Honors of Gronau

Honschaft Gronau: Extract from the map from 1789 by Wiebeking

The Honschaft Gronau was from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, one of two Honschaften in parish Gladbach in office Porz in the Duchy of Berg .

From Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking's 1789 map of the Duchy of Berg, it emerges that Gronau was the titular place of the honor and the parish. The honor was assigned to the Gladbach messenger office and the Bensberg Higher Court . In the Wiebeking map of 1789 the limits of the Honschaft Gronau are shown; it roughly corresponds to today's district of Gronau.

At that time, the honors included the residential areas Duckterath , Dünnhof , Gierath , Gronau, Kradepohl , Piddelborn and Schlodderdich .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813 the Porz office was dissolved and Gronau was politically assigned to Mairie Gladbach in the canton of Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Gladbach 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. ↑ 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.