Reign of Odenthal

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Reign of Odenthal (detail of the map from 1789, Wiebeking)

The rule Odenthal was from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, a basic rule and from the 17th century under rule of the Duchy of Berg .

The parish and messenger office of Odenthal in the Bergisch Amt of Porz was given as a fiefdom to Baron Johann Adolph von Wolff called Metternich in 1631 , after he was able to dispose of Strauweiler Castle in 1618 after his marriage to Maria Catharina von Hall . This was initially associated with the lower jurisdiction until after payment of 6,000 Reichstalers in 1634 Odenthal was raised to subordinate rule, which was connected with an expanded jurisdiction.

The chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking shows that the rule in 1789 was divided into the areas of Oberkirspel (Upper Parish ) and Unterkirspel (Lower Parish ). Apart from the changes made by the local government reform in 1975, the area roughly corresponds to today's districts of Oberodenthal (Oberkirspel) and Unterodenthal (Unterkirspel).

“The Glory of Odenthal is at least as old as the County of Berg. The old Odenthal Castle, however, did not stand on the site of today's Strauweiler Castle, but higher up on the Klauberge, where a pine forest now shadows the construction site. After the knights of Odenthal died out, rule came to the noble von Hall and at the beginning of the 16th century by marriage to Maria Catharina, the only daughter of the knight Degenhard von Hall, who was buried in Altenberg, to the baron Johann Adolph von Wolff called Metternich, Lord zu Gracht, Rath, Forst, Langenau, Flehnigen, Oberarnsbach etc., whose descendant Maximilian Count von Wolff Metternich still owns these goods today. "

- Vincenz Jacob from Zuccalmaglio

 

The following residential areas belonged to the rule at that time:

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898
  2. Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinische Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional conditions of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution to the most recent times , Volume 3, Sauerländer, 1832
  3. ^ Gudrun Gersmann, Hans-Werner Langbrandtner, Monika Gussone: Noble life worlds in the Rhineland: annotated sources of the early modern period . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2009.
  4. ^ Vincenz Jacob von Zuccalmaglio: The Altenberg monastery in Dhünthale and the monastic system , Amberger, 1838
  5. 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.