Office Welschbillig

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The office of Welschbillig was an Electoral Trier office in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and a Prussian and later a Federal German office in the 20th century .

Welschbillig was a town in the Middle Ages and is now a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district . The landmark is Welschbillig Castle , which was also the seat of the Trier administrative district.

At the end of the 18th century, the districts of Besselich , Dahlem , Eisenach , Gilzen , Hinkel (now part of Luxembourg ), Hofweiler , Idenheim , Idesheim , Ittel , Kerscht , Kill , Moehn , Noewel belonged to the Electorate of Welschbillig, which was first mentioned in 1374 , Olck , Pfalzkill , Roehl , Sülm , Trierweiler , Udelfangen , Wellkill and Welschbillig . After the conquest of the left bank of the Rhine by Napoleon Bonaparte in the War of the First Coalition , the Office 1798 was dissolved and the canton Pfalzel in the district Trier in the Saar department slammed

After the area fell to the Kingdom of Prussia through the Congress of Vienna , the mayor's office of Welschbillig was founded in 1815 . To it belonged from the old office Eisenach, Gilzem, Hofweiler, Ittel, Möhn and Welschbillig; in addition there were Edingen , Godendorf , Menningen , Minden , Ralingen and Wintersdorf . In 1927 the mayor's office in Welschbillig was renamed again to Amt Welschbillig. In 1968 the Verbandsgemeinde Welschbillig was created, which later became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Trier-Land .

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