Office Fredeburg (Prussia)

This article deals with the Prussian office of the 19th and 20th centuries. For the medieval and early modern administrative district see Amt Fredeburg .

The Fredeburg office was a Westphalian office within the Meschede district (from 1832). From 1817 to the entry into force of the Prussian rural community order for the province of Westphalia in 1843, the office was the mayor's office and first belonged to the Medebach district, which was dissolved in 1819, and to the Eslohe district until 1832 . The office was dissolved on January 1, 1975 and incorporated into the town of Schmallenberg .

history

Mayor's Office Fredeburg

The Prussian office of Fredeburg is the successor to the medieval office and court of Fredeburg in the Bilstein quarter in the Duchy of Westphalia . Around 1840 four parishes with nine tax communities belonged to the mayor's office. The towns and places of residence are according to statistics from Johann Georg von Viebahn , who specifically lists special places and mills in a way that deviates from the other localization (contemporary notation):

• Parish and tax community Berghausen: Berghausen , Brinkmanns Mühle (to Berghausen), Arpe , Am Arper Bach (grinding mill, without residents), Heiminghausen , Herscheid , Kückelheim , Mailar , Menkhausen , Niederberndorf , Jacobs Mühle (oil mill, without residents) and Oberberndorf .
• Parish of Wormbach
  • Tax municipality Wormbach: Wormbach , Ebbinghof , Altehof , Obringhausen and source of the Wenne (no buildings and residents).
  • Tax municipality Oberlandenbeck: Oberlandenbeck and Netherlandsbeck .
  • Tax municipality Bracht: Bracht , Hebbecke , Werentrop , Am Witmekebach (grinding mill without residents), Selkentrop and Felbecke .
  • Tax municipality Huxel: Huxel .
  • Tax municipality Werpe: Werpe and Harbeke .
  • Tax municipality Niederfleckenberg: Niederfleckenberg , Am Wiesentroperbach (grinding mill without residents) and Schulten Hammer (rod iron hammer without residents).
• Parish and tax municipality Dorlar: Dorlar , Piepers Mühle , Hofmanns Mühle (both grinding mills, to Dorlar), Altenilpe , Sellinghausen , Nierentrop , Kirchilpe , Grimminghausen and Berghof .
• City of Fredeburg: Old Town , Neustadt , Amtsgütchen (Mahlmühle) and Im Buchhagen (chapel in the forest, without residents).

In 1818 a total of 3,100 people lived in the mayor's office in Fredeburg. According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , the mayor's office had a total of 3,534 inhabitants in 1838, which was divided into 3,499 Catholic, 30 Protestant and five Jewish community members. The living quarters of the mayor's office comprised a total of 26 churches, twelve public buildings / schools, 505 residential houses, 13 factories and mills and 445 agricultural buildings.

Office Fredeburg

In 1843 the mayor's office of Fredeburg was dissolved due to the Prussian rural community order for the province of Westphalia from 1841 and a new Westphalian office was established. The parishes of Berghausen, Wormbach and Dorlar were each merged into rural communities and Wormbach was assigned to the Schmallenberg office. For this purpose, the rural communities founded at the same time Bödefeld-Land , Freiheit Bödefeld and Rarbach came to the Fredeburg office.

In 1887 the office consisted of the following municipalities:

local community	Check- residents	of which female	of which male	of which cath.	of which possibly	otherwise christ.	thereof jew.	Area in hectares	of which arable land	of which meadows	of which forest	Living spaces	Residential building	house postures
Berghausen	964	465	499	962	2			2636	1087	223	906	11	166	166
Bödefeld-Land	870	445	425	868	2			3061	1138	203	1404	12	138	151
Freedom Bödefeld	778	406	372	772	2		4th	1818	246	100	1096	7th	127	162
Dorlar	809	411	398	790	19th			1818	840	124	517	11	139	150
Fredeburg	934	506	428	898	29	1	6th	1329	365	96	639	2	137	196
Rarbach	814	430	384	810	1		3	3023	1156	179	1113	12	133	133

The office was dissolved on January 1, 1975. The communities were assigned to the city of Schmallenberg except for parts of the Bödefeld-Land community.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg von Viebahn: table of localities and distances for the government district of Arnsberg, sorted according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Rural community regulations for the province of Westphalia 1841 (PDF file; 1.6 MB)
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.