Honorable Ruppelrath

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The Honschaft Ruppelrath , also Honschaft Rupelrath , was in the Middle Ages and modern times a Honschaft in the parish and judicial district of Solingen within the Bergisch office of Solingen . It comprised today's Solingen urban area in the districts Aufderhöhe and Rupelrath .

The honor was first mentioned in 1485 as Huntscaff Ropelradt .

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 Ruppelrath - while maintaining the municipal reorganization of the Duchy carried out by the French - finally became a rural community of the mayorry Höhscheid 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 1815/16 there were 954 inhabitants in the Honschaft.

According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf government district , the following towns and places of residence (original spelling) belonged to the Honschaft 1832: Hackhausen , Hackhauser Höfe , Bodlenberg , Kreudersheide , Zur Straßen , Küllenberg , Greuel , Jammerthal , in den Dellen , Steinendorf , an der Brücke , Löhdorf , Höh , Hensberg , Eickenberg , Dahl , zum Horn , Birkendahl , Brand , Gosse , Wachssack, Holzkamp , Ruppelrath , Hütten , an den Linden , Reinoldi Capelle , Landwehr , Burbach and an der Neuen-Tränke .

At that time there was a church , two public buildings, 173 houses, a mill or factory and 178 farm buildings. There were 1,138 inhabitants in the Honschaft, 133 of them Catholic and 1,005 Protestant.

With the elevation of the mayor's office of Höhscheid to town in 1856, the honors ceased to exist as an administrative unit.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhenish town atlas Höhscheid ; Lfg. VIII No. 45, 1985; Editor: Reinhold Kaiser; Rheinland-Verlag Cologne; ISBN 3-7927-0830-2
  2. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836