245	City of Merscheid
1885	12,646	1,765	City of Merscheid
1895	17,048	2,107	City of Ohligs
1905	24,257	2,746	City of Ohligs
1929	29,768 (population of Ohligs at the time of the city union with Solingen)		City of Ohligs
1939	32,024		Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district
1946	35,393 (first count after the end of the war )		Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district
1961	37,227	4,466	Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district
2018	43,063		Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district

Local politics

District representation Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid

Allocation of seats in the
Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district council since 2014

      

A total of 15 seats

• Left : 1
• SPD : 4
• Greens : 2
• FDP : 1
• BfS : 1
• CDU : 6

The Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district council is the most important political body for Ohligs. The members of this representation are called district representatives and are elected for a period of five years (duration of one legislative period ). The chairman of a district council is the district mayor . The district council is the directly elected body that represents the public interest of the residents of a city district. Its task is to preserve and develop the uniqueness of the district and its parts of the area, as well as to record and promote the wishes and interests of its residents. The district council deals with public affairs of the local community, the importance of which does not extend significantly beyond the city district. Details result from the municipal code of North Rhine-Westphalia and the main statute of the city of Solingen. The district council is responsible for certain tasks of the district and has the right to be heard on all relevant matters in the city district. For example, it takes care of matters relating to road traffic , the school system and the maintenance of the townscape in the district and acts as a local interface between the council, the city administration and the citizens. The meetings of the district council of Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid are usually public. The district council usually meets at Bonner Straße 100 in Ohligs (former Solvay building). In agreement with the district mayor, the meetings can generally be interrupted so that residents can present their concerns personally. The district council was last elected on May 25, 2014 by the district electorate. The current legislative period for the Ohligs / Aufderhöhe / Merscheid district council is six years and ends on September 13, 2020.

The next election for the new district council is scheduled for September 13, 2020. There will be no 2.5% threshold for small parties or individual applicants. The future legislative period will run from 2020 to 2025.

District Mayor

• 2014 – today: Marc Westkämper ( CDU ) (District Mayor)
• 2014 – today: Juliane Hilbricht ( Greens-Open List ) (1st Deputy District Mayor)
• 2014 – today: Axel Schultz ( SPD ) (2nd Deputy District Mayor)

Seal of the city of Ohligs (1896 to 1929)

Mayor of the former city (1889 to 1929)

The following politicians held the office of mayor :

• Paul Martin Trommershausen (1889–1903)
• Karl Czettritz (1903–1920)
• Erich vom Bruch (acting 1920–1921)
• Wilhelm Langhans (provisional 1921–1922)
• Paul Sauerbrey (1922-1929)

From October 1, 1920, the administrative business was initially led by the alderman Erich vom Bruch . However, he was elected mayor of Leer (East Friesland) and retired on November 20, 1920. After this, until 1921, the councilor quantity led the official business provisionally. In 1921 Wilhelm Langhans was elected as the new alderman for Ohligs. At this time the mayor's position was vacant, so Langhans took office as a representative of the township until Paul Sauerbrey took office in 1922.

Ohligs city coat of arms

Ohligs city coat of arms (since 1896)

In 1896, Kaiser Wilhelm II approved the Ohligs city coat of arms, which is still valid today.

The city of Ohligs asked for permission to use a city ​​coat of arms in 1891 , after different seals had been in use since 1833 . A first draft with three fields, showing a black- winged wheel , a Bergisch lion and seven silver stars as well as a three-tower wall crown above it and was in the colors gold , red and blue , was made by Wilhelm II as well as by the royal Prussian heraldry rejected in Berlin due to the inclusion of the mountain lion and the design of the wall. Two more drafts were submitted, the second of which was approved by the emperor. This coat of arms, shown on the right, was officially awarded to the city of Ohligs in 1896.

Blazon : The city coat of arms bears in a Gothic shield, split in blue and gold, seven silver stars in the ratio 2: 2: 2: 1 in front and a black impeller in the back. The upper coat of arms shows a red crenellated city wall with a closed gate and three towers.

