Mayor of Pfalzfeld

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The mayor Pfalzfeld was one of ten Prussian mayors , in which the formed 1816 district Sankt Goar in Koblenz divided administratively. From 1822 on, the region belonged to the Rhine Province that was newly formed that year . 18 rural communities were under the administration of the mayor's office . The administrative seat was in today's local community Pfalzfeld in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1927 the mayor's office in Pfalzfeld was renamed to Amt Pfalzfeld , which in 1968 became part of the association of Pfalzfeld and of 1970 of the newly formed association of Emmelshausen .

Municipalities and associated localities

The following communities and localities belonged to the mayor's office in Pfalzfeld (population figures as of 1885):

history

The communities in the mayor's district of Pfalzfeld belonged to a total of five different territories at the end of the 18th century . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine . From 1798 to 1814, under French administration, the area belonged to the Arrondissement Simmern ( Canton Pfalzfeld ), which was assigned to the Rhine-Mosel department . Bickenbach belonged to the arrondissement of Koblenz . After the Peace of Paris (1814), the region was initially subordinated to the Joint State Administration Commission based in Kreuznach , which was under the administration of Austria and Bavaria .

Mayor of Pfalzfeld

Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhine-Moselle department was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, administrative districts and districts were newly formed in 1816 . The mayor's office Pfalzfeld was assigned to the district of Sankt Goar and the administrative district of Koblenz (then "administrative district of Coblenz") in the province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine (1822 Rhine province ). On the left bank of the Rhine , Prussia generally retained the administrative districts of the French Mairies for the time being. The mayorry of Pfalzfeld was formed in 1816 from the municipalities belonging to the previous Mairie Pfalzfeld ( Dörth , Hausbay , Hungenroth , Karbach , Laudert , Leiningen , Lingerhahn , Maisborn , Mühlpfad , Niedert , Norath , Pfalzfeld and Thörlingen ). In addition there were the communities of Birkheim (Mairie Sankt Goar), Bickenbach (Mairie Halsenbach , Canton Boppard), Braunshorn and Dudenroth (both Mairie Gödenroth , Canton Kastellaun ).

Various changes were made by 1818. Dörth and Karbach came to the mayor's office in Halsenbach , Laudert was again divided into "Pfälzisch Laudert" and "Trierisch Laudert", Lamscheid and Schwall were spun off from Leiningen as independent communities.

Pfalzfeld office

Like all mayor's offices in the Rhine Province, the mayor's office in Pfalzfeld was renamed to Amt Pfalzfeld in 1927 . In 1934 the two parishes in the Palatinate and Trier Laudert were merged. Otherwise there were no changes in the associated communities until 1968.

Verbandsgemeinde Pfalzfeld

In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform in 1968, the Pfalzfeld office became part of the Pfalzfeld association. In 1969, the municipalities belonging to the Pfalzfeld association were separated from the Sankt Goar district, which was dissolved at the same time, and incorporated into the newly formed Rhein-Hunsrück district .

On the basis of the "Eighth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate", the Association of Pfalzfeld was dissolved in 1970. The local communities of Bickenbach, Birkheim, Hausbay, Hungenroth, Leiningen, Lingerhahn, Maisborn, Mühlpfad, Niedert, Norath, Pfalzfeld, Schwall and Thörlingen were assigned to the newly formed community of Emmelshausen . Lamscheid had previously been incorporated into Leiningen. Braunshorn and Dudenroth came to the community of Kastellaun in 1970 , Laudert to the community of Sankt Goar .

Previous affiliations

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

local community Territory before 1792 Canton and Mairie before 1815 Parish after 1815
Bickenbach Kurtrier , Gallscheider Court Boppard , Halsenbach Bickenbach
Birkheim Kurtrier , Oberwesel Office Sankt Goar , Sankt Goar Norath
Braunshorn Reign of Braunshorn Canton Kastellaun , Gödenroth Linger tap
Dudenroth ( Braunshorn ) Reign of Braunshorn Canton Kastellaun, Gödenroth Linger tap
House bay Katzenelnbogen , Rheinfels Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Bickenbach
Hungry red Katzenelnbogen, Rheinfels Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath
Lamscheid ( Leiningen ) Lordship of Leiningen Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath
Laudert (Palatine) Principality of Pfalz-Simmern , Oberamt Simmern Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Linger tap
Laudert (Trierisch) Kurtrier, Oberwesel Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Linger tap
Linen Lordship of Leiningen Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath
Linger tap Kurtrier, Gallscheider Court Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Linger tap
Maisborn Principality of Pfalz-Simmern, Oberamt Simmern Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Linger tap
Mill path Katzenelnbogen, Rheinfels Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Bickenbach
Niedert Katzenelnbogen, Rheinfels Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Bickenbach
Norath Reign of Braunshorn Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath
Pfalzfeld Katzenelnbogen, Rheinfels Office Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath (rk.), Pfalzfeld (ev.)
Torrent Lordship of Leiningen Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Norath
Thörlingen Kurtrier, Gallscheider Court Sankt Goar, Pfalzfeld Bickenbach

statistics

According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the Pfalzfeld mayorry included 14 villages, three hamlets and seven mills. In 1816 a total of 2,457 inhabitants were counted; In 1828 there were 2,951 inhabitants, including 1,493 men and 1,458 women; 2,569 of the inhabitants belonged to the Catholic and 382 to the Protestant faith. In 1843 there were Catholic schools in Bickenbach, Braunshorn, Laudert (Trierisch), Leiningen, Lingerhahn and Norath, and there was a Protestant school in Pfalzfeld.

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. In the administrative area of ​​the mayor's office Pfalzfeld a total of 3,634 inhabitants lived in 692 houses and 721 households; 1,733 of the residents were male and 1,801 female. Regarding religious affiliation, 3,068 were Catholic and 466 were Protestant. There were Catholic parish churches in Bickenbach, Lingerhahn and Norath, and an Evangelical church in Pfalzfeld.

In 1885 the total area of ​​the municipalities belonging to the mayor's office was 5,711 hectares , of which 2,039 hectares were arable land, 677 hectares were meadows and 2,467 hectares were forest.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pauli : The government district of Coblenz, directory of all the localities of the government district according to their division into communities, mayor's offices and districts , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; P. 11 ( www.dilibri.de )
  2. ↑ a b c Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, p. 89 ( www.dilibri.de )
  3. ↑ a b c d Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, p. 4 ff ( digitalis.uni-koeln.de )
  4. ↑ a b c Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Moselle Department for the year 1808 , Coblenz: Prefecture-Buchdruckerey, 1808, p. 180 ff ( www.dilibri.de )
  5. ↑ FWA Schlickeysen: Repertory of laws and ordinances for the royal. Prussian Rhine provinces , Trier: Leistenschneider, 1830, p. 15 ( www.dilibri.de )
  6. ↑ a b c Pfalzfeld in the historical local dictionary ( regionalgeschichte.net ; PDF; 48 kB)
  7. ^ History of the Emmelshausen Association
  8. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 598 ( Google Books )