Farmers Nordrath

The peasantry North Rath up to the 19th century, one of the lowest administrative units in the rural outskirts of Bergisch mayoralty Hardenberg in the district Elberfeld the administrative district of Dusseldorf within the Prussian Rhine Province .

Before that, the farmers belonged to the lordship of Hardenberg in the Duchy of Berg . In the course of an administrative reform within the Grand Duchy of Berg , the mayor's office of Hardenberg was formed in 1808.

According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1832, the following higher-ranking localities and residential areas belonged to the peasantry : Zu Fahrenscheid , Zu Dronsberg , Zum Stein , Zu Nordrath , Zu Astrath , Aufm Kamp , Aufm Vorberg , Am Schampen and In der Leimbeck .

The community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland lists the villages and places of residence in 1888: An der Bach, Astrath , Besenöckel , Böcken , Braken (Velbert) , Brüggen, Buschhaus , Diekkothen , Diergarten , Dronsberg , Fahrenscheid , Fumfei , Häuschen, Hitzbleck, Holzhütte , Horst , Hülsenbusch, Huppertsberg , In der Heide , Jammann, Kahlen , Kaiser , Kamp , King , Kothen, Krüdenscheid, Krusen , Kurzbusch, Lappenhaus , Lappenheide , Lembeck , Naulbeck , Neuenkothen, Neuhaus , Nipshaus , Nordrather School, Oberste Tente, Schampen, Schleier , Schlipkothen, Schmalen , Schnapop , Siepen, Siepken , Stein , Steinkamp, Stopses , Thomashäusgen , Unterste Brüggen, Unterste Tente, Vorberg and Vorm Dönberg . At that time, 604 people lived in 69 houses in these places.

Individual evidence

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