Adenau district

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The Adenau district was an administrative unit created by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816 and located in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate . Administratively, it was part of the Prussian government district of Koblenz in the Rhine province formed in 1822 .

The district of Adenau roughly included the area of ​​the present-day association communities Adenau and Kelberg, as well as some neighboring villages. The district was dissolved on September 30, 1932 on the basis of the "Ordinance on the reorganization of districts of August 1, 1932". The offices and communities were assigned to the Ahrweiler and Mayen districts .

history

After the Kingdom of Prussia was awarded the Rhineland at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and thus also parts of the area on the left bank of the Rhine, which was under French administration from 1794 to 1814, six administrative districts were established in the two Rhenish provinces on April 22, 1816. On May 14, 1816, the subdivision of the Koblenz administrative district into 16 districts was published in the official gazette of the district government of Coblenz , one of which was Adenau district . From 1822 the administrative district of Koblenz and the district of Adenau belonged to the then newly created Rhine province .

Based on the ownership structure before 1794, the district consisted of parts of the Electorate of Cologne and the Duchy of Arenberg as well as the County of Virneburg . During the French administration, the area was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 as the canton of Adenau in the Bonn arrondissement .

The Adenau district included a town ( Adenau ), three spots ( Aremberg , Virneburg , Kelberg ), 63 villages, 56 hamlets and 93 individual farms and mills . The Prussian statistics of 1828 counted two castles, 25 Catholic churches and 81 chapels, 77 public buildings, 37 Catholic elementary schools and two factories in the district.

The district was initially divided into five, later into six mayorships :

  • Adenau mayor's office with the city of Adenau, 23 villages, nine hamlets, four farms and four mills; In 1828 there were 7590 residents here. The mayor's office in Brück was spun off from the mayor's office in Adenau around 1840 .
  • Mayor's office Aremberg with the town of Aremberg, seven villages, 16 hamlets and seven mills; In 1828 3977 inhabitants lived here. The seat of the mayor's office was in Antweiler .
  • Mayor's office Virneburg with the village Virneburg, 10 villages, 13 hamlets, five farms and two mills; In 1828 3310 inhabitants lived here.
  • Kelberg mayor's office with the Kelberg patch, 19 villages, 11 hamlets, seven farms and six mills, which in 1828 had a total of 3478 inhabitants.
  • Mayor's office in Kempenich with four villages, six hamlets, two farms and four mills, which in 1828 had a total of 2,122 inhabitants.

The mayor's offices existed until 1927 and were then renamed to offices.

The Adenau district was dissolved on September 30, 1932 on the basis of the “Ordinance on the reorganization of districts of August 1, 1932”. The municipalities of the offices of Adenau, Antweiler and Brück were assigned to the district of Ahrweiler, the municipalities of the offices of Kelberg (with the exception of the municipalities of Nürburg, Meuspath and Müllenbach), Kempenich and Virneburg to the district of Mayen.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 18,907
1838 22,804
1871 20,965
1885 21,515
1900 22,291
1910 26,322
1925 25,153

District administrators

1816-1825: Willibrord Köller
1825: Anton Haas (substitute)
1825–1829: Hans Karl Heuberger
1829: Cornelius Metten (by order)
1829-1848: Christian Gattermann
1848: Heinrich Jaeger (by order)
1848–1867: Anton Fonck
1867: Heinrich Thüring (by order)
1867–1872: Alexander Halm
1872: Hugo Strom (acting)
1872–1874: Theodor Dillenburger
1874-1884: Clemens August Heckmann
1884-1891: Richard von Doemming
1891–1898: Hermann von Kruse
1899–1912: Wilhelm Scherer
1912–1917: Heinrich Schellen
1917–1919: Erich Klausener
1919–1923: Friedrich Gorius
1924–1932: Otto Creutz

Associated municipalities

In 1932 a total of 107 communities belonged to the Adenau district:

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leonhard Janta: On the dissolution of the Adenau district in 1932 , in the 2002 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
  2. ^ Alfred Oppenhoff: 175 years ago the Prussians came in the 1991 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
  3. ↑ a b c Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 665
  4. ↑ a b Statistical news about the Coblenz administrative district , 1861, p. 30.
  5. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
  6. ^ The Rhine Province under Prussia, Willemsen, 1842
  7. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  8. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ahrweiler.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ Erich Mertes: Mayor Cornelius Metten . Ed .: District administration Daun. 2003, p. 219–220 ( heimatjahrbuch-vulkaneifel.de [accessed on August 20, 2020]).
  10. ^ Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Koblenz: Born in 1864 in the Google book search
  11. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 281 .
  12. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 281 .
  13. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.3 MB), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, p. 30.
  14. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016 (PDF; 2.8 MB).