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Solingen ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of the regional authority of the Rhineland.

Solingen is called the "City of Blades", and has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by firms such as WKC, P.D Rasspe Söhne, DOVO, Wüsthof, Zwilling J. A. Henckels, Böker, Güde, Hubertus, Diefenthal, Puma, Clauberg/Klauberg, Eickhorn, Linder, Carl Schmidt Sohn, Dreiturm, Herder, Martor Safety Knives, Wolfertz, Ralf Aust and numerous other manufacturers.

The medieval swordsmiths of Solingen designed the town's coat of arms. In the late 17th century, a group of swordsmiths from Solingen broke their guild oaths by taking their sword-making secrets with them to Shotley Bridge, County Durham, in England.

GeographyEdit

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Typical houses in Solingen-Gräfrath
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Solingen-Mitte: St. Clemens Church and Clemens Galerien
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Mummenscheid farmyard in the borough of Wald
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Historical marketplace in Gräfrath
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River Wupper

Solingen lies southwest of Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land. The city has an area of Template:Convert, of which roughly 50% is used for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry. The city's border is Template:Convert long, and the city's dimensions are Template:Convert east to west and Template:Convert north to south. The Wupper river, a right tributary of the Rhine, flows through the city for Template:Convert. The city's highest point at 276 metres (906 ft) is in the northern borough of Gräfrath at the Light Tower, previously the water tower, and the lowest point at 53 metres (174 ft) is in the southwest.

Neighbouring cities and communitiesEdit

The following cities and communities share a border with Solingen, starting in the northeast and going clockwise around the city:

City administrationEdit

Solingen currently consists of five Stadtbezirke, or boroughs. Each borough has a municipal council of either 13 or 15 representatives (Bezirksvertreter) elected every five years by the borough's population. The municipal councils are responsible for many of the boroughs' important administrative affairs.

The five city boroughs:

  • Gräfrath
  • Wald (Solingen)
  • (Solingen-)Mitte
  • Ohligs/Aufderhöhe/Merscheid
  • Höhscheid/Burg

Ohligs/Aufderhöhe/Merscheid and Höhscheid/Burg are divided into sections ("Stadtteile") that were once separate towns and are still statistical and planning units but are no longer self-governing.

The city further comprises many neighborhoods with their own names, although they often lack precise borders:

Aufderhöhe: Aufderbech, Börkhaus, Gosse, Horn, Holzhof, Josefstal, Landwehr, Löhdorf, Pohligsfeld, Riefnacken, Rupelrath, Siebels, Steinendorf, Ufer, Wiefeldick
Burg: Angerscheid, Höhrath
Gräfrath: Central, Flachsberg, Flockertsholz, Focher Dahl, Fürkeltrath, Heide, Ketzberg, Külf, Nümmen, Piepersberg, Rathland, Schieten, Zum Holz
Höhscheid: Balkhausen, Bünkenberg, Dorperhof, Friedrichstal, Fürkelt, Glüder, Grünewald, Haasenmühle, Hästen, Katternberg, Kohlsberg, Meiswinkel, Nacken, Pfaffenberg, Pilghausen, Rölscheid, Rüden, Schaberg, Schlicken, Unnersberg, Weeg, Widdert, Wippe
Merscheid: Büschberg, Dahl, Dingshaus, Fürk, Fürker Irlen, Gönrath, Hübben, Hoffnung, Limminghofen, Scheuren, Schmalzgrube
Mitte: Entenpfuhl, Eick, Grunenburg, Hasseldelle, Kannenhof, Kohlfurth, Krahenhöhe, Mangenberg, Meigen, Müngsten, Papiermühle, Scheidt, Schlagbaum, Schrodtberg, Stöcken, Stockdum, Theegarten, Vorspel, Windfeln
Ohligs: Brabant, Broßhaus, Buschfeld, Caspersbroich, Deusberg, Engelsberger Hof, Hackhausen, Keusenhof, Mankhaus, Maubes, Monhofer Feld, Poschheide, Scharrenberg, Schnittert, Suppenheide, Unterland, Wilzhaus, Verlach
Wald: Bavert, Demmeltrath, Eschbach, Eigen, Fuhr, Garzenhaus, Itter, Kotzert, Lochbachtal, Rolsberg, Vogelsang, Weyer

ClimateEdit

Solingen's climate is classified as oceanic (Köppen: Cfb; Trewartha: Dolk). The average annual temperature in Solingen is Template:Cvt. The average annual rainfall is Template:Cvt with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around Template:Cvt, and lowest in January, at around Template:Cvt.

