District of Mettmann (until 1929)

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The Mettmann district was a Prussian district in the Düsseldorf administrative district . It first existed from 1816 to 1820 within the Jülich-Kleve-Berg Province and then from 1861 to 1929 within the Rhine Province .

Administrative history

The Mettmann district from 1816 to 1820

Until 1813, the area had belonged to the Grand Duchy , founded in 1806 under Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat , as the successor to the Bergisch Amt Mettmann . After the military defeat of the French in the Battle of Leipzig , they withdrew completely from the Grand Duchy in 1813. In 1814 the Grand Duchy came provisionally under Prussian administration as the Berg Generalgouvernement and was finally assigned to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. For the Generalgouvernement of Berg, Prussia began to work out and introduce its own administrative structures as early as the end of 1813; a process that was completed in 1816 with the formation of the Düsseldorf administrative district and its division into districts .

The new Mettmann included already during the French occupation founded mayors Haan , Hardenberg , Mettmann, Velbert and Wülfrath as well Sonnborn, originally for mayor Elberfeld had heard and now the mayoralty Haan has been assigned. On November 1, 1820, the Mettmann district was dissolved again and incorporated into the Elberfeld district, which was also founded in 1816 .

The Mettmann district from 1861 to 1929

On June 1, 1861, Barmen and Elberfeld left the Elberfeld district as new urban districts. At the same time, a new Mettmann district with its seat in the city of Mettmann was formed from the remaining part of the Elberfeld district . The new Mettmann district initially comprised thirteen cities and municipalities:

Mayorry Cities and Towns (1864)
Haan Ellscheid , Gruiten , Haan , Millrath , Obgruiten , Schöller , Sonnborn
Hardenberg Hardenberg
Kronenberg Kronenberg (city)
Langenberg Langenberg (city)
Mettmann Mettmann (city)
Velbert Velbert (city)
Wuelfrath Wülfrath (city)

Various changes were made to the administrative structure in the following years:

  • Sonnborn was raised to its own mayor's office in 1868.
  • Ellscheid was incorporated into Haan in 1876.
  • The district authorities were relocated to Sonnborn- Vohwinkel in 1877 due to more favorable traffic conditions , without any change in the name of the district.
  • The municipality of Oberbonsfeld from the Westphalian district of Bochum was incorporated into the city of Langenberg in 1881.
  • The eastern part of the community of Sonnborn with the eponymous place Sonnborn was umgemeindet in 1888 in the Elberfeld district. The part of the community that remained in the Mettmann district has since formed the Vohwinkel community and mayor's office .
  • On April 1, 1894, the municipalities of Gruiten, Obgruiten, Millrath and Schöller were removed from the Haan mayor's office and formed the new Gruiten mayor's office . At the same time Obgruiten was incorporated into Gruiten.
  • In 1897 the new mayor's office and community of Heiligenhaus were separated from the city of Velbert.
  • From the community of Hardenberg, which was also called Hardenberg-Neviges since the end of the 19th century , parts of the farming communities Dilldorf , Rottberg and Vossnacken were reclassified into the community of Kupferdreh in the Essen district .
  • Vohwinkel ceded parts of the area to the Elberfeld district in 1919.
  • The municipalities of Haan and Vohwinkel received town charter in 1921.
  • The municipality of Hardenberg-Neviges received town charter in 1922.

Before its dissolution, the Mettmann district comprised twelve cities and municipalities in the 1920s:

Mayorry Cities and Towns (1927)
Greetings Gruiten , Millrath , Schöller
Haan Haan
Hardenberg-Neviges Hardenberg-Neviges (City)
Heiligenhaus Heiligenhaus
Kronenberg Kronenberg (city)
Langenberg Langenberg (city)
Mettmann Mettmann (city)
Velbert Velbert (city)
Vohwinkel Vohwinkel (city)
Wuelfrath Wülfrath (city)

The Gruiten mayor's office, which consists of three individual communities, has been known as the Gruiten office since 1928 . The law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of August 1, 1929 meant the renewed dissolution of the district and the change in many municipal boundaries:

  • Kronenberg was divided between the urban districts of Barmen-Elberfeld (later Wuppertal ) and Remscheid .
  • Vohwinkel was incorporated into the Barmen-Elberfeld district.
  • Haan, Wülfrath and Gruiten gave parts of the area to Barmen-Elberfeld.
  • Heiligenhaus gave parts of the area to the city of Essen .
  • Velbert was enlarged by part of the dissolved community of Siebenhonnschaften from the Essen district .
  • Haan, Hardenberg-Neviges, Heiligenhaus, Langenberg, Mettmann, Velbert and Wülfrath as well as the Gruiten office were assigned to the newly formed Düsseldorf-Mettmann district .

The Düsseldorf-Mettmann district was redesigned in 1975 as part of the North Rhine-Westphalian district reform and renamed the Mettmann district . It still exists under this name today.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 025,509
1871 055,087
1880 064,382
1890 075,442
1900 092,489
1910 115,442
1925 125.310

politics

District administrators from 1816 to 1820

District administrators from 1861 to 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1816, p. 15.
  2. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1817, p. 120.
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1820, p. 468
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1861, p. 251.
  5. ^ Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. (PDF) 1867, p. 992 f. , accessed on June 6, 2014 (parish structure of the Mettmann district, 1864).
  6. ^ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region. (Digitized version) 1865, p. 27 , accessed on June 6, 2014 (Mayor offices and municipalities of the Mettmann district 1865).
  7. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1868, p. 77.
  8. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1876, Item 26, p. 279.
  9. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1881, p. 155
  10. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1888 p. 218
  11. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1888, p. 506 f.
  12. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1893, p. 339.
  13. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1894, p. 82.
  14. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1897, p. 53
  15. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1899, p. 111.
  16. ↑ Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region 1919, p. 338.
  17. ^ Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Portal Rhenish History ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District 1922, p. 413.
  19. ↑ historisches-dorf-gruiten.de: History of Gruiten
  20. ↑ Essen Statistics Area - Building Living, p. 6 ( Memento of the original dated September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.essen.de
  21. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 108 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  22. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  23. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. mettmann.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).