Mairie Witten
In 1809 the communities were Witten , Annen , Rüdinghausen , Wullen and that today has become Bochum belonging Langendreer to Mairie Witten combined. A mairie is a kind of mayor's office . The amalgamation took place on the orders of the French occupation forces of Napoleon I. The Mairie Witten was part of the Arrondissement Dortmund in the Département Ruhr .
meaning
In the period between 1800 and 1815, the French occupation troops dissolved the original territorial and administrative structures of the electoral princes and duchies in the Rhineland and what is now the Ruhr area and restructured them. By amalgamating the aforementioned villages, the French strengthened Witten's importance. Witten already had market rights and was therefore a central point of contact for the farmers in the surrounding villages. The establishment of the mayor's office in Witten also gave it priority administrative importance. After the withdrawal of the French troops, the newly established mayor's office was retained by the Prussian district administration in Arnsberg , but at least the boundaries of the former Mairie Witten were redrawn: Witten was assigned to the newly founded Bochum district in 1815 and henceforth included the communities of Witten, Langendreer, Stockum , Düren , Somborn and Werne . The rural community of Annen-Wullen also emerged from the Mairie Witten in 1815 .
literature
- Reekers, Stephanie: The regional development of the districts and municipalities Westphalia 1816-1967 . Dortmund 1969
- Walther Hubatsch (Ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945. Volume 8: Westphalia. Marburg an der Lahn 1980
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ' N , 7 ° 20' E