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HistoryEdit

Middle AgesEdit

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A sword with built-in flint wheellock pistol made in Solingen in 1575

Solingen was first mentioned in 1067 by a chronicler who called the area "Solonchon". Early variations of the name included "Solengen", "Solungen", and "Soleggen", although the modern name seems to have been in use since the late 14th and early 15th centuries.

Blacksmiths' smelters, dating back over 2000 years, have been found around the town, adding to Solingen's fame as a Northern Europe blacksmith centre. Swords from Solingen have turned up in places such as the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the British Isles. Northern Europe prized the quality of Solingen's manufactured weaponry, and they were traded across the European continent. Solingen today remains the knife-centre of Germany.

It was a tiny village for centuries, but became a fortified town in the 15th century.

Thirty Years' WarEdit

After being ravaged by the plague with about 1,800 deaths in 1614–1619, Solingen was heavily fought over during the Thirty Years' War, repeatedly attacked and plundered, and the Burg Castle was destroyed.

Modern AgeEdit

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Coins issued in 1919 by the City of Solingen
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Bond of the City of Solingen, issued 1 July 1922

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In 1929, Ohligs located in the Prussian Rhine Province, Template:Convert by rail north of Cologne became part of Solingen.

In World War II, the Old Town was completely destroyed by a bombing raid by the RAF in 1944; 1,800 people died and over 1,500 people were injured.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As such, there are few pre-war sites in the centre.

From 1945 to 1949 Solingen was part of the British occupation zone. Reconstruction of the old town began in 1949. The newly built Protestant church in Fronhof was consecrated in 1954, and the destroyed towers of the Catholic church of St. Clemens were rebuilt in a different style. By the end of the 1970s, the city's population had increased due to numerous new housing developments in all parts of the city. The city's infrastructure continued to grow, with the opening of the theatre and concert hall in 1963 and the construction of the Viehbachtalstraße motorway through the city in the late 1970s. In 1975, the city grew again with the incorporation of the previously independent town of Burg an der Wupper. In 1993, Solingen made international headlines for a right-wing extremist arson attack in which five Turkish girls and women were killed. The attack was followed by demonstrations and riots in the city.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, the Klingenstadt has undergone a massive transformation as a result of urban development projects such as Regionale 2006 and City 2013. For example, the new Korkenzieherstrasse cycle path was created and the demolition of the Turmhotel and the former Karstadt Passage made it possible to build a new shopping centre on Neumarkt in Solingen-Mitte. After the closure of the old central station in Solingen-Mitte, Ohligs station was officially named the new Solingen central station by Deutsche Bahn AG on 10 December 2006.

On 23 August 2024, a mass stabbing by islamic terrorist occurred in which three German citizens were killed during a festival for the city's 650th founding anniversary.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PopulationEdit

Solingen's population doubled between the years 1880 and 1890 due to the incorporation of the town of Dorp into Solingen in 1889, at which time the population reached 36,000. The population again received a large boost on 1 August 1929 through the incorporation of Ohligs, Wald, Höhscheid, and Gräfrath into the city limits. This brought the population above the 100,000 mark, which gave Solingen the distinction of being a "large city" (Großstadt). The number of inhabitants peaked in 1971 with 177,899 residents, and the 2006 population figure was 163,263.

The following chart shows the population figures within Solingen's city limits at the respective points in time. The figures are derived from census estimates or numbers provided by statistical offices or city agencies, with the exception of figures preceding 1843, which were gathered using inconsistent recording techniques. Template:Div flex row

