Mayor's office Zerf

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The mayor Zerf was one of the original twelve Prussian mayors , the 1816 newly formed into the circle Saarburg in Trier divided administratively. From 1822 it belonged to the Rhine Province . Five municipalities were under the administration of the mayor's office . The administrative seat was in the eponymous place Zerf , today a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1927 the mayor's office in Zerf was renamed Amt Zerf . The Zerf office existed until 1935.

Municipalities and associated localities

The following communities belonged to the mayor's office of Zerf (population figures as of 1843):

  • Baldringen (22 houses, 149 inhabitants)
  • Greimerath with the hamlet Panzhaus and the Groswald settlement (101 houses, 587 inhabitants)
  • Hentern with two mills (44 houses, 261 inhabitants)
  • Schömerich with the Kümmeln farms and the Steinbachsweier tavern (23 houses, 128 residents)
  • Zerf , consisting of the villages Niederzerf, Oberzerf and Frommersbach, the Kalfertshaus and a forester's house (162 houses, 965 inhabitants)

history

All localities in the administrative district of the mayor's office in Zerf belonged to the Saarburg office in the Electorate of Trier until the end of the 18th century and were part of the Irscher care . After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine and after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) it was incorporated into French territory . In 1798, the then new French administrative structure was introduced, Zerf became the administrative seat of the Mairie of the same name in the canton of Saarburg of the Saar Department . As a result of the so-called Wars of Liberation , the region was temporarily subordinated to the Central Rhine Generalgouvernement in 1814 , and then to an Austrian-Bavarian administration. Unlike the rest of the Left Bank of the Rhine , the canton of Saarburg was initially assigned to Austria at the Congress of Vienna (1815) . In the Second Peace of Paris , Austria ceded the canton to the Kingdom of Prussia with effect from July 1, 1816, along with other areas .

Under the Prussian administration, new administrative districts and districts were formed in 1816 ; on the left bank of the Rhine, Prussia generally retained the administrative districts of the French Mairies for the time being. The mayor's office of Zerf corresponded to the previous Mairie Zerf. The mayor's office Zerf belonged to the Saarburg district in the Trier administrative district and from 1822 to the Rhine province .

The mayor's office in Zerf was renamed in 1927, like all the rural mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , to “Amt Zerf” due to the Prussian law regulating various points of the municipal constitutional law of December 27, 1927. In 1935 the Zerf Office was merged with the Saarburg-Ost Office, and since 1970 all municipalities that originally belonged to the mayor's office of Zerf have been administratively assigned to the collective municipality of Kell am See as still independent municipalities .

statistics

According to a “Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces” from 1830, the mayor's office Zerf included three villages, five hamlets and a mill. In 1816 there were a total of 1,326 inhabitants in 210 households; in 1828 there were 1,668 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 2,246 inhabitants lived in 421 houses and 422 households in the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Zerf; 2,204 of the residents were Catholic, 11 Protestant, 30 belonged to the Jewish faith, and one was registered as non-denominational. Catholic parishes existed in Greimerath, Hentern and Zerf, the Protestant believers were assigned to the outlying parish in Merzig . The 30 Jewish residents lived mainly in Zerf.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 5,357 hectares , of which 1,116 hectares were arable land, 351 hectares of meadows and 3,557 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Beck: Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Trier, Lintz, 1868, p. 150 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , Nicolai, 1830, p. 931 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ A b Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 97 ( 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. 127
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff ( dilibri.de )
  7. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, p. 227 ( online at Google Books ).
  8. ↑ Article Zerf on www.region-trier.de