Foreign citizenship Lennep

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In the foreign citizenship Lennep were in the Middle Ages and the early modern period the Hofgüter in Bergisch offices Beyenburg and Bornefeld summarized that the Municipal Court of the city Lennep were under. The foreign citizenship is also called Lenneper Honschaft referred.

External citizenship came into being at the end of the 13th century when Lenneps was founded. In order to defend the city, the farmers of the surrounding farms were asked by the Bergisch counts to live within the city ​​wall . In return, their farms, but outside of the country, were largely exempted from taxes and consolidated into foreign citizenship. Some foreign citizenship goods were partly in court estates , which otherwise belonged to the Garschagen and Hohenhagen honors .

The farms and residential areas Berg, Böhlefeld , Bornscheid , Buscherhof , Durchholz , three farms in Endringhausen , one farm in Frielinghausen , Grünenplatz , two farms in Hackenberg , two estates in Halbach , Halle , Hastberg , Hardtshof , Hasenberg , Henkelshof , belonged to the external citizenship . Goods in Herbringhausen , 13 houses in Hohenhagen , Jammertal , Käseberg , Ludbertinsberg (location unknown), Möllersberg , Nagelsberg , Neuenteich , Schneppendahl , rearmost Stursberg , Ueberfeld and a farm in Wefelpütt , plus the Hermannsmühle , the Buchholzmühle , the Hägenermühle and the Tackermühle . In 1770 there were 69 houses in total.

In the High Middle Ages, foreign citizenship mainly belonged to the parish of Lüttringhausen , and from the late Middle Ages onwards partly to the new parish in Lennep. Together with other farms and living spaces from the parish of Wermelskirchen , part of Lennep's foreign citizenship went into the rural community of Fünfzehnhöfe in the 19th century .

In 1815/16 there were 802 residents with external citizenship. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , in 1832 external citizenship had a population of 1,112, which was divided into 141 Catholic and 971 Protestant parishioners. The mayor’s quarters comprised a public building, 108 apartment buildings, 13 factories and mills and 96 agricultural buildings.

The list of Places included 1,832 Buchholz mill clean Hager Hammer , Breast Hammer , overnight field Hohenhagen, oil mill , Hägenermühle, bears Hammer , Devil cottas , Schmitz Halbach , Born Scheid, Born Mühle , Hermann mill Stursberg, Tackermühle, Born Scheider Hammer , Honsberger cottas , Diepmannsbach , Endringhausen, Höhfelderhäuschen , Buscherhof, Tummelün , Grünenplatz, Hastberg, Wefelpütt, Herbringhausen, Frielinghausen, Bölefeld, Herbringhauserbach , Halle, Hardtshof and Käsberg .

On August 17, 1857, Lennep was granted town charter on the basis of the new Rhenish town regulations that came into effect that year . The parts of the foreign citizenship that were not in the area of ​​the mayor's office Lüttringhausen were incorporated into the city area.

Parts of the foreign citizenship west of Lennep are part of today's North Rhine-Westphalian district with the district number 3434 foreign citizenship .

literature

  • E. Erwin Stursberg , "Alt-Lüttringhausen" , contributions to the history of Remscheid, No. 6, Remscheid, 1950, p. 29f

Individual evidence

  1. a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836