Mayor's Office Hamm

The mayor Hamm was one of the nine Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816 Altenkirchen in the administrative district of Coblenz was divided administratively. It was named after the seat of the mayor, the municipality of Hamm (Sieg) . The mayor's district comprised 13 communities, in which in 1817 a total of 2,175 inhabitants lived. In 1927 the Hamm mayor's office was renamed to Amt Hamm .

Communities

According to statistics from 1817, 1843 and 1861, the following municipalities and localities belonged to the mayor's office (spelling 1817, 1843):

Birkenbeul with the villages of Kratzhahn, Pfaffenseiffen and Weisenbruchen
Bitzen with the hamlets of Dünenbusch and Pirzenthal (the St. Andreas colliery was also recorded in 1843)
Breitscheidt (1843 and 1861 Breitscheid) with the residential areas Thalhausen and Pulvermühle (in 1843 today's district Pfannenschoppen was also called)
Bruchertseiffen (1843 and 1861 Bruchertseifen) with the villages of Hadersen and Langenbach
Etzbach with the hamlet of Heckenhoff and the residential areas Hergertsau (today Herrgottsau) and Kohlrich
Forest with the hamlets and residential areas Dellingen, Holpen (1843 Holpe), Kaltau, Lechenbach, Neuhöfchen, Seifen, Seifermühle and Wäldchen
Fürthen with the hamlets of Opsen and Oppertsau and the farms of Kappenstein, Mümmelbach and Waldbach
Hamm , Protestant church village with the hamlet Scheid and the residential areas Auermühle and Eisenhütte (1843 Heinrichshütte )
Niederirsen with the hamlet of Uckertseiffen (1843 also the Irsermühle)
Splendor with the hamlets of Hassel, Niederhausen and Wickhausen and the Bitzbruch farm
Roth with the hamlets of Hämmerholz, Hohensayn, Oettershagen and Thal as well as the Nistermühle (1843 also the powder mill Au)
Seelbach with Marienthal
Unterschützen with the residential area Heide (district of Breitscheidt since 1969)

history

The villages administered by the mayor's office in Hamm belonged to the parish of Hamm from the Middle Ages and, without exception, to the county of Sayn-Hachenburg until the end of the 18th century . In 1799 the county, and with it the area of the later mayor, fell to the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg and in 1806 together with Sayn-Altenkirchen to the Duchy of Nassau .

The territory of Sayn-Hachenburg was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 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 Hamm mayor's office, like all of the rural mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , was renamed “Amt Hamm” in 1927. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform in 1968, the present-day community of Hamm (Sieg) emerged from this .

mayor

Mayor, from 1927 mayor, in Hamm were:

1816-1819	Gottfried Friedrich Raiffeisen
1897-1919	Berns
1919-1933	Birk
1933-1945	Richard Fischborn
1945-1946	Christian Rörig
1947-1957	Heinrich Rüttel
1957-1968	Karlheinz Klöckner

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 696 ( Google Books )
^ Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pauli (ed.): The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , 1817, p. 65 ( dilibri.de )
↑ Jakob Hölscher (Ed.): Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, p. 18 ( dilibri.de )
^ Statistical news about the government district of Coblenz , 1861, p. 46 ( dilibri.de )
^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson : Der Prussische Staat: a clear presentation of its educational history of its legislation ... , 1854, p. 59 ( Google Books )
^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 486, 488; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
^ The district of Altenkirchen in the 20th century , published by the Altenkirchen district administration, 1992, p. 511, ISBN 3-925190-10-4

[restorff1830-1] Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 696 ( Google Books )

[pauli1817-2] Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pauli (ed.): The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , 1817, p. 65 ( dilibri.de )

[hoelscher1843-3] Jakob Hölscher (Ed.): Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, p. 18 ( dilibri.de )

[nachrichten1861-4] Statistical news about the government district of Coblenz , 1861, p. 46 ( dilibri.de )

[jacobson1854-5] Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson : Der Prussische Staat: a clear presentation of its educational history of its legislation ... , 1854, p. 59 ( Google Books )

[gensicke-6] Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 486, 488; ISBN 3-922244-80-7

[kreisbuch1992-7] The district of Altenkirchen in the 20th century , published by the Altenkirchen district administration, 1992, p. 511, ISBN 3-925190-10-4