Malmedy district
| Basic data | |
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| Prussian Province | Rhine Province |
| Administrative district | Aachen |
| Administrative headquarters | Malmedy |
| surface | 813 km² (1910) |
| Residents | 34,768 (1910) |
| Population density | 43 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
| Communities | 45 (1910) |
| Inventory period | 1816-1921 |
| Location of the Malmedy district (1905) | |
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The Malmedy district was a Prussian district that existed in the Rhine Province from 1816 to 1920 . The district seat was in Malmedy . Most of the district has belonged to Belgium since 1920 and is now in the Verviers district of the province of Liège . It belongs to East Belgium .
history
The Malmedy district was formed in the Prussian administrative district of Aachen in 1816 and was divided into the five mayorships of Bellevaux, Büllingen, Bütgenbach, Malmedy and Weismes. The area originally belonged to the Duchy of Limburg and became Prussian as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. On February 1, 1821, the neighboring district of Sankt Vith , which was also founded in 1816, was incorporated into the Malmedy district, resulting in ten more mayorships in the Malmedy district. With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, most of the mayor's offices in the district were subdivided into municipalities . Malmedy and Sankt Vith were given the Rhenish Town Code in 1856 . In addition, the mayor's office Thommen was abolished in the course of the 19th century and the mayor's office in Bevercé was newly established. In the Malmedy district there were two towns and 43 other municipalities on an area of 813 km²: the old Belgian-Prussian boundary stones still remind us of the former course of the border.
| Mayorry | Communities |
|---|---|
| Amel | Amel , Deidenberg , Eibertingen , Heppenbach , Iveldingen , Mirfeld , Möderscheid , Montenau , Schoppen |
| Bellevaux | Bellevaux |
| Bévercé | Bürnenville , Geromont , Xhoffraix |
| Butgenbach | Berg , Bütgenbach , Elsenborn , Faymonville , Nidrum , Sourbrodt , Weywertz |
| Büllingen | Büllingen , Honsfeld , Hünningen , Krinkelt , Mürringen , Rocherath , Wirtzfeld |
| Krombach | Krombach |
| Lommersweiler | Lommersweiler |
| Malmedy | Malmedy (city) |
| Manderfeld | Manderfeld |
| Meyerode | Herresbach , Medell , Meyerode , Valender , Wallerode |
| Law | Ligneuville , right |
| Reuland | Reuland Castle , Thommen |
| Saint Vith | Sankt Vith (city) |
| Schoenberg | Schoenberg |
| Wisdom | Ovifat , Robertville , Weismes |
With the Treaty of Versailles , the entire district fell to Belgium on January 10, 1920. In renegotiations, several border corrections were agreed between the German Reich and Belgium. As a result, the place Losheim and parts of the place Kehr , which had belonged to the municipality of Manderfeld , returned to the German Reich on October 1, 1921. Losheim became an independent municipality in the Schleiden district . The Malmedy district in Belgium was dissolved at the end of 1921.
During the German occupation of Belgium in World War II between 1940 and 1944, the area ceded in 1920 was annexed by the German Reich and during this time reassigned to the administrative district of Aachen.
Population development
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| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1825 | 25,423 |
| 1852 | 30,884 |
| 1871 | 30.171 |
| 1880 | 30,974 |
| 1890 | 30,527 |
| 1900 | 31,502 |
| 1910 | 34,768 |
Communities
Municipalities of the Malmedy district with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of December 1, 1910):
| local community | Residents |
|---|---|
| Reuland Castle | 2,215 |
| Krombach | 1,598 |
| Lommersweiler | 1,158 |
| Malmedy | 4,992 |
| Manderfeld | 1,726 |
| Law | 1,429 |
| Saint Vith | 2,241 |
| Thommen | 2,235 |
| Wisdom | 2,260 |
District administrators
- 1816–1840 Theodor von Negri
- 1840–1841 Ernst von Frühbuss (by order)
- 1842–1853 Franz Ludwig Eugen von Montigny
- 1853–1864 Ernst von Frühbuss
- 1864–1865 Heinrich Alfred Reinick (substitute)
- 1865–1876 Eduard von Broich
- 1876–1883 Bernhard von der Heydt
- 1883–1889 Oswald von Frühbuss
- 1889-1894 Max Wallraf
- 1894–1899 Karl von Pastor
- 1900–1907 Karl Kaufmann
- 1907–1920 Friedrich von Korff
- 1940–1943 Heinz Ehmke
- 1942–1945 Felix Seulen
Web links
- Map of the Malmedy district, 1910
- Map of the border changes in the Eupen-Monschau-Malmedy area after the First World War
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Versailles Treaty, Article 27
- ^ District archive Euskirchen: A chronological overview of the most important administrative data and events in the district of Euskirchen since 1816 ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2012 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.
- ^ Dictionary of international law and diplomacy. (Digitized version) Julius Hatschek, 1924, p. 293 , accessed on January 1, 2015 (Lemma “Eupen-Malmedy”).
- ^ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 122
- ↑ Statistics of the district of Aachen 1852, p. 174
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 248
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. malmedy.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .
