Honesty Scharde
The Honschaft Scharde was from the Middle Ages into the 19th century to one of eight Honschaften the parish Wipperfurth in district court Wipperfuerth the Office Steinbach in the Duchy of Berg .
From 1454, the residents of the Bergische Honschaft had the right to turn to the Marienheide Monastery, which was then under the control of the Counts of Mark , with religious issues . Around 1680, however, almost the entire crowd was of the Lutheran denomination.
The area of honor emerges from the chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking in 1789. It was bounded in the south by the border with the county of Gimborn and in the north by the Wipper . Near Ohl, a part north of the Wupper also belonged to the honors.
In addition to the titular places Vorder- and Hinterscharde, the honors included the residential areas and farms Eiringhausen , Feldhof , Gogarten and Niedergogarten , Heukelbach , Heierlöh , Hollmünde , Kempershöhe , Löh , Mesewinkel , Mettberg , Ober- and Niederklüppelberg , Königsheide , Krommenohl , Mittelweg , Nagelsgaul , Obergaul , Ohl , Sattlershöhe , Schollenbach , Schnipperingen , Ober- and Niedersiemeringhausen (today forms a closed settlement area with Siemerkusen ).
The Kreuzfeld Chapel was the chapel of the Honschaft. It was consecrated to St. Peter and the courts of honor had to deliver bread weighing eight to twelve pounds on the feast of Peter and Paul as a donation of the poor.
Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813 the Steinbach office was dissolved and the Honschaft was politically assigned to Mairie Klüppelberg in the canton of Wipperfürth in the Elberfeld arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Klüppelberg in the Wipperfürth district .
In 1831 the honor was confessionally assigned to the new parish of Marienheide , which was dissolved for a few years in 1825 due to obsolescence.
In 1975 the city of Wipperfürth was established in its current form due to the Cologne Act , to which the western part of the old Honschaftsgebiet came. The greater part today belongs to Marienheide, a northern edge strip is also today in the Kiersper urban area.