Mayen County

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E
Basic data (as of 1970)
Existing period:	1816-1970
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	Koblenz
Administrative headquarters :	Mayen
Area :	773.43 km 2
Residents:	124,772 (Jun 30, 1969)
Population density :	161 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	MY
Circle key :	07 1 37
Circle structure:	110 parishes
Location of the Mayen district in Rhineland-Palatinate

The district of Mayen was a district in the administrative district of Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . Today his area belongs mainly to the district of Mayen-Koblenz . The district administration was in the city of Mayen .

Neighboring areas

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Ahrweiler , Neuwied , Koblenz , Sankt Goar , Cochem and Daun .

history

As a result of the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna , the area of ​​what would later become the Mayen district came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 as part of the so-called Left Bank of the Rhine . Under the Prussian administration, the Mayen district in the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine Province was re-established in 1816 . It was divided into the mayor offices of Andernach (with 9 associated communities), Burgbrohl (9 communities), Mayen (17 communities), Münstermaifeld (16 communities), Polch (14 communities) and Sankt Johann (9 communities). From 1822 on, the Mayen district belonged to the Rhine Province . In 1932, a large part of the dissolved Adenau district was incorporated, consisting of parts of the current municipalities of Brohltal , Kelberg and Vordereifel . In 1939 the name was changed to district in district .

The district had been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946. As part of the first stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate district reform on June 7, 1969, the communities of Gondorf , Hatzenport , Kattenes , Lehmen and Löf were reclassified from the district of Mayen to the then district of Koblenz .

On November 7, 1970, the Mayen district was dissolved:

• The communities Brenk , Burgbrohl , Engeln , Galenberg , Glees , Hohenleimbach , Kempenich , Niederlützingen , Spessart , Wassenach , Wehr and Weibern came to the Ahrweiler district .
• The communities of Arbach , Bereborn , Berenbach , Bodenbach , Bongard , Borler , Brück , Drees , Gelenberg , Gunderath , Höchstberg , Horperath , Kaperich , Kelberg , Kirsbach , