Mayor's Office Hilden

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The mayor's office in Hilden was a mayor's office in the Düsseldorf district of the Prussian Rhine province in the 19th century . It emerged from parts of the Bergisches Amt Solingen , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the Mairie Hilden was transformed into the mayor's office in Hilden. The area of ​​the mayor's office is now part of the cities of Hilden and Düsseldorf (with the districts of Eller and Benrath ), a marginal strip in the north is also today in the Erkrath urban area.

Background and story

When in 1801 the Archbishopric of Cologne ceased to be a German electoral state and in 1803 the fiefs fell to the respective sovereign in whose territory they were located, the Hoflehen Hilden-Haan and the Kurlehen Haus Horst were passed on to the Duke von Berg as Bergisches Fief .

Under Napoleon in the Grand Duchy of Berg

“In der kleine Hacken”, in the 19th century the seat of the Mairie or mayor's office in Hilden

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 together with the previously annexed Duchy of Kleve on the left bank of the Rhine and the counties of Mark , Dortmund , Limburg on the right bank of the Rhine , the northern part of the Principality of Münster and other territories to form the Grand Duchy of Berg , which was to exist under French rule until 1813.

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. In this time was within the department Rhein located arrondissements Dusseldorf as part of the canton Richrath the municipality or Mairie created Hilden. Since Haan was assigned to a different municipality, the centuries-old community of Haan and Hilden also ended at this point.

In addition to the parish of Hilden, the canton of Richrath also included the parishes of Hilden (consisting of the Haanhonschaft , Mehmhonschaft and Sandhonschaft ) and Eller.

From 1808 to 1809 Georg Eberhard Clamor Friedrich von dem Bussche-Ippenburg called Kessel, Mr. zu Hackhausen was the first mayor in Hilden. Albert Asbeck followed him as mayor from 1809 to 1814. Both lived in “ In der kleine Hacken ”, Mittelstrasse 68.

Under the Prussians

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 awarded 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 Richrath was divided into the districts of Solingen and Düsseldorf, Mairie Hilden became the mayor's office in Hilden. On April 15, 1814, the Prussian Governor General ordered the formation of the joint community of Benrath . The rural community Hilden, in this the parishes Hilden and Eller were combined at that time, was part of this joint community along with other rural communities in what is now the south of Düsseldorf. The joint community of Benrath was henceforth in the Düsseldorf district.

Town hall in Hilden from 1900 to 1990

From 1814 to 1842 Hilden was connected to Benrath in a mayoral union. The mayors were:

  • 1814 to 1818 Nicolas of Pigage
  • 1819 to 1822 Hermann Leven
  • 1822 to 1842 Franz Albert Schieß

These three mayors officiated in Benrath. The communities Hilden and Eller left the joint community of Benrath in 1842 . After the joint administration of Benrath and Hilden was abolished, Hilden was mayor from 1842 to 1865.

  • 1842–1843 Interregnum: Alderman August Reyscher, Hilden
  • 1843–1845 Eduard Freiherr von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld
  • 1846–1851 Hermann Clemens
  • 1851–1865 Albert Koennecke

You officiated until the inauguration of the town hall in Hilden in the Gasthaus zur Krone .

City law

On November 18, 1861, the community was Hilden by King William of Prussia due to the entry into force of that year in New Rhenish order the city charter .

The community of Eller was separated from Hilden at the same time. Eller became the administrative seat of the "Landbürgermeisterei Hilden". In 1872 Düsseldorf became an independent city again; the city and the mayor's office in Hilden remained in the Düsseldorf district. In 1895 Eller got the status of an independent mayor's office , which marked the final separation from Hilden. The Eller mayor's office was incorporated into Düsseldorf on February 10, 1909.

On December 18, 1900, the new town hall building was inaugurated in Hilden .

Residents and places to live

1815/16 together 2,640 people lived in the mayor's office, which at that time as joint community consisted of the special household communities and parishes Hilden and Eller and the peace court Gerresheim belonged. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a total population of 3,263 in 1832, divided into 1,723 Catholic and 1,540 Protestant parishioners. See also chapter Population development in Hilden.

The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised three churches, three public buildings, 501 houses, six factories and mills and 396 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary notation), the mayor's office belonged to the residential areas, courtyards and localities:

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 7,947 for the mayor and city of Hilden (3,319 Protestant, 4,582 Catholic, 31 other Christian and eight Jewish faith), who lived in 30 places with a total of 882 houses in 1,517 households. The area of ​​the city and mayor's office (3,193  hectares ) was divided into 1,203 hectares of arable land, 413 hectares of meadows and 772 hectares of forest.

In addition to the residential places mentioned in 1832, the following are also listed in the community dictionary: Axlerhof, Bolthaus , Hagelkreuz , Kesselsweier , Kleimerisch, Biebelskirch , Nieden und Eichen and Zu den Eichen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ^ Karl-Martin Obermeier: 125 years Hilden , City of Hilden 1986.
  3. ^ Statistical yearbook 2012, statistical data from and about Hilden
  4. ↑ a b c Hilden : Wikipediaseite Hilden
  5. ↑ a b City Archives Düsseldorf: History of the Eller Mayor's Office
  6. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn (Ed.): Statistics and Topography of the Government District Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1836, second part, section Düsseldorf, pp. 70–71.
  7. ↑ 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.