Mayor's office in Opladen

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The mayor's office in Opladen was from 1815 to 1819 a mayor's office in the district of Opladen in the Prussian province of Jülich-Cleve-Berg and after its dissolution from 1819 a mayor's office in the district of Solingen in the Prussian Rhine province ( administrative district of Düsseldorf ). It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisches Amt Miselohe , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies .

Under Prussia, the Mairie Opladen was converted into the mayor's office in Opladen. The area of ​​the mayor's office is now part of the Bergisch city of Leverkusen .

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 Opladen was created as part of the canton of Opladen in the Arrondissement of Düsseldorf .

In addition to the parish of Opladen , the parishes of Bürrig and Neukirchen also 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 converted into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities while maintaining the French borders . The canton of Opladen became the district of Opladen, the Maire Opladen became the mayor's office of Opladen.

In 1819 there was a partial reclassification in the Düsseldorf administrative district. The district of Opladen was dissolved on April 30, 1819 and the communities assigned to the district of Solingen. In 1820 Wiesdorf moved from the mayor's office Schlebusch to the mayor's office in Opladen.

In 1815/16 a total of 3,439 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 of 4,219 inhabitants in 1832, divided into 2,613 Catholic and 1,662 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised five churches, 16 public buildings, 732 residential houses, 16 factories and mills, and 1,229 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary notation), the residential areas, courtyards and localities of the mayor's office included

On August 24, 1857, the special community of Neukirchen, which was renamed Bergisch Neukirchen in 1904 due to the frequent occurrence of the place name, received city rights and resigned from the mayor's office due to the Rhenish town code . The special community of Opladen received town charter on December 27, 1858, but continued to form the mayor's office of Opladen together with the rural communities of Wiesdorf and Bürrig.

In 1889, Wiesdorf and Bürrig also left the mayor's office in Opladen and formed the newly founded mayor's office in Küppersteg .

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1909 now also gives you Wambacherhof as a place to live, only from the town of Opladen .

After the merger of the district of Solingen with the district of Lennep in 1929 to form the district of Solingen-Lennep and the establishment of the city of Leverkusen on April 1, 1930, the rural community of Lützenkirchen was incorporated into the city of Opladen from the dissolved office of Schlebusch .

In the course of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform , the city of Opladen was incorporated into the city of Leverkusen with effect from January 1, 1975 in accordance with the Cologne Act .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de .
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836.
  3. ↑ leverkusen.de: History of Leverkusen
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 .