Office of Porz

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The Porz office was an administrative and judicial district in the Duchy of Berg east of Cologne . In 1363 there is a mention of the Porz office in the deed of the transfer of the state of Blankenberg to the county of Berg .

history

The beginnings of the Grafschaft Berg lie in Deutzgau . Alongside Bensberg, Porz became the administrative office of the Porz-Bensberg office and the seat of the main court for the Bergisch offices south of the Wupper.

Office Porz and Office Steinbach 1789

The main course was first mentioned in Porz in 1286.

The Office Porz included the parishes Paffrath , Bergisch Gladbach , Bensberg , Refrath , Herkenrath , sand (now all about Bergisch Gladbach belonging) Dürscheid (to Kuerten ), Dünnwald , Ensen , Flittard , Heumar , Langel , Merheim , Mülheim , Niederzündorf , Oberzündorf , Stammheim , Urbach , Wahn (to Cologne ) and Immekeppel (to Overath ). The "Bergische Scheiderhöh " with Altenrath and Schönrath and until 1631 the parish of Odenthal were also included in the Porz office .

" Von dem Ambt Portz
This Ambt is a beautiful, large Ambt, without the rule Otenthal and the Scheiderhöhe, which the latter is a special parish, has 20 parishes as 1. Flittert, 2. Dünnewaldt, 3. Pafrath, 4. Gladbach, 5 Duhrscheid, 6. Herckelrath, 7. ImmeKeppel, 8. Bensberg, 9. Raefrath, 10. Merheim, 11. Mülheim, 12. Hömer, 13. Ohrbach, 14. Wahn, 15. Langelt, 16. OberSündorp, 17. NiederSündorp , 18. Ensen, 19. Sandt, 20. Stems.
Of all of these, Mülheim is only Protestant, the others all Sambt der Herrlichkeit Otenthal and the above-mentioned Scheiderhöh are Catholic, which is why they separate the latter from it in this description because they are not under the court judge, but have their special judges ... "

- Ploennies' topography from 1715 Topographia Ducatus Montani Erich Philipp Ploennies

The parishes were again partially subdivided into honors . In addition to the Bensberg freedom , the parishes of Sand, Dürscheid , Herkenrath and Bensberg were also honors. The parish Paffrath comprised the honors Paffrath and Combüchen , the parish Gladbach the honors Gladbach and Gronau and the parish Immekeppel the honors Immekeppel and Eschbach . While Ploennis 1715 still runs Refrath as its own parish, Fabricius mentions it with reference to the map by Wiebeking 1789 in the parish of Bensberg.

In the early Middle Ages, the messenger office and parish of Odenthal was divided into the honors Grimßgewalt , Dorfhonschaft (Odenthal) , Blecher , Breidbach and Scherf . During the reign of Odenthal from 1631 onwards, Odenthal is no longer subdivided into honors.

In the following years Porz developed into the administrative seat of the Porz office in the Duchy of Berg, to which the towns on the right bank of the Rhine Brück, Buchheim, Dünnwald, Eil, Ensen, Flittard, Grengel, Heumar, Langel, Libur, Lind, Merheim, Mülheim am Rhein, Rath , Stammheim, Urbach, Wahn, Westhoven and Zündorf, as well as Bergisch Gladbach, Bensberg, Dürscheid and Immekeppel belonged. This means that this old Bergische Amt Porz extended far beyond the old city limits of the city of Porz. The original capital of the office was Bensberg with the winery . But the importance that Porz had as the main dish in all Bergische Lands south of the Wupper since the 11th century seems to have resulted in the change of the name from Amt Bensberg to Amt Porz, the winery remained at Burg Bensberg. At the head of the office stood the bailiff . He ran the administrative business and was also the judge of the main court in Porz.