Year Population
1747 ca. 2,000
1804 ca. 2,871
1818 ca. 4,000
3 December 1846Template:Efn 6,127
3 December 1861Template:Efn 10,100
3 December 1864Template:Efn 11,800
3 December 1867Template:Efn 13,000
1 December 1871Template:Efn 14,040
1 December 1875Template:Efn 15,142
1 December 1880Template:Efn 16,900
1 December 1885Template:Efn 18,641
1 December 1890Template:Efn 36,540
2 December 1895Template:Efn 40,843
1 December 1900Template:Efn 45,260
1 December 1905Template:Efn 49,018
1 December 1910Template:Efn 50,536
1 December 1916Template:Efn 45,720
Year Population
5 December 1917Template:Efn 47,459
8 October 1919Template:Efn 48,912
16 June 1925Template:Efn 52,002
16 June 1933Template:Efn 140,162
17 May 1939Template:Efn 140,466
31 December 1945 129,440
29 October 1946Template:Efn 133,001
13 September 1950Template:Efn 147,845
25 September 1956Template:Efn 161,353
6 June 1961Template:Efn 169,930
31 December 1965 175,634
27 May 1970Template:Efn 176,420
31 December 1975 171,810
31 December 1980 166,085
31 December 1985 157,923
25 May 1987Template:Efn 159,103
31 December 1990 165,401
Year Population
31 December 1995 165,735
31 December 2000 164,973
31 December 2005 163,581
31 December 2006 162,948
31 December 2007 162,575
31 December 2008 161,779
30 April 2009 160,242
9 May 2011Template:Efn 155,265
31 December 2012 155,316

Template:Div flex row end Template:Notelist 30.9% of the population of Solingen has foreign roots (statistics 2012).

Largest groups of foreign residents
Nationality Population (31 December 2022)
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PoliticsEdit

MayorEdit

The people of Solingen have been able to elect a council and a mayor since 1374, the year the town was granted its charter. The mayor changed annually on 24 June. Solingen has had a mayor since 1896. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the mayor was appointed by the NSDAP and not democratically elected by the people of Solingen.

After the Second World War, the military government of the British occupation zone appointed a Lord Mayor. From 1946, the Solingen City Council elected an honorary Lord Mayor and a full-time Lord Mayor from among its members. Until 1997, the honorary lord mayors had mainly representative functions, while the full-time lord mayors were the chief administrative officers of the city of Solingen. In 1997, the dual leadership of the city administration was abolished. Since then there has been only one full-time Lord Mayor. He is the chairman of the council, the head of the city administration and the first representative of the city. Since 1999, the Lord Mayor has been directly elected by the electorate in a secret ballot.

The current mayor of Solingen is Tim Kurzbach of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

Template:Election table ! colspan=2| Candidate ! Party ! Votes ! % |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Tim Kurzbach | align=left| Social Democratic Party | 31,836 | 55.4 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Carsten Heinrich Becker | align=left| Christian Democratic Union | 15,776 | 27.4 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Raoul Torben Brattig | align=left| Free Democratic Party | 2,869 | 5.0 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Andreas Lukisch | align=left| Alternative for Germany | 2,499 | 4.3 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Adrian Scheffels | align=left| The Left | 2,172 | 3.8 |-

| | align=left| Jan Michael Lange | align=left| Citizens' Association for Solingen | 1,624 | 2.8 |- | | align=left| Arnold Falkowski | align=left| Free Citizens' Union | 700 | 1.2 |- ! colspan=3| Valid votes ! 57,476 ! 99.1 |- ! colspan=3| Invalid votes ! 523 ! 0.9 |- ! colspan=3| Total ! 57,999 ! 100.0 |- ! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout ! 126,301 ! 45.9 |- | colspan=5| Source: State Returning Officer |}

City councilEdit

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Results of the 2020 city council election

The Solingen city council governs the city alongside the mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

Template:Election table ! colspan=2| Party ! Votes ! % ! +/− ! Seats ! +/− |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 17,326 | 30.2 | Template:Decrease 3.9 | 16 | Template:Decrease 1 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 16,229 | 28.3 | Template:Decrease 1.3 | 15 | ±0 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne) | 10,428 | 18.2 | Template:Increase 7.0 | 9 | Template:Increase 3 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 3,178 | 5.5 | Template:Increase 0.6 | 3 | ±0 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Alternative for Germany (AfD) | 2,892 | 5.0 | Template:Increase 2.1 | 3 | Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| The Left (Die Linke) | 2,435 | 4.2 | Template:Decrease 0.7 | 2 | Template:Decrease 1 |- | | align=left| Citizens' Association for Solingen (BfS) | 1,842 | 3.2 | Template:Decrease 1.1 | 2 | ±0 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Die PARTEI (PARTEI) | 1,367 | 2.4 | New | 1 | New |- | | align=left| Alternative Citizens' Initiative (ABI) | 635 | 1.1 | New | 1 | New |- | colspan=7 bgcolor=lightgrey| |- | | align=left| Free Citizens' Union (FBU) | 531 | 0.9 | Template:Decrease 0.5 | 0 | Template:Decrease 1 |- | | align=left| Solingen Active (Aktiv) | 417 | 0.7 | Template:Decrease 0.7 | 0 | Template:Decrease 1 |- | Template:Party color cell | align=left| Independents | 34 | 0.1 | – | 0 | – |- ! colspan=2| Valid votes ! 57,314 ! 98.8 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=2| Invalid votes ! 695 ! 1.2 ! ! ! |- ! colspan=2| Total ! 58,009 ! 100.0 ! ! 52 ! ±0 |- ! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout ! 126,301 ! 45.9 ! Template:Increase 2.2 ! ! |- | colspan=7| Source: State Returning Officer |}

