Foreign citizenship Solingen

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The foreign citizenship Solingen was from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, the rural outskirts of the Bergisch City Solingen (town charter since 1347).

From 1815 belonged to foreign citizenship together with the city of Solingen for mayor Solingen in the district Solingen the administrative district of Dusseldorf within the Prussian Rhine Province . It was dissolved when external citizenship was incorporated into the municipality of Solingen.

In 1815/16 a total of 431 residents lived with foreign citizenship. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , in 1832 external citizenship had a total population of 799, divided into 276 Catholic and 523 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised a total of 130 houses, 17 factories and mills and 57 agricultural buildings. According to statistics (contemporary notation), Wehrwolf , Höfgen , Kullen , Schlagbaum , Vorspel , Mangenberg , Weyersberg , Kirschbaum , I. Heidberg and II. Heidberg belonged to the residential areas, courtyards and localities of foreign citizenship .

Individual evidence

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