Description: The seven stars represent the number of courtyards from which the city once emerged. The impeller symbolizes the importance of the station for Ohligs with its connection to the railroad . The city wall with the closed gate and three towers identify Ohligs as a small town.

Regular events

Cultural festivities take place in Ohligs every year. The following list only shows the largest events in the district:

OTV Carnival Party

On the last Saturday before Carnival Monday greatest place on Schützenplatz Solingen in the OTV-hall Carnival Party instead. The party is organized by the Ohligser sports club OTV 88 . Every year up to 2,000 visitors (mostly in costumes) celebrate Carnival with live music.

The next OTV Carnival Party will take place on February 13, 2021.

Dürpfest

The Dürpelfest , in Solingen popularly also briefly Dürpel called, is far beyond the borders of the city of blades known and also has the small Ohligser street festival (1975) for the most open-air event developed in the Bergisch city triangle. Every year over 100,000 people visit the Dürpelfest in Ohligs-Mitte on three days.

"It's unbelievable how many thousands of people visit little Ohligs at once."

- Gloria Göllmann, Dürpelfest project manager of the Ohligser advertising and interest group

The Ohligser Advertising and Interest Group e. V. (OWG) organizes the Dürpelfest on its own, bears overall responsibility and has the right to sit . The Dürpelfest always takes place on a May weekend in Ohligs-Mitte. The open-air event extends from the main train station, across the pedestrian zone (Düsseldorfer Straße) and in the side streets to the market square, where a fair with various rides is offered. In recent years the Dürpelfest has developed into an urban music festival for the Düsseldorf region with its colorful music program ranging from Schlager to reggae to cover rock . Many people from Solingen, but also more and more visitors from the Düsseldorf area , appreciate the live music that is played free of charge on five different stages. The Dürpelfest became known nationwide, especially through the live performances of the Düsseldorf cover band Der letzte Schrei .

The 46th Dürpelfest will take place from May 28th to May 30th, 2021.

Pub Friday

The Ohligser “Pub Friday ” always takes place on the last Friday of the summer holidays . Over 15 catering establishments (pubs, clubs, restaurants, cafés and bistros) from Ohligs will be equipped with flags that indicate a music event. From the Kamper to the Düsseldorfer to the Bonner Straße, music, activities and special culinary delights await visitors. The music program consists of a variety of live music and DJs who play in the participating locations . The pub Friday is organized by the Ohligser Jongens e. V.

The next Ohligs Pub Friday will take place on August 13, 2021.

Christmas thicket

A Christmas market called Christmas Dürpel always takes place in December in the district park on Wittenbergstrasse. The park on Wittenbergstrasse will then be converted into a Christmas village with 24 wooden huts decorated for Christmas, where culinary and hand-made Advent arrangements are offered.

Sports, customs and leisure opportunities

Logo from the Galileum Solingen

The planetarium on Walter-Horn-Weg in Ohligs

Solingen bird and animal park on Hermann-Löns-Weg

Sports

OTV 88 is the sports club in Ohligs with the largest number of members and currently offers nine sports with its own hall on Schützenplatz (badminton, handball, canoeing, chess, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, gymnastics and volleyball).

"Galileum" planetarium

The Galileum Solingen is the only planetarium in the world that was built in a disused spherical gas container . The construction of the planetarium was carried out by the Walter Horn Society. V. , the supporting association of the Solingen observatory , planned and carried out. The location is at Walter-Horn-Weg 1 below the Solingen main station. For the new Galileum, an old spherical gas tank from the Solingen municipal utility was converted. An additional observatory was placed in a new building next to it. A hemispherical screen was hung in the former spherical gas container, on which one can view the universe through images from projectors. The projection dome comes from the USA, the control projector from Japan and the video technology from France. The Walter Horn Society contributed 20% of the total costs, which was funded from donations, sponsorship money and direct funds from the association. For the other 80% of the construction costs, funds from the funding of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the urban redevelopment area Ohligs-Ost were used. The planetarium can accommodate over 80 visitors. From the foyer on the ground floor to the observatory on the top floor, everything revolves around the subject of stars and space.

