Honschaft Dorp (Solingen Office)

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In the Middle Ages and modern times, the Dorp honor was a honor in the parish and judicial district of Solingen within the Bergisch district of Solingen . It comprised today's Solingen urban area in the Dorp district .

After the end of the French occupation at the beginning of the 19th century and the dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1815, the Honschaft Dorp - while maintaining the municipal reorganization of the Duchy carried out by the French - finally became a rural municipality of the Dorp mayor in the district of Solingen in the administrative district of Düsseldorf within the Prussian Rhine province assigned and was thus one of the lowest Bergisch administrative units until the 19th century .

According to the topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , the following towns and places of residence (original spelling) belonged to the Honschaft 1830:

With the elevation of the mayor's office of Dorp to a town in 1856, the honors ceased to exist as an administrative unit.

Individual evidence

  1. Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province ; Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin; 1830 ( digitized edition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )