Office of Niedersfeld

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The Niedersfeld office was one of the offices that were set up in Prussia in the 19th century in connection with municipal reforms. The office was created at the beginning of the 1840s in the Brilon district from parts of the old mayor's office in Winterberg and existed until 1974. At the beginning of 1975 it was completely transferred to the enlarged town of Winterberg .

history

When the town of Winterberg left the mayor's association in 1837, the remaining communities soon formed the new Niedersfeld office. It got its name from the largest community. It had its seat in Winterberg, because the mayor of Winterberg was also the main municipality official of the Niedersfeld office until 1960. His archive went on as "inventory D" in the Winterberg city archive.

The office included the communities Altastenberg , Elkeringhausen , Grönebach , Hildfeld , Niedersfeld and Silbach . It consisted of four areas spatially separated from each other by the city of Winterberg.

In 1864 it had 2370 inhabitants. By 1939 that number had risen to 2,715. As a result of the refugee movements from the former eastern German regions after 1945, the number grew to 3847 by 1950. Eleven years later (1961) the number of inhabitants had fallen again to 3369. Five years later, in 1966, the Niedersfeld Office again had a population of 3810 people with an area of ​​41.4 km². In 1961 1727 people worked here, 29 percent of whom were employed in agriculture and forestry, 42.5 percent in manufacturing and the rest in other professions. In 1961, 3,103 people declared themselves Catholics and 240 as Protestant Christians.

The office existed until the end of 1974, except for a brief interruption during the time of National Socialism. At the beginning of 1975, its communities were transferred to the enlarged city of Winterberg.

literature

  • Paul Aust: Charming winter mountain with its villages. Winterberg 1996, ISBN 3-9803156-4-9 .
  • Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Municipal coat of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Kurkölnisches Sauerland. Arnsberg 1986, pp. 69, 203.
  • Statistical survey for the district of Brilon. Published by the State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1967.

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 32'  E