Down to the wood

Down to the wood City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	about 240 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location from below to the wood in Solingen

Downstairs to the wood is a living space in the Gräfrath district of Solingen .

geography

Down to the wood lies in the areas sloping towards the Wupper east of the Lützowstraße. The living space is on a hill above the Unterholz brook, which rises at Unter zum Holz and flows into the Wupper north of Aue to the west. To the north of Unter zum Holz there is the Oben zum Holz living space , as well as Paashaus , Neuenhaus and Laiken . To the south lies Ketzberg .

etymology

The part of the name wood denotes a wooded area. Obviously there are etymological parallels to Above to Wood. The field names can be traced back to the 18th century.

history

Holz bei Gräfrath was first mentioned in a document in 1487 as opme Holtz .

In the map series Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Solingen , from the year 1715, the place is recorded with a farm and as u. Named Holt . The farm belonged to the Ketzberg Honschaft within the Solingen office. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 lists the place as Unter zum Holz and the Prussian first survey from 1843 as Unter Holz. In the topographical map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, the court is shown as the bottom of the wood .

After the Mairien and later mayor's offices were founded at the beginning of the 19th century, Unter zum Holz belonged to the Gräfrath mayor's office . In 1815/16 105 and 1830 125 people lived in the place categorized as a hamlet . In 1832, Unter zum Holz was still part of the Honschaft (Ketz-) Berg within the Gräfrath mayor. The place, categorized as Hofstadt according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had 15 residential houses, nine factories or mills and 25 agricultural buildings. At that time 119 inhabitants lived in the place, ten of them Catholic and 109 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with 30 houses and 246 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 38 houses with 245 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the district had 40 houses with 238 inhabitants, in 1905 39 houses and 210 inhabitants are given.

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Unter zum Holz became a district of Solingen. The historic water pump at the house below the 5-wood stands since 1984 under monument protection .

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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. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836
5. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches 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.
10. ↑ 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 June 6, 2016 (PDF, size: 129 kB).