Parish of Elberfeld
The parish of Elberfeld was a parish founded in the late Middle Ages in the area of what later became the city of Elberfeld , now a district of Wuppertal . In the early 19th century in particular, the parish was a local authority within the Lord Mayor of Elberfeld .
history
The parish was founded around the year 1300, when the residents of the area of the later Bergisch Amt Elberfeld (from 1427) were granted their own parish . Previously, the area belonged to the Hilden parish in the Neuss deanery.
In the early modern period, the residents of Liberty and, from 1610, the town of Elberfeld had privileges over the residents of the surrounding courtyards of the external citizenship of Elberfeld, which went hand in hand with the granted freedom and city rights. Both the city and the foreign citizenship belonged to the Elberfeld parish church and administratively to the Elberfeld office.
After the Napoleonic occupation of the Duchy of Berg, the French introduced modern municipal structures from 1806. Elberfeld retained its status as a town and the parish, which had been divided into individual groups since pre-French times , was assigned to the Mairie Elberfeld as a kind of rural community. The Rotten belonging to the parish were the Hülsbecker Rotte , Steinbeck and Arrenberger Rotte , Pickertsberger Rotte , Dorper Rotte , Katernberger Rotte , Mirker Rotte , Uellendahler Rotte , Fuhrter Rotte , Holz and Eichholzer Rotte and Hahn and Hipkendahler Rotte .
In 1797, 714 families, 489 fireplaces, 2,250 Bergische acres of arable land, 404 Berg. Morning meadows, 1,138 mountains. Acres of forest, as well as 37 horses for goods transport and 587 oxen and cows recorded.
After the French withdrew and the Duchy passed to Prussia , the new administrative structures were retained and Mairie Elberfeld was converted into the Lord Mayor of Elberfeld. As in the French era, the mayor's office consisted of the city of Elberfeld as a city district and the parish of Elberfeld (excluding the city) as a rural district, which formed its own regional authority.
The topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces from 1830 lists the residential areas of the parish with population figures. According to the description, the parish included:
- 32 hamlets : Amschlag (104 inhabitants), Arrenberg (389), am Bäumgen (89), In der Beek (87), Bergersheide (38), Bratwurst (30), Bruch (10), Buschhäuschen (28), An der Dalster (18), Distelbeck (107), Döppersberg (298), Am Dornberg (138), An der Duckmaus (49), Grifflenberg (97), Grünewald (31), aufm Hahn and Hipkendahl (206), Hohlenweg (16) , vorm Holz (138), Mirken (616), Nützenberg (36), Ophof (138), Osterbeck (47), Otterbruch (66), Pickertsberg (36), Rutenbeck (69), Steinbeck or Steinbach (156), on Trübsaal (158), Uellenthal or Uellendahl (564), Vogelsang (39), Windfoche (207) and Unter-Steinbeck (130)
- 39 courtyards: Brückenhäusgen (39), aufm Dorp (98), an der Eick (11), Eickholz or Eichholz (36), Eschenbeek or Eschenbach (11), Esgenberg or Eskesberg (19), Falkenberg (99), Am Haken ( individual courtyards, 47), on the Hackland (11), on Hammerklott (12), Hatzenbeck (two courtyards, 78), on Hessen (16), in front of the wood (three courtyards, 168), at the huts (individual courtyards, 43) , Katernberg (individual courtyards, 178), on the Kuckelsberg (three courtyards, 119), on the Lanteer (13), Leimbruch (several courtyards, 45), An der Leyen (26), Lohrenbeck (two courtyards, 11), Neuenhaus ( two courtyards, 25), at the zero (two courtyards, 35), in the zero (16), aufm Rath or Metzmachers Rath (three courtyards, 138), on the Rennbaum (8), on the Röttchen (24), on the Rohm (26), an der Roster (25), Schaafstall (19), aufm Scheid (45), am Siepen (48), am Sültenkopf (41), Varresbeck (two yards, 68), Volgelsau (two yards, 40) , on the pasture (6), Am Winkel (individual courtyards, 40), Wüstenhof (individual courtyards, 40) and Dorrenberg (individual courtyards, 99)
- The street Aue with 1696 inhabitants
- Two farms: Am Acker (20), Uellenberg (56)
- 28 individual houses and establishments : Deckershäusgen (28), Buhl (28), Freudenberg (24), Gelpe (several houses, 158), Funkloch (47), Kiepe (19), in den Birken (10), Hülsbeck (several houses , 139), am Häusgen (18), in den Hülsen (32), Kaisershaus or Kaisersbusch (16), Kempershäusgen (43), aufm Kothen (46), Kupferhütte (several houses, 63), Klefkoth (26), Lipkes Katernberg (19), Langerfeld (40), Hohlenscheid (several houses, 118), Liebertshäusgen (9), Sandplatz (20), Röttchen (8), Stolzenbeck (26), Schörren (21), on the streets (10), Schockel (19), Stockmannsmühle (42), Wattermannshäusgen (11) and Vollmershäusgen (9).
The Rotten were transferred to sections of the rural district in 1838. It was not until the Prussian municipal reforms in 1845 that the status of the parish ended as a local authority and the rural district was combined with the city district to form the future city of Elberfeld.
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Pauls : A statistical table of the Duchy of Berg from 1797 . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 39 . Elberfeld 1905, p. 180 f .
- ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
- ↑ § 1 of the municipal regulations for the Rhine Province : “All those places (towns, villages, hamlets, peasant communities, honnships, parishes, etc.) which currently have their own budget for their municipal needs, it is on the basis of a special budget or a department of the mayor's office budget, should from now on form a community under a community head. "[Berlin, 1845] ( Google Books )