Honschaft Schnittert
In the Middle Ages and modern times, the honor of Schnittert was an honor in the parish and judicial district of Wald within the Bergisch district of Solingen . It comprised today's Solingen urban area in parts of the districts of Ohligs and Merscheid and parts on the western edge of Hilden .
The honor existed as early as 1220, when Count Engelbert von Berg divided his County of Berg into judicial districts. At that time, the Schnittert honors were already one of eight honors in the Wald parish, which also formed a judicial district from that time on.
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 Schnittert - while maintaining the local reorganization of the duchy carried out by the French - finally became a rural community of the mayorry of Merscheid in the Solingen district of 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 1815/16 835 people lived 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: Hasselsheide , Baurmannsheid , Pannenschoppen, Dunkelsberg , Honigsheide , Braband , Potzhof , Diepenbruch , Klein Holland, Kalferstert , Defiant , Maubeshaus , Blech , Broßhaus , Broßmühle , Neuenhaus, Kottendorf, Keusenhof , Schnittert , Kuckesberg , Maubes , Wilzhaus , Caspersbruch , Minhof , Garzenhaus , Bottom Itter , Baverts and Häusgen .
At that time there was one public building, 208 residential buildings, three mills or factories and 188 farm buildings. There were 1,172 inhabitants in the Honschaft, of which 209 were Catholic and 963 were Protestant.
With the elevation of the mayor of Merscheid to town in 1856, the honors as an administrative unit ceased to exist.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Schmidt: Historical walks through Solingen city and country . Schwert-Verlag, Solingen 1922.
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836