Linz district

Town hall Erpel , seat of the administration of the Linz district from 1816 to 1822

The Linz district was a newly formed administrative unit in the Koblenz administrative district in 1816 under the Prussian government . The area of ​​the then district lies in what is now northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The Linz district was dissolved as early as 1822 and the associated three mayor's offices and 22 communities were assigned to the Neuwied district . It was named after the city of Linz am Rhein , which had also been the seat of the Electoral Cologne Office of Linz since around 1250 .

The district administrator appointed by the Prussian government, Philipp Freiherr von Hilgers , had his official seat in Erpel .

The Linz district was united with the Neuwied district on May 1, 1822 by the “Cabinet Order” of March 28, 1822.

Administrative division

• Leutesdorf mayor's office with the communities of Hönningen , Leutesdorf , Niederhammerstein , Oberhammerstein and Rheinbrohl
• Mayor's office of Linz with the city of Linz and the communities of Casbach (Linz side), Dattenberg , Hargarten , Leubsdorf , Linzhausen, Notscheid (Linz side), Ockenfels and Ohlenberg
• Mayor's office Unkel with the communities of Bruchhausen , Casbach (Erpelseite), Erpel , Heister, Orsberg , Rheinbreitbach , Scheuren and Unkel