Medebach district

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The Medebach district was a district in the Arnsberg administrative district in the Prussian province of Westphalia that existed from 1817 to 1818 .

General

On August 1, 1816, the Prussian province of Westphalia was formed with its seat in Münster and the three administrative districts of Arnsberg, Münster and Minden . In the former Sauerland region of Cologne , the districts of Arnsberg , Brilon , Medebach, Eslohe , Bilstein , Soest and Lippstadt were established in 1817 . Except for the districts of Bilstein, Medebach and Eslohe, the others existed until the regional reform of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 1, 1975. The Medebach district with the offices of Medebach and Fredeburg was dissolved on January 1, 1819. The Medebach office was assigned to the Brilon district, the Fredeburg office to the Eslohe district. Eslohe himself could not enjoy the district seat for long. In December 1819, the district seat was relocated to Meschede, allegedly due to a lack of accommodation for the district administrator and his staff. But it wasn't until September 3, 1832 that the Eslohe district was officially renamed the Meschede district . The Bilstein district was renamed the Olpe district in 1819 .

history

In 1815 the three Westphalian governments received instructions from State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg to divide their districts into circles. According to the ordinance for improving the establishment of the provincial authorities from 1815 for the newly formed province of Westphalia , district administrators were to take the lead in the newly established districts. With the order to form circles, recommendations for the most suitable division were published at the same time. Hardenberg suggested among other things

  • not to divide old administrative and economic boundaries,
  • place the new district town in the middle of the district area,
  • that the maximum distance from the district town to the district border should be only two to three Prussian miles (7.4 km) so that every inhabitant could reach the district administration in one day.

In 1817 the districts of Altena, Arnsberg, Bilstein, Bochum, Brilon, Dortmund, Hagen, Hamm, Iserlohn, Lippstadt, Siegen, Soest, Wittgenstein and Medebach were created in the administrative district of Arnsberg.

When the district of Medebach was formed, the topographical conditions were not taken into account. Contrary to official recommendations, the district town of Medebach was not in the middle of the district area. Already in the first winter of 1817 the population of the former office of Fredeburg had considerable difficulties to get over the mountains to Medebach. A notification submitted to the Arnsberg district government in the same year led to the Medebach district being annulled again in 1819. In 1819 the Medebach district was dissolved and the area was divided into the Brilon district , to which the eastern part of the Medebach district was allocated, and the Eslohe district , which made up the parishes of Berghausen , Bödefeld , Dorlar , Fredeburg , Grafschaft , Oberkirchen , Rarbach , Schmallenberg and Wormbach received.

District Administrator

In 1817 Christian Adolf Wilhelm Pilgrim from Medebach became district administrator of the new district. In 1819 Pilgrim moved to Eslohe County. The new district administrators in Westphalia were initially state commissioners in 1815. But as early as 1816, a cabinet resolution stipulated that the district administrator had to be a landowner in the district.

See also

literature

  • Clemens Müller: A historical interlude 190 years ago. The Medebach district 1817–1818. Yearbook Hochsauerlandkreis 2007, ISBN 3-86133-437-2 , pp. 73–76.
  • Klemens Wiesemann: History of the property tax and surveying system in the Duchy of Westphalia - Kurkölnisches Sauerland. Fredeburg 1993, p. 37.
  • Magdalena Padberg : When we became Prussian. The Sauerland from 1816 to 1849 . Fredeburg 1982, pp. 28-30.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Horst Conrad: The Westphalian circles and the remainder of their registry. 27th Westphalian Archive Day in Bocholt, minutes and presentations, May 12 and 13, 1975, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, July 1975 ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org
  2. ^ Landesarchiv NRW Westphalia department: Authorities and institutions of the state and self-government after 1816. Retrieved on August 11, 2016.