Mayor's office of Euskirchen
The Euskirchen mayor's office was one of initially seventeen Prussian mayor's offices into which the Lechenich district , formed in 1816 and renamed Euskirchen district in 1827 , in the administrative district of Cologne was subdivided. It consisted of two parishes and was dissolved in 1856.
Municipalities and associated localities
The following communities and localities belonged to the mayor's office (status: ~ 1846):
- City of Euskirchen with the hamlet of Kessenich and the Rüdesheimer Hof
- Cheap community with the Augenbroich farm
history
Before France occupied the areas on the left bank of the Rhine in 1794, the area of the mayor's office of Euskirchen belonged to the Duchy of Jülich . Under the rule of the French, who completely reorganized the administration in the annexed areas, Euskirchen was the seat of a mairie within the canton of Zülpich in the Arrondissement de Cologne of the Department de la Roer . In 1815 the Rhineland and with it the Mairie Euskirchen fell to Prussia, which took over the French administrative division at the municipal level almost unchanged. The Mairie Euskirchen became the mayor's office in Euskirchen in the Lechenich district in the Cologne administrative district. This initially belonged to the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg , the 1822 with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine to the Rhine province was summarized.
With the introduction of the Rhenish municipal code in 1845, the municipalities administered by the mayor's offices were legally (re-) recognized as regional authorities . In the mayor's office Euskirchen the communities Euskirchen and Billig were established. In December 1850, the new Prussian municipal code was introduced in the mayor's office.
In 1856 Euskirchen was granted the rights of a city according to the Rhenish city regulations and left the mayor's office of Euskirchen. The mayor's office was dissolved and the municipality of Billig was assigned to the Wachendorf mayor's office.
By § 4 of the law on the reorganization of the district of Euskirchen of June 10, 1969, the community cheap was "incorporated" into the city of Euskirchen on July 1, 1969 , whereby it is in legal terms the amalgamation of 20 communities, including one city acted in a new community, which was given the name Euskirchen and is called the city.
mayor
The mayors of the mayor's office of Euskirchen from 1816 to 1856:
- 1816–1817: Johann Josef Krauthausen
- 1817-1836: Michael Boener
- 1836–1850: Franz Wiertz
- 1850–1856: Josef Ruhr
Johann Josef Krauthausen was a mayor from 1800 and was left in office as mayor in 1816. After the town of Euskirchen left the mayor's office, Josef Ruhr was mayor of the town until 1870.
statistical data
According to the “Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province” from 1830, the mayor's office included a town, a village, a hamlet, two farms and five mills. There were five churches and chapels, eight public buildings and 385 private houses, and 574 barns and stables.
The mayor's office covered 2,575 hectares, of which 2,276 hectares were in Euskirchen and 299 hectares in cheap.
In the mayor's office lived:
| year | Residents | Catholic | evangelical | Jewish | male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 1964 | |||||
| 1825 | 2482 | |||||
| 1828 | 2638 | 2553 | 15th | 70 | 1366 | 1272 |
| 1843 | 3346 | 3224 | 47 | 75 |
The number of houses had increased to 515 in 1843.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 18 f . ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 269 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Municipal regulations for the Rhine Province of July 23, 1845 (PrGS. 1845 p. 523)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1846, p. 125, No. 178
- ^ Municipal code for the Prussian state of March 11, 1850 (PrGS. 1850 p. 213)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1850, p. 340, No. 543
- ^ Town regulations for the Rhine Province of May 15, 1856 (PrGS. 1856 p. 406)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1856, p. 364, No. 484
- ^ Homepage of the city of Euskirchen, city information, city archive, city history online, listed chronologically
- ↑ Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalen, 1st volume, 1817, p. 86
- ↑ a b c Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 252 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 19 ( digitized version ).