Foreign citizenship

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In the Bergisches Land and the Rhineland , in particular, the rural area surrounding a city with its courtyards , living quarters and cottages was referred to as external citizenship (in some places also referred to as rural district), which usually had a joint administration and an unseparated household with the city, but one represented its own statistical unit and was not an original part of the city. The residents of the foreign citizenship were also referred to as foreign citizens. Foreign citizenships are documented from the Middle Ages .

description

With the granting of liberty or city ​​rights to densely populated and economically and strategically important places, they gained privileges in the Middle Ages and the early modern era and were given a stronger legal position vis-à-vis national rule. The right to an enclosure with a city wall was often associated with city law. The residential areas outside the city wall and boundary often belonged to the same parish (with the church mostly within the city), but did not acquire this legal status.

Since these areas still had to be administered locally, this was done by the mayor, the council and the city administration. This resulted in an association of the actual city district and a surrounding external citizenship, both of which differed legally and statistically, although they were under the same administration. The foreign citizenships were normally of Rotten , honing / farming communities divided and later sections.

With the municipality order for the Prussian state implemented in 1854, which ultimately failed , the term collective municipality was introduced in some places for the association of the city and foreign citizenship . Foreign citizenships existed until around the middle and end of the 19th century, only then was the distinction between city district and external citizenship or rural district abolished and everything assigned to a common, expanded urban area.

Examples of foreign citizenships were:

literature

  • Kohlhammer: German city book: Handbook of urban history. Volume 3, Part 3, 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Kaelble : Problems of Modernization in Germany. West German Ed., 1978