Mayor's office of Velbert
The mayor's office in Velbert was a mayor's office in the Mettmann district in the 19th century and now in the Elberfeld district of the Prussian Rhine province . Their area originally belonged to the old Bergisch Amt Angermund , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into cantons and Mairien . In Prussia, Mairie Velbert continued as the Velbert mayor .
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 noble privileges 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 Velbert was created as part of the canton Velbert in the arrondissement of Düsseldorf .
In addition to the city of Velbert, it included the Altbergic honors Velbert (district of the city), Krehwinkel , Tüschen , Oefte , Leubeck , Hasselbeck , Isenbügel and Hetterscheid .
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 canton of Velbert, together with parts of the cantons of Mettmann and Elberfeld, became part of the Mettmann district ( Elberfeld district from 1820) and the Velbert district became the Velbert mayor.
In 1815/16, 4,532 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 5,901 in 1832, divided into 1,035 Catholic, 4,846 Protestant and 20 Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised a total of five churches, 19 public buildings, 626 apartment buildings, eleven factories and mills and 622 agricultural buildings.
Since 1846 the mayor's office Velbert has formed a municipality according to the municipal regulations for the Rhine province of July 23, 1845. On October 23, 1856, the municipality of Velbert was awarded the Rhenish city regulations .
With the elimination of the cities of Elberfeld and Barmen as district-free cities from the district of Elberfeld in 1861, a district of Mettmann was formed again from the remaining part of the district .
The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 10,588 for the mayor and city of Velbert (7,949 Protestant, 2,535 Catholic, 64 other Christian and 40 Jewish faith), who lived in 475 places with a total of 1,281 houses and 2,004 households. The area of the mayor's office (4,156 hectares ) was divided into 2,963 hectares of arable land, 191 hectares of meadows and 582 hectares of forest.
On April 1, 1897, the old honors Hasselbeck, Hetterscheidt, Isenbügel, Leubeck, Oefte and Tüschen were removed from the city of Velbert and combined to form the new rural community of Heiligenhaus , which has since formed its own mayor's office in the Mettmann district.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1847, p. 6
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1856, p. 839
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1861, p. 251
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1897, p. 53