Mayor's office Wülfrath

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The mayor's office in Wülfrath was a mayor's office in the Mettmann district in the 19th century and, in the meantime, in the Elberfeld district of the Prussian Rhine Province . It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisch rule Schöller and the Mettmann office , which were dissolved under the French in 1806 and assigned to the canton of Velbert as Mairie Wülfrath . Under Prussia, the Mairie Wülfrath was converted into the mayor's office of Wülfrath.

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 in exchange for the Principality of Ansbach and transferred the Duchy of Berg and the remainder of the Duchy of Kleve on the right bank of the Rhine to his brother-in-law Joachim Murat . The Grand Duchy of Berg was created in connection with the establishment of the Rhine Confederation .

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 Mairien 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 as rural communities to the respective mairies of a canton. During this time, the municipality or Mairie Wülfrath was created as part of the canton of Velbert in the Düsseldorf arrondissement .

In addition to the city of Wülfrath and the parish village of Düssel, it included the Altbergian honors Püttbach and Erbach , which belong to the city district , as well as the regional honors Flandersbach , Rützkausen , Oberdüssel and Unterdüssel . The honors Püttbach and Erbach were also referred to as Wülfrath-Away .

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 Wülfrath Mairie became the Wülfrath mayor.

In 1815/16 3,739 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 4,309 in 1832, divided into 640 Catholic, 3,647 Protestant and 22 Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised three churches, twelve public buildings, 429 residential houses, nine factories and mills and 677 agricultural buildings.

Since 1846, the mayor's office Wülfrath formed a municipality according to the municipal regulations for the Rhine province of July 23, 1845. On October 23, 1856, the municipality of Wülfrath was awarded the Rhenish town code and thus the town charter by King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV of Prussia .

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 indicates a population of 6,975 for the mayor's office (5,118 Protestant, 1,845 Catholic, five other Christian and seven Jewish faith), who lived in 321 places with a total of 722 houses and 1,339 households. The area of ​​the mayor's office (3,481 ha ) is divided into 2,524 ha of arable land, 231 ha of meadows and 406 ha of forest.

In 1914 parts of the old honors Niederschwarzbach and Obschwarzbach were separated from the city of Mettmann and incorporated into the city of Wülfrath.

Parts of the old honors Oberdüssel and Unterdüssel with the town of Dornap were changed from the town of Wülfrath to the town of Wuppertal in 1975 with the so-called Düsseldorf law .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 3,846
1825 4,186
1835 4,472
1861 5,147
1885 6,975
1910 10,103

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1846, p. 578
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1856, p. 839
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1914, p. 420
  7. ↑ Düsseldorf Act § 12 (2)
  8. ^ A b c Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 108 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  9. ^ Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1865, p. 8 , accessed July 7, 2014 .
  10. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  11. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on July 2, 2014 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E