Office Elberfeld
The Elberfeld office was an administrative unit of the Duchy of Berg . It consisted of the parishes of Elberfeld and Cronenberg . The office administered by Elberfeld Castle was created around 1427 and existed until 1806.
The main location and administrative seat was Elberfeld Castle in Freedom Elberfeld, which was elevated to a town from 1610 and developed into one of the first and most important industrial and economic centers in West Germany under Berg rule.
The Office Elberfeld was, according to the carte of the Duchy of Berg of the Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking from 1789 to the south by the streams Gelpe and Morsbach limited, the western boundary formed between Müngsten and Sonnborn the Wupper , further north, the areas of Varresbeck and Katerberg included. The northern border is formed between the Schmalt and the border by the Eigenbach and between the border and Raukamp by the watershed between the river systems of the Wupper and the Ruhr . From Raukamp it ran south on the Elberfeld line of the Bergische Landwehr via Uellendahl , west , Ostersbaum and the Hardtberg to the confluence of the Bendahler Bach and along it to chapels in the source area of the Gelpe.
In the north it bordered on the Bergische Unterherrschaft Hardenberg , in the east on the Amt Beyenburg , in the south on the Amt Bornefeld and in the west on the Amt Solingen and the Unterherrschaft Schöller .
Bailiffs
- 1639: Eberhard von dem Bottlenberg called Kessel
literature
- Wilhelm Langenwiesche (eds.): C.Siebel , C.Coutelle, CRHötte and C.Pöls: Elberfeld and Barmen: Description and history of this twin town of the Wupperthal, together with a special presentation of their industry, an overview of the Bergische Landesgeschichte etc. , Barmen, 1863
- Erich Philipp Ploennies : Topographia Ducatus Montani (1715), ed. u. edit v. Burkhard Dietz, 2 vols. (Part 1: Description of the country and views, Part 2: Maps), Neustadt ad Aisch 1988, ISBN 3-87707-073-6
- Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking : Carte of the Duchy of Berg
- Wilhelm Fabricius : History Atlas of the Rhine Province , Volume: Explanations II of the map from 1789 , Bonn, 1894-1914,
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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ' N , 7 ° 9' E