Gummersbach district

Location of the district of Gummersbach (1905)

The district of Gummersbach was from 1825 to 1932 a Prussian district in the administrative district of Cologne of the Rhine province . Today his area belongs to the Oberbergischer Kreis .

Administrative history

The two Prussian districts of Gimborn and Homburg , founded in 1816, have been administered by a joint district administration in Gummersbach since 1819 . In 1825 both districts were merged to form the district of Gummersbach .

After the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, all of the district's mayor 's offices, with the exception of Neustadt's mayor, each formed a municipality. The Neustadt mayor's office consisted of the three independent municipalities of Lieberhausen , Neustadt and Wiedenest .

In 1857 Gummersbach was given the Rhenish City Code . Neustadt was also given the Rhenish Town Code in 1858; Lieberhausen and Wiedenest have since formed the Neustadt-Land mayor's office. In 1884 Neustadt was renamed Bergneustadt . At the end of the 19th century, the Gummersbach district was structured as follows:

Mayorry	Parishes (1885)
Bergneustadt city	Bergneustadt (city)
Bergneustadt-Land	Lieberhausen , Wiedenest
Drabenderhöhe	Drabenderhöhe
Gimborn	Gimborn
Gummersbach	Gummersbach (City)
Marienberghausen	Marienberghausen
Marienheide	Marienheide
Nümbrecht	Nümbrecht
Ründeroth	Ründeroth
Wiehl	Wiehl

The area of ​​the district in 1885 covered an area of ​​325.42 km². As in the entire Rhine Province, the district's mayorships were transferred to offices in 1927 . The two communities Lieberhausen and Wiedenest were merged on January 1, 1929 to form a new community Lieberhausen. On October 1, 1932, the Gummersbach district was merged with most of the Waldbröl district to form the Oberbergischer Kreis . The Dattenfeld office (today's municipality of Windeck ) came from the Waldbröl district to the Siegkreis .

Population development

year	Residents
1816	23.005
1828	26,935
1871	29,107
1880	30,783
1890	36,377
1900	43,070
1910	49,813
1925	52,764

District administrators

• 1825–1847: Karl Ernst von Ernsthausen
• 1847: Friedrich Reinshagen (by order)-9999
• 1847–1848: Wilhelm von Arnim (by order)
• 1849–1850: Friedrich Reinshagen (by order)
• 1850–1874: August Reinhold Kaiser
• 1866–1867: Julius Friedrich Siegismund Tschirschnitz (representative of Kaiser)
• 1874: -9999NN. Everhahn (by order)
• 1874–1885: Fritz von Sybel
• 1885-1899: Richard Haldy
• 1899–1907: Paul Kirschstein
• 1907–1910: David Fischer
• 1911–1932: Gustav Haarmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, §1
2. ↑ Official Journal for the Cologne District 1846, p. 160.
3. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Portal Rheinische Geschichte ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Official Gazette for the Cologne District 1858, p. 67.
5. ^ NRW Bergneustadt Foundation
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 112.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244
8. ↑ ^{a b} Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. oberbergkreis.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 4 ″  E