Halver Office
The Halver Office was a Westphalian office within the Altena district . From 1815 to the entry into force of the Prussian rural community order for the province of Westphalia in 1843, the office was as mayor . The office was dissolved on January 1, 1969, the municipality units that emerged from it are the city of Halver as the legal successor to the office and the municipality of Schalksmühle .
Background and story
After the conquest by Napoleon Bonaparte , the County of Mark was united by his brother-in-law Joachim Murat on April 24, 1806, together with the Duchy of Berg on the right bank of the Rhine , the Counties of Dortmund , Limburg , as well as the northern part of the Principality of Münster 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 Brandenburg offices and lords. 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 14th, 1808, this process was completed after a reorganization of the first structuring of 1806, the old farmers were often retained and were assigned to the respective Mairies or cantons as rural communities.
During this time, the mayor's office in Halver was founded in the canton of Lüdenscheid in the arrondissement of Hagen . It consisted of the old farmers of the Halver parish, namely Halver , Bergfeld , Bommert , Ehringhausen , Eikhofen , Glörfeld , Kampscheid , Lansberg and Oeckinghausen , which were combined to form the municipality of Halver. In addition, there were the Midder farmers , the Winkelner farmers and the Wester farmers of the Lüdenscheid court , which in turn were combined to form the Hülscheid community.
In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after the defeat in the Battle of Leipzig and from the end of 1813 it fell under the provisional administration of Prussia in the so-called Generalgouvernement between Weser and Rhine , which was finally awarded it by the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. With the formation of the Prussian province of Westphalia in 1815, the existing administrative structures were largely retained and converted into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities while maintaining the French borders . The mayor's office Halver was assigned to the Altena district .
In 1818 a total of 4,810 people lived in Halver's mayor's office. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , the mayor's office had a total population of 6,423 in 1838, which was divided into 64 Catholic and 6,359 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised four churches, 16 public buildings, 902 residential houses, 231 factories and mills and 732 agricultural buildings.
The community lexicon for the province of Westphalia of 1887 are for the office Halver, which consisted only of the rural community Halver since 1844, a population of 7,787 in (7,615 evangelical, 262 Catholic and four other Christian faith) in 206 dwellings with a total of 947 Houses and 1,425 households lived. The area of the office (8,588 hectares ) was divided into 3,526 hectares of arable land, 725 hectares of meadows and 3,982 hectares of forest.
Territory changes
The municipality of Hülscheid was spun off from the office in 1844 and assigned to the Lüdenscheid office that had been founded a year earlier . On October 1, 1912, the community of Schalksmühle was newly formed from the northeastern part of the rural community of Halver. The new community area was 8.60 hectares, by which the rural community Halver was reduced.
The office was dissolved on January 1, 1969. The municipality of Hülscheid was incorporated into the municipality of Schalksmühle and the municipality of Halver received town charter. Both community units were assigned to the newly founded Lüdenscheid district , which was dissolved again in 1975. Today the community units are part of the Märkischer Kreis, which was newly founded in the same year .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Décret, on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg, Gesetz-Bülletin , of November 14, 1808, p. 132 ff ( Düsseldorf State Library )
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
- ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.
- ↑ cf. Günther Deitenbeck (1985): "History of the City of Lüdenscheid 1813-1914", Lüdenscheid, p. 77
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 279 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ' N , 7 ° 32' E