Honschaft Garschagen
The Honschaft Garschagen was in the Middle Ages and modern times one of the five honors in the parish of Lüttringhausen in the Bergisch Amt of Beyenburg .
It was first mentioned as Honschaft in the middle of the 16th century. Origin and center is the same group in courtyards Garschagen been today as upper , middle and Untergarschagen known. According to tradition, there were a total of 19 farms and cottages in the entire Honschaft in 1602.
Another census in the duchy in 1797 showed 98 inhabitants, 79 fireplaces, 12 horses, 245 oxen and cows. According to oral tradition, the court court in Garschagen is said to have met in Mittelgarschagen.
The courtyards, cottages and living quarters in the Honschaft between 1547 and the 18th century included Obergarschagen, Mittelgarschagen and Untergarschagen in today's Garschager Heide , as well as Böhlefeld , Cluse , Düring , Frielinghausen , Grabershammer , Hastberg , Herbringhausen , Kreuzmühle , Luckhausen , Oberste Laaken , Olpe , Rosental , Sieperhof , Unterste Laaken , Wefelpütt and Windgassen .
In 1797 98 inhabitants, 79 fireplaces, 980 Bergische acres of arable land, 145 berg. Morning meadows, 1,236 mountains. Acres of forest, as well as twelve horses and 245 oxen and cows recorded.
The Honschaft survived the communal reorganization in the Grand Duchy of Berg under French administration from 1806, but was assigned to the newly founded municipality or Mairie Lüttringhausen after the Bergisch offices were dissolved . After the French withdrew from the Confederation of the Rhine in 1813 after the defeat in the Battle of Leipzig , the honor under Prussia was assigned to the mayor's office of Lüttringhausen in the Lennep district in 1815, which was a direct successor to the Mairie.
According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the Herbringhauserbach and Hordenbachskotten residential areas were added until 1832 .
According to the statistics, the Honschaft had a population of 771 in 1832, divided into 70 Catholic and 701 Protestant parishioners. The living quarters of the Honschaft comprised a total of 95 houses, five factories. Mills, 78 farm buildings and one public building, the school.
Until 1929 the area of the Honschaft Garschagen belonged to the mayor of Lüttringhausen and was then divided between the cities of Remscheid and Wuppertal . The core area of the Honschaft today is the Garschagen district of Remscheid .
literature
- Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 .
- Gerd Helbeck, Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 2: The Modern Age. Advances and setbacks. Association for local history, Schwelm 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811749-2-2 .
- Hans Kadereit : Where there is still celebrations, reels and delights , a historical illustrated book Lüttringhausen, RGA-Buchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7
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 , 1836