Honor Remscheid

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The Honschaft Remscheid was in the Middle Ages and the early modern period a Honschaft in Bergisch Office Bornefeld .

The Honschaft was limited in the north and west by the Morsbach and the Wupper , in the south by the Eschbach and in the east by the Falkenberger Bach and the Müggenbach . The area of ​​the Honschaft is largely congruent with the western part of today's Bergisch city ​​of Remscheid .

According to a surviving map from 1369 in the 14th century, the Honschaft, in addition to the Remscheid Fronhof, included the Hofschaften , Höfe and Kotten Bliedinghausen , Bornstal , Ehringhausen , Fürberg , Güldenwerth , Großstachelhausen , Grunau , Haddenbach , Haddenbrock , Heidhof , Holz , Ibach , Kremenholl , Küppelstein , Lobach , Losenbüchel , Menninghausen , Morsbach , Reinshagen , Scheid , Siepen , Vieringhausen , Westhausen and Wiedenhof .

After the Duchy of Berg was occupied by France, the Honschaft was dissolved in 1806 and the area was assigned to the canton of Ronsdorf in the Elberfeld arrondissement .

literature

  • Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid , Volume 1: The Morsbach ; Publisher: Buchhandlung R. Schmitz; Remscheid; 1999; ISBN 978-3-9809033-6-3