Honschaft Schneppen
The Honschaft Schneppen was from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, one of two Honschaften the parish Wipperfeld in district court Wipperfuerth the Office Steinbach in the Duchy of Berg . Together with the other Wipperfeld Honschaft Schwarzen , the Honschaft Schneppen represents the area of today's Wipperfeld district .
In addition to the titular place Schneppen (today Mittel- , Ober- and Unterschneppen ), Dhünn (today Dhünn and Niederdhünn ), Lamsfuß , Mausbach (today Unter- and Obermausbach ), Wüstenhof , Fahlenbock , Kofeln , Hohe Schnep (today Pannenhöh ) belonged to the honors. , Frösseln , Grund , Lieth , Hamböcken and Hüffen .
Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the Steinbach office was dissolved and the Honschaft was politically assigned to Mairie Olpe in the canton of Wipperfürth in the Elberfeld arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the Olpe mayor in the Wipperfürth district .
In 1975, due to the Cologne Act, the city of Wipperfürth was established in its current form, to which large parts of the municipality of Wipperfeld, especially the area of the Honschaft Schneppen, came.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898
- ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 1072