Central (Solingen)

Central City of Solingen Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 28" E
Height :	about 240 m
Postal code :	42653
Area code :	0212
Location of Central in Solingen
	The central today

The Zentral or Central is a residential area in the Bergisch city of Solingen . The former court in the outskirts developed into a new center of the formerly independent town of Gräfrath by the First World War .

geography

The Zentral is located in the Gräfrath district at the traffic junction where Landesstraße 85, Focher Straße, coming from Wald and Hilden meets Bundesstraße 224 , which leads from Essen and Wuppertal to Solingen-Mitte. The Zentral is south of the Focher Dahl and Obenflachsberg , west of Ringelshäuschen , northeast of the former water tower with the local savings and construction association and east of the Foche .

history

The former Café Müller in Solingen, where Pina Bausch grew up.

The original Wohnplatz Central was built at the beginning of the 19th century and is therefore not yet included in Erich Philipp Ploennies' map in 1715 , but it is the intersection of the two streets where it was built. The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place at the intersection as a central point , the Prussian first survey from 1844 as a central point . In the topographic map of the district of Dusseldorf in 1871 the place than Central also recorded at the intersection, which of Benrath Focher provincial road (now the provincial road 85) and the 1815 for the provincial street food-Solingen -developed old route of Vohwinkel over Gräfrath to Solingen (today the federal road 224) is formed. After the establishment of the Mairien and later mayor's offices at the beginning of the 19th century, the village belonged to the Gräfrath mayor's office .

In 1832, Zentral was part of the Gräfrath honors under the name Centralpunkt within the Gräfrath mayor. The place, which was categorized as a tavern and farmyard according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had five houses, a factory or mill and an agricultural building at that time. At that time 34 residents lived in the place, two of them Catholic and 32 Protestant denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list the place in 1871 with nine houses and 79 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 20 houses with 172 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the district had 47 houses with 502 inhabitants, in 1905 95 houses and 1,093 inhabitants are given.

Up until the First World War , the Zentral experienced a considerable structural development that fundamentally changed the face of the former court. In addition to the new buildings at the intersection itself, where the corner house that defines the townscape was built, the surrounding streets in particular experienced a construction boom, including the former main street (today Ketzberger Straße), Solinger Straße (today Wuppertaler Straße), and Neustraße (today Siegfriedstraße ), Marktstrasse or Adlerstrasse (today Ahornstrasse). With the town union of Groß-Solingen in 1929, the central became a district of Solingen.

In 1952 the Zentral was the scene of the worst accident in Solingen's tram history, in which eight people were killed and more than 50 injured. The central junction between line 2 between Solingen and Ohligs and line 3 between Solingen and Vohwinkel (today comparable to the trolleybus lines 682 and 683 ) has always been. On January 25, 1952, shortly before 7:00 a.m., a tram on line 2 descended the slope from the water tower in the direction of Zentral, picking up more and more speed. The driver failed attempts to brake, so that the train finally derailed in the curve at around 70 kilometers per hour and crashed into a house. The tram trailer overturned and buried numerous people under it. The injured were taken to the adjoining Tack restaurant for first aid, where they were treated by local doctors. Six people were found dead, and two more died on the way to the hospital. The cause of the accident was later found to be due to technical defects in the outdated tram and mistakes made by the killed driver. Since the abolition of tram traffic in Solingen, the Central intersection has been served by trolleybuses since 1959 .

Personalities

The choreographer Pina Bausch grew up in Zentral . In 1978, inspired by the Café Müller there , she designed the piece of the same name.

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^ 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.
↑ ^a ^b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke: Solingen - Big City Years 1929-2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-8313-1459-4
↑ Miriam Olbrisch: Moving memories of little Pina Bausch. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , July 16, 2009.

[1] 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.

[Viebahn-2] Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836

[3] Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.

[Gemeindelexikon1888-4] 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1897-5] 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1909-6] 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.

[:0-7] Ralf Rogge, Armin Schulte, Kerstin Warncke: Solingen - Big City Years 1929-2004 . Wartberg Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-8313-1459-4

[8] Miriam Olbrisch: Moving memories of little Pina Bausch. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , July 16, 2009.