Balkhausen Half-Timbered Village

Balkhausen is like the gateway to the Bergisches Land. Especially when you come from the south, this is where you enter the world of slate houses with green decorations. The route towards Müngstener Brücke is highly recommended - and you automatically take Balkhausen with you.

Honschaft Balkhausen
In the Middle Ages and modern times, the Balkhausen honors were honored in the parish and judicial district of Solingen within the Bergisch district of Solingen. It comprised today's Solingen urban area in the Höhscheid district. After the end of the French occupation at the beginning of the 19th century and the dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1815, the Honschaft Balkhausen - while maintaining the municipal reorganization of the Duchy carried out by the French - finally became a rural community of the Dorp mayor in the district of Solingen in the administrative district of Düsseldorf within the Prussian Rhine province assigned and was thus one of the lowest Bergisch administrative units until the 19th century.
According to the topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province, the following localities and residential areas belonged to the Honschaft 1830 (original spelling):
Villages: second Balkhausen, to Busche and Dornsiepen
Hamlets: first Balkhausen, third Balkhausen, Breidbach, Bünkenberg, Glüder, first Heesten, Königsmühle, Odendahl, Pfaffenberg, Scharfhausen, Schellberg, part of Schlicken, Unnersberg and Wüstenhof.
Country estates: Hohnscheid
Individual houses: Kempen, Eichholz and Lohmühle Brühl
Schleifkotten: Balkhausen, Billstein, on the Hail, Strohnerkotten and on the Wupperau
With the elevation of the mayor's office of Wald to the status of town in 1856, the honors ceased to exist as an administrative unit.
(Source Wikipedia)

Very nice little place with a lot of half-timbered houses.