diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
index 17ea04cb4ecb..bed50b81604d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ in
       lidarr = 306;
       slurm = 307;
       kapacitor = 308;
-      solr = 309;
+      # solr = 309; removed 2023-03-16
       alerta = 310;
       minetest = 311;
       rss2email = 312;
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ in
       lidarr = 306;
       slurm = 307;
       kapacitor = 308;
-      solr = 309;
+      # solr = 309; removed 2023-03-16
       alerta = 310;
       minetest = 311;
       rss2email = 312;
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 43d30eb34c57..f5daa37bf3cc 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1062,7 +1062,6 @@
   ./services/search/meilisearch.nix
   ./services/search/opensearch.nix
   ./services/search/qdrant.nix
-  ./services/search/solr.nix
   ./services/security/aesmd.nix
   ./services/security/certmgr.nix
   ./services/security/cfssl.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/search/solr.nix b/nixos/modules/services/search/solr.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 05592e9fa247..000000000000
--- a/nixos/modules/services/search/solr.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-
-let
-
-  cfg = config.services.solr;
-
-in
-
-{
-  options = {
-    services.solr = {
-      enable = mkEnableOption (lib.mdDoc "Solr");
-
-      package = mkOption {
-        type = types.package;
-        default = pkgs.solr;
-        defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.solr";
-        description = lib.mdDoc "Which Solr package to use.";
-      };
-
-      port = mkOption {
-        type = types.port;
-        default = 8983;
-        description = lib.mdDoc "Port on which Solr is ran.";
-      };
-
-      stateDir = mkOption {
-        type = types.path;
-        default = "/var/lib/solr";
-        description = lib.mdDoc "The solr home directory containing config, data, and logging files.";
-      };
-
-      extraJavaOptions = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [];
-        description = lib.mdDoc "Extra command line options given to the java process running Solr.";
-      };
-
-      user = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "solr";
-        description = lib.mdDoc "User under which Solr is ran.";
-      };
-
-      group = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "solr";
-        description = lib.mdDoc "Group under which Solr is ran.";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-
-    environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
-
-    systemd.services.solr = {
-      after = [ "network.target" "remote-fs.target" "nss-lookup.target" "systemd-journald-dev-log.socket" ];
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-
-      environment = {
-        SOLR_HOME = "${cfg.stateDir}/data";
-        LOG4J_PROPS = "${cfg.stateDir}/log4j2.xml";
-        SOLR_LOGS_DIR = "${cfg.stateDir}/logs";
-        SOLR_PORT = "${toString cfg.port}";
-      };
-      path = with pkgs; [
-        gawk
-        procps
-      ];
-      preStart = ''
-        mkdir -p "${cfg.stateDir}/data";
-        mkdir -p "${cfg.stateDir}/logs";
-
-        if ! test -e "${cfg.stateDir}/data/solr.xml"; then
-          install -D -m0640 ${cfg.package}/server/solr/solr.xml "${cfg.stateDir}/data/solr.xml"
-          install -D -m0640 ${cfg.package}/server/solr/zoo.cfg "${cfg.stateDir}/data/zoo.cfg"
-        fi
-
-        if ! test -e "${cfg.stateDir}/log4j2.xml"; then
-          install -D -m0640 ${cfg.package}/server/resources/log4j2.xml "${cfg.stateDir}/log4j2.xml"
-        fi
-      '';
-
-      serviceConfig = {
-        User = cfg.user;
-        Group = cfg.group;
-        ExecStart="${cfg.package}/bin/solr start -f -a \"${concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraJavaOptions}\"";
-        ExecStop="${cfg.package}/bin/solr stop";
-      };
-    };
-
-    users.users = optionalAttrs (cfg.user == "solr") {
-      solr = {
-        group = cfg.group;
-        home = cfg.stateDir;
-        createHome = true;
-        uid = config.ids.uids.solr;
-      };
-    };
-
-    users.groups = optionalAttrs (cfg.group == "solr") {
-      solr.gid = config.ids.gids.solr;
-    };
-
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 97be13f3bed0..8386219f73d8 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -624,7 +624,6 @@ in {
   soapui = handleTest ./soapui.nix {};
   sogo = handleTest ./sogo.nix {};
   solanum = handleTest ./solanum.nix {};
