Solingen
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English
Proper noun
Solingen
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Old High German Solonchon.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Solingen n (proper noun, genitive Solingens or (optionally with an article) Solingen)
- Solingen (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany)
- 1808, Vollständige Beschreibung der Schwert-, Messer- und übrigen Stahl-Fabriken zu Solingen, im Herzogthum Berg, page 13:
- Einige wollen behaupten, dasz die Urväter der jetzigen Fabrikanten aus Steyermark ins Herzogthum Berg gezogen, andere behaupten, dasz dieselben aus dem Elsasz dorthin gekommen seyen, woselbst ein Dorf befindlich ist, welches Sellingen [sic] heiszt, und wovon der Name Solingen seinen Ursprung habe.
- Some people want to claim that the ancestors of the present manufacturers moved from Styria to the Duchy of Berg, others claim that the same came there from Alsace, where a village is located, which is called Sellingen and of which the name Solingen had its origin.
Declension
Declension of Solingen