Hubert Josef Cadenbach

Hubert Josef Cadenbach

Hubert Josef Cadenbach (born January 24, 1800 in Kirchberg (Hunsrück) ; † December 26, 1867 in Koblenz-Metternich ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Koblenz from 1857 to 1867 .

Life and work

Cadenbach was born the son of a mayor and later studied in Heidelberg law . He worked as a lawyer, as an assessor in Kirn and from 1833 as a judicial advisor and municipal alderman in Koblenz.

He was married and had two children, Helene and Fritz. After his resignation as Lord Mayor, he retired to Metternich and died bitterly at Christmas 1867. He was buried in the main cemetery in Koblenz on field 16; his family grave still exists there.

Acting as the Lord Mayor of Koblenz

On May 18, 1857, Cadenbach was elected mayor of Koblenz with a narrow majority and was the first to be nominated in free election according to the Prussian city regulations . All of its predecessors were still appointed by the Prussian government. He received the title of Lord Mayor on February 16, 1859, which also included the right to wear a gold chain of office . The city council first decided on March 12, 1859 to purchase such a chain of office for Koblenz.

The facilities of the Koblenz Fortress severely restricted the city's development opportunities. With the construction of the Rhine Railway and the Moselle Railway Bridge , the Prussian city ​​fortifications of Koblenz were broken through for the first time . With the cheering of the population, the first train with the garland-decorated locomotive "Windsbraut" arrived at the provisional Rheinbahnhof on Fischelstrasse on November 11, 1858 . In 1859 the line from Koblenz to Bingerbrück was extended and the Rheinbahnhof further expanded. From 1864 the railway network was expanded with the inauguration of the Pfaffendorfer Bridge over the Rhine.

In Cadenbach's term of office, the founding of the Catholic reading club (1833) and the construction of the Görreshaus (1866) also fell. Koblenz left the mayor's association on May 15, 1857. Kapellen-Stolzenfels, Rhens , Moselweiß and Neuendorf were thus united with the mayor of Sankt Sebastian . Koblenz remained in the district until 1887, when it finally became a district. The incorporation of Lützel and Neuendorf into Koblenz was applied for as early as 1859, but did not take place until 1891.

The administration of the Cadenbach was rather unsuccessful. He was accused of gross neglect of his budgetary supervision. The reason was that the cashier had embezzled 46,714 thalers, half an annual budget from Koblenz, and fled with it. The city council therefore decided Cadenbach's early recall, but this came before his resignation on May 11, 1867. He was succeeded on September 4, 1867 by Karl-Heinrich Lottner .

literature

• Max Bär : From the history of the city of Koblenz. 1814-1914. Krabbensche Buchdruckerei, Koblenz 1922.
• Helmut Prößler: Hubert Joseph Cadenbach (1800-1867), Lord Mayor of Koblenz 1858-1867. - In: Yearbook for the history and art of the Middle Rhine and its neighboring areas 20/21 (1968/1969). Pp. 159-177.
• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH Mülheim-Kärlich, Ed .: Bernd Weber, 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition).
• Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
  • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
  • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5