Anhausen Mayor's Office

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The mayor Anhausen was one of first ten Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816 Kreis Neuwied in the administrative district of Coblenz was divided originally administratively. Fourteen municipalities were subordinate to the administration of the mayor's office , the official seat of the mayor's office in Anhausen was in Oberbieber until the end of the 1840s and then came to Rengsdorf . Until 1848, the mayor's office in Anhausen belonged to the marital area in the Neuwied district.

In the 1920s and 1930s, in addition to the designation “Mayor's office Anhausen”, “Mayor's office Rengsdorf” was also in use. After the Second World War at the latest, the mayor's office, like all rural mayor's offices in the previous Rhine province, was called "Amt". The Rengsdorf office existed until October 1, 1968 and was transferred to the Rengsdorf Association .

Associated municipalities

The following communities belonged to the mayor's office (as of 1888):

history

The administrative district of the mayor's office in Anhausen has belonged to the County of Wied since the Middle Ages . After the formation of the Rhine Confederation , both principalities of Wied were assigned to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . The parishes of Anhausen, Honnefeld and Rengsdorf, which belong to the administrative district, were until then part of the Principality of Wied-Neuwied. After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 a. a. part of the previous principality to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, administrative districts , districts and mayor's offices as well as associated communities were formed in 1816 . Until 1848 the mayor's office in Anhausen belonged to the registrar's district of Neuwied in the Coblenz administrative district .

mayor

Mayors were:

1817-1823 chandler
1823-1840 serious
1841-1869 Reinhard
1869-1880 Daub
1880-1881 Meyer
1881-1882 Politz
1882-1885 Hey man
1886– Wink

statistics

According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the mayor's office in Anhausen included 16 villages, two separate farms and eight mills. In 1817 a total of 2,709 inhabitants were counted, in 1828 there were 3,234 inhabitants including 1,649 men and 1,1615 women; 3,149 inhabitants belonged to the Protestant, 29 to the Catholic faith; 18 Moravians and 68 Jews were also listed. Worth mentioning were an ironworks and an iron hammer in Niederhonnefeld and three annual markets in Jahrsfeld.

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 4,943 inhabitants lived in 912 houses and 998 households in the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Anhausen; 2,512 of the residents were male and 2,431 female. Regarding religious affiliation, 4,798 were Protestant and 59 were Catholic. Evangelical parishes existed in Anhausen, Honnefeld and Rengsdorf, the Catholic believers were assigned to the outside parishes in Isenburg and Waldbreitbach . The 82 Jewish residents lived mainly in Anhausen and Rengsdorf; There was a Jewish community in Anhausen.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 6,719 hectares , of which 2,329 hectares were arable land, 455 hectares of meadows and 3,684 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jakob Hubert Schütz: Rengsdorf and its surroundings in historical lighting , Cöln-Nippes: Patt, 1918, page 20
  2. ^ Research in the archive database of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Archives Administration
  3. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 38 ff
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 685
  5. ^ Alemannia Judaica: Anhausen Jewish Community