Siegburg arrondissement

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The Arrondissement Siegburg , also District Siegburg , was created on August 3, 1806 under Joachim Murat as one of initially six provisional administrative units of the Grand Duchy of Berg .

The Arrondissement Siegburg had 69,264 inhabitants and was divided into eight subordinate administrative areas that emerged from the previous structures:

Surname Square miles Residents went to arrondissement, canton in 1808 Remarks
Blankenberg 7 ½ 24,195 Mülheim , Hennef
Koenigswinter 1,357 Mülheim, Koenigswinter until 1803 the office of the Electorate of Cologne in Wolkenburg
Homburg 1 ½ 7,000 Siegen , Homburg until 1806 rulership of Homburg
Löwenburg and Lülsdorf 0 13,696 Mülheim, Königswinter and Siegburg
Siegburg ½ 1,985 Mülheim, Siegburg
Wildenburg 1 ¾ 1,500 Siegen, Wildenburg until 1806 rule Wildenburg
Villich and Schwarzrheindorf 1,200 Mülheim, Koenigswinter until 1803 subordinates in the Electoral Cologne office of Bonn
Windeck 6 ½ 18,331 Siegen, Waldbröl

With the reorganization of the administrative structures in the Grand Duchy in 1808, the Arrondissement of Siegburg was dissolved. The municipalities were divided into the arrondissement of Mülheim am Rhein in the department of Rhine and the arrondissement of Siegen in the department of Sieg .

Anton Jakob Vetter became the first provincial councilor. He was born in 1753 and came from Elberfeld . Before that he was a judge and tax collector. On September 2, 1806 he opened his administrative headquarters in the former Michaelsberg Abbey with the Provincial Secretary Clemens August Kobell . June 1808 he was transferred to the war and domain chamber in Hamm as commissioner of the government .

His successor was Provincial Councilor Hermann.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Josef Scotti: Collection of laws and ordinances ... , Volume 2 (Grand Duchy of Berg), Düsseldorf: Wolf, 1821, p. 1008 ( Google Books )
  2. a b Peter Adolph Winkopp : Der Rheinische Bund: A journal historical, political, statistical, geographical content , Volume 2, JCB Mohr, 1807, p. 154, ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Germany for a Hundred Years , Volume 2, Voigt & Günther, 1861, p. 352 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Karl Schröder: Between the French Revolution and Prussia's Gloria , Heimatverein Eitorf, 1989