Westersburg

Westersburg City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 48"  E
Height :	about 195 m
Postal code :	42719
Area code :	0212
Location of Westersburg in Solingen
Westersburg

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

geography

Westersburg is located on a hill above the Ittertal in the north of the Wald district . The place is located along the upper Bausmühlenstraße and in parts also on the Westersburg street that is named after him and branches off from Bausmühlenstraße. In the north, following the course of Bausmühlenstraße, first Lindersberg and then Buckert , before reaching the Eschbach farm in the valley floor . To the west of the Itter valley is Obenitter with the historic Ittertal amusement park . The fields Hof , Schneppert and Stübben are in the south of Westersburg . To the east is Delle and to the northeast is the Fuhr .

etymology

The origin of the place name Westersburg is still not clear. However, it does not come from the castle-like building that characterizes the area and is shown on this page. What is certain is that the determiner Wester- is a family name . The origin of the suffix -burg is unclear . However, there is much to suggest that there was a building with very thick, quarry stone walls in the former court , which the residents called a castle due to its massive construction . It is probably about the today plastered house Westerburg 5. The name Westersburg was derived from the castle of the Wester family, which was transferred to the entire courtyard and later became the official street name.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1811. He belonged to the Itter Honschaft within the Solingen office. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 lists the place as not yet labeled and the Prussian first survey from 1844 lists it as a Westerburg . In the topographic map of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1871, the location is shown without any labels.

After the founding of mairies and later mayors early 19th century Westerburg belonged to the mayor's forest , there he was in the corridor II. ( Wood ) .1815 / 16 lived 24 in 1830, 27 people in a hamlet called Westerburg . In 1832 the place was part of the first village honors within the forest mayor's office. The place, categorized as Hofstadt according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf government district , had five residential buildings and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 29 residents lived in the place, two of them Catholic and 27 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with 14 houses and 65 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, 18 houses with 138 inhabitants are given for Westersburg. In 1895 the district had 24 houses with 180 inhabitants, in 1905 33 houses and 335 inhabitants are given.

The origins of today's Westersburg elementary school lie in the Lindersberg private school founded in 1839. Due to a lack of public schools in the upper Itter district, some parents took care of setting up one themselves. This happened with the establishment of the Lindersberg School, which was initially housed in a private hedgehog forest house, before a year later a schoolhouse was built on Lindersberg. After several changes of location in the area, the Westersburg elementary school was inaugurated in 1891 at what was then Eschbachstraße 14 in Westersburg. The Westersburg elementary school is housed in the original building, which was located at Bausmühlenstraße 14 after the street was renamed in 1975.

There was a restaurant in Westersburg since around 1830 . At the turn of the century, perhaps around 1905, a new inn was built. It is a castle-like complex with a crenellated tower, which in the early days still had a hall extension. The extension was demolished in 1984 and the building now houses a residential building. It is related to the construction Address Mühlenstraße 21 since January 10, 1985 under monument protection .

With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, Westersburg became a district of Solingen. In addition to the former inn, the ensemble of half-timbered houses, some of which have been sold, Bausmühlenstraße 6, 8, 10 and 12 has been a listed building since 1984 .

Web links

• Marina Alice Mutz: Westersburg on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on April 7, 2017

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1. ↑ ^{a b} City of Solingen: Street and place names in our city of Solingen , self-published, Solingen 1972
2. ↑ Hans Brangs:  Explanations and explanations of the corridor, place, yard and street names in the city of Solingen , Solingen 1936
3. ^ ^{A b} Marina Alice Mutz: Westersburg. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
4. ^ 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.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836
6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ 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
11. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Lindersberg. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
12. ^ Marina Alice Mutz: Westersburg primary school. In: Time Track Search. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} List of monuments in Solingen ( 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 April 3, 2017 (PDF, size: 129 kB).