Unterflachsberg

Unterflachsberg City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	about 210 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location of Unterflachsberg in Solingen
Half-timbered house in Unterflachsberg

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

geography

The Unterflachsberg farm is located immediately northwest of Obenflachsberg and north of the Focher Dahl in the Gräfrath district of Solingen . Unterflachberg is located south of Bergerbrühl and east of Nümmen . At the Hofschaft past the old railway embankment leads the so-called corkscrew path , now used as a footpath corkscrew trail , which is conducted on an old railway bridge over the Garden Street.

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 this time, Unterflachsberg 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 establishment of the Mairien and later mayor's offices at the beginning of the 19th century, Unterflachsberg 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. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 29 houses with 174 inhabitants are given for Unterflachsberg alone. In 1895 the place had 25 houses with 164 inhabitants, in 1905 24 houses and 175 inhabitants are given.

In 1887, the Solingen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel railway was laid past the village, and a small railway bridge had to be built to cross Gartenstrasse southwest of the courtyard. In 1919 the Gräsolin paint factory was established at the bottom Flachsberg, from the address of the company Countess Frath,  Solin ger Street also became the company name. Today the company still produces paints at its location on the Unterflachsberg .

On April 24, 1889, the brandy distiller Hermann Deus received permission to build a ring kiln brickworks on the farmland on the Unterflachsberg . The original plans were to produce two to three million masonry bricks annually . The ring kiln had 16 chambers that could each hold 14,000 bricks. The chimney was a total of 40 meters high. A separate well provided drinking and service water. There was a separate house for the workers. The finished bricks were loaded into wagons and brought via a private siding to Graefrath station, from where they were shipped on. The town took over the brickworks in 1957, and operations ceased in 1971. Later the buildings of the old brick factory were demolished. The Flachsberg commercial and industrial area was built there, the access road of which is called the Alte Ziegelei .

In 1922 the savings and construction association Gräfrath built a small housing estate on the Unterflachsberg. On Gartenstrasse in the direction of Nümmen, several two-storey apartment buildings were built for the members of the association in a relaxed manner. With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Unterflachsberg became a district of Solingen. The pictured above half-timbered house Garden Road 19 has been synonymous 29 November 1984 under monument protection .

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Brangs:  Explanations and explanations of the hall, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen , Solingen 1936
2. ↑ Hans-Georg Wenke:  Place and street names  on  solingen-internet.de , accessed on May 17, 2016
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} Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Gräsolin Lackfabrik GmbH at graesolin.de , accessed on May 17, 2016
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 July 3, 2016 (PDF, size: 129 kB).