Office Nörvenich

Map of the Nörvenich office

Notes on the map

The office Nörvenich was on the one hand an administrative unit of the Duchy of Jülich , on the other hand an office in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform, the office was dissolved on July 1, 1969.

The office of Nörvenich in the Duchy of Jülich

The Duchy of Jülich consisted of 23 offices. The largest office was the office of Nörvenich. With its courts and subordinates, it covered almost all of the north and east of what was then the Düren district. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the former Hambach office and the four courts around Düren ( Arnoldsweiler , Merzenich , Derichsweiler and Lendersdorf ) were incorporated into the Nörvenich office . Then there was the Dingstuhl and the Hambach winery .

Before the French occupation in 1794, the Nörvenich office included:

• Court Derichsweiler with Birkesdorf , Derichsweiler, Hoven and Mariaweiler
• Court of Golzheim with Eschweiler via Feld , Kauweiler, Ollesheim and Golzheim
• Hambach court with Arnoldsweiler, Rath , Ellen , Girbelsrath , Huchem-Stammeln , Merzenich, Morschenich , Niederzier , Oberzier and Selhausen
• Court of Isweiler with Frauwüllesheim , Hommelsheim, Isweiler, Jakobwüllesheim (part), Kelz (part), Rommelsheim (part), Bubenheim and Soller (part). The other parts belonged to the office of Nideggen.
• Nörvenich court with Eggersheim , Hochkirchen , Irresheim , Nörvenich , Oberbolheim , Poll , Rath and Wissersheim

This also included the following subordinates:

• Reign Disternich with Disternich and Sievernich
• Glory Gladbach with Gladbach, Merschheim and Lüxheim
• Glory Gürzenich with Gürzenich
• Herrlichkeit Merode with Echtz, Konzendorf, Geich, Obergeich, Merode, Merode Castle, Schwarzenbroich Monastery, Schlich, D'horn and Hardt

The Nörvenich office in the Düren district

The bailiffs

→ Main article : Bailiffs von Nörvenich

Origin of the office

After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in the War of the First Coalition in 1798 by the French Direktorialregierung reorganized the management of the left bank of the Rhine on the French model. Nörvenich was assigned to the canton of Düren in the arrondissement of Aachen and the Rur department together with 57 other localities . In 1801 Mairies (German mayor's offices) were established.

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in April 1815 . The "Mairie Nörvenich" now became a Prussian mayor's office in the Düren district, which was newly established in 1816 ( administrative district of Aachen ). The parish villages of Nörvenich and Wissersheim , the villages of Oberbolheim , Poll and Rath and the farm Gippenbusch belonged to the mayorry of Nörvenich.

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

The old Jülich office of Nörvenich and the district of Düren office of Nörvenich - apart from the name - have hardly anything in common.

Municipal reorganization

More recently, the first restructuring of the then administrative district of Aachen took place in Nörvenich .

On the basis of the law of December 19, 1968 passed by the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament , the communities of Binsfeld , Eggersheim, Eschweiler über Feld, Frauwüllesheim, Hochkirchen, Irresheim , Nörvenich, Oberbolheim, Poll and Rath were merged into one community with effect from January 1, 1969, which was named Nörvenich .

The law was preceded by a territorial change agreement between the affected municipalities. The municipality of Wissersheim, which, like the municipalities listed above, also belongs to the Nörvenich office did not join the new Nörvenich municipality; it initially remained an independent municipality within the Nörvenich office, which now consisted of two instead of eleven independent municipalities. Since the new municipality had no democratically elected council and no municipal director, the previous mayor and the previous official director were commissioned by the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia to take care of the business of the local council and the municipal director.

On March 23, 1969 found the eleven districts (Rommelsheim was from 1 January 1969, regarded as the district) local elections held. The 19 elected councilors met on April 3, 1969 for their constituent session.

With the law on the reorganization of the Euskirchen district of June 10, 1969, which came into force on July 1, 1969, Wissersheim was attached to the newly formed city of Erftstadt and the Nörvenich office was dissolved. The legal successor was the municipality of Nörvenich.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Geuenich: The former territories of today's Düren district, Dürener Geschichtsblätter No. 34/1963
2. ↑ August Christian Borheck : Archive for the history, description of the earth, statistics and antiquities of the German Lower Rhineland , Volume 1, Elberfeld 1800, p. 139 ( Google Books )
3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , Nicolai, 1830, p. 807 ( Google Books )