Richrath farmers

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The old Richrath School in the center of the former farmers is now a residential building

The peasantry Rich Rath up to the 19th century, one of the lowest administrative units in the rural outskirts of Bergisch mayoralty Hardenberg in Mettmann or 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 : Auf dem Schwardt , Zu Müllers , Rubenhaus , Zu Thunes , Zu Hamers , Häntches , Cleff , Zu Witten , Aufm Lomberg and Zu Tonscheid .

The municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province lists the villages and places of residence in 1888: Alaunfabrik, Altenfeld, An der Schmiede, Apotheke, Backeseichholz, Backeshof, Bleiberg, Böckenbusch, Blackberry, Bushkothen, Dasterei, Eichholzhäuschen, Ernsthaus, Fell, Fischerskothen, Hackland Grünensiepen, , Hänschesbruch, Häntscheshof, Hamershäuschen, Hamershof, Höchst, Horst, Jackbietz, Jöver, Kalkbüschgen, Kipp, Kirschenknapp, Kittelskothen, Kleff, Klever Eichholz, Kleverhof, Knollenberg, Küpperskothen, Rützkothen, Loch, Möllershäus, Markchen, Möllersllershof Mosbruch, Okerskothen, Oberste Bleiberg, Passiepen, Pollock, Prince Wilhelm Grube, Richrather Schule, Rübenhaus, Schlotkothen, Schwardt, Schwardterhäuschen, Schwardter Schmiede, Schwickshäuschen, Schwickshof, Siepken, Steinknapp, Stüsken, Stüppershof, They, Thünershäuschen, Thünershäuschen, Thünershäuschen , Velau, Waschenberg, Wittenhäuschen, Wittenhaus, Wolfssiepen and Zibbenhaus. At that time 743 people lived in 95 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.