Mayor's office of Haan
The mayor's office in Haan was a mayor's office in the Elberfeld district of the Prussian Rhine province in the 19th century . It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisch rule Schöller , the Mettmann office and the Solingen office , which were dissolved under the French in 1806 and assigned to the canton of Velbert as Mairie Haan . Under Prussia, Mairie Haan was converted into the mayor's office in Haan.
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 noble privileges 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 Mairie Haan was created as part of the canton of Mettmann in the arrondissement of Düsseldorf . In addition to the village of Haan, it included the Altbergian honors Oberhaan , Mittelhaan and Unterhaan , belonging to the parish of Haan , as well as the honors Ellscheid , Millrath , Gruiten , Obgruiten and Schöller , the parish villages of Gruiten and Schöller and the parish of Sonnborn .
In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after the defeat in the Battle of Leipzig and the Berg Generalgouvernement was formed from the end of 1813 under provisional administration by Prussia . In 1815 Prussia finally took power in the Rhineland through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna . 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 Velbert became the district of Mettmann (from 1820 the district of Elberfeld), and after 1815 Mairie Haan became the "Samtgemeinde Schöller". At the beginning of the 1830s, Haan was again the seat of the mayor's office.
In 1815/16 5,367 people lived in the mayor's office. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a population of 7,367 in 1832, divided into 1,483 Catholic, 5,875 Protestant and nine Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised five churches, six public buildings, 935 residential houses, eleven factories and mills, and 686 agricultural buildings.
In 1845, due to the municipal regulations for the Rhine Province of July 23, 1845, the mayor's honors were converted into rural communities. After Elberfeld and Barmen left the district of Elberfeld as district-free cities in 1860, the remaining district with the mayor's office of Haan was renamed to the district of Mettmann.
In 1867, Sonnborn left the mayor's office in Haan and formed its own mayor's office. On May 3, 1876, the rural community of Ellscheid was incorporated into the town of Haan.
The parish encyclopedia for the Rhineland province from 1888 indicates a population of 6,680 (4,862 Protestant, 1,931 Catholic and 67 other Christian beliefs) for the shrunken mayor, who lived in 135 places with a total of 864 houses and 1,345 households. The area of the mayor's office (1,956 ha ) was divided into 1,282 ha of arable land, 167 ha of meadows and 147 ha of forest.
In October 1890, the mayors' meeting decided that Haan should apply for town charter without the rural communities of Millrath, Obgruiten, Schöller and Gruiten. On December 6, 1892, the council decided to hand over a petition to the provincial parliament and to ask "to speak out in favor of the award of the city order and to apply to the royal government for the award of the same". The division was carried out on April 1, 1894, the rural communities Gruiten, Millrath, Obgruiten and Schöller were separated from the mayor's office in Haan and merged into the mayor's office of Gruiten . At the same time, the municipality of Obgruiten was incorporated into the municipality of Gruiten. The granting of city rights was delayed until 1921.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ In: Description of the Düsseldorf government district , 1817, Düsseldorf, Stahl, pp. (31 to 35) 23 to 27, online version
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Düsseldorf, 1876, Item 26, Page 279 .
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1893, p. 339
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1894, p. 82
- ↑ Ralf Geraedts: Long way to city law . Article in the Rheinische Post from February 12, 2011 ( online version ).