Lechenich district

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The district of Lechenich was a district in the administrative district of Cologne in the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , the later (1822) Rhine province . It was formed in 1816 from the former French cantons Lechenich and Zülpich , which had existed from 1798 to 1814 in the Arrondissement de Cologne , Département de la Roer .

Panorama of the district town of Lechenich, 1818

Formation of the circle

After the Rhineland fell to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the area was re-divided into administrative districts and districts in 1816 . On December 7, 1816, Georg Bärsch , who later became the district administrator of Prüm , took over the management of the newly formed district of Lechenich as provisional district administrator ("district commissioner"). He was followed by the 1818 District particular the circle Joseph von Weichs .

Structures, cities and communities

population

First surveys of the post-Napoleonic period gave the following data: In the district area there were three cities ( Euskirchen , Lechenich and Zülpich ), 65 villages and hamlets, 12 courtyards, individual houses and a number of castles. The number of apartments was put at 5064 in 1826, in which 25,326 citizens of the district lived.

Mayorships

The Lechenich district was divided into 17 mayor's offices, which had already been founded as Mairien in the French era . They were headed by mayors who were appointed by the state:

administration

Hussar quarters, gendarmerie station, district office, and today's restaurant

Administration building

The district office with the offices was set up in the former Gendarmeriehaus , the hussar quarter in the center of Lechenich. For the time being, the property offered enough space to also provide the apartments of the district administrator and the district secretary. The originally preferred buildings, that of the former electoral palace or the still-preserved wing of the former Franciscan monastery, had been in private hands since the secularization and could not be acquired.

Area of ​​responsibility of the district administrators

The establishment of a registry required for the administration of the district by the first district administrators Bärsch and von Weichs took a long time due to the lack of support from the mayor's offices . A debt relief plan could only begin after the mayor's offices had submitted a list of their municipal assets. Also in matters of welfare for the poor , District Administrator Bärsch was only able to influence the distribution of the funds after, after lengthy negotiations with the mayor's offices, he was given an insight into the properties and income from “poor foundations”. Under Freiherr von Weichs, the educational system in the communities was improved. To this end, new school buildings were erected in almost all locations by 1827 . The medical facilities were reorganized to ensure medical care for the district. There was a district physician and a district surgeon as direct employees of the district administrator. District physician was the Euskirchen resident Dr. Johann Wilhelm Carl Ludwig. The official seat of the district surgeon Peter Josef Fischer was Zülpich. In 1826 there were five doctors, three surgeons, five pharmacists and 18 midwives in the Lechenich district , whose districts were divided up in 1821.

The end of the circle

House Ganser

After the District Administrator von Weichs died on June 6, 1826 in Lechenich, his successor Friedrich Wilhelm Bilefeldt took up his post on June 16, 1826. From 1826 to 1827 he lived as a tenant in a stately classical building on Bonner Strasse, today's Haus Ganser.

On November 6, 1826, Bilefeldt asked the higher authority to relocate the district office to Euskirchen. In addition to the better infrastructure of Euskirchen, which made the place appear suitable as the seat of the district, he gave personal (confessional) reasons. Just a few months later, the name was changed to the district of Euskirchen and the district headquarters were relocated to Euskirchen. The resolution was implemented in August 1827.

literature

  • Sabine Graumann (arrangement): The Lechenich district around 1826 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-37605-5
  • Karl Stommel : History of the Electoral Cologne city of Lechenich. Euskirchen 1960
  • Karl Stommel: The beginnings of the Euskirchen district . In: Local calendar of the Euskirchen district , 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Stommel: The beginnings of the Euskirchen district . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Euskirchen , 1966, pp. 26–28
  2. ↑ Sabine Graumann (arrangement): The Lechenich district around 1826 . P. 81
  3. ^ Karl Stommel: History of the Electoral Cologne city of Lechenich . P. 93
  4. ↑ HSTAD Renteien Köln / Aachen Rentei Kerpen No. 855
  5. ^ Karl Stommel: History of the Electoral Cologne city of Lechenich . Euskirchen 1960, p. 95
  6. ^ Karl Stommel: The beginnings of the Euskirchen district . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Euskirchen , 1966, pp. 31–34
  7. ↑ Sabine Graumann (arrangement): The Lechenich district around 1826 . P. 8
  8. ↑ HSTAD Reg. Cologne No. 322 Request to relocate the district seat
  9. ^ Karl Stommel: The beginnings of the Euskirchen district . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Euskirchen , 1966, pp. 26–28