Mayor's Office Orscholz

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The mayor's office Orscholz (also Orschholz ) was one of originally twelve Prussian mayor's offices into which the district of Saarburg , which was newly formed in 1816 in the administrative district of Trier, was administratively divided. From 1822 it belonged to the Rhine Province . The administration of the mayor's office was subordinate to seven municipalities . The administrative seat was in Orscholz , from which it was named , and at times in Freudenburg .

In 1927 the mayor's office in Orscholz was renamed to Amt Orscholz , which was dissolved in 1946. The villages have belonged to the Merzig-Wadern district in Saarland since 1946 .

Communities

The following communities belonged to the mayor's office in Orscholz (population as of 1830):

  • Büschdorf with the Tocksmühle (60 houses, 303 inhabitants)
  • Eft-Hellendorf , the village of Eft and the hamlet of Hellendorf with the Retschmühle and the Strupshaus (82 houses, 481 inhabitants)
  • Nohn with the tin mill, the green mill and the residential areas Scheuerhof and Buttwag (63 houses, 379 inhabitants)
  • Orscholz with three mills and the Saar houses (162 houses, 974 inhabitants)
  • Tünsdorf (126 houses, 702 inhabitants)
  • Wehingen-Bethingen, village of Wehingen and hamlet of Bethingen with the Zeimetsmühle (102 houses, 552 inhabitants)
  • Expanses with two mills and the house on Käsgewann (125 houses, 739 inhabitants)

history

All localities in the administrative district of the Orscholz mayor's office originally belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine , which fell to France in 1766. The area belonged to the Bailliage de Bouzonville (Busendorf). After the French Revolution , a new administrative structure was introduced in 1790. The area of ​​the later mayor's office was assigned to the canton of Sierck in the Moselle department. As a result of the so-called Wars of Liberation , the region was initially placed under an Austro-Bavarian administration and temporarily assigned to the canton of Merzig in the Saar department. Unlike the rest of the left bank of the Rhine, this was initially assigned to Austria at the Congress of Vienna (1815) . In the Second Peace of Paris , Austria ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Prussia with effect from July 1, 1816 .

Under the Prussian administration, administrative districts and districts were newly formed in 1816 , the mayor's office Orscholz belonged to the Saarburg district in the administrative district of Trier and from 1822 to the Rhine province . In 1848 the administrative headquarters were temporarily relocated from Orscholz to Freudenburg .

The Orscholz mayor's office, like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , was renamed “Amt Orscholz” in 1927 due to the Prussian law regulating various points of the municipal constitutional law of December 27, 1927. On July 18, 1946, the French military government attached the communities to the Saarland and on November 8, 1946, assigned them to the Merzig-Wadern district . The municipalities of the Orscholz office were incorporated into the Mettlach office at the same time.

Since the regional and administrative reform (1974), the previously independent communities of Büschdorf and Eft-Hellendorf belong to Perl , Nohn (Mettlach) , Orscholz , Tünsdorf , Wehingen - Bethingen and Weiten to Mettlach in Saarland .

statistics

According to a "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces" from 1830, the Orscholz mayorry included eight villages, a hamlet , nine mills and four separate houses and farms. In 1816 there were a total of 2,964 inhabitants in 494 households, in 1828 there were 3,780 inhabitants, all of whom belonged to the Catholic 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 4,051 inhabitants lived in 819 houses and 804 households in the administrative area of ​​the Orscholz mayor's office; 4,031 of the inhabitants were Catholic, 18 Protestant, and two belonged to the Jewish faith. Catholic parishes existed in Eft, Orscholz, Tünsdorf and Weiten, the Protestant believers were assigned to the outside parish in Merzig .

In 1885 the total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 6,020 hectares , of which 2,859 hectares were arable land, 367 hectares of meadows and 2,475 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , Nicolai, 1830, p. 928 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Otto Beck: Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Trier, Lintz, 1868, p. 150 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 94 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Province of Rhineland, Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (Ed.), 1888, p. 174 ff ( uni-koeln.de )
  5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 599 ff
  6. ↑ Collection of the ordinances published under the Governorate of the Middle Rhine in Kreuznach , Speyer, Oswald's Buchhandlung, 1819, p. 192 ff ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbook of Rhenish Particular Law , Volume 3, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1832, p. 227 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ Order of July 18, 1946, published in the official gazette of the Saar Regional Council on August 9, 1946, p. 131 ( uni-saarland.de PDF; 1.0 MB)
  9. ↑ Order of November 8, 1946, published in the official gazette of the Saar Regional Council on December 5, 1946, p. 237 ( uni-saarland.de PDF; 1.0 MB)