-  solr = handleTest ./solr.nix {};
   sonarr = handleTest ./sonarr.nix {};
   sourcehut = handleTest ./sourcehut.nix {};
   spacecookie = handleTest ./spacecookie.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/solr.nix b/nixos/tests/solr.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 33afe9d788f7..000000000000
--- a/nixos/tests/solr.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, ... }:
-
-{
-  name = "solr";
-  meta.maintainers = [ pkgs.lib.maintainers.aanderse ];
-
-  nodes.machine =
-    { config, pkgs, ... }:
-    {
-      # Ensure the virtual machine has enough memory for Solr to avoid the following error:
-      #
-      #   OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning:
-      #     INFO: os::commit_memory(0x00000000e8000000, 402653184, 0)
-      #     failed; error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12)
-      #
-      #   There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
-      #   Native memory allocation (mmap) failed to map 402653184 bytes for committing reserved memory.
-      virtualisation.memorySize = 2000;
-
-      services.solr.enable = true;
-    };
-
-  testScript = ''
-    start_all()
-
-    machine.wait_for_unit("solr.service")
-    machine.wait_for_open_port(8983)
-    machine.succeed("curl --fail http://localhost:8983/solr/")
-
-    # adapted from pkgs.solr/examples/films/README.txt
-    machine.succeed("sudo -u solr solr create -c films")
-    assert '"status":0' in machine.succeed(
-        """
-      curl http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
-        "add-field" : {
-          "name":"name",
-          "type":"text_general",
-          "multiValued":false,
-          "stored":true
-        },
-        "add-field" : {
-          "name":"initial_release_date",
-          "type":"pdate",
-          "stored":true
-        }
-      }'
-    """
-    )
-    machine.succeed(
-        "sudo -u solr post -c films ${pkgs.solr}/example/films/films.json"
-    )
-    assert '"name":"Batman Begins"' in machine.succeed(
-        "curl http://localhost:8983/solr/films/query?q=name:batman"
-    )
-  '';
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index a3b75134107b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, jre, makeWrapper, nixosTests }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "solr";
-  version = "8.6.3";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://apache/lucene/${pname}/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "0mbbmamajamxzcvdlrzx9wmv26kg9nhg9bzazk176dhhx3rjajf2";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out $out/bin
-
-    cp -r bin/solr bin/post $out/bin/
-    cp -r contrib $out/
-    cp -r dist $out/
-    cp -r example $out/
-    cp -r server $out/
-
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/solr --set JAVA_HOME "${jre}"
-    wrapProgram $out/bin/post --set JAVA_HOME "${jre}"
-  '';
-
-  passthru.tests = {
-    inherit (nixosTests) solr;
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://lucene.apache.org/solr/";
-    description = "Open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
-    knownVulnerabilities = [
-      "Multiple security issues throughout 2021, see https://solr.apache.org/security.html"
-      "Package is outdated and has no maintainer"
-    ];
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 2e5c198b99d1..9598310264d5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1439,7 +1439,8 @@ mapAliases ({
   smugline = throw "smugline has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained and depends on deprecated libraries"; # Added 2020-11-04
   snack = throw "snack has been removed: broken for 5+ years"; # Added 2022-04-21
   soldat-unstable = opensoldat; # Added 2022-07-02
-  solr_8 = solr; # Added 2021-01-30
+  solr_8 = throw "'solr' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2023-03-16
+  solr = throw "'solr' has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken and unmaintained"; # Added 2023-03-16
 
   # Added 2020-02-10
   sourceHanSansPackages = {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 510341ddab9c..d3f8f97381de 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12277,8 +12277,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   sonar-scanner-cli = callPackage ../tools/security/sonar-scanner-cli { };
 
-  solr = callPackage ../servers/search/solr { };
-
   solvespace = callPackage ../applications/graphics/solvespace { };
 
   sonarr = callPackage ../servers/sonarr { };