Lennep district

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The district of Lennep was a district in the Prussian administrative district of Düsseldorf from 1816 to 1929 , initially within the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and from 1822 the Rhine province . Before that, the district was part of the Duchy or Grand Duchy of Berg . The county seat was Lennep .

Seal of the district administrator

Administrative history

The Duchy of Berg was ceded to France in 1806 and Napoleon Bonaparte formed the Grand Duchy of Berg under his brother-in-law Joachim Murat . Soon after the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Grand Duchy dissolved. Most parts of the country fell to Prussia through the Congress of Vienna . Together with the other parts of the Prussian possessions on the left and right banks of the Rhine, it formed the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which was united in 1822 with the province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine , also formed in 1815, to form the Rhine province .

As part of this reorganization, the Lennep district was also founded in 1816. He sat down initially from eight in the French period established mayors together. In 1820 the mayor's office in Burg was also reclassified from the neighboring Solingen district to the Lennep district. The circle was then structured as follows:

Mayorry Cities, parishes, monasteries and larger towns
Castle City of Burg an der Wupper
Dabringhausen Parish Dabringhausen , Parish Dhünn , Honnschaft Niederwermelskirchen
Hückeswagen City of Hückeswagen and foreign citizenship Hückeswagen with the Berghausener , the Große , the Herdingsfelder and the Lüdorfer Honnschaft
Lennep City of Lennep , foreign citizenship Lennep
Luettringhausen City of Lüttringhausen, Honnschaft Lüttringhausen, Honnschaft Garschagen with Frielinghausen and Herbringhausen , Honnschaft Walbrecken , Honnschaft Hohenhagen , Flecken Beyenburg
Radevormwald City of Radevormwald , parish of Radevormwald with Uelfe , Ispingrade , Heide , Herbeck , Honsberg , Önkfeld , Wönkhausen , Filde and Wellringrade , parish of Remlingrade with Remlingrade , Vorm Baum and Herkingrade .
Remscheid City of Remscheid, Birgden , Bliedinghausen, Ehringhausen , Stachelhausen, Schüttendelle, Reinshagen , Fürberg , Hasten , Siepen
Ronsdorf City of Ronsdorf , foreign citizenship Ronsdorf with the Rotten Erbschlö , Holthausen , Scharpenacken , Marscheid , Blombach , Hülsberg , Boxberg , Stall and Heidt
Wermelskirchen Dorfhonnschaft Wermelskirchen , Oberhonnschaft Wermelskirchen , Fünfzehnhöfe

In 1845, the municipal code for the Rhine Province gave all places that had their own households the status of a municipality. In the Lennep district, only the mayorships of Dabringhausen and Wermelskirchen were subdivided into different communities; the remaining mayorships each formed only a single rural or urban municipality. In the 1850s, the towns in the district were given the Rhenish Town Code . Since then, the circle has been structured as follows:

Mayorry cities and communes
Castle Castle on the Wupper
Dabringhausen Dabringhausen , Dhünn , Niederwermelskirchen
Hückeswagen City Hückeswagen
Hückeswagen country Neuhückeswagen
Lennep Lennep
Luettringhausen Luettringhausen
Radevormwald Radevormwald
Remscheid Remscheid
Ronsdorf Ronsdorf
Wermelskirchen Dorfhonnschaft , Oberhonnschaft , fifteen yards

Dorfhonnschaft, Oberhonnschaft and Niederwermelskirchen were merged in 1873 to form the municipality of Wermelskirchen . Parts of Niederwermelskirchen were given to Dhünn and parts of Oberhonnschaft to Remscheid. In the same year Wermelskirchen became a town and the municipality of Fünfzehnhöfe became its own mayor's office.

On January 1, 1888, the city of Remscheid left the district as an urban district. The community of Fünfzehnhöfe was incorporated into the city of Lennep in 1906. In 1920 Neuhückeswagen was incorporated into the town of Hückeswagen.

The Lennep district was dissolved on August 1, 1929 by the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area :

  • Lennep was largely incorporated into the city of Remscheid. Some came to Radevormwald.
  • Lüttringhausen was largely incorporated into the city of Remscheid. Beyenburg was separated from Lüttringhausen and became part of the new independent city of Wuppertal .
  • Ronsdorf was incorporated into the independent city of Wuppertal.
  • Burg an der Wupper, Dabringhausen, Dhünn, Hückeswagen, Radevormwald and Wermelskirchen were assigned to the new Solingen-Lennep district , which was renamed the Rhein-Wupper district in 1931 .

Population development

year Residents source
1819 44,639
1825 48,970
1835 57.291
1871 82.123
1880 94,351
1890 73.044
1900 77,438
1910 85,316
1925 85,720

District administrators

materials

Archives of the Lennep district are in the NRW state archive , LA Lennep holdings, in the archive of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district and in the archive of the former Rhein-Wupper district in the Leverkusen city archive.

literature

  • JF Knapp: History, statistics and topography of the cities of Elberfeld and Barmen in Wupperthale, with reference to the city of Solingen and some cities in the Lennep district. W. Langewiesche, Iserlohn and Barmen, 1835
  • J. Vossnack, Otto von Czarnowsky : The district of Lennep, represented topographically and historically. Remscheid, 1854
  • Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. Bädeker, Iserlohn, 1864, therein entries on Lennep, a. a. Pp. 434–435, online at books.google.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 5 ff. , Accessed on June 6, 2014 (digitized version).
  2. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, § 1
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1865, p. 26
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1873, p. 366
  5. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1888, p. 530
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1906, p. 384
  7. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1920, p. 85
  8. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ A b Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 108 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  10. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  11. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. remscheid.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).