Mayor's office Altenkirchen

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The mayor Altenkirchen was one of the nine Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816 Altenkirchen in the administrative district of Coblenz was divided administratively. The mayor's office included 35 communities, in which in 1817 a total of 3,589 inhabitants lived. In 1927 the mayor's office was renamed to Amt Altenkirchen , which existed until 1968.

Municipalities and localities

According to statistics from the years 1817, 1843 and 1861, the following municipalities and localities belonged to the Altenkirchen mayor, the structure corresponds to the previous territorial or administrative allocation, the spelling has been adapted to the current form:

Originally part of the Almersbach parish in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen
Originally part of the parish Altenkirchen in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen
The places marked with (H) were ecclesiastically assigned to the branch church in Hilgenroth

history

The localities administered by the Altenkirchen mayor were all part of the Sayn-Altenkirchen county until 1791 . The two parishes , which in addition to being a "pastoral unit" also formed the smallest secular administrative units in the county and exercised the lower jurisdiction , had belonged to the saynian office of Altenkirchen since the late Middle Ages . The neighboring mayorships Flammersfeld and Weyerbusch , on the other hand, had emerged from different domains. Ecclesiastically the county, its parishes and the inhabitants belonged to the Reformed denomination since the beginning of the 17th century , later the Lutheran teaching was allowed again next to it.

Sayn-Altenkirchen and thus the area of the later mayor Altenkirchen came in 1791 in inheritance under Prussian rule and was 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Principality of Nassau-Usingen awarded the 1806 Nassau Duchy came up. The territory of Sayn-Altenkirchen was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna and on the basis of a treaty concluded between Nassau and Prussia .

Which was under the Prussian administration 1816 Altenkirchen in the administrative district of Coblenz newly created, which was divided into nine mayors. The Altenkirchen mayor's office, like all mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , was renamed “Altenkirchen Office” in 1927. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform in 1968, the present-day community of Altenkirchen emerged from this .

mayor

The mayors, from 1927 mayors of Altenkirchen, were:

1820-1836 Caspar Nörresberg
around 1848 Kedesdy
1858-1885 Lietzmann
1886-1902 Weber
1902-1919 Schmidt
1920-1945 Ludwig Blank
1946 Nolden and Schneider (acting)
1947-1950 Christian Rörig
1950-1968 Emil Haas

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 694 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Pauli (Ed.): The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , 1817, p. 63 ( dilibri.de )
  3. ↑ Hölscher : Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, p. 14 ( dilibri.de )
  4. ^ Statistical news about the government district of Coblenz , 1861, p. 42 ( dilibri.de )
  5. ↑ On denominational development cf. Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
  6. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson : Der Prussische Staat: a clear presentation of its educational history of its legislation ... , 1854, p. 59 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 486, 488; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  8. ^ The district of Altenkirchen in the 20th century , published by the Altenkirchen district administration, 1992, page 510, ISBN 3-925190-10-4