Eupen district
| Basic data | |
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| Prussian Province | Rhine Province |
| Administrative district | Aachen |
| Administrative headquarters | Eupen |
| surface | 176 km² (1910) |
| Residents | 26,156 (1910) |
| Population density | 149 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
| Communities | 9 (1910) |
| Inventory period | 1816-1921 |
| Location of the Eupen district (1905) | |
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The Eupen district was a district that belonged to the Prussian Rhine province from 1816 to 1920 . The district seat was in Eupen . Most of the former district area has belonged to Belgium since 1920 and is now in the Verviers district of the Belgian province of Liège .
history
The district of Eupen was formed in 1816 in the Prussian administrative district of Aachen from the eight mayorries Eupen , Eynatten , Hergenrath, Kettenis , Lontzen , Preußisch Moresnet , Raeren and Walhorn . The area originally belonged to the Duchy of Limburg and became Prussian as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The old Belgian-Prussian boundary stones still remind of the former course of the border. With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, the Hergenrath mayor's office was subdivided into the two municipalities of Hauset and Hergenrath . The other mayor's offices each formed a single municipality. Eupen received the Rhenish Town Code in 1856 . In the Eupen district there was last one town and eight other municipalities:
With the Versailles Treaty , the entire district fell to Belgium on January 10, 1920 and became part of what is now East Belgium . In Belgium, the Eupen district was dissolved at the end of 1921. In renegotiations, several border corrections were agreed between the German Reich and Belgium. As a result, the villages of Bildchen, Lichtenbusch and Sief , which had belonged to the Eupen district, returned to the German Empire and were incorporated into the city of Aachen on November 1, 1922 .
During the German occupation of Belgium in the Second World War ( May 1940 to 1944/45), the area ceded in 1919 was annexed by the German Reich along with a few other places that had belonged to Belgium before 1920 and again added to the administrative district of Aachen as the district of Eupen .
Population development
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| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1825 | 18,599 |
| 1852 | 22,630 |
| 1871 | 25,299 |
| 1880 | 25,888 |
| 1890 | 27,132 |
| 1900 | 26,083 |
| 1910 | 26,156 |
Communities
The communities of the Eupen district (as of December 1, 1910):
| local community | Residents |
|---|---|
| Eupen | 13,544 |
| Eynatten | 1373 |
| Hauset | 944 |
| Hergenrath | 1343 |
| Kettenis | 1306 |
| Lontzen | 2156 |
| Prussian Moresnet | 582 |
| Raeren | 3801 |
| Whale horn | 1107 |
District administrators
| Term of office | District Administrator |
|---|---|
| 1816-1837 | Bernhard von Scheibler |
| 1837-1849 | August by Reiman |
| 1849-1866 | Amand von Harenne |
| 1866 | Julius The Lose |
| 1866 | Otto Jaeger (acting) |
| 1866-1868 | Robert von der Heydt |
| 1868 | Julius The Lose |
| 1868-1871 | Edwin Gülcher |
| 1871-1883 | Alfred Sternickel |
| 1883-1908 | Alfred Gülcher |
| 1909-1914 | Walter The Lose |
| 1914-1916 | Herbert Rohde |
| 1916-1917 | Friedrich von Zitzewitz |
| 1917-1920 | Friedrich von Kesseler |
| 1941-1944 | Felix Seulen |
Web links
literature
- Christian Quix : Contributions to a historical-topographical description of the Eupen district with an appendix: The former rule of Mesch . JA Mayer , Aachen 1837 ( MDZ Munich [accessed on August 15, 2015]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Map of the district of Eupen
- ^ A b Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Versailles Treaty, Article 27
- ^ Dictionary of international law and diplomacy. (Digitized version) Julius Hatschek, 1924, p. 293 , accessed on January 1, 2015 (Lemma "Eupen-Malmedy").
- ^ "Decree of the Führer" of May 18, 1940
- ^ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 112
- ^ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1852, p. 108
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 248
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. eupen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .
