Flammersfeld Mayor's Office

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Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Mayor of Flammersfeld from 1848 to 1852

The Flammersfeld mayor's office was one of the nine Prussian mayor's offices into which the Altenkirchen district, formed in 1816 in the Coblenz administrative district, was administratively divided. The mayor's office included 33 communities, in which in 1817 a total of 3,366 inhabitants lived. Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was mayor here from 1848 to 1852 . The mayor's office was renamed to Amt Flammersfeld in 1927 .

Communities

According to statistics from 1843 and 1861, the following municipalities belonged to the mayor's office, the spelling has been adapted to the current form, the structure corresponds to the previous territorial allocation:

Originally part of the parish of Flammersfeld in the county of Sayn-Hachenburg
Originally part of the parish of Schöneberg in the county of Sayn-Hachenburg
Originally part of the parish of Horhausen in the Electorate of Trier
Originally belonging to the parish of Peterslahr in the Electorate of Trier
Originally part of the parish of Oberlahr in the Electorate of Cologne

history

The localities administered by the mayor's office belonged to the county of Sayn-Hachenburg (1799) and to the electorates of Trier (1803) and Cologne (1803) until the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century .

Sayn-Hachenburg came to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg due to a succession in 1799 , which was united with the Principality of Nassau-Usingen to form the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . The Saynian parishes of Flammersfeld and Schöneberg belonged to the Reformed Church .

The parishes of Horhausen and Peterslahr, which were previously Electorate of Trier, were assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in 1803 on the basis of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, and the parish of Oberlahr, previously Electorate of Cologne, also known as Lahr, to the Principality of Wied-Runkel . In connection with the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806, this area also came to the Duchy of Nassau. The parishes of Horhausen, Peterslahr and Oberlahr belonged to the Catholic Church from ancient times.

The entire area was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and on the basis of a treaty concluded between Nassau and Prussia .

Previous affiliation of the places of the mayor's office Flammersfeld
  Parishes Flammersfeld, Schöneberg Parishes Horhausen, Peterslahr Parish Oberlahr
until 1799 County Sayn-Hachenburg Electorate of Trier Electorate of Cologne
1799 Principality of Nassau-Weilburg Electorate of Trier Electorate of Cologne
1803 Principality of Nassau-Weilburg Principality of Nassau-Weilburg Principality of Wied-Runkel
1806 Duchy of Nassau Duchy of Nassau Duchy of Nassau
1815 Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia

Which was under the Prussian administration 1816 Altenkirchen in the administrative district of Coblenz newly created, which was divided into nine mayors. The Flammersfeld mayor's office, like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , was renamed “Flammersfeld Office” in 1927. From this the Verbandsgemeinde Flammersfeld arose in 1968 .

From 1848 to 1852, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was the mayor of Flammersfeld. During his office in Flammersfeld, on his initiative, the roads from Flammersfeld to Neuwied and Hamm an der Sieg (today part of federal highway 256 ) and the road from Flammersfeld via Asbach to Honnef an der Rhein (today Landesstraße 272) were built to give the farmers a better one To enable the transport of their products to the sales markets. Furthermore, during his tenure in Flammersfeld he founded the “Aid Association for the Support of Unprofitable Farmers”.

mayor

The mayors, from 1927 mayors of Flammersfeld, were:

  • 1817–1842 Peter Ginsberg
  • 1842–1848 Mathias Sanner
  • 1848–1852 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
  • 1852–1854 Schneider (deputy, provisional administration)
  • 1854–1904 Franz Kurtz
  • 1904–1906 Friedrich Hommer
  • 1907–1910 Karl Beck
  • 1910–1928 Fritz Heymann
  • 1923 Franz-Josef Wuermeling (July to September, provisional administrator)00000
  • 1928–1942 Heinrich Becker
  • 1942–1944 vacant
  • 1944–1945 Peter Klaes (until March 1945)
  • 1945 Emil Müller (March to April)00000
  • 1945–1946 Johann Quartier
  • 1946–1968 Eugen Schmidt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 699
  2. ↑ Hölscher: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, page 16
  3. ↑ Statistical news about the government district of Coblenz , 1861, page 44
  4. ↑ Ludwig von Rönne: The state culture legislation of the Prussian state , Volume 2, 1854, page 931
  5. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson: Der Prussische Staat: a clear presentation of its educational history of its legislation ... , 1854, page 59
  6. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, pages 486, 488; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  7. ^ Walter Koch: Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate, (PDF; 160 kB)
  8. ^ The district of Altenkirchen in the 20th century , published by the Altenkirchen district administration, 1992, page 511, ISBN 3-925190-10-4
  9. ↑ Official Gazette of the Flammersfeld Association of 9 June 2016, page 6