Mayor's office Zülpich
The mayor's office Zülpich was one of initially seventeen Prussian mayor's offices into which the district of Lechenich , formed in 1816 and renamed the district of Euskirchen in the administrative district of Cologne in 1827, was administratively divided. It consisted of two parishes and was dissolved in 1856.
Municipalities and associated localities
The following communities and residential areas belonged to the mayor's office (status: ~ 1846):
- City of Zülpich with the Spitz residential area
- Bessenich community
history
Before France occupied the areas on the left bank of the Rhine in 1794, the city of Zülpich belonged to the Electorate of Cologne and Bessenich to the Duchy of Jülich . Under the rule of the French, who completely reorganized the administration in the annexed areas, Zülpich was the seat of a mairie within the canton of Zülpich in the Arrondissement de Cologne of the Department de la Roer . In 1815 the Rhineland and with it Mairie Zülpich fell to Prussia, which took over the French administrative division at the municipal level almost unchanged. The Mairie Zülpich became the mayor's office in the Lechenich district of Cologne. This initially belonged to the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg , the 1822 with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine to the Rhine province was summarized.
With the introduction of the Rhenish Municipal Code in 1845, the municipalities administered by the mayor's offices were legally (re) recognized as regional authorities . The municipalities of Zülpich and Bessenich were set up in the mayor's office of Zülpich. In May 1851 the new Prussian municipal code was introduced in the mayor's office.
In 1856, Zülpich was granted the rights of a city according to the Rhenish City Code and left the Zülpich mayor. The mayor's office was dissolved and the municipality of Bessenich was assigned to the mayor's office in Nemmenich.
By § 1 of the law on the reorganization of the district of Euskirchen of June 10, 1969, the community Bessenich was "incorporated" in the city of Zülpich on July 1, 1969 , whereby in legal terms it is the amalgamation of 14 communities, including one city acted in a new municipality, which was given the name Zülpich and is called the city. °
statistical data
According to the “Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province” from 1830, the mayor's office included a town, a village, an establishment consisting of individual houses and three mills. There were 4 churches and chapels, 7 public buildings and 262 private houses as well as 240 barns and stables.
The mayor's office covered 1,144 hectares, of which 783 hectares were in Zülpich and 361 hectares in Bessenich.
In the mayor's office lived:
| year | Residents | Catholic | evangelical | Jewish | male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 1291 | |||||
| 1825 | 1301 | |||||
| 1828 | 1332 | 1269 | 3 | 60 | 653 | 679 |
| 1843 | 1454 | 1388 | 4th | 62 |
The number of houses had increased to 277 in 1843.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Royal Government of Cöln (Ed.): Overview of the components and list of all localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cöln, according to districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the confession, Jurisdictions, military and former state relationships. Cologne 1845, p. 22 ( digitized version ).
- ^ A b c d Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 270 f . ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Municipal regulations for the Rhine Province of July 23, 1845 (PrGS. 1845 p. 523)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1846, p. 125, No. 175 (digitized edition at the Bavarian State Library)
- ^ Community regulations for the Prussian state of March 11, 1850 (PrGS. 1850 p. 213)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1851, p. 142, No. 221 (digitized edition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
- ^ Town regulations for the Rhine Province of May 15, 1856 (PrGS. 1856 p. 406)
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, 1856, p. 364, No. 484 (digitized edition at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)