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The mayor's office in Wald was a mayor's office in the Solingen district of the Prussian Rhine province in the 19th century . It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisches Amt Solingen , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the Mairie Wald was converted into the mayor's office in Wald. The area of ​​the mayor's office is now part of the Bergisch city of Solingen and extends to the districts of Wald and Gräfrath .

Background and story

The borders from 1808–1888 of the seven former cities in the area of ​​today's city of Solingen; the mayor's office and city forest in the northern area

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 Wald was created as part of the canton of Solingen in the Elberfeld arrondissement .

In addition to the church village of Wald, the Altbergian honors Itter (also called First Village Honors ) and Scheid ( Second Village Honors ) 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 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 Solingen became the district of Solingen, and the Maire Wald became the mayor's office in Wald.

In 1815/16 a total of 2,767 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 population of 3,339 in 1832, divided into 443 Catholic, 2,887 Protestant and nine Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised two churches, eleven public buildings, 595 apartment buildings, 18 factories and mills and 420 agricultural buildings. According to the statistics (contemporary notation), the residential areas, courtyards and localities of the mayor's office included

The old honors in the mayor's area increasingly took a back seat from the 1830s and the entire community area was moved to the corridors I. Wittkull , II. Holz , III. Scheid , IV. Gönrath and V. Wald . On September 4, 1856 Wald received due to the entry into force of that year in New Rhenish order the city charter , the Honschaften were incorporated into the city area.

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province show 6,904 inhabitants for the year 1867. For 1871 there are 48 places with a total of 1,473 residential buildings and 7,390 inhabitants (6,273 Protestant, 1,101 Catholic, 15 other Christian and one Jewish faith).

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 gives a population of 9,882 (8,259 Protestant, 1,527 Catholic and 94 other Christian beliefs) for the city (and at the same time mayor), who lived in 72 places with a total of 1,399 houses and 2,006 households. The area of ​​the city and mayor's office (1,001  ha ) was divided into 749 ha of arable land, 85 ha of meadows and 42 ha of forest.

For the reasons already 1,832 living quarters are also listed in the community lexicon: Dorpskotten , Dültgensthal , own mountain , crossroads , Linderberg , Neueneipaß , New cottas , Schneppert , Waldheim and Wiederschein .

The southern buildings in corn oak were also on forest territory. With effect from August 1, 1929, the city and mayorry of Wald was incorporated into the city of Solingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ Chart from the mayor's office in the district of Solingen, 1830
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau, Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  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.