Herkenrath messenger office

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The Herkenrath messenger office was one of six messenger offices into which the office of Porz in the Duchy of Berg was divided from the 15th to the 19th century. In addition to Herkenrath, there were the messenger offices Gladbach , Merheim , Odenthal (since 1631 pledge of the barons of Wolff-Metternich ), Porz and Stammheim . In addition, the Scheiderhöhe messenger office had a special role.

The messenger office belonged to the Bensberg Higher Court and was divided into the honors Dürscheid , Herkenrath , Immekeppel , Eschbach , Bensberg and Refrath as well as the Freedom Bensberg .

Under French administration between 1806 and 1813, the Porz office was dissolved and the Herkenrath messenger office became politically Mairie Bensberg in the canton of Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portal of the archives in NRW. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ JC Dänzer: Décret impérial sur la circonscription territoriale du grand-duché de Berg… Imperial decree on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg . 1808.