Office Bornefeld-Hückeswagen

Office Bornefeld 1789 map

The Bornefeld-Hückeswagen office was a judicial and administrative district in the Duchy of Berg .

history

The office was created in 1555 as a merger of the Altbergian offices of Bornefeld and Hückeswagen .

It consisted of the freedom Hückeswagen , the parish of the same name with the four honors Berghausen , Große Honschaft , Herdingsfeld and Lüdorf of the external citizenship Hückeswagen , the city of Lennep with the external citizenship Lennep , Fifteenhöfe , the parish Dabringhausen with the Oberhonschaft and the Niederhonschaft , the parish Dhünn , the parish Remscheid with the honors Remscheid , the parish Wermelskirchen with the three honors Oberhonschaft , Dorfhonschaft and Niederhonschaft .

House Nagelsgaul near Wipperfürth was the residence of the noble bailiffs from the von Nagel family for several generations . The seat of the judge was Hückeswagen Castle until 1812 . The seat of the bailiffs was Wermelskirchen.

Bailiffs

The following officials are documented:

• 1641–1660: Johann Wilhelm von Hugenpoet
• until 1812: Carl Philipp von Schatte

See also

Bergische Amt Constitution in 1363

literature

• Nicolaus J. Breidenbach : The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid from 1639 to 1812. Texts and reports from the court minutes and official files of Bornefeld-Hückeswagen , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2005, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius: Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province
2. ↑ Renate Leffers: The neutrality policy of Count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm as Duke of Jülich-Berg in the period 1636–1643 , Bergische Forschungen, Volume VIII, Neustadt an der Aisch 1971, p. 94.