13 Facts About Solingen

Solingen is called the "City of Blades", since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms such as WKC, DOVO, Wusthof, Zwilling J A Henckels, Boker, Gude, Hubertus, Diefenthal, Puma, Clauberg, Eickhorn, Linder, Carl Schmidt Sohn, Dreiturm, Herder, and numerous other manufacturers.

In medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen designed the town's coat of arms, which continues to the present.

Solingen was first mentioned in 1067 by a chronicler who called the area "Solonchon".

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.

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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.

Current Mayor of Solingen is Tim Kurzbach of the Social Democratic Party, elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2020.

Solingen Hauptbahnhof is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S1 from Dusseldorf and Dusseldorf Airport Station.

Solingen has a trolleybus network, one of only three in Germany remaining besides Eberswalde and Esslingen am Neckar.

Solingen has belonged from its beginnings to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne, and more specifically to the Archdeaconry of the Probst (provost) of St Kunibert, the deanery of Deutz.

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.

Solingen Paladins are an American football club from Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was founded in 2006.

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.