Oberhonschaft (Wermelskirchen)
In the Middle Ages and modern times, the Wermelskirchen Oberhonschaft was an honor in the parish of Wermelskirchen in the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld (from 1555 Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen ). It was one of three honors in the parish and was located in the Bornefeld-Hückeswagen judicial district .
The honor survived the communal reorganization in the Grand Duchy of Berg under French administration from 1806. After the French withdrew from the Rhine Confederation in 1813 after the defeat in the Battle of Leipzig , the honor was assigned to the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen in the Lennep district under Prussia in 1815 .
In 1832, according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district, the honors included the residential areas and courts (original spelling) Unterkackhausen , Dorfmüllershammer , Dorfmüllerskotten , Berghausenwüsten , Neuenhaus , Neuenhof , Struck , Berghausen , Frankenthurn , Mebusmühle , Walkmühle , Lüfferkusen , Wüstenhof , Espe , Neuenhöhe , Tockelhausen , upper roads , hunter house , Born , Kalleberg , book Durchholzen , Oberdurholzen , Dreibäumen , corrugated , Stübgen , Muehlenteich , Habenichts , Obereipringhausen , Kuhle , Untereipringhausen , Eipringhausermühle , Süppelbach , Kovelsberg , height , Elbringhausen and Belts .
According to statistics, in 1815/16 the population had a population of 1,441. In 1832 the population was 1,752, divided into 105 Catholic and 1,647 Protestant parishioners. The living space of the Honschaft comprised three public buildings (schools), 210 residential buildings, three mills or factories and 177 agricultural buildings. With the municipality order for the Rhine Province in 1845 the Honschaft was transformed into a municipality .
Before 1871, the area north of the Eschbach was given over to Remscheid. In 1873 the Honschaft was merged with the Wermelskirchener Dorfhonschaft and the Wermelskirchener Niederhonschaft to form the town of Wermelskirchen , which in turn became part of the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ §1 of the municipal regulations for the Rhine province : “All those places (towns, villages, hamlets, peasant communities, honnships, parishes, etc.) which currently have their own budget for their municipal needs, it is on the basis of a special budget or a section of the mayor's office budget, should form a community under a community head. "[Berlin, 1845]