The lower part is a symbol for the textile industry, which has been important to the town since the late Middle Ages.

Hückeswagen was an ancestral seat of the counts of Hückeswagen and in 1085 became for the first time a Franconian Salhof, or saddle court, in form of a "confirmation of a donation of the genotypes of the Essen abbess Svanhild among other things by emperors Heinrich IV.

Between 1220 and 1240 the counts of Hückeswagen moved to Bohemia and built the "Hukvaldy" and "Alttitschein" castles.

Because of municipal reform, in 1975 the town lost the share of Bergisch Born in Remscheid.

The settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1085 in a deed issued by the abbess Svanhild of Essen to a nobleman.

Enterprises The biggest employer in the town is "Klingelnberg", a mechanical engineering company.

A town bypass is planned, for the improvement of the transport guidance, but the financing of this road has not been cleared.

Later plans for a second by-pass road should provide for further easing of traffic congestion throughout the town.

Above all, it enables foreign truck drivers, and company customers, whom need to visit one of the industrial areas, to bypass the town itself.