Mayor's Office Linz

View of the town hall from the market square

The mayor of Linz was one of three Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816 District Linz in Koblenz divided administratively. After the dissolution of the Linz district, the Linz mayor's office came to the Neuwied district in 1822 and to the newly formed Rhine province in the same year . The administration of the mayor's office was originally under nine municipalities . The administrative seat was in the city of Linz am Rhein in today's Neuwied district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1927 the Linz mayor's office was renamed to Amt Linz . The Linz office existed until October 1, 1968 and was transferred to the Linz am Rhein association .

Associated municipalities

The following communities belonged to the mayor's office (as of 1888):

Community Dattenberg with the living quarters Arnsau, taps and Heeg, Linzer and Datt Berger Ronig, Blunt Mountain, Wallen and Weidgenshof ( Ginsterhahn )
Community Hargarten with the living quarters Ginsterhahn , Grendel , Kaimig and Noll ; 1969 Lorscheid (from the Office Neustadt ) and Notscheid to the municipality of St. Catherine united
Municipality of Leubsdorf with the residential areas Ariendorf, Hesseln, Krumscheid, Rothekreuz and Wallbachsmühle
City of Linz am Rhein with the residential areas Alt Renneberg , Eichshart (Eishard), Ginsterhahn , Jägerhaus, Kaiserberg, Klemenslust, Linzer Hammer, Meerberg , Neuhof, Neu Renneberg, Schloß Renneberg, Ronigerhof, Schafstall, Schmitzhof, Stern, Sternerhütte, Stuxhof and Waschberg ( Hillenbrandsruhe)
Linzhausen community; 1912 incorporated into Linz am Rhein
Community Notscheid with the living quarters Hilker Scheid , Noll and St. Catherine ; 1969 united with Lorscheid (from the Neustadt district ) and Hargarten to form the parish of St. Katharinen
Oberkasbach community with the Lützenacker residential area; In 1935 merged with Niederkasbach from the Unkel district to form the municipality of Kasbach, since 1976 part of Kasbach-Ohlenberg
community Ockenfels
Community Ohlenberg with the living quarters Niedererl , Obererl and Zeppenhof; 1976 united with Kasbach to form the municipality of Kasbach-Ohlenberg

history

The administrative area of the mayor's office in Linz was part of the Electorate of Cologne after 1250 and from the 15th century was under the administration of the Linz Office , which was elevated to the Oberamt around 1700. Due to the 1801 peace treaty of Lunéville and the result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss conclusion , the Principality of Nassau-Usingen (from 1806 Duchy of Nassau ) received the office of Linz in 1803. In 1809 the area of the office was newly divided into districts or communities. After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the Rhineland and with it the previous office of Linz became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, administrative districts , districts and mayor's offices were formed in 1816 . The mayor Linz initially belonged to the district Linz in Koblenz . In 1822 the Linz district was dissolved and added to the Neuwied district . In the same year the Neuwied district and with it the Linz mayor's office came to the then newly formed Rhine province .

In 1857 the municipality of Linz was raised to the status of a city according to the Rhenish city code and from then on formed its own city mayor's office , the remaining municipalities a state mayor's office . Both mayor's offices had the same name and, through personal union, represented an organizational unit. The mayor was appointed by the district government in Koblenz, he was assisted by two councilors. The individual communities were presided over by lay judges and assistants. The mayor's office comprised two registry office districts , the "District Linz" (consisting of the city of Linz on the Rhine) and the "Land District Linz" (consisting of the remaining communities).

Like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province, the Linz mayor's office was renamed "Amt Linz" in 1927.

statistics

According to the “Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province” from 1830, the mayor's office of Linz included a city, eight villages, five hamlets , ten individual courtyards and seven mills . In 1817 a total of 4,131 inhabitants were counted, in 1828 there were 4,814 inhabitants (including 2,376 male and 2,438 female); 4,734 inhabitants belonged to the Catholic, 23 to the Protestant and 57 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. A total of 7,261 inhabitants lived in 1,175 houses and 1,518 households in the administrative area of the Linz mayor's office; 3,436 of the population were male and 3,825 female. Regarding religious affiliation, 6,807 were Catholic and 314 were Protestant. Catholic parishes existed in Linz and Ohlenberg, the Protestant believers were assigned to the then new parish in Linz. The 139 Jewish inhabitants formed their own Jewish community.

In 1885 the total area of the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 4,741 hectares , of which 1,643 hectares were vineyards and arable land, 309 hectares of meadows and 2,343 hectares of forest.

Personalities

Joseph Schölmerich (1913–1995), German medic, communist, anti-fascist and non-fiction author

literature

Joseph Scholmer , Ursula Rumin : Naughty boys and bad boys. Adolescent years on the Rhine . Triga - the publishing house, Gründau-Rothenbergen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89774-764-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Community dictionary for the Kingdom of Prussia. Volume XII Province of Rhineland . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, 1888, page 38 ff. ( Online )
^ Administrative history of the Neuwied district
↑ Werner Büllesbach: Altenwied - Mayor offices (offices) Asbach and Neustadt - Verbandsgemeinde Asbach. Over 800 years of political history in the Vorderen Westerwald. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 2007 , pp. 87–95.
^ Government district Koblenz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Koblenz. Born in 1957 , printing and dealership of the Protestant monastery in St. Martin, Koblenz 1857, p. 289
^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 674. ( online )

[gemeindelexikon-1] Community dictionary for the Kingdom of Prussia. Volume XII Province of Rhineland . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, 1888, page 38 ff. ( Online )

[2] Administrative history of the Neuwied district

[3] Werner Büllesbach: Altenwied - Mayor offices (offices) Asbach and Neustadt - Verbandsgemeinde Asbach. Over 800 years of political history in the Vorderen Westerwald. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 2007 , pp. 87–95.

[4] Government district Koblenz (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Koblenz. Born in 1957 , printing and dealership of the Protestant monastery in St. Martin, Koblenz 1857, p. 289

[restorff-5] Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 674. ( online )