Homburg district

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Basic data (as of 1825)
Existing period: 1816-1825
State : Rhine Province (from 1822)
Administrative region : Cologne
Administrative headquarters : Homburg (de jure)

Gummersbach (provisional from 1819)

Area : 128.11 km 2
Residents: 9734 (1816)
Population density : 76 inhabitants per km 2
Circle structure: 4 municipalities
District Administrator : Friedrich Reinshagen (last officiating)

The county Homburg was from 1816 to 1822 first a district in the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and from 1822 to 1825 a district in Cologne Region of the Prussian Rhine province . His area today belongs to the Oberbergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

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 Homburg was also founded, which included the area of ​​the canton of Homburg from the Arrondissement Siegen in the Département Sieg . The canton of Homburg, on the other hand, emerged from the former imperial rule of Homburg . The circle was divided into four mayorships , which had already been founded as Mairien during the French era :

In 1816 the district had 9,734 inhabitants. When it was built, the district seat was at Homburg Castle . After the death of the first District Administrator Carl Ludwig Ferdinand Pollmann on November 26, 1818, the administration of the Homburg district was transferred to the Gimborner District Administrator Franz Garenfeld , who subsequently drew his letters on Homburg as "District Administrator of the Gimborn and Homburg Districts". The official seat of both districts administered in personal union was then moved to Gummersbach at the end of February 1819. By cabinet order of February 17, 1825, the district of Homburg was merged with the district of Gimborn to form the district of Gummersbach .

District administrators

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia. (Digitized version) In: First volume. Wilhelm Butte, January 1817, accessed on November 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Max Bär : The authority constitution of the Rhine province since 1815. (= publications of the society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde , XXXV). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-7600-1 , p. 262 (second reprint of the Bonn 1919 edition).

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  E