Mayor's office Gelsdorf

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Seal of the mayor's office in Gelsdorf

The mayor Gelsdorf was one of the original seven Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816, Kreis Ahrweiler in Koblenz divided administratively. From 1822 on, the Koblenz administrative district and thus the Gelsdorf mayor was part of the Rhine province . The administration of the mayor's office in Gelsdorf was subject to twelve communities. From 1863 the seat of the mayor's office was in the village of Ringen. In 1927 the mayor's office in Gelsdorf was renamed to Amt Gelsdorf and in 1936 to Amt Ringen .

Municipalities and associated localities

history

The administrative area and the villages belonging to the mayor's Gelsdorf belonged to the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by France to various dominations. Under the French administration, the area belonged to the arrondissement of Bonn ( canton Ahrweiler and canton Remagen ), which was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department .

Previous affiliations

The following table provides an overview of the previous affiliations of the municipalities of the mayor's office Gelsdorf:

local community Reign before 1792 Canton and Mairie before 1815 Parish around 1800
Bengen County of Neuenahr Remagen, Heimersheim Bengen
Birresdorf County of Neuenahr Remagen, Heimersheim Leimersdorf
Eckendorf Reign of Adendorf Ahrweiler, Gelsdorf Eckendorf
Gelsdorf Lordship of Gelsdorf Ahrweiler, Gelsdorf Gelsdorf
Holzweiler County of Neuenahr Ahrweiler, Gelsdorf Holzweiler
Kalenborn Reign of Ahrenthal Ahrweiler, Mayschoss Hilberath
Karweiler County of Neuenahr Remagen, wrestling Karweiler
Lantershofen Ganherrschaft Lantershofen Remagen, wrestling Karweiler
Leimersdorf County of Neuenahr Remagen, Heimersheim Leimersdorf
Kidney village Landskron reign Remagen, Heimersheim Leimersdorf
Wrestling County of Neuenahr Remagen, wrestling Wrestling
Vettelhoven Reign of Vettelhoven Ahrweiler, Gelsdorf Holzweiler

Mayor's office Gelsdorf

Based on the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland was assigned 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 . The mayor Gelsdorf belonged to the district Ahrweiler in the administrative district of Coblenz , her first included only the communities Eckendorf, Gelsdorf, Holzweiler and Vettel Hoven on. In 1818 the mayor offices of Ringen and Heimersheim were dissolved, and the communities belonging to it were divided between the mayor offices of Ahrweiler and Gelsdorf. Gelsdorf received the municipalities of Karweiler, Lantershofen and Ringen from Ringen and the municipalities of Bengen, Birresdorf, Leimersdorf and Nierendorf from Heimersheim. Furthermore, Kalenborn was spun off from the Altenahr mayor and assigned to the Gelsdorf mayor. The territorial status and the municipality allocation remained unchanged in the following 150 years.

Office wrestling

On the basis of the Prussian law on the regulation of various points of the municipal constitutional law of December 27, 1927, all rural mayor offices were renamed.

The resulting Amt Gelsdorf was renamed Amt Ringen in 1936 and existed until the formation of the Verbandsgemeinde Ringen in 1968. With the exception of Kalenborn, today's association-free community Grafschaft emerged from the communities of the former mayor on March 16, 1974 .

statistics

According to the “Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province” from 1830, the mayorry of Gelsdorf included eleven villages, nine hamlets , two farms and a mill. In 1816 a total of 3712 inhabitants were counted in the associated municipalities, in 1828 there were 4244 inhabitants, including 2013 male and 2231 female; 4199 inhabitants belonged to the Catholic, 2 to the Protestant and 43 to the Jewish 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. In the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office Gelsdorf a total of 4811 inhabitants lived in 1010 households; 2,434 of the residents were male and 2,377 were female. Regarding religious affiliation, 4,790 were Catholic and one Protestant (in Gelsdorf); 18 of the 20 Jews were resident in Gelsdorf.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the twelve associated municipalities was 6,185 hectares , of which 3,769 hectares were arable land, 339 hectares of meadows and 1,561 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The municipality introduces itself (homepage of the municipality Grafschaft)
  2. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population ... , 1817 page 19
  3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, page 10
  4. ^ A b Jakob Rausch: 150 years Ahrweiler district , 1966 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
  5. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, State Office for Archive Maintenance: Archive Maintenance in Westphalia and Lippe , page 4 (PDF; 959 kB)
  6. ↑ Hans Josef Moeren: The "Grafschaft" - now a community , 1975 homeland yearbook, Ahrweiler district
  7. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 662
  8. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.3 MB), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (ed.), 1888, page 36