" Amt Porz:
... The terrain is good on the Rhine side, but most of it is the Mittelland. There are few meadows, but on the mountain side there is a lot of wood and desert heaths. Apart from Mülheim, where a lot of foil tape is made, the subjects have no fabriques, but they can bring everything commode (comfortably) to the market in Cologne and therefore keep a large number of cattle "

- Victor Loewe: Description of the Duchy of Berg (1740)

Judiciary in the Porz office

In December 1363 the office comprised the ten dinghies Odenthal, Paffrath, Stammheim, Dürscheid, Bensberg, Porz, Volberg , Lülsdorf and the exclave around Bergheim and Mondorf at the mouth of the Sieg.

Porz already had the national main course in 1286, after the court in Bensberg had this importance before. The office of judge von Porz was given even greater importance by the functions that were assigned to him by the main regional and knight's court - the high court of Opladen. The district courts of Odenthal , Bensberg , Kürten, Wipperfürth (Wipperfürth-Land, belonging to the Steinbach office ), Lindlar with Eckenhagen, Overath, Wolfsdorf near Siegburg, Troisdorf, Bergheim an der Sieg and Lülsdorf consulted in Porz .

Bailiffs

  • 1313 Adolf Kase called Hesse, scultetus in Bensbure
  • 1335–53 Wilhelm von Haan, scultetus de Beynbur
  • 1356–57 Heinrich von der Mühlen, schultes zů Portze
  • 1375–76 Dietrich von Markelsbach called Klophase, amptman zo Beinsbure
  • 1379–85 Gerhard von Vossbruch, bailiff of Porz
  • ...
  • 1390–1393 Giso von Zweiffel
  • 1393–1422 (?) Albrecht von Zweiffel
  • 1444 (?) - 1449 Heinrich von Zweiffel
  • ...
  • 1451 Knight Johann vamme Huys
  • 1489 Wilhelm von Bernsau
  • around 1530 his son Wilhelm von Bernsau (also bailiff von Steinbach )
  • 1547–60 Godart von Wylich zu Bernsau ( son-in-law of Wilhelm von Bernsau )
  • 1560–66 Jöbst von Eller ( at the same time bailiff of Lülsdorf and Löwenburg )
  • 1566–70 Johann von Scheidt called Weschpfenning
  • 1570–85 Heinrich von der Hövelich
  • ...
  • 1639–62 Adolf von Hatterbach (according to sovereign acts: Wilhelm von Zweifel)

Succession

The end of the Bergisch office of Porz came in 1806 with the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Berg under Napoleon or his brother-in-law Joachim Murat and the reorganization of the administrative and judicial system based on the French model in 1808. The office of Porz became together with the parishes of Overath and Lindlar from the Office Steinbach as well as parts of the office Löwenburg , the office Blankenberg , the office Lülsdorf and the glory Vilich to the arrondissement Mülheim in the department of the Rhine . The arrondissement was divided into cantons and mairies . In 1815 the area became part of Prussia , the Mairies were renamed mayor's offices and in 1927 they were renamed offices . The district of Mülheim developed from the arrondissement .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to the portal of the archives in NRW. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
  3. ^ Erich Philipp Ploennies: Topographia Ducatus Montani . 1715.
  4. ↑ Gerd Müller: Odenthal, History of a Bergische Gemeinde, published by the municipality of Odenthal, Odenthal 1976
  5. ↑ a b Albrecht Brendler: On the way to the territory. Administrative structure and office holder of the County of Berg 1225–1380. Dissertation University of Bonn, 2015,
  6. ^ Albert Eßer: Bergisch Gladbacher Stadtgeschichte , contributions to the history of the city of Bergisch Gladbach Volume 9, published by the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives 2006, ISBN 3-9804448-6-4
  7. ↑ Dr. Harletz: Bensberg Castle . In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old archdiocese of Cologne . Boisserée, 1873.
  8. ↑ Vincenz Jacob von Zuccalmaglio: History and description of the city and the district of Mülheim aR volume 2 . Feilner, 1846.
  9. ↑ JC Dänzer: Décret impérial sur la circonscription territoriale du grand-duché de Berg… Imperial decree on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg . 1808, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-84858 .

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