Mayor's office of Wermelskirchen

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In the 19th century, the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen was a mayor's office in the Lennep district of the Prussian Rhine province , which continued as the Wermelskirchen office from 1938 to 1975 . It emerged from parts of the medieval Bergisches Amt Bornefeld (from 1555 Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen ) that was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the Mairie Wermelskirchen was converted into the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen.

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 Mairie Wermelskirchen was created as part of the canton of Lennep in the Elberfeld arrondissement .

The parish of Wermelskirchen , divided into the Oberhonschaft and Dorfhonschaft , as well as the Altbergic community of Fünfzehnhöfe 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, while maintaining the French borders, transformed into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities , which often survived into the 20th century. The canton of Lennep became the district of Lennep, and Mairie Wermelskirchen became the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen.

In 1815/16 a total of 4,319 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 5,328 in 1832, divided into 484 Catholic and 4,844 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised two churches, nine public buildings, 673 residential houses, eleven factories and mills and 538 agricultural buildings.

Structure of the mayor's office

Until 1873 the mayor's office was divided into three communities with separate households:

Easter kusen , Bollinghausen , hunger , Heidt , Upper Winkelhausen , Buschhausen , Stolzenberg , sub Winkelhausen , Horath , Neuenhof , sub-Sell Scheid , Upper Sell Scheid , field , Dorn , Pohl Hauser Mark , Röttgen , Upper Pohlhausen , sub Pohlhausen , lands , Zurmühle , Heintgesmühle , Preyersmühle , Wolfhager Hammer , Oberkenkhausen , Zenshäuschen , Wustbach , Wirtzmühle , Pferdefeld , Hopfenkamp , Wermelskirchen , Schwanen , Linde , Oberweg , Führershäuschen , Neuenfeld and Vosshäuschen .
Unterkackhausen , Dorfmüller Hammer , Dorfmüller cotta , Berghaus deserts , New House , Neuenhof , Struck , Berghausen , Franken Thurn , Mebusmühle , Walkmühle , Lüfferkusen , Wüstenhof , aspen , New height , Tockelhausen , upper roads , Hunter House , Born , Kalleberg , book Durchholzen , Oberdurholzen , Dreibäumen , corrugated , Stübgen , mill pond , pauper , Obereipringhausen , Kuhle , Untereipringhausen , Eipringhausermühle , Süppelbach , Kovelsberg , height , Elbringhausen and Belts .
  • Fifteen yards with the living spaces (as of 1832, original spelling)
Beeck , Buchholzen, Durchsholz , Hackenberg , Greul , Hasenberg , Jägerhaus , Krebsholl , Krebsoege , Lehmkuhle , Leverkusen , Müllersberg , Nagelsbergermark , Nagelsberg , Piepersberg , Schneppendahl , Spaniermühle and Stöckden .

Restructuring

In 1873 the Wermelskirchener Niederhonschaft (also called Niederwermelskirchen) was detached from the neighboring mayor's office in Dabringhausen and combined with the Wermelskirchener Dorfhonschaft and the Wermelskirchener Oberhonschaft to form the town of Wermelskirchen . Parts of the Niederhonschaft were transferred to the municipalities of Dhünn and Burscheid and the areas of the Oberhonschaft north of the Eschbach to the Mayor of Remscheid . The municipality of Fünfzehnhöfe was also removed from the mayor's office in Wermelskirchen and converted into its own mayor's office.

In 1929 the Lennep district was dissolved and Wermelskirchen became part of the newly created Rhein-Wupper district . The status of mayor's office for Wermelskirchen, which has only played a subordinate role in the municipal regulatory system since the city was founded, was also lost. In 1938 the neighboring office (former mayor's office) Dabringhausen was dissolved and the municipalities of Dhünn and Dabringhausen belonging to the office were assigned to the newly established Wermelskirchen office, which until 1975 consisted of the city of Wermelskirchen and these two independent municipalities.

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal reforms of the 1970s ( Cologne Act ), the Wermelskirchen office was dissolved with effect from January 1, 1975 and the communities of Dhünn and Dabringhausen were incorporated into the thereby expanded city of Wermelskirchen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  2. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836