Honesty Ketzberg
The Honschaft Ketzberg , also Honschaft Berg or unofficially called Galgenhonschaft , was in the Middle Ages and modern times a Honschaft in the parish and judicial district of Wald within the Bergisch district of Solingen . It encompassed today's Solingen urban area between the districts of Gräfrath and Mitte .
The honor existed as early as 1220, when Count Engelbert von Berg divided his County of Berg into judicial districts. At that time, the Ketzberg honors were already one of eight honors in the parish of Wald, which also formed a judicial district from that time on.
The name Galgenhonschaft came from the fact that the Solingen High Court was located there. The place of execution 'on the Galgenbüchel ' was on a small hill near the future Scheiderirlen residential area .
After the end of the French occupation in the early 19th century and dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Berg , while retaining the carried out by the French local reorganization of the Duchy - - 1815 Honschaft Ketzberg eventually became the mayor Gräfrath in district Solingen the administrative district of Dusseldorf within the Prussian Rhine province allocated and was thus one of the lowest Bergisch administrative units until the 19th century . 1807 reclassifications were made in peripheral areas. So the residential areas at Am Adamshäusgen and Am Schlagbaum came to the Honschaft Scheid of the mayor's office in Wald .
In 1815/16 there were 1490 inhabitants in the Honschaft.
According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the following localities and residential areas (original spelling) belonged to the Honschaft 1832: Altenfeld , Aue , Busch , Am Wupperflusse , Dahl , Schtumpf , Ehren , (above) Flachsberg , (below) Flachsberg , Flockertsholz , Foche , Heide , Ketzberg , Külf , Neuenhaus , Neuenkulle , Nümmen , Oben zum Holz , Paashaus , Rauenhaus , Rathland , Ringelshäusgen , Schafenhaus , Schieten , Schlagbaum , Steinbeck , Steinsiepen , Stockdum ( I. Stockdum , II. Stockdum , III. Stockdum ), Down to the wood and central point .
At that time there were six public buildings, 237 houses, 110 mills or factories and 275 agricultural buildings. 1,864 inhabitants lived in the Honschaft, 353 of them Catholic and 1,511 Protestant.
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
- ^ A b 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 c Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Düsseldorf Government District , 1836