Mayor's Office Graefrath
The mayor's office Gräfrath was a mayor's office 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 Gräfrath was converted into the mayor's office Gräfrath. The area of the mayor's office is now part of the Bergisch city of Solingen and extends to the districts of Gräfrath and small parts of Solingen-Mitte .
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 Gräfrath was created as part of the canton of Solingen in the Elberfeld arrondissement .
The former Freedom Gräfrath with its external citizenship (the Honschaft Gräfrath ) and the Altberg Honschaft Ketzberg 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, 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 Gräfrath became the mayor's office of Gräfrath.
In 1815/16 a total of 2,747 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 3,464 in 1832, divided into 879 Catholic, 2,551 Protestant and 34 Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised two churches, 13 public buildings, 416 apartment buildings, 133 factories and mills and 377 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary notation), the residential areas, courtyards and localities of the mayor's office included
- Local area Gräfrath with outside citizenship / Honschaft Gräfrath (1600 inhabitants): Gräfrath (core town), Bandesmühle , Bergerbrühl , Egidius Klusen , Dyck , Grünewald , Grund , Heiderhof , Layken , Mühlenbusch , Piepersberg , Steinenhaus , Tummelhaus and Ziegelfeld .
- Honschaft Ketzberg (1864 inhabitants): Altenfeld , Aue , Busch , Am Wupperflusse , Dahl , Schtumpf , Ehren , (above) Flachsberg , (below) Flachsberg , Flockertsholz , Foche , Heide , Ketzberg , Külf , Neuenhaus , Neuenkulle , Nümmen , above to Wood , Paashaus , Rauenhaus , Rathland , Ringelshäusgen , Schafenhaus , Schieten , Schlagbaum , Steinbeck , Steinsiepen , Stockdum ( I. Stockdum , II. Stockdum , III. Stockdum ), Down to the wood and central point .
On September 4, 1856 Gräfrath was due to the entry into force of that year in New Rhenish order the city charter , the Honschaften were incorporated into the city area.
The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province show 5,306 inhabitants for the year 1867. For 1871, 41 places with a total of 669 residential buildings and 5,424 inhabitants are given (4,121 Protestant, 1,208 Catholic, 66 other Christian and 29 Jewish faith).
The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 6,296 for the city (and at the same time mayor) Gräfrath (4,854 Protestant, 1,375 Catholic, 55 other Christian and 12 Jewish faith), which in 51 residential places with a total of 851 houses and 1,282 households lived. The area of the city and mayor's office (1,108 ha ) was divided into 709 ha of arable land, 79 ha of meadows and 147 ha of forest.
In addition to the residential places mentioned in 1832, the following are also listed in the community dictionary : Apfelbaum , Biemerich , Blumenthal , Buscherfeld , Eichholz , Freudenberg , Scheiderirlen and Stöckerberg .
With effect from August 1, 1929, the city and mayor of Gräfrath was incorporated into the city of Solingen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau, Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
- ↑ 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.