Honschaft Graefrath
In the Middle Ages and modern times, the honor of Gräfrath was an honor in the parish and judicial district of Wald within the Bergisch district of Solingen . It included the freedom of Graefrath and their rural foreign citizenship in today's Solingen urban area.
The honor existed as early as 1220, when Count Engelbert von Berg divided his County of Berg into judicial districts. Already at this time the Honschaft Gräfrath was one of eight honors in the parish of Wald, which at the same time formed a judicial district from that time on.
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 Gräfrath - while maintaining the municipal reorganization of the Duchy carried out by the French - finally became a rural community of the mayorry of Gräfrath 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 . In 1807, the French made reclassifications in peripheral areas. So the residential areas in Vogelsang and Am Hahnenhaus came to the Honschaft Scheid of the mayor's office of Wald .
According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district from 1832, the following towns and places (original spelling) belonged to the Honschaft: Gräfrath, Bandesmühle , Bergerbrühl , Egidius Klusen , Dyck , Grünewald , Grund , Heiderhof , Layken , Mühlenbusch , Piepersberg , Steinenhaus , Tummelhaus and Brick field .
At that time there were two churches, seven public buildings, 179 residential buildings, 23 mills or factories, and 102 agricultural buildings. 1,600 people lived in the Honschaft, 526 of them Catholic, 1,040 Protestant and 34 Jewish.
With the elevation of the mayor's office of Gräfrath to town in 1856, the honors as an administrative unit ceased to exist.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Schmidt: Historical walks through Solingen city and country . Schwert-Verlag, Solingen 1922.
- ↑ Marina Mutz: Notes on the history of forest. In: Zeitspuren.de. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836