Mayor's office of Godesberg

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The mayor's office in Godesberg was one of nine Prussian mayor's offices into which the Bonn district (later Bonn district) in the administrative district of Cologne, formed in 1816, was administratively divided. In 1822 the mayor's office came to the then newly formed Rhine Province . Seven municipalities were subordinate to the mayor's office. In 1927 the mayor's office was renamed to Bad Godesberg . With the incorporation of the last two communities Lannesdorf and Mehlem and the elevation to the city of Bad Godesberg, the Bad Godesberg office was dissolved in 1935.

Municipalities and associated localities

The following communities and localities belonged to the mayor's office of Godesberg (as of 1888; today's spelling):

history

The administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Godesberg was part of the Bonn Oberamt in the Electorate of Cologne until the end of the 18th century . From 1798 to 1814 it belonged to France . Godesberg was at the time the seat of a Mairie , which belonged to the canton Bonn external in the Arrondissement de Bonn of the Rhein-Mosel-Département . The administrative area of ​​Mairie Godesberg was identical to that of the later Prussian mayor's office.

Based on the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, administrative districts and counties were formed in 1816 , while the administrative districts of the French Mairies were generally retained on the left bank of the Rhine. The mayor Godesberg belonged to the circle of Bonn in Cologne Region . In 1822 the district of Bonn and with it the mayor's office of Godesberg came to the then newly formed Rhine province .

At the end of the 19th century, the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office began to be incorporated into Godesberg:

  • 1899: Plittersdorf and Rüngsdorf
  • 1904: Friesdorf
  • 1915: Muffendorf
  • 1935: Lannesdorf and Mehlem

In 1927 all rural mayor's offices in the Rhine Province were renamed to offices. Since the community of Godesberg had the suffix "Bad" since 1925, the "Mayor's Office Godesberg" was called "Amt Bad Godesberg" from 1927.

On April 1, 1935, the Bad Godesberg office was dissolved, when the last two municipalities from the administrative district - Lannesdorf and Mehlem - were incorporated into Bad Godesberg and Bad Godesberg was raised to the status of an official city.

statistics

According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the Godesberg mayorry included seven villages and a hamlet as well as ten mills and factory buildings. Ten churches, prayer houses and chapels were available to the population, there were also nine public buildings and 747 residential buildings. In 1816 there were a total of 3,759 inhabitants in the seven municipalities, in 1828 there were 4,331 inhabitants, 2,139 men and 2,192 women; 4,240 inhabitants belonged to the Catholic, 31 to the Protestant and 60 to the Jewish faith.

Further details are taken from the "Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia" from 1888, which is based on the results of the census of December 1, 1885. A total of 9,652 inhabitants lived in 1,774 households and 1,628 houses in the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Godesberg; 4,127 of the population were male and 4,525 were female. Regarding religious affiliation, 7,788 were Catholic and 721 were Protestant; 24 residents were referred to as "other Christians"; the 108 Jewish inhabitants lived mainly in the communities of Godesberg and Mehlem.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the seven municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 3,021 hectares , of which 1,591 hectares were arable land, 108 hectares of meadows and 853 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.3 MB), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 134 ff
  2. ^ A b Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen ( Memento from January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), administrative affiliation Bonn
  3. ↑ Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Moselle department for the year 1808 , Coblenz: Prefecture-Buchdr., 1808, page 121
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 262

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 9 ′  E