District of Solingen

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The district of Solingen was from 1816 to 1929 a district in the administrative district of Düsseldorf in the Rhine province belonging to Prussia . Up until 1896, when Solingen was excluded from the circle , which was the seat of the district administration until 1914 , the administrative unit was called the district of Solingen . The district area essentially comprised the area of ​​today's cities Burscheid , Langenfeld (Rhineland) , Leichlingen , Leverkusen , Monheim am Rhein and Solingen.

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 with the administrative seat of Cologne , which was united on June 22, 1822 with the province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, also formed in 1815, with its administrative seat in Koblenz to form the Rhine province .

As part of this administrative reorganization, the district of Solingen was also founded. It was initially made up of the eight mayorships of Burg, Cronenberg , Dorp , Graefrath, Höhscheid , Merscheid, Solingen and Wald, which were founded in the French era .

On October 30, 1819, the district area was considerably enlarged, as the Opladen district , which was also founded in 1816, was dissolved and its mayorries Burscheid, Leichlingen, Monheim, Opladen, Richrath, Schlebusch and Witzhelden were added to the Solingen district. At the same time, the Burg mayor's office was transferred to the Lennep district and the Cronenberg mayor's office to the Elberfeld district .

In 1845, the municipal code for the Rhine Province gave all places that had their own households the status of a municipality. The cities of the district were subject to the Rhenish city code . Since then, the circle has been structured as follows:

Mayorry cities and communes
Burscheid Burscheid (city)
Dorp Dorp (city)
Graefrath Graefrath (city)
Hitdorf Hitdorf (city)
Höhscheid Höhscheid (city)
Corpses Leichlingen (city)
Merscheid Merscheid (city)
Monheim Baumberg , Monheim , Rheindorf
Neukirchen Neukirchen (city)
Opladen Bürrig , Opladen , Wiesdorf
Richrath Richrath , Reusrath
Schlebusch Lützenkirchen , Schlebusch , Steinbüchel
Solingen Solingen (city)
Forest Forest (city)
Joke heroes Joke heroes

In the period that followed, the following changes were made to the administrative structure:

  • Dorp was incorporated into Solingen on January 1, 1889.
  • Wiesdorf and Bürrig left the mayor's office in Opladen in 1889 and formed the mayor's office in Küppersteg .
  • Merscheid was renamed Ohligs on August 31, 1891 .
  • On April 1, 1896, Solingen was spun off as a new urban district from the district that has since been known as the district of Solingen .
  • Rheindorf was raised to a mayor's office in 1897, which was administered in personal union with the city of Hitdorf.
  • Neukirchen was renamed Bergisch Neukirchen in 1904.
  • Richrath and Reusrath were merged on April 1, 1910 to form the municipality of Richrath-Reusrath .
  • The district seat was moved from Solingen to Opladen in 1914 under District Administrator Adolf Lucas .
  • Bürrig was incorporated into Wiesdorf on April 1, 1920.

With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of August 1, 1929, the district of Solingen was dissolved. The cities of Gräfrath, Höhscheid, Ohligs and Wald were incorporated into Solingen. The other towns and municipalities were assigned to the newly formed Solingen-Lennep district, together with those of the Lennep district, which was also dissolved , which was renamed the Rhein-Wupper district in 1931 .

Population development

year Residents
1819 44,512
1825 47.502
1835 55,244
1871 92,484
1880 107,365
1900 1 112,539
1910 1 154,753
1925 1 180.814
1) from 1900 without the city of Solingen

politics

District administrators

District administrators of the Solingen-Lennep district

See Rhein-Wupper-Kreis !

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1816, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Portal Rheinische Geschichte ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1819, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, § 1
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  6. ↑ leverkusen.de: History of Leverkusen
  7. ↑ stadtgeschichte-leverkusen.de: Leverkusen in the 19th century ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 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 / www.stadtgeschichte-leverkusen.de
  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 Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 2, 2014 .
  12. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. solingen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).