Mayor's office Wahlscheid
The mayor's office in Wahlscheid was initially one of nine Prussian mayor's offices into which the Siegburg district, formed in 1816 in the administrative district of Cologne, was administratively divided. In 1822 the mayor's office in Wahlscheid came to the then newly formed Rhine Province . The administrative district of the mayor's office comprised around 100 villages, hamlets and individual farms . The rural community of Wahlscheid , administered by the mayor, was co-area with this one.
Until 1924 the seat of the mayor's office was in Münchhof , the seat of the office in Auelerhof.
After the First World War , the mayor's office was occupied by Allied soldiers. These remained until January 29, 1926.
In 1927 all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province were renamed "Amt", the Wahlscheid office existed until the 1950s, when the municipality Wahlscheid became a municipality with the same territorial status as in 1815. This was incorporated into Lohmar in 1969 .
Associated localities
The following localities belonged to the mayor's office or to the municipality, population figures 1885:
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statistics
According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the mayorship of Wahlscheid included 71 hamlets and courtyards as well as two knight seats , four churches and chapels, eight public buildings, 333 private houses as well as seven mills and an iron hammer . In 1816 a total of 1903 inhabitants were counted, in 1828 there were 2366 inhabitants including 1171 men and 1195 women; 1656 inhabitants belonged to the Protestant and 710 to the Catholic faith.
Further details are taken from the “Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia” from 1885, which is based on the results of the census of December 1, 1885. In the administrative area of the mayor's office in Wahlscheid a total of 2394 inhabitants lived in 97 hamlets and individual farms or 513 houses; 1199 of the population were male and 1195 were female. The 1810 Protestant residents belonged to the parish churches in Wahlscheid and Hohnrath, the 583 Catholics to the parish church in Neuhohnrath.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Bürgermeisterei Münchhof" ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.lohmar.de
- ↑ Josef Hoffmann: Guide through the administration of the Rhineland from then and now , Düsseldorf: Selbstverl., 1918, page 35, ( digitized edition )
- ^ Wilhelm Butte: Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia , first volume, 1817, page 89 ( digitized edition )
- ↑ https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/rhein-sieg/100-jahre-danach-so-erlebte-der-rhein-sieg-kreis-seine-besatzer-im-jahr-1918-31733314
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 120 ( digitized edition ; PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 300