Oberbonsfeld

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Oberbonsfeld
City of Velbert
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 59 ″  E
Incorporation : April 1, 1881
Incorporated into: Langenberg
Postal code : 42555
Area code : 02052
Oberbonsfeld (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Oberbonsfeld

Location of Oberbonsfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia

Oberbonsfeld is a district and a district of the city of Velbert in the Mettmann district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1881 Oberbonsfeld was an independent municipality in the Prussian province of Westphalia .

geography

The current district of Oberbonsfeld essentially comprises the area of ​​the former municipality of Oberbonsfeld. On the northern edge of the district and south of the Velbert district of Kidneyhof , a larger closed settlement formed in the 20th century, which is referred to on older maps and city maps as Oberbonsfeld , but today mainly as Bonsfeld .

history

Oberbonsfeld was originally a Westphalian peasantry in the Blankenstein district of the county of Mark . Since the 19th century Oberbonsfeld formed a rural community in the Office Hattingen the district Bochum in the Prussian province of Westphalia . The western border of the community was the Deilbach , on the west bank of which was the city of Langenberg , which belonged to the Rhine province . On the Westphalian side of the Deilbach was Märkisch Langenberg , an extension of the city of Langenberg on Westphalian soil, which was structurally and economically closely intertwined with Langenberg in the Rhineland, but belonged to the municipality of Oberbonsfeld. In the middle of the 19th century, efforts began to unite the two halves of Langenberg under local law.

By a Prussian law specially enacted for this case, the municipality of Oberbonsfeld was incorporated into the city of Langenberg in the then Mettmann district on April 1, 1881 , making it the first Prussian municipality to be reclassified from Westphalia to the Rhineland. Langenberg and Oberbonsfeld have been part of the city of Velbert since 1975.

Population development

The community of Oberbonsfeld had 827 inhabitants in 1871.

Architectural monuments

In the center of Oberbonsfeld and Bonsfeld, the residential buildings Bonsfelder Strasse 25, Heeger Strasse 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 as well as the Fellershof in Fellerstrasse 22 are under monument protection .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District boundaries in the Geoportal NRW
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1881, p. 155
  3. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871