Weyerbusch Mayor's Office

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Old town hall of Weyerbusch, now Villa Sonnenhof

The Weyerbusch mayor's office was one of the nine Prussian mayor's offices into which the Altenkirchen district, formed in 1816 in the Coblenz administrative district, was administratively divided. The mayor's office comprised 25 communities, in which in 1817 a total of 2,564 inhabitants lived. Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen worked here as mayor from 1845 to 1848 . The mayor's office was renamed to Amt Weyerbusch in 1927 .

Communities

According to statistics from 1843 and 1861, the following municipalities belonged to the mayor's office, the spelling has been adapted to the current form, the structure corresponds to the previous territorial allocation:

Originally part of the parish of Mehren in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen
  • Ersfeld
  • Fiersbach with the Dickten and Kriegershof farms
  • Forstmehren
  • Giershausen
  • Hirzbach with the hamlet of Hahn
  • Kircheib with the hamlets of Reisbitzen, Eckenbach and Grünewald and the Bleckhausen farm
  • Kraam with the hamlet of Heuberg and a mill
  • Maulsbach
  • Mehren , Kirchdorf with the hamlets of Adorf and Seifen, Hofe Acker and Hardmühle
  • Neuenhof and the Tente, Röttgen and Burg farms (today districts of Kircheib)
  • Rettersen with the hamlets of Hahn and Witthecke, the Roßberg farm and the Willachshaus
  • Goat grove
Originally belonging to the parish of Birnbach in the county of Sayn-Hachenburg

history

Raiffeisenhaus - former mayor's office and residential building of Raiffeisen

The towns administered by the mayor's office belonged to the counties Sayn-Altenkirchen (1791) and Sayn-Hachenburg (1799) until the end of the 18th century . Sayn-Altenkirchen came to Prussia in 1791 and was awarded to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . Sayn-Hachenburg came to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in 1799 due to a succession . The two principalities were merged in 1806 in connection with the formation of the Napoleonic Rhine Confederation to form the Duchy of Nassau . The area of ​​the former Saynian counties and thus the later mayor of Weyerbusch was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and due to a treaty concluded between Nassau and Prussia .

Which was under the Prussian administration 1816 Altenkirchen in the administrative district of Coblenz newly created, which was divided into nine mayors. The mayor's office in Weyerbusch was renamed to “Amt Weyerbusch” in 1927 , like all of the rural mayor's offices in the Rhine Province . From this the Verbandsgemeinde Weyerbusch emerged in 1968, which was integrated into the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen as part of the administrative and territorial reform in 1970.

From 1845 to 1848 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was mayor of Weyerbusch. Against the background of a bad harvest failure in 1846, there was a famine in the region. Raiffeisen founded the Weyerbuscher Brodverein in 1847 and had a bakery built to sell bread cheaply and on credit to those in need. This association is regarded as a forerunner of the cooperative system.

mayor

The mayors, from 1927 mayor of Weyerbusch, were:

1817-1845 Cristian Hearer
1845-1848 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
1848-1863 Bieler
1863-1866 Stöhr
1867-1884 Elven
1884-1933 August Schneider
1933-1945 Carl Weyer
1945-1946 Hohl, Greis, Rörig (provisional)
1946-1965 Werner Kuhnt
1965-1968 Alwin Hundhausen

present

A seminar building was built in 1989 right next to the former mayor's office and the Raiffeisen residential building. Together with the old Raiffeisenhaus and a faithfully built bakery, it forms the Westerwald Bank's Raiffeisen meeting center .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 700 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Hölscher: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, p. 22 ( dilibri.de )
  3. ^ Statistical news about the government district of Coblenz , 1861, p. 48 ( dilibri.de )
  4. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson : Der Prussische Staat: a clear presentation of its educational history of its legislation ... , 1854, p. 59 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 486, 488; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  6. ^ Walter Koch: Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate, ( PDF )
  7. ^ The district of Altenkirchen in the 20th century , published by the district administration Altenkirchen, 1992, page 512, ISBN 3-925190-10-4
  8. ^ Website of the Raiffeisen meeting center, flyer available from there