Mayor's office Hardenberg

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the mayor's office Hardenberg was a mayor's office in the Mettmann district and at times in the Elberfeld district of the Prussian Rhine province . It emerged from the medieval Bergischen rule Hardenberg , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and was assigned to the canton Velbert as Mairie Hardenberg . Under Prussia, the Mairie Hardenberg was converted into the mayor's office Hardenberg.

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 Mairie Hardenberg was created as part of the canton of Velbert in the Düsseldorf arrondissement .

In addition to the parish villages of Neviges and Langenberg, it also included the Altbergian honors and peasants Groe Höhe , Kuhlendahl , Kleine Höhe , Untensiebeneick , Obensiebeneick , Dönberg , Richrath , Vossnacken , Rottberg , Windrath , Nordrath and Wallmichrath .

In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after their defeat in the Battle of Leipzig . Hardenberg as part of the previous Duchy of Berg came under the provisional administration in the Generalgouvernement Berg at the end of 1813 and in 1815 on the Kingdom of Prussia due to the resolutions made at 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 district of Elberfeld) and Mairie Hardenberg became the mayor's office of Hardenberg.

In 1815/16 there were 6,925 residents in the mayor's office. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a population of 9,023 in 1832, divided into 1,727 Catholic, 7,187 Protestant and 109 Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised a total of eight churches, eleven public buildings, 1,018 residential buildings, 21 factories and mills and 563 agricultural buildings.

With regard to the representation in the provincial estates of the Rhine province , Langenberg had been assigned to the state of the cities since 1831 and was also called "city", but initially did not form a city in the sense of administrative law.

Since 1846 the mayor's office Hardenberg formed a municipality according to the municipal regulations for the Rhine province of July 23, 1845. The mayor's office Hardenberg also received the Rhenish city regulations in 1856 as the municipality of Langenberg with Hardenberg . The citizens of Langenberg felt underrepresented in the mayor's office, which was large for the time, and through numerous petitions and efforts, Langenberg was administratively separated from its more rural surroundings and raised to a separate city mayor's office outside of Hardenberg's mayor. The rest of Hardenberg continued as a mayor and rural community, now with Neviges as the sole core town.

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 12,169 for the mayor and rural community of Hardenberg (9,018 Protestant, 3,046 Catholic, 34 other Christian and 53 Jewish faith), who lived in 657 places with a total of 1,180 houses and 2,326 households. The area of ​​the mayor's office (6,212 ha ) was divided into 3,056 ha of arable land, 618 ha of meadows and 1,897 ha of forest.

In the last third of the 19th century, the name Hardenberg-Neviges became more and more common for Hardenberg in order to distinguish it from other places called Hardenbergs; an official name change has not yet taken place. From 1894, the mayor's office was sealed as Hardenberg-Neviges, which was rejected by the Düsseldorf district government. In 1896 an agreement was reached on the seal text Hardenberg zu Neviges . From 1901 it stayed with the shortened Hardenberg-Neviges .

In 1899 Dilldorf and parts of Rottberg and Vossnacken were reclassified from the Hardenberg community to the Kupferdreh community in the Essen district . Hardenberg-Neviges received the city charter in 1922 according to the Rhenish City Code and in 1935 the official name Neviges . The city of Neviges became part of the city of Velbert in 1975 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ^ A b c Siegfried Quandt: Social history of the city of Langenberg and the rural community Hardenberg-Neviges . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Bergische research . tape IX . Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1971.
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1846, p. 578
  5. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1859, p. 231
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ^ Rhenish city atlas Neviges
  8. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1899, p. 111
  9. ^ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District 1922, p. 413
  10. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. mettmann.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. ↑ Citizens' Association Dönberg: History ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergerverein-doenberg.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E