Gimborn district

The Gimborn district was a district in the Cologne administrative district of the Prussian Rhine Province from 1816 to 1825 . Today his area belongs to the Oberbergischer Kreis .

Administrative history

The Grand Duchy of Berg was awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna on May 31, 1815. In 1816 Prussian administrative division into provinces, administrative districts and counties was introduced. The district of Gimborn was also founded, which included the area of ​​the canton Gummersbach from the arrondissement Siegen in the department Sieg . The circle was divided into five mayorships , which had already been founded as Mairien during the French era :

• Mayor's office Gimborn
• Mayor's office in Gummersbach
• Mayor's Office Marienheide
• Neustadt mayor's office
• Mayor's office Ründeroth

In 1816 the district had 13,754 inhabitants. The district seat was at Gimborn Castle until 1819 and since then in Gummersbach. The district was initially provisionally merged with the neighboring district of Homburg in 1819 and finally merged with the district of Homburg to form the district of Gummersbach in 1825 . The first district administrator from 1816 to 1824 was Franz Garenfeld, who had also been the district administrator for the Homburg district from 1818 . He was followed by Friedrich Reinshagen from September 1824 to March 25, 1825 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia. In: first volume. Wilhelm Butte, January 1817, accessed on November 11, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 38.9 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 32.9 ″  E