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Diapers City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	about 210 m
Postal code :	42651
Area code :	0212
Location of Windfeln in Solingen
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Windfeln is a court in the east of the Bergisch city ​​of Solingen .

location

Windfeln is located on a hillside about 15 meters below the level of Bundesstraße 229 , Remscheider Straße, which leads via Müngsten to Remscheid . From Solingen, Windfeln is just before the serpentines , accessible by a cul-de-sac, in a forest area above the Windfelner Bach , which flows into the Wupper at the Grunenburg estate . The name of the Hofschaft is borne by the nearby Windfelner Bridge , on which the trains on the railway line between Solingen and Wuppertal run.

etymology

The name of the court comes from the term Windhovele . The term Windfeln was abbreviated and can be interpreted as a windy hill or ridge.

history

A Godescalus de Windhuvele was mentioned in a document as early as 1227 . In the 17th century the court was owned by the Johanniter , in 1715 the Windhöfel court was marked on the map by Erich Philipp Ploennies . To the north of it, on the site of today's Halfeshof, was the Windhöveler Hof .

In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisch Honschaft Dorp in the office of Solingen . In 1815/16 there were 78 people living in the village, in 1830 there were 88 people.

In 1832 Windfeln belonged to the mayor's office of Dorp . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had eleven residential buildings, two factories or mills and eleven agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 81 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 19 houses with 126 inhabitants are given. On January 1, 1889, the mayor's office and town of Dorp with Windfeln were incorporated into the town of Solingen. In 1895 the place had 20 houses with 130 inhabitants, in 1905 14 houses and 127 inhabitants.

In the courtyard there are some half-timbered houses of the Bergisch style , including an old row of houses. Of the half-timbered houses in the village, the buildings WIndfeln 6, 15 and 17 have been listed since 1984/1985 .

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  Half-timbered house in Windfeln

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  Half-timbered houses in Windfeln

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Web links

Commons : Solingen-Windfeln  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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1. ↑ http://www.zeitspurensuche.de/02/sghodor1.htm#Windfeln Information on Windfeln on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on February 16, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province ; Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin; 1830 ( digitized edition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ Solingen Monument List ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). City of Solingen, July 1, 2015, accessed on January 21, 2017 (PDF, size: 130 kB).