Mayor's office of Ronsdorf

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The mayor's office in Ronsdorf was a mayor's office in the Lennep district of the Prussian Rhine province in the 19th century . It emerged from the medieval Bergische Amt Beyenburg that was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies .

Under Prussia, the Mairie Ronsdorf was converted into the mayor's office of Ronsdorf. Today the area of ​​the mayor's office (with the exception of smaller peripheral areas, which went to Remscheid in 1929 , and the former Ronsdorf, but now Heckinghauser residential area Hammesberg ) corresponds to the urban district and district of Ronsdorf of the Bergisch metropolis of Wuppertal .

Background and story

The roots of the mayor's office lie in the medieval heritage of Erbschloe in the Lüttringhausen parish in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg . 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 Ronsdorf was created as part of the canton of Ronsdorf in the Elberfeld arrondissement . In addition to the town of Ronsdorf, it included the external citizenship of Ronsdorf with the village of Erbschlö and the nine Rotten Holthauser Rotte, Scharpenacker Rotte, Marscheider Rotte, Blombacher Rotte, Hülsberger Rotte, Boxberger Rotte, Staller Rotte and Heider Rotte.

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, while maintaining the French borders, transformed into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities , which often survived into the 20th century. The Maire Ronsdorf became the mayor's office of Ronsdorf.

In 1815/16 3,972 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 5,676 in 1832, divided into 726 Catholic and 4,951 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised three churches, nine public buildings, 513 residential houses, 17 factories and mills and 215 agricultural buildings.

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 10,542 for the mayor's office (9,201 Protestant, 1,008 Catholic, 311 other Christian and two Jewish faiths), who lived in 52 places with a total of 830 houses and 2,108 households. The area of ​​the mayor's office (2,043 hectares ) was divided into 816 hectares of arable land, 144 hectares of meadows and 920 hectares of forest.

In 1888 the mayor's office included the residential areas and localities: Baur , Beek , Blaffertsberg , Blombach , Blombacherbach , Böckel , Boxberg , Büschgen , Delle , Dorn , Echo , Eiche , Erbschlö , Eschensiepen , Friedrichshöhe , Groß Hülsberg , Groß Sporkert , Grünenplatz , Hammesberg , Heidt , height , Holthausen , Hucke Bach , hut , hunting lodge , Käshammer , box mountain , small Hülsberg , small Sporkert , Konrad desert , Kottsiepen , copper hammer , Laake , Linde , Lohsiepen , Marscheid , Marscheider Bach , Monschau , New house , wheel , Scharpenacken , Schmalenhof , sunshine , barn , dust Thal , Tannenbaum , despite house , Voßholt , Werbsiepen and Wolfskuhle .

On May 15, 1900, an area swap with the neighboring mayor's office of Lüttringhausen took place. Neuenhaus, Voßholt, Grünenplatz, Groß- and Kleinhülsberg and Eich were given up, as well as hut , ditch , mill and individual houses on Grünenbaum and Blaffertsberg .

With the Prussian law regulating various points of the municipal constitutional law of December 27, 1927, the mayor's office was converted into an office . During the municipal reforms of 1929, the office was dissolved and the municipal area was assigned to the newly founded city of Wuppertal under regional taxes to Remscheid .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ a b Royal Statistical 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.
  4. ^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1900 to 1924. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, State Office for Archive Maintenance: Archive Maintenance in Westphalia and Lippe , page 4 (PDF; 959 kB)