Hillesheim Mayor's Office

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The mayor's office Hillesheim was one of originally twelve Prussian mayor's offices into which the district of Daun , which was newly formed in 1816 in the administrative district of Trier, was administratively divided. From 1822 it belonged to the Rhine Province . Ten municipalities were under the administration of the mayor's office . The administrative headquarters was in the eponymous spots Hillesheim . Today the associated communities are in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

At the end of 1927 the mayor's office in Hillesheim was renamed to Amt Hillesheim , and it existed until 1968.

Municipalities and associated localities

Ten communities belonged to the mayor's office of Hillesheim (population and number of households (fireplaces) as of 1818):

history

Up until the end of the 18th century, Bolsdorf and Hillesheim belonged to the Electorate of Trier Hillesheim , Oberehe, Stroheich and part of Walsdorf to the Electorate of Trier Daun . Heyroth, Loogh, Zilsdorf and the other part of Walsdorf belonged to Arenberg rule Kerpen . Niederbettingen belonged to the county of Gerolstein and Dohm to the Luxemburg rule of Densborn .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine . After the Peace of Campo Formio (1797), the then new French administrative structure was introduced by the French directorate government (1798). With the exception of Dohm and Lammersdorf, all the localities of the later mayor's office of Hillesheim belonged to the canton of Gerolstein in the Saar department ; Hillesheim became the chief town ( chef-lieu ) of a Mairie in 1800 . Dohm and Lammersdorf had belonged to the canton of Dudeldorf in the forests department since 1795 . As a result of the so-called Wars of Liberation , the region was temporarily subordinated to the Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein , then to the Generalgouvernement Nieder- and Mittelrhein .

At the Congress of Vienna (1815), the entire Eifel was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, new administrative districts and districts were formed in 1816 ; on the left bank of the Rhine, Prussia generally retained the administrative districts of the French Mairies for the time being. The Hillesheim mayor's office corresponded to the previous Mairie Hillesheim, including the villages of Dohm and Lammersdorf from the forest department. The mayor Hillesheim belonged to the circle down in Trier and from 1822 to the Rhine province .

The Hillesheim mayor's office, like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province , was renamed “Hillesheim Office” on December 27, 1927 due to the Prussian law regulating various points of the municipal constitutional law . The office existed until October 1, 1968, the legal successor was the Verbandsgemeinde Hillesheim .

statistics

After a "Topographic-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine provinces" dates back to 1830 belonged to the mayor Hillesheim a stain nine villages and hamlets. In 1818 there were a total of 1,843 inhabitants in 303 households, in 1828 there were 2,125 inhabitants, all of whom belonged to the Catholic faith. Catholic parish churches existed in Hillesheim, Niederbettingen, Oberehe and Walsdorf.

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 2,961 inhabitants lived in 546 houses and 581 households in the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Hillesheim; 2,948 of the residents were Catholic and 13 Protestant.

The total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 5,023 hectares , of which 2,453 hectares were arable land, 631 hectares of meadows and 1,274 hectares of forest (as of 1885).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Beck: Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Trier, Lintz, 1868, p. 147 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Statistical-topographical description of the government district of Trier , Hetzrodt, 1818, p. 32 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ a b c Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 2, Trier, Lintz, 1846, p. 38 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Province of Rhineland, Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (Ed.), 1888, p. 138 ff ( uni-koeln.de )
  5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 24, 113, 115, 347, 501
  6. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 13 ff ( dilibri.de )
  7. ↑ Erwin Schaefer: The Prussian administrative division in the early years of the Daun district. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1980. Vulkaneifel district, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ Friedbert Wißkirchen: reorganization of the association communities with extensive reforms. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1995. Vulkaneifel district, accessed on April 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , Nicolai, 1830, p. 886 ( Google Books )