Burscheid Mayor's Office

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The mayor's office Burscheid was from 1815 to 1819 a mayor's office in the district of Opladen in the Prussian province of Jülich-Cleve-Berg and after its dissolution from 1819 a mayor's office in the district of Solingen in the Prussian Rhine province ( administrative district of Düsseldorf ). It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisches Amt Miselohe , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the Mairie Burscheid was transformed into the Burscheid mayor. The area of ​​the mayor's office is now part of the Bergisch towns of Burscheid and Leichlingen (district of Witzhelden ).

Background and story

The Duchy of Berg last belonged to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria due to inheritance . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the duchy to Napoleon Bonaparte in exchange for the principality of Ansbach . He transferred the duchy to his brother-in-law Joachim Murat , who united it on April 24, 1806 with the counties of Mark , Dortmund , Limburg on the right bank of the Rhine , the northern part of the Principality of Munster and other territories to form the Grand Duchy of Berg .

Soon after the takeover, the French administration in the Grand Duchy began to introduce new and modern administrative structures based on the French model. By August 3, 1806, this municipal reform replaced and unified the old Bergisch offices and rulers. It provided for the creation of departments , arrondissements , cantons and municipalities (called Mairies from the end of 1808) and broke with the old nobility prerogatives in local government. On November 14, 1808, this process was completed after a reorganization of the first structuring from 1806, the Altbergic honors were often retained and were assigned to the respective Mairies of a canton as rural communities. During this time, the municipality or Maire Burscheid was created as part of the canton of Opladen in the arrondissement of Düsseldorf .

In addition to the parish of Burscheid and Witzhelden, the Altbergian honors Oberhonschaft , Mittelhonschaft , Unterhonschaft and Witzhelden (congruent with the parish Witzhelden) belonged to it.

In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after the defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and from the end of 1813 it fell under the provisional administration of Prussia in the so-called Generalgouvernement Berg , which was finally granted it by the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. With the formation of the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in 1816, the existing administrative structures were largely retained and converted into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities while maintaining the French borders . The canton of Opladen became the district of Opladen, the Maire Burscheid became the mayor's office of Burscheid.

In 1819 there was a partial reclassification in the Düsseldorf administrative district. The district of Opladen was dissolved on April 30, 1819 and the communities assigned to the district of Solingen.

In 1815/16 a total of 5,158 people lived in the mayor's office. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a total population of 6,098 in 1832, divided into 365 Catholic and 5,733 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised two churches, twelve public buildings, 1080 residential houses, 43 factories and mills and 1483 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary notation), the residential areas, courtyards and localities of the mayor's office included

Due to the municipal regulations for the Rhine Province , the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the mayor's office and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . On August 18, 1856 Burscheid was due to the entry into force of that year in New Rhenish order the city charter .

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 6,828 for the city (and at the same time mayor) Burscheid (5,743 Protestant, 1,079 Catholic, five other Christian and one Jewish faith), which in 86 places with a total of 1,104 houses and 1,461 households lived. The area of ​​the city and mayor's office (2,439  hectares ) was divided into 1,073 hectares of arable land, 154 hectares of meadows and 681 hectares of forest.

The following are listed as living places in the community dictionary : Altenhilgen , Beckersheide, Bellinghausen, Berghamberg, Berringhausen, Blasberg, Böckershammer, Bornheim, Bruchermühle, Büchel, Burbach , Dierath, Dohm, Dorn, Dünweg, Eichenplätze, Engelrath , Eichhausen , Flügel, Geilenbach, Griesbach, Großbruch , Großhamberg, Großösinghausen, Grünscheid, Grünscheidermühle, Grunewald , Hahnerfeld, Hahnscheiderhof, House Handscheid, Heddinghofen, Heide, Heiligeneiche , Herkensiefen, Hilgen, Hinterweg, Höfchen, height, Hürringhausen, Imelsbach, Irlen, Irlerhof, Irlermühle, Kämersheide, Kämpchen, Kaltenherberg, Kamberg, Kamp , Kippekoven, Claasmühle, Kleinbruch, Kleinösinghausen, Kotten, Kretzheide, Kuckenberg, Lämgesmühle, Lambertsmühle, Lamerbusch, Liesendahl, Linde, Löh, Luisenhöhe , Luisental , Lungstrasse, Massiefen, Maxhahn, Nagelsbaum, Neuenhaus, Neuenhof , Niederrepinghofen, Oberlandscheid, Oberwietsche, Paffenlöh, Repinghofen, Rötzinghofen, Schneppendahl, Sträßchen, Straßerhof, Steinrütsche, Thi elenmühle, Thielenölmühle, Unterwietsche and Ziegelfeld .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.