TransportEdit

RailEdit

Solingen Hauptbahnhof is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S1 from Düsseldorf and Düsseldorf Airport Station. S-Bahn line S7 links Solingen (including the station nearest the city centre, Solingen Mitte, and Solingen-Grünewald) to Wuppertal via Remscheid, Remscheid-Lennep and Wuppertal-Ronsdorf. This line is currently operated by RheinRuhrBahn, a subsidiary of Transdev Germany. The Rhein-Wupper-Bahn (RB 48) runs over the Gruiten–Köln-Deutz line to Bonn-Mehlem via Opladen and Cologne. It has been operated by National Express as of 13 December 2015. Starting 11 December 2022, an additional line RE47, running from Remscheid to Düsseldorf via Solingen has been established.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This line is served by Regiobahn.

Railway stations of Solingen
Station Lines served Destinations Notes
Solingen Hauptbahnhof File:Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg ICE42 Dortmund – Solingen – Mannheim – Munich (InterCity Express) Interchange with Obus Solingen (trolleybus) lines 681, 682.
File:Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg ICE43 Hannover – Solingen – Cologne – Mannheim – Basel (InterCity Express)
File:Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg ICE91 Dortmund – Solingen – Frankfurt – Vienna (InterCity Express)
File:Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg IC31 Hamburg – Solingen – Cologne – Frankfurt (InterCity)
File:Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg IC55 Leipzig – Hannover – Solingen – Cologne
File:National Express Logo.svg RE7 Krefeld – Cologne – Solingen – Wuppertal – Hagen – Hamm – Münster – Rheine (RegionalExpress)
File:Regiobahn.svg RE47 Düsseldorf – Solingen – Remscheid – Remscheid Lennep
File:National Express Logo.svg RB48 Wuppertal-Oberbarmen – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn-Mehlem (RegionalBahn)
Template:Ric S1 S-Bahn to Dortmund
Template:Ric S7 S-Bahn to Wuppertal via Remscheid
Solingen Mitte Template:Ric S7 Nearest station to historic centre.
Interchange with trolleybus lines 681, 683, 684, 686.
File:Regiobahn.svg RE47
Solingen Grünewald Template:Ric S7 Interchange with trolleybus line 682.
File:Regiobahn.svg RE47
Solingen Vogelpark Template:Ric S1
Solingen Schaberg Template:Ric S7

TrolleybusEdit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Solingen has a trolleybus network, one of only three in Germany remaining besides Eberswalde and Esslingen am Neckar.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Air transportEdit

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf Airport and Cologne Bonn Airport. Both airports can be reached by train from Solingen-Hauptbahnhof (change trains at Köln Messe/Deutz station for the S-Bahn 13 to Cologne Bonn Airport). Other easily reached airports are Frankfurt Airport (ICE train stop), Dortmund Airport (railway station "Holzwickede" on the RE7 trainline) and the low cost Weeze Airport (coaches from Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof).

ReligionEdit

ChristianityEdit

Solingen has belonged from its beginnings to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne (Erzbistum Köln), and more specifically to the Archdeaconry of the Probst (provost) of St. Kunibert, the deanery of Deutz. For reasons that are unclear, the city has long been associated with St. Clement, the third Pope, symbols of whose martyrdom appear on the city’s shield. Although the Protestant Reformation gradually made gains in the city, which was under the control of the Counts of Berg, the population by and large remained Roman Catholic for a while. The Catholic community was newly endowed by the local lord in 1658 and in 1701 received a new church building. In 1827 Solingen became the seat of its own deanery within the newly defined Archdiocese of Cologne, to which the city's current parishes still belong.

