St. Vith district

The district of Sankt Vith was a district in the administrative district of Aachen in the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine, which existed from 1816 to 1821 . The district seat was in Sankt Vith . The former district has belonged almost entirely to Belgium since 1920 and is now in the east of the Verviers district of the province of Liège .

history

The district originally belonged to the Duchy of Limburg and became Prussian as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The Sankt Vith district was founded in 1816 and was divided into ten mayor's offices:

Amel mayor's office with Amel , Deidenberg , Eibertingen , Heppenbach , Iveldingen , Mirfeld , Möderscheid , Montenau and Schoppen
Mayor's office Crombach with Crombach , Hinderhausen , Neundorf and Rodt
Lommersweiler mayor's office with Alfersteg , Lommersweiler , Neidingen , Schlierbach and Steinebrück
Manderfeld mayor's office with Hergersberg , Holzheim , Krewinkel , Lanzerath , Losheim , Manderfeld , Merlscheid and Weckerath
Mayor's office Meyerode with Herresbach , Medell , Meyerode , Valender and Wallerode
Mayor's office right with Born and Right
Mayor's office Reuland with Auel , Bracht , Reuland , Lascheid , Malscheid , Oberhausen , Ouren , Steffeshausen , Stoubach and Weweler
Mayor's office Sankt Vith, consisting of the city of Sankt Vith
Mayor's office Schönberg with Alfersteg , Eimerscheid , Medendorf and Schönberg
Mayor's office Thommen with Aldringen , Braunlauf , Espeler , Grüfflingen , Maldingen , Maspelt , Oudler , Thommen and Weisten

With the very highest cabinet order of December 27, 1820, the district was dissolved and incorporated into the neighboring district of Malmedy , also founded in 1816, on February 1, 1821 . The only district administrator in the Sankt Vith district was Hermann Carl Weiss .

Losheim from the Manderfeld mayor's office did not fall to Belgium after the First World War and is now part of the municipality of Hellenthal in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Individual evidence

^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia Illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel translated from Latin and enriched with comments and additions by Georg Bärsch . Jakob Anton Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1852, Volume 3, Section 1, Section 1, p. 41.

[1] Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia Illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel translated from Latin and enriched with comments and additions by Georg Bärsch . Jakob Anton Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1852, Volume 3, Section 1, Section 1, p. 41.