Lord Mayor of Elberfeld
The Lord Mayor's Office of Elberfeld existed from 1815 to 1929 and was a local authority in the Elberfeld district (until 1861) of the Prussian Rhine Province , which, in addition to the city of Elberfeld, also included the rural area, which was divided into Rotten and later into sections. It emerged from the medieval Bergisches Amt Elberfeld , which was dissolved under the French in 1806 and divided into independent cantons and Mairies . Under Prussia, the canton of Elberfeld was converted into the Lord Mayor's Office of Elberfeld.
Background and story
The Duchy of Berg was last owned by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria due to inheritance . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the duchy to Napoleon Bonaparte in exchange for the principality of Ansbach . He transferred the duchy to his brother-in-law Joachim Murat , who united it on April 24, 1806 with the counties of Mark , Dortmund , Limburg on the right bank of the Rhine , the northern part of the Principality of Munster and other territories to form the Grand Duchy of Berg .
Soon after the takeover, the French administration in the Grand Duchy began to introduce new and modern administrative structures based on the French model. By August 3, 1806, this municipal reform replaced and unified the old Bergisch offices and rulers. It provided for the creation of departments , arrondissements , cantons and municipalities (called Mairies from the end of 1808) and broke with the old noble privileges in local government. On November 14, 1808, this process was completed after a reorganization of the first structuring from 1806, the Altbergic honors were often retained and were assigned to the respective Mairies of a canton as rural communities. During this time, the canton of Elberfeld was created in the Elberfeld arrondissement .
In 1813 the French withdrew from the Grand Duchy after the defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig and from the end of 1813 it fell under the provisional administration of Prussia in the so-called Generalgouvernement Berg , which was finally awarded it by the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. With the formation of the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in 1816, the existing administrative structures were largely retained and, while maintaining the French borders, transformed into Prussian districts , mayorships and municipalities , which often survived into the 20th century. The canton of Elberfeld became the Lord Mayor of Elberfeld.
On June 1, 1861, the Lord Mayor of Elberfeld left the Elberfeld district as a separate urban district .
With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of 1929, the mayor's office was dissolved and the municipal area with the cities and communities of Barmen , Ronsdorf , Cronenberg , Vohwinkel and parts of Lüttringhausen ( Beyenburg , Herbringhausen ) united to form the city of Barmen-Elberfeld, which in the The following year it was renamed Wuppertal .
Lord Mayor
- 1814–1837: Johann Rütger Brüning
- 1837–1851: Johann Adolf von Carnap
- 1851–1872: Karl Emil Lischke
- 1873–1899: Adolf Hermann Jaeger
- 1900–1919: Wilhelm Funck
- 1919–1920: Paul Hopf
- 1920–1929: Max Kirschbaum
Outline and statistical data
The mayor's office comprised the city of Elberfeld, which was divided into the districts A to G and Aue , and the rural district ( external citizenship ) of the Elberfeld parish, which until 1838 was divided into the Rotten Hülsbecker Rotte , Steinbeck- and Arrenberger Rotte , Pickertsberger Rotte , Dorper Rotte , Katernberger Rotte , Mirker Rotte , Uellendahler Rotte , Fuhrter Rotte , Holz and Eichholzer Rotte and Hahn and Hipkendahler Rotte was subdivided. The Rotten were also transferred to sections of foreign citizenship in 1838.
In 1815/16, 21,574 residents lived in the mayor's office, 16,401 of them in the city district and 5,173 as external citizens. According to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , the mayor's office had a population of 30,542 (23,836 district and 6,707 foreign citizenship) in 1832, consisting of 5,759 (5,126 and 633) Catholic, 24,669 (18,595 and 6,047) Protestant and 115 (district only) Jewish community members split up. The mayor's quarters comprised four churches (city district only), 35 (28 and seven) public buildings, 2,487 (1912 and 575) residential buildings, 127 (117 and ten) factories and mills, and 1,094 (472 and 622) agricultural buildings.
The community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province of 1888 indicates a population of 106,499 for the mayor's office (77,860 Protestant, 26,385 Catholic, 941 other Christian and 1,249 Jewish faith), who lived in 20 places with a total of 5,802 houses and 21,932 households. The area of the mayor's office (2,844 ha ) was divided into 1,108 ha of arable land, 295 ha of meadows and 846 ha of forest.
Population development
The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. These are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices or the city administration itself. From 1871, the information relates to the "local population" and 1925 to the resident population . Before 1871, the number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey procedures.
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¹ census result
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.