As mentioned, the Reformation only gradually gained a foothold in Solingen. A reformed church affiliated with the Bergisch synod was established in 1590, and the city's parish church became reformed in 1649. Lutherans had been present in Solingen since the beginning of the 17th century, and a Lutheran congregation was founded in 1635. In 1672 a formalized religious agreement was reached between the city's religious groups. The Reformation was also introduced in Gräfrath in 1590, where a church council was apparently established in 1629. The Reformed and Lutheran churches were formed into a united church community in 1838 following the general merger of Reformed and Lutheran churches in Prussia in 1817.

The Protestant parishes originally belonged to the district synod of Lennep, today part of the city Remscheid. A new synod was established in Solingen in 1843, and the city acquired its own superintendent, a form of church administrator. This formed the basis for the present-day Church District of Solingen, a member of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. With the exception of the free churches, most Protestant churches belong to the Church District of Solingen.

Today approximately 34% of Solingen's population belongs to Protestant churches, and roughly 26% belong to Catholic churches. Other church communities in Solingen include Greek Orthodox, Evangelical Free (including Baptist and Brethren), Methodist, Seventh-day Adventist, Pentecostal, Salvation Army, and free churches. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church also have communities in Solingen.

GalleryEdit

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    Catholic Church St. Clemens

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    Protestant Church Wald

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    Protestant Chapel of St. Reinoldi in Rupelrath

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    Martin-Luther-Church in Solingen-Mitte

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    Protestant Church Burg

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    Protestant Church Gräfrath

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    Protestant Church, Dorp

Main sightsEdit

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Burg Castle, Burg-on-Wupper
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Müngsten Bridge
  • Burg Castle, the castle of the counts of Berg
  • Müngsten Bridge, a railway bridge connecting Solingen with the neighbour town of Remscheid. Standing at 107 m above the ground, it is the highest railway bridge in Germany. It was constructed in 1897 and originally named the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke after Wilhelm I
  • Klosterkirche, former convent church (1690)

MuseumsEdit

  • Rhineland Industrial Museum Hendrichs Drop Forge, an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage
  • German Blade Museum, presenting swords and cutlery of all epochs
  • Art Museum Solingen (Museum of Art)
  • Museum Plagiarius, the Plagiarius exhibition shows more than 350 product units – i.e., original products and their brazen plagiarisms – in direct comparison. The registered society conducts an annual competition that awards the anti-prize "Plagiarius" to those manufacturers and distributors that a jury of peers have found guilty of making or selling "the most flagrant" imitations.
  • Laurel and Hardy Museum
  • Zentrum für verfolgte Künste (Center for Persecuted Arts)

Parks and gardensEdit

SportsEdit

American footballEdit

The Template:Ill is an American football club which was founded in 2006.

Association footballEdit

Until its bankruptcy in 1990, SG Union Solingen was the main club, playing at the Stadion am Hermann-Löns-Weg.

BaseballEdit

The Solingen Alligators are a baseball and softball club from Solingen. The club was founded in 1991 and the first men's team was promoted to the first division of the Baseball Bundesliga for the 2003 season. It has played there in every season since, winning the league championship in 2006 and 2014. The club claims over 250 members.

ChessEdit

The Schachgesellschaft Solingen e.V. 1868 is best known for its chess team, which plays in the Schachbundesliga (Chess Bundesliga), the top tier of the German chess league system, and is the most successful club in German chess history, having won a record 12 national titles (1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1980/81, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1996/97 and 2015/16), three national cups (1986, 2006 und 2009) and 2 European cups (1976 and 1990).

HandballEdit

In handball, Solingen's most successful team is Bergischer HC, playing in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga which they were promoted to for the second time in 2013, reaching 15th place in the 2013–14 campaign and therefore staying in the top flight for a second consecutive season. BHC originates from a 2006 cooperation between the SG Solingen and rivals LTV Wuppertal from the nearby city of the same name. The club advertises itself as a representative of the entire Bergisches Land region. The team plays its home games at both Solingen's Klingenhalle (2,600 seats) and Wuppertal's Uni-Halle (3,200 seats).

ReceptionEdit

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The cargo ship Solingen in 1966

In May 1955, the city of Solingen took over the partnership of the German general cargo ship Solingen of the Hamburg-American Packet Transit Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag).

Twin towns – sister citiesEdit

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Since 1990, Solingen also sponsors Złotoryja County in Poland.<ref name=twins/>

Notable peopleEdit

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The founders of Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, which later became the automobile company Studebaker, trace their lineage to bladesmen from the region who emigrated to America in 1736.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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