Meiersberg (Ratingen)
Until 1967, Meiersberg was a municipality in the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The former municipality is now part of the cities of Heiligenhaus , Mettmann and Ratingen in the Mettmann district .
Geography and history
The rural community of Meiersberg had existed in the Düsseldorf district since the 1840s . It belonged to the mayor's office Hubbelrath and consisted of the old Bergische Honnschaft Meiersberg . The community had no actual village center, but consisted exclusively of individual farms. These were in detail: Artzberg, Bocks, Bocksbändchen, Bocksberg, Bocksbusch, Bremen, Bremenbusch, Bremenfeld, Buntenkothen, Düngersbusch, Eikuhl, Freitag, Füsting, Gladbach, Grevenhaus, Grevenmühle, Gühr, Herbeck, Hofader, Hoferhäuschen, Hofermühle, Kleinherbeck, Kleinhof , Kleuvershaus, Knappen, Meisloch, Meyers, Neubrück, Niederheide, Nocken, Oben Schönenbeck, Oben Schrievers, Oben Schrievershäuschen, Oberheide, sheepfold, Scharfenstein, Scheidt, Schlink, Schring, school, Schwarzbachermühle, Schwarzbachhof, Starkenburg, Steinhaus, Stiel, Untenschönebeck, Wiel, Wusten, Wusterheide, Zehnthof, Zum Busch, Zum Hof, Zum Kloster, Zur Heide and Zur Straße.
On April 1, 1967, the community was merged with the neighboring community of Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheidt to form the new community of Homberg-Meiersberg . Homberg-Meiersberg, in turn, was divided into the cities of Ratingen , Heiligenhaus and Mettmann by the Düsseldorf law on January 1, 1975 . Most of the area of the old municipality of Meiersberg fell to Ratingen, the district of Hofermühle to Heiligenhaus and an area in the district of Oberheide to Mettmann.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1835 | 608 | |
| 1864 | 573 | |
| 1885 | 500 | |
| 1910 | 536 | |
| 1939 | 604 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ GV. NRW. 1967 p. 38
- ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2017 (digitized version).
- ^ Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885, p. 82
- ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Düsseldorf
- ^ 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).
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ' N , 6 ° 58' E