District of Wipperfürth

Location of the district of Wipperfürth (1905)

The Wipperfürth district was a district in the Prussian administrative district of Cologne that existed from 1816 to 1932 . With that he first belonged to the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , from 1822 finally to the Rhine province . The district town was Wipperfürth . The former district area is now predominantly in the Oberbergisches Kreis and a smaller part in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

prehistory

After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, a central administration department was established to administer the conquered territories on October 23, 1813 . In November 1813 the former was in the field Duchy of Berg and gentlemen Gimborn , Homburg and Wildburg the General mountain with administrative headquarters in Dusseldorf formed. As early as 1814, under provisional Prussian administration, a district of Wipperfürth was set up together with the districts of Düsseldorf , Elberfeld and Mülheim . The then district had 75,358 inhabitants and included the previous cantons of Gummersbach , Waldbröl , Eitorf , Homburg from the former arrondissement Siegen , Lindlar from the former arrondissement Mülheim am Rhein , Wipperfürth from the former arrondissement Elberfeld and Mairie Friesenhagen from the canton Wildenburg . The provisional district has been headed by district director Karl Cappe since 1813 .

Administrative history

The Grand Duchy of Berg was awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna on May 31, 1815. In 1816 Prussian administrative division into provinces, administrative districts and counties was introduced. The Wipperfürth district was also founded, which essentially consisted of the area of the cantons of Lindlar and Wipperfürth or the area of the old Bergisch office of Steinbach . The district was divided into the six mayor's offices of Engelskirchen, Klüppelberg , Cürten , Lindlar, Olpe and Wipperfürth, which were founded as Mairien during the French era . In 1845, the municipal code for the Rhine Province gave all places that had their own households the status of a municipality. Wipperfürth also received the Rhenish Town Code in 1856 . Since then, the Wipperfürth district has been structured as follows:

Mayorry	Parishes (1865)
Cürten	Bechen , Cürten
Engelskirchen	Engelskirchen , Hohkeppel
Klüppelberg	Klüppelberg
Lindlar	Lindlar
Olpe	Olpe , Wipperfeld
Wipperfürth	Wipperfürth (city)

In 1885, the area of the district covered an area of 311.57 km². As in the entire Rhine Province, the district's mayorships were transferred to offices in 1927 . The two municipalities of the Olpe office were incorporated into the Kürten office on July 1, 1929. On October 1, 1932, the Wipperfürth district was dissolved and merged with the Mülheim am Rhein district to form the Rheinisch-Bergisch district with its headquarters in Bergisch Gladbach .