Castrop

The village of Castrop [ 'kas.tʀɔp ] has been a district of Castrop-Rauxel in the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia since April 1, 1926 .

history

The place name can be derived from the words trop / torp for village and chasto / kast for memory as "Dorf am Speicher". The oldest documented evidence of the name comes from the year 834, Castrop was called Villa Castorpe .

Castrop was raised to freedom in 1470 by the Duke of Kleve in the county of Mark .

After Prussia's defeat by Napoleon, Castrop became a Mairie in the Ruhr Department in 1808 . From 1815 Castrop was a mayor's office or an office in the Prussian province of Westphalia . The Castrop office temporarily included places from Sodingen , Holthausen and Börnig (today the city of Herne ) to Mengede , Schwieringhausen and Deusen (today the city of Dortmund ). It was dissolved in 1902.

The town of Castrop was established on April 1, 1902 from the villages of Castrop, Obercastrop and Behringhausen . On April 1, 1926, the town of Castrop with the communities of Rauxel , Bövinghausen bei Castrop , Frohlinde , Merklinde , Habinghorst (until then Amt Rauxel ), Bladenhorst , Pöppinghausen (until then Amt Bladenhorst ), parts of Deininghausen , Dingen and Ickern (until then Amt Mengede ) to the new city Castrop-Rauxel merged . On April 1, 1928, the rest of Deininghausen was incorporated into the new town.

Web links

Castrop in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and municipalities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 224 .

51.548611111111 7.3102777777778Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 19' E

[Reekers-1] A ^b ^c Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and municipalities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 224 .