Uckerath district

The Heymershof in Hennef was the seat of the district administration

The county Uckerath was a circle in the relevant time or to the Prussian Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg belonging Region of Cologne .

It was formed in 1816 from the Canton of Hennef, which previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg (in the arrondissement of Mülheim am Rhein , Département Rhine ) and the Canton of Eitorf .

The eight mayor's offices belonged to the district :

• Eitorf
• Hennef
• Herchen
• Lauthausen
• Much
• Neunkirchen
• Ruppichteroth
• Uckerath

which corresponds to the area of ​​today's cities and communities Eitorf , Hennef (Sieg) , Much , Ruppichteroth and partly Neunkirchen-Seelscheid and Windeck . The district had 26,378 inhabitants.

From 1817 the Heymershof in Hennef was the seat of the district administration. In 1820 the district was dissolved and its territory was merged with that of the Siegburg district. The Uckerather district administrator Franz Joseph Scheven was then district administrator of the Siegburg district. The Heymershof also remained the district administrator's seat until 1838.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Butte: Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalen, first volume , 1817, page 71 ( digital edition )
2. ^ Johannes Buchholz: Village life in the parish of Uckerath. In: Helmut Fischer / Johannes Buchholz: Uckerath 1131–1981 , 1981.