Big Honschaft (Hückeswagen)
The Great Honschaft was in the Middle Ages and the modern era a Honschaft in parish Hückeswagen in the Bergisch Office Hückeswagen (from 1555 Office Bornefeld-Hückeswagen ). She was one of four honors of the external citizenship of Hückeswagen .
In 1797 540 inhabitants, 120 fireplaces, 1,177 acres of arable land, 140 berg. Morning meadows, 1,778 mountains. Acres of forest, as well as seven horses and 420 oxen and cows recorded.
The honor survived the communal reorganization in the Grand Duchy of Berg under French administration from 1806. After the French withdrew from the Confederation of the Rhine in 1813 after the defeat in the Battle of Leipzig , the honor was assigned to the mayor's office of Hückeswagen in the Lennep district under Prussia in 1815 .
Were among the Honschaft 1832, according to the Statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf , the living spaces and Hofschaften (original spelling) Hagen Büchen , Knefelsberg , Sohl , Holte , Elbertzhagerhäuschen , Vogelsholl , Kaiserbusch , Warth (Hückeswagen) , Rauzenberg , Odenholl , Lower courtyard , upper courtyard , PURD , Nieder- and Oberschückhausen , Bockhacken , Strasburg , Kotthausen , Strasweg , Wickesberg , Großkatern , Kleinkatern , Bochen , Linde , Dörpfeld , Kurzfeld , Strucksfeld , Stote , Maisdörpe , Oberdörpe , Niederdörpe , Sonnenschein , Siepen , Niederwinterhagen , Oberwinterhagen , Heyd , Junkernbusch , Wiehagen , Westhofen , Schneppendahl , Röttchen , Kleinscheid , Großenscheid , Altenhof , Wegerhof , Busenbach and Busenberg .
According to statistics, the population in 1815/16 was 1,272. In 1832 the population was 1,505, divided into 502 Catholic and 1,003 Protestant parishioners. The community's living space comprised a school, 169 residential buildings and 310 agricultural buildings.
On January 10, 1861, the external citizenship of Hückeswagen with its four honors was converted into the rural community of Neuhückeswagen .
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Pauls : A statistical table of the Duchy of Berg from 1797 . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 39 . Elberfeld 1905, p. 180 f .
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, pp. 10-11 .