Mayor's office of Dorp

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The mayor's office in Dorp was a mayor's office and town in the Solingen district of the Prussian Rhine province in the 19th century . It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisches Amt Solingen , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the Mairie Dorp was converted into the Dorp mayor and received town charter in 1856.

Background and story

Coat of arms of the former city of Dorp
The borders from 1808 to 1888 of the seven former cities in the area of ​​today's city of Solingen; the town of Dorp in the eastern area

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 Dorp was created as part of the canton of Solingen in the Elberfeld arrondissement .

The Altbergian honors Balkhausen , Dorp and Solingen belonged to her. The honor of Solingen included the wider area of ​​the city of Solingen due to medieval city law , but not the city and its foreign citizenship itself.

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, while maintaining the French borders, transformed into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities , which often survived into the 20th century. The canton of Solingen became the district of Solingen, the Maire Dorp became the mayor's office of Dorp.

In 1815/16 a total of 4,048 people lived in the mayor's office. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office in 1832 had a total population of 4,641, divided into 563 Catholic and 4,078 Protestant parishioners. The mayor's quarters comprised a total of eight public buildings, 695 residential buildings, 173 factories and mills, and 481 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary spelling), Dorp (titular place), Grunewald , Esel , Oben Weg , Below Weg , White Horse , Wiedenhof , Irlen , Brühl , Kirberg , Kirschbaumshöh , Maushöhe , Spielbruch , Lindenbaum belong to the residential areas, courtyards and localities of the mayor's office , Tannenbaum , height , 4 th field , 2nd field , Meigen , Theegarten , paper mill , Altenbau , Städtgesmühle , Kannenhof , Bock , to Clauberg , Pott house , Stöckerberg , in the Clauberg , Bern house , under the sticks , Schrodt Berg , Kolfert , Fleusmühle , paper mill stream , Unnersberg , Königsmühl , Birmingham , Bechershäusgen , Busch , Bünkenberg , Eichholz , I. Hästen , II. Hästen , Kempen , Schelberg , Odendahl , Breidbach , Wüstenhoff , Hohenscheid , III. Balkhausen , II. Balkhausen , I. Balkhausen , Glüder , Pfaffenberg , III. Hästen , Scharfhausen , Dornhupen , Balkhausen , Billstein , Aue , Böckerhoff , Schlicken , Hoppenböcker , Flügelsmühle , Bertramsmühle , Krahenhöhe , Wieden , Birken , Steinsiepen , Jagenberg , Schaberg , Grünenburg , Eulswag , Windfeln , Eick , 3rd field , 1st field , Hippe , King cottas , Kirschberg , Goldschald , stop , Arnsberg , meadow and straw Erbach .

On Sept. 4, 1856 Dorp was due to the entry into force of that year in New Rhenish order the city charter . The city council elected the mayor for twelve years and the councilors for six years. Since then, the mayor's office no longer consisted of the three honors, but of a town that was the same area as the mayor's office.

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province show 9,920 inhabitants for the year 1867. For 1871, 85 places with a total of 1,112 residential buildings and 10,689 inhabitants are given (8,953 Protestant, 1,672 Catholic and 64 other Christian beliefs).

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 13,285 for the city (and at the same time mayor) Dorp (10,951 Protestant, 2,124 Catholic, 206 other Christian and four Jewish faiths), which in 77 residential places with a total of 1,863 houses and 2,690 households lived. The area of ​​the city and mayor's office (1,929  hectares ) was divided into 859 hectares of arable land, 145 hectares of meadows and 392 hectares of forest.

In addition to the residential areas mentioned in 1832, the community lexicon also lists: Felsenkeller , Grünental , Kannenbrühl , Kirschbaumskotten , Meigenerbrühl , Meisenburg , Pereskotten , Sturmsloch , Vockert and Vockerterbusch .

With effect from January 1, 1889, the town and mayor's office of Dorp was incorporated into the town of Solingen after the new town hall had only been moved into at the beginning of September 1885 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau, Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  4. ↑ 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.

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 6 ′  E