Braunfels district
The county Braunfels was from 1816 to 1822, a district in Koblenz the Prussian Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine . The district seat was in Braunfels . The former district area is now part of the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .
history
The Braunfels district was formed in 1816 from the mayor's offices of Aßlar , Braunfels , Greifenstein , Hohensolms and Schöffengrund . The area originally belonged to the County of Solms-Hohensolms and the Principality of Solms-Braunfels . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 Solms lost its imperial immediacy and the office became part of Nassau-Weilburg . With the founding of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806, the three offices there, Braunfels , Greifenstein and Hohensolms, also became ducal Nassau offices . At the Congress of Vienna an exchange of territory was agreed and the three offices became Prussian in 1815.
The Prussian state granted the princes of Solms-Braunfels civil rights. In the entire Kingdom of Prussia there were sixteen territories, in the administrative district of Koblenz , in addition to the Braunfels district, the Neuwied district also had civil status.
The district was dissolved again in 1822 and incorporated into the neighboring district of Wetzlar , which was also founded in 1816 .
District administrators
- 1816–1820: Stephan Josef Stephan
- 1820–1822: Friedrich Felix Furkel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Coblenz - year 1816 , p. 64.
- ↑ Friedrich Eduard Keller: The Prussian State: A Handbook of Fatherland Studies , Volume 1, August Volkening, 1864, p. 441 ff.
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .