Kempenich Mayor's Office

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The mayor's office in Kempenich was one of five, later six, Prussian mayor's offices into which the district of Adenau, formed in 1816 in the Koblenz administrative district (then "Coblenz administrative district") was administratively divided. From 1822 the administrative district of Koblenz, including the mayor of Kempenich, belonged to the Rhine province that was newly formed that year . Nine municipalities were under the administration of the mayor's office .

In 1927 the Kempenich mayor's office was renamed to Amt Kempenich . After the Adenau district was dissolved in 1932, the Kempenich office became part of the Mayen district . From the Kempenich office, the Kempenich association was temporarily formed in 1968, which was merged into the newly formed Brohltal association in 1970.

Municipalities and associated localities

The following communities belonged to the mayor's office in Kempenich (as of 1885):

history

The majority of the communities in the mayor's district of Kempenich belonged to the Electorate of Kurtrier ( Mayen ) or to the Kempenich dominion until the end of the 18th century . In 1794, French revolutionary armies occupied the left bank of the Rhine . Under French administration, the area belonged to the arrondissement of Bonn ( canton Wehr ), which was assigned to the Rhine-Mosel department .

Kempenich Mayor's Office

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's office in Kempenich belonged to the Adenau district in the Coblenz administrative district and, from 1822, to the then newly formed Rhine province . The territorial status and the municipality allocation remained unchanged in the following 110 years.

Kempenich Office

Like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province, the Kempenich mayor's office was renamed “Amt Kempenich” in 1927.

Due to the "Ordinance on the reorganization of the districts" of August 1, 1932, the Adenau district was dissolved on September 30, 1932. The Kempenich office was assigned to the Mayen district . From the Kempenich office on October 1, 1968, the Verbandsgemeinde Kempenich was temporarily formed, which was absorbed on November 7, 1970 in the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde Brohltal in the Ahrweiler district.

Previous affiliations

The following table provides an overview of the previous affiliations of the municipalities of the Kempenich mayor:

local community Territory before 1792 Canton and Mairie before 1815 Parish around 1800
Angels ( Kempenich ) Kurtrier Amt Mayen Wehr , Kempenich Kempenich
Hannebach ( Spessart ) Reign of Olbrück Wehr, Kempenich Hönningen
Hausten Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Kempenich
Kempenich Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Kempenich
Lederbach ( Hohenleimbach ) Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Kempenich
Spessart Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Kempenich
Wabern ( women ) Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Women
Women Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Women
Wüstleimbach ( Hohenleimbach ) Kurtrier, Mayen Office Wehr, Kempenich Kempenich

statistics

According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the Kempenich mayorry included four villages , six hamlets , two separate farms and four mills . In 1817 a total of 1,936 inhabitants were counted in the associated communities; In 1828 there were 2,122 inhabitants, including 1,023 men and 1,099 women; 2,095 inhabitants belonged to the Catholic and six to the Protestant faith, and 21 Jews were counted.

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 2,629 inhabitants in 544 households lived in the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office in Kempenich; 1,335 of the population were male and 1,294 were female. With regard to religious affiliation, almost all residents were Catholic; eight were Protestant and seven belonged to the Jewish faith.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 4,504 hectares , of which 2,128 hectares were arable land, 349 hectares of meadows and 1,217 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 671
  2. a b c d e Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.3 MB) , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 30 ff
  3. a b Wolfgang Dietz: Municipal regional and administrative reform using the example of the Brohltal community , Heimatjahrbuch 1996, Ahrweiler district
  4. ^ Statistical news about the Coblenz administrative district , Coblenz, 1861, page 34
  5. Jakob Rausch: 150 years Ahrweiler district . In 1966 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
  6. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817 page 58
  7. Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 5
  8. Annuaire statistique du Département de Rhin-et-Moselle , Coblenz: Heriot, 1808, page 112 ff