Metzkausen
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Metzkausen
City of Mettmann
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 54 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 11 ″ E
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| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 | |
| Postal code : | 40822 | |
| Area code : | 02104 | |
Location of Metzkausen in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Metzkausen is a district of the city of Mettmann in the Mettmann district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1974, Metzkausen was an independent municipality in what was then the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district .
geography
The Metzkausen district is located in the northwest of the city of Mettmann. Until the middle of the 20th century, Metzkausen was a scattered settlement without an actual village center; today's closed settlement area only developed after the Second World War .
history
A settlement in Metzinchusen was first mentioned in 1090 in a document from the Kaiserswerth monastery . In the Middle Ages, the Metzkausen Honnschaft was formed around this settlement in the Mettmann office of the Duchy of Berg . Since the French era , Metzkausen has belonged to the Hubbelrath mayor in the district of Düsseldorf and since the 1840s it has formed a municipality in accordance with the municipal code for the Rhine Province of 1845. The larger residential areas in the municipality of Metzkausen were Burg with 27 in 1885 , Klein Krumbach with 19, and Lindchen with 18, Neu Burscheid with 16, Peckhaus with 36 and Stübbenhaus with 43 inhabitants.
The Benthausen lead and zinc ore mine was operated in Metzkausen from 1891 to 1904 . Strong population growth, combined with large-scale new building activity, began at the end of the 1950s. Metzkausen was incorporated into the city of Mettmann on January 1, 1975 through the Düsseldorf Act .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1835 | 972 | |
| 1864 | 958 | |
| 1885 | 802 | |
| 1910 | 865 | |
| 1939 | 996 | |
| 1950 | 1421 | |
| 1960 | 2019 | |
| 1970 | 6096 | |
| 1973 | 6600 |
Architectural monuments
Architectural monuments in Metzkausen are the agricultural buildings Lindenbecker Weg 2 , Hof Nösenberg , Groß-Bülthausen and Hof Benthausen , the residential buildings Dorper Weg 18a and An der Post 2 and the Wilhelmshöhe war memorial .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province 1885, p. 84
- ^ 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
- ↑ 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).
- ^ City of Ratingen: Area and population
- ↑ a b c Population figures of Metzkausen