Mayor's office Altendorf

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Map of the mayor's office 1898
Town hall of the mayor's office Altendorf
Sole Mayor: Wilhelm Kerckhoff

The mayor Altendorf was in the last third of the 19th century one of ten mayors in the district of Essen in the administrative district of Dusseldorf the Prussian Rhine Province .

history

The first documentary mention dates back to 966, when Emperor Otto I donated the Ehrenzell court , the core of the so-called three - tenant quarter , to the convent of the Essen monastery. This three-tier quarter consisted of the localities Altendorf , Frohnhausen and Holsterhausen .

After secularization in 1803 and the creation of a new administrative structure, the rural community Altendorf (consisting of Altendorf, Frohnhausen and Holsterhausen) belonged to Borbeck's mayor since 1816 . On January 1, 1874, the Altendorf rural community was spun off from the Borbeck mayor and now formed the Altendorf mayor in the Essen district. The city of Essen itself left the Essen district a year earlier and formed its own urban district .

For the mayor Altendorf now in force district regulations for the Rhine Provinces and Westphalia of 13 July 1827 and the law concerning the municipal constitution in the Rhine Province on May 15, 1856. On April 1, 1888, entered district regulations for the Rhine Province on 30 May 1887 in Force.

The first and only mayor of the Altendorf mayor was Wilhelm Kerckhoff until his death . He took office with the spin-off from the Borbeck mayor's office on January 1, 1874, was confirmed once on January 1, 1886 and again on January 1, 1898 for a further twelve years. However, Kerckhoff died on June 17, 1900, so that the office was temporarily continued by Johannes Goerres until it was incorporated into the city of Essen on August 1, 1901 .

After the dissolution of the mayor's office Altendorf, its three parts Altendorf, Frohnhausen and Holsterhausen were incorporated into the city of Essen on August 1, 1901 as individual districts . The district council agreed to the incorporation on February 15, 1901, which was approved by the city council on March 1. As a result, the last meeting of the Altendorf municipal council took place on July 23rd. After the incorporation was completed, Altendorfer and Essen residents met for the first time on October 8, 1901 in the Essen town hall .

character

Initially, the administration was housed in a leased house on Margarethenstrasse in Frohnhausen. The Altendorf town hall, built in 1875 and 1876, was occupied on July 1, 1876. Its construction costs, including the land, amounted to 120,000  marks . During the Second World War , the town hall, which was located on a plot of land bought from the innkeeper Johann Potthoff, fell victim to the Allied air raids . The Church of St. Mary's Birth has stood here since 1952.

At the time of its founding, the still rural mayor's office in Altendorf had 20,468 inhabitants. Their number rose to around 66,000 until it was incorporated into the city of Essen in August 1901. This made Altendorf the largest Prussian rural community. The reason was the enormous immigration of workers for the hard coal mining, for example in the United Hagenbeck and Amalie collieries , and in particular for the Krupp cast steel factory adjacent to the east , which employed around 20,000 people in 1887. More and more farmers were selling their lands as building land as land prices rose. Workers' settlements with appropriate infrastructure were built. These included the railway stations Altendorf on the Rhenish route from 1874 and Altendorf-Cronenberg on the Bergisch-Märkische route , which was opened after 1880. From 1893 the first tram ran from Essen through Altendorf to Borbeck and five years later another from Essen to Frohnhausen. Schools and churches were also built. The churches include the St. Mary's Assumption Church, which was also called Altendorfer Dom, the St. Antonius Church in Frohnhausen and the Protestant Luther Church .

Spatial structure

The area of ​​the mayor's office totaled 957.36  hectares , with Altendorf 320.73, Frohnhausen 335.81 and Holsterhausen 300.82 hectares.

Each of the three parishes was divided into sections:

  • Altendorf had three sections: Section 1 comprised only the south-eastern workers' colony of Kronenberg , Section 2 the rest of the south and Section 3 the north.
  • In Frohnhausen, section 1 was roughly in the north-west and section 2 in the south-east.
  • The largest area of ​​the municipality of Holsterhausen fell on Section 1 with the Alfredshof settlement in the southern part and the railway facilities with a connection to the Krupp cast steel factory in the far north of Holsterhausen. Sections 2 and 3 in between were shared by the Schederhof workers' colony .

Web links

Commons : Bürgermeisterei Altendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The other mayorries were: Altenessen, Borbeck, Kettwig-Stadt, Kettwig-Land, Steele-Stadt, Steele-Land, Stoppenberg, Werden-Stadt, Werden-Land
  2. ↑ Hermann Schröter: Alderman of the City of Essen until 1933. In: Die Heimatstadt Essen 1960/61, page 14
  3. ↑ a b c T. Kellen: The industrial city of Essen in words and pictures. History and description of the city of Essen. At the same time a guide through food and the surrounding area. Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1902.
  4. ↑ Frohnhauser Geschichte work group: Frohnhausen - The lost village
  5. ↑ Diedrich Baedeker: Alfred Krupp and the development of the cast steel factory in Essen. Baedeker, Essen 1889. 2nd edition 1912

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 57.8 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 3.1 ″  E