"Space with its endless expanses can be experienced in the new Galileum Solingen."

- Dr. Frank Lungenstraß, treasurer of the Walter Horn Society

Ohligser Jongens e. V.

The Ohligser Jongens e. V. is a homeland association founded in 2014 . As a non-profit and non-partisan association, the Jongens actively participate in the development of the district in Ohligs. The abbreviation OLX (for Ohligs), which is very common in the district, goes back to an initiative of the Ohligser Jongens. The Jongens also support numerous charitable causes, including a. award the Paul Sauerbrey Prize for special commitment in the district.

Prinzengarde Blau-Gelb Solingen-Ohligs 1936 eV

The Prinzengarde Blau-Gelb Solingen- Ohlig has been firmly anchored in Ohlig's customs since 1936. The Prinzengarde is the largest carnival club in Ohligs, which has regularly organized large gala meetings in the Ohligser Festhalle since 1953. The first three Solingen prince couples (1949-1951) were provided by this society. In 1952 the association was awarded the title "Prinzengarde" for its services to the Solingen Carnival. Traditionally, the Hoppeditz is awakened by the Prinzengarde at the opening of the session on the eleventh . Since 2008, the company has been holding the 111-day festival on July 23rd (111 days until November 11th), which is unique in the world and is now known nationwide.

Economy and Infrastructure

Ohligs industrial history

Grinder in the Middle Ages at work

Brakehey & Co. logo (around 1908)

The largest industry in Ohligs has been the manufacture of cutlery since the Middle Ages . As early as 1715 there were 15 grinding cabins and a hammer mill in the courts of Ohligs and Merscheid alone . At the end of the 19th century, the cutlery industry in Ohligs was so large that other industries were practically insignificant. In addition to the cutlery industry, only the retail trade in Ohligs was able to establish itself as an economic factor. After the founding of the empire in the 1870s, large industrial companies also settled in Ohligs. These included Gerling, which in the 1970s was the largest pocket knife manufacturer in Germany with 470 employees , and the textile company Olbo, which still employed almost 500 workers in the 1980s.

The Bremshey company in Ohlig was also one of the most important companies in the west of Solingen. With her most famous product, the collapsible umbrella , which has become known under the brand name Knirps , she achieved worldwide fame. In 1972 the company still had almost 3,000 employees. After financial bottlenecks around 1980, the company initially drastically reduced its workforce before it was completely dissolved in 1982.

Due to globalization , large industrial companies with more than 100 employees are now the absolute exception in Ohligs. Many companies have relocated their technical production to low-wage countries . Most of those companies drastically reduced their number of employees in the late 1990s. The decline was also accelerated by insufficiently suitable commercial space in the west of Solingen.

Monhofer Feld industrial park

The Monhofer Feld industrial park is located in the north of Ohlig. The Monhofer Feld in Ohligs is Solingen's only commercial area with a rail connection. Two companies in the cutlery industry are currently based in Monhofer Feld, and two more will set up company locations there by 2025.

IT service provider

Since the turn of the millennium, Ohligs has become increasingly popular as an IT start-up location. A location advantage that Ohligs has over the other parts of Solingen is the direct Rhine rail connection between Düsseldorf and Cologne. In addition, the favorable real estate prices, compared to the nearby metropolises on the Rhine, encourage start- ups in the Ohligs district. The Bahnhofsviertel in Ohligs-Mitte is increasingly becoming a center for software development . The software companies Codecentric AG , Instana and WebID Solutions have their branches there or build them there. Codecentric AG completed its new corporate headquarters on Hochstrasse in 2016. Codecentric has 15 locations in Europe and currently employs over 400 people. The new German branch of the US software company Instana will open on Ohligser Prinzenstraße in summer 2021. Currently (2020) the software developers at Instana employ over 170 people worldwide. As soon as the branch with 5,000 m² of usable space is completed, at least 70 employees will work at the Ohligs site in the initial phase. The Berlin IT service provider WebID Solutions has established a branch for online personal identification directly at Solingen's main train station. WebID Solutions is a leader in Europe with its "face recognition" process. These IT service providers have not only created completely new jobs in Ohligs, they are also making the business location Ohligs more and more popular in the German startup scene .

