Menden Office (Rhineland)

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The Menden office (Rhld.) ( Menden mayor until 1927 ) is a former office in North Rhine-Westphalia. It consisted of the communities Buisdorf , Hangelar , Holzlar , Meindorf , Menden (Rhineland) (until 1935 consisting of the communities Nieder- and Obermenden), Niederpleis and Siegburg-Mülldorf . It was dissolved in 1969 in the course of the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area , the legal successor was the municipality of Sankt Augustin . The official administration was last in the municipality of Siegburg-Mülldorf.

history

Mayor's office of Menden 1829

The later municipalities of the Menden mayor's office previously belonged to the Blankenberg office , which belonged to the Duchy of Berg . In 1806 the area came under French rule.

After the Rhineland was awarded to the State of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Menden's mayor's office emerged from the Mairie Menden. From 1816 it belonged to the Siegburg district .

After the First World War , the mayor's office was occupied by Allied soldiers. These remained until January 29, 1926.

The mayor's office was renamed “Amt Menden” in 1927. The communities of Niedermenden and Obermenden were merged in 1935 to form the community of Menden (Rhineland).

In the 1930s - and the 1950s - there were already unsuccessful attempts to merge the seven municipalities of the Menden office into one municipality.

Because the nearby Bonn became federal capital in 1949, the Menden office experienced an enormous population increase: in 1950 it had a little more than 15,000 inhabitants, in 1963 over 26,000. When it was dissolved in 1969, the office had around 37,000 inhabitants.

In the course of the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area, all municipalities of the Menden office except Holzlar were merged with the village of Birlinghoven, which had previously belonged to the municipality of Stieldorf , to form the greater municipality of Sankt Augustin . The municipality of Menden had to hand over Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte to Troisdorf. Holzlar, which was the only municipality to speak out against the amalgamation, was incorporated into the city of Bonn .

Mayor from 1810 to 1969 (mayor from 1927)

  • 1810–1819 Heinrich Joseph Kügelgen
  • 1819–1820 Franz Wilhelm Baron von Hocherbach
  • 1820–1834 Heinrich Willems
  • 1834–1855 Amselm Junkersfeld
  • 1855–1867 Peter Lichtenberg
  • 1867–1903 Ludwig Heuser
  • 1903–1930 Eberhard von Claer
  • 1931–1933 Julius Recktenwald
  • 1933–1937 Peter Josef Söntgen
  • 1937–1938 in close succession:
    • Alderman Franconia
    • Government trainee Rump
    • Government trainee Freiherr von Stackelberg
    • Government trainee Müller-Heidelberg
  • 1939–1945 Kurt Englaender
  • 1945–1946 Josef Gardner (appointed by the American military government)
  • 1946–1959 Christian Behr ( center )
  • 1959–1961 Robert Müller (SPD)
  • 1961–1964 Reinold Hagen (CDU)
  • 1964–1969 Karl Gatzweiler (CDU) (until 1989 mayor of Sankt Augustin)

coat of arms

former coat of arms of the Menden office

The coat of arms of the Menden office shows a striding, red Bergisch lion in the shield head as a sign of the former membership of the Duchy of Berg. In the lower part it shows a 16-fold silver and blue box as the coat of arms of the Lords of Menden.

In essence, the coat of arms is the coat of arms of the city of Sankt Augustin today, as the city took over its coat of arms from the Menden office. However, the claws of the red Bergisch lion in the official coat of arms were inadvertently not colored blue. It was not until 1979 - ten years after the office was closed - that this error in the city arms was corrected.

It was not until 1920 that the rural communities in the Free State of Prussia were allowed to use a coat of arms. In 1934, the district administrator of the Siegkreis asked all the municipalities in the district whether the introduction of a coat of arms was planned. Thereupon the Menden office commissioned the Düsseldorf heraldist Prof. Schwarzkopf with the preparation of coats of arms. The administration chose a coat of arms from the drafts; on January 4, 1936, the office was officially granted the right to carry the coat of arms.

After the Second World War, the British military government prescribed the municipalities to use the coat of arms of the Rhineland in their official seal instead of their own coat of arms. In 1948 the military government approved the Menden office to use its own coat of arms again.

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  1. ↑ https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/rhein-sieg/100-jahre-danach-so-erlebte-der-rhein-sieg-kreis-seine-besatzer-im-jahr-1918-31733314
  2. ↑ according to the files of the registration office from August 1969
  • Office Menden (Rhld.) (Ed.): The office Menden . Verlag F. Schmitt, Siegburg 1964
  • Hans Luhmer: From the mayor of Menden to the community of Sankt Augustin In: Contributions to the history of the town , published by the Sankt Augustin town archive. Issue 20, 1994, ISSN  0936-3483
  • Hans Luhmer: The coat of arms of the city of Sankt Augustin In: Contributions to the city history , published by the city archive of Sankt Augustin. Issue 1, 1982