Companies with at least 100 employees

The following table only contains the larger Ohligs companies that have at least 100 employees. The numerous small family businesses , some of which have been based in the west of Solingen for decades , which have fewer than 100 employees but are nevertheless of major importance for the Ohligs economy, remain unnamed . The owner-managed specialty stores in the retail sector are exemplary for the business location Ohligs. In the table, additions to names or legal forms have been omitted:

Companies	Branch	Number of employees (rounded)
Accuride	Automotive supplier	500
Adient	Automotive supplier	220
Borbet	Automotive supplier	600
BSS Bohnenberg	Logistics outfitter	120
Codecentric	Software developer	400
Instana	Software developer	170
Saint Luke Clinic	Medical supplies	700
WebID Solutions	Fintech	450

Ohligser Advertising and Interest Group e. V. (OWG)

The Ohligser Advertising and Interest Group e. V. (OWG) was founded in 1965 by Ohligser business people. The OWG is the strongest trading community in Solingen. The interest group represents owner-managed retail, craft and service companies from the Ohligs district. The main tasks of the OWG include a. the conception of marketing measures for the Ohligs retail trade, as well as the planning and organization of the annual Dürpelfest in May.

Ohligser Real Estate and Location Association e. V. (ISG)

In 2013, Ohligser property owners and traders who all own a house or a business on Düsseldorfer Straße founded the property and location community (ISG). The aim of ISG is to further expand Düsseldorfer Straße as the largest shopping mile in the west of Solingen and to increase the quality of stay. An immediate program for more cleanliness and better public relations has been implemented since 2018. By 2023, among other things: All business entrances on Düsseldorfer Straße will be made barrier-free and a completely new lighting concept will illuminate Düsseldorfer Straße better at night.

"In five years, Ohligs will shine."

- Jörg Bergmann, board member of the Ohligser real estate and location association (ISG)

Sparkasse am Marktplatz (2021)

A completely new Sparkasse branch is being built in the former Globus house on lower Düsseldorfer Strasse in the Ohligs district. At the new location, which will be directly on the Ohligser Marktplatz, there is also a new Rewe supermarket and a new bakery branch. The new supermarket alone will have a sales area of ​​over 2,100 m ² . The supermarket and the bakery branch will be on the ground floor, as will the new Sparkasse branch with ATMs, bank statement printers and counter service with staff. On the upper floor there will be consulting rooms for savings bank customers and a large conference room that can also be used by Ohligser associations. As a property owner, Solinger Sparkasse is investing around 20 million euros in the new location on Ohligser Marktplatz.

The two old Ohligser Sparkasse branches (Grünstraße and Bremsheyplatz) will be closed in 2021. The future branch on Ohligser Marktplatz will be the largest Sparkasse branch in Solingen after the main branch in Solingen-Mitte. An underground car park with over 90 parking spaces serves as a parking facility for customers and employees. The future Sparkassen-Rewe-Haus is scheduled to open in February 2021.

"We are planning a modern office that extends over two floors."

- Stefan Grunwald (CEO of the Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen)

O-Quartier in Ohligs-Mitte (2022)

Since autumn 2019, a completely new residential district called O-Quartier has been built directly on Ohligser Marktplatz. With over 300 new apartments, the O-Quartier will be the largest new building district in Ohligs-Mitte. The new residential area has a size of 15,800 m² and includes the former premises of the Ohligser linen and cotton weaving mill Olbo. A new pedestrian boulevard will be built for the O-Quartier between Heiligenstock and Aachener Straße. Three new playgrounds and two new commercial areas will also be part of the O-Quartier. The Berlin construction company Kondor Wessels is investing at least 80 million euros in the Ohligs real estate project. Two new underground car parks with over 280 parking spaces are to serve as parking facilities . There will also be more than 600 spaces for bicycles. In the end, 23,000 m² of new living space for up to 700 new residents will be created in Ohligs. The O-Quartier is to be completed in summer 2022. Kondor Wessels is also investing in the upgrading of the Ohligs marketplace that has been demanded for years. The Berlin construction investor assured that it would take over the grant of 250,000 euros.

Ohlig's current

The oldest Ohligser newspaper that still exists today is the monthly newspaper Ohligs Aktuell . This district newspaper appears as a local edition of the Solinger Tageblatt , always on the last Saturday of the month. The newspaper is distributed in Ohligs and the neighboring districts with a circulation of over 20,000 copies. Since 1982 events in Ohligs have been intensively edited. It is distributed free of charge to almost all households in the distribution area.

Public facilities

St. Luke's Clinic

The Catholic St. Lukas Clinic, which is currently operated by the Kplus Group , has been located in the middle of the Ohligser Heide on Upper Schwanenstrasse since 1962 . The 345-bed clinic is the second largest hospital in Solingen after the municipal clinic . The Catholic St. Lukas Clinic has been continuously expanded and modernized since the 2000s. Today the clinic has a nationally renowned stroke center .

fire Department

Old fire and rescue station 2 on Brunnenstrasse in Ohligs

Sleeve badge of the Solingen professional fire brigade

Fire and Rescue Station 2 is on Brunnenstrasse in the Ohligser Oberland. The bookbinding, shoemaking and locksmith's shop are located there. The security staff is currently ten functional positions, eight of them in fire protection and two in the rescue service. A new fire and rescue station is to be built at the Brunnenstrasse location by 2024. According to the current (2020) planning of the city of Solingen, the new construction of fire and rescue station 2 will cost around € 11.7 million.

After the merger of volunteer fire departments from Merscheid and Ohligs, the volunteer is at the Hilden Road 43a in Ohligser lowlands the erase unit 1 fire department. The volunteer fire brigade in Ohligs has around 40 members.

Citizens' Office (2021)

At the end of 2021, a new citizens' office is to open in the former branch of the Solinger Sparkasse at Grünstraße 2. You can then apply for identity cards, passports, certificates of good conduct and vehicle registrations at the Ohligser Bürgerbüro. In addition, you can find out about sights and new public regulations in the city of Solingen.

traffic

Road traffic

The city motorway Viehbachtalstraße connects Solingen-Mitte with the Ohligser Unterland

The city ​​motorway Viehbachtalstraße runs from Solingen-Mitte to Bonner Straße in the Ohligser Unterland. The Viehbachtalstraße has no direct connection to the regional trunk road network and was only realized as a four-lane city motorway L 141n in the Solingen city area. Since the 1970s, local politicians in Solingen have been arguing about whether it makes sense to close the gap between Viehbachtalstrasse and the Langenfeld motorway junction on the A 3 in order to improve the connection of the city of blades to the Germany-wide and European trunk road network. A direct motorway entrance or exit is not a majority in Solingen's local politics. Solingen and Reutlingen are the only major cities in Germany that are not connected to a trunk road network.

The next motorway junction Solingen is located a few kilometers south of Ohligs in the area of ​​the city of Langenfeld on the suburb of Solingen-Aufderhöhe. Solingen has been (indirectly) connected to the trunk road network with this junction since 1936. The Hilden Cross with the Hilden junction is about eight kilometers to the northwest.

Rail transport

Solingen main station (here track 3)

Solingen's largest and most important train station, the Solingen Hauptbahnhof, is located in Ohligs . From Ohligs is:

• the Cologne Main Station in about 40 minutes,
• the Düsseldorf main station in about 30 minutes,
• of Remscheid main station in about 25 minutes;
• the Wuppertal main station can be reached in about 20 minutes.

The main station is the only station in Solingen that is connected to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn AG . With Intercity Express , Intercity , Regional Express , Regionalbahn and S-Bahn , all important types of train are available. The Solingen main station can be reached on the front above the station forecourt, which is directly adjacent to the upper Düsseldorfer Straße. The main station, which is used by over 10,000 passengers every day, is the most frequented traffic junction in Solingen.

Local public transport

The largest bus station in Solingen is the Ohligser bus station, it is located directly at the Solingen main station. Many Solingen bus routes and two trolleybus routes (ring lines 681 and 682) connect Ohligs with almost all parts of Solingen. The cities of Haan , Hilden , Langenfeld , Monheim am Rhein and Düsseldorf can also be reached by buses from Stadtwerke Solingen or the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn from the Ohligser bus station.

education

Elementary schools

There are currently two primary schools in Ohligs , on Bogenstrasse and Südstrasse.

Geschwister-Scholl Comprehensive School

The Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule, named after the Scholl siblings, is housed at two locations in Aufderhöhe (grades 5–7 / Uhlandstrasse) and in Ohligs (grades 8–13 / Querstrasse). It emerged from the high school of the same name, which was dissolved after the 1989/90 school year. Today the comprehensive school is the largest school in Ohligs and currently has around 1,300 students. In the school year 2009/10, the Scholle started operating all day and is the only secondary school in Solingen to offer Italian as a third foreign language from grade 8. The plaice prepares students for recognized language certificates in English, French and Italian, e.g. B. Cambridge University. She also offers courses in business English. Regular study trips to England, Italy, France and Belgium are an essential part of individual language training. Students who are gifted in mathematics and natural sciences are given educational opportunities, e.g. B. participation in Jugend forscht, the Math Olympiad, the acquisition of the European computer driving license ECDL as well as a cooperation with the observatory Galileum Solingen additionally funded.

Humboldtgymnasium on Humboldtstrasse

Humboldt High School

The Humboldtgymnasium (grades 5–13), named after the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , has existed since 1903 and is located in Solingen-Wald, right on the Ohligs district boundary. The grammar school currently has around 900 students and 80 teachers. The school building was modernized in 1978 and a new building was added in 2002. In addition to English, French, Spanish and Latin are also offered as foreign languages. The Humboldt also has its own separate sports hall on Nietzschestrasse.

The grammar school regularly takes part in student competitions. The pupils are often successful in the areas of mathematics Olympics , kangaroo competition , research for young people , making music for young people , the stock market simulation game and the German Start-up Prize for pupils . Since the 2013/14 school year, students have also been able to take part in the junior election. In the state-wide comparative studies in grades 8, Humboldt came off as one of the three best high schools in all of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Personalities

Tim Kurzbach, Lord Mayor of Solingen since 2015 (born April 27, 1978 in Ohligs)

The only honorary citizen of the city of Ohligs was the longtime city councilor Otto Nippes (1842–1922), who also made an outstanding contribution to Ohligs as an honorary councilor . The current Lord Mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach , was born in Ohligs.

literature

• Rhenish city atlas of Ohlig ; Lfg. XII No. 66, 1996; Editor: Elisabeth Reuß; Rheinland-Verlag Cologne, ISBN 3-7927-1565-1
• Johannes Fahmüller, Ralf Rogge, Marco Kieser: Villas in Solingen. Bourgeois houses between 1860 and 1950. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-292-6 .
• Manfred Kohl: Solingen-Ohlig leaps in time. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-229-2 .
• Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke: Solingen - Big City Years 1929–2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1459-4
• Ralf Rogge: Ohligs as it used to be Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-8313-1177-3 .
• Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city . 3 volumes, Braun, Duisburg
  • Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. 1969, DNB 457973358.
  • Volume 2: From 1700 to the middle of the 19th century. 1972, ISBN 3-87096-103-1 .
  • Volume 3: From the middle of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War. 1975, ISBN 3-87096-126-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ohligs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private website with information and historical views
• Time track search Merscheid / Ohligs

Individual evidence

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176. ↑ http://www.humboldtgymnasium-solingen.de/
177. ↑ reporting on this. ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. In: Solinger Tageblatt 
178. ^ Solinger Tageblatt : Nippesstraße from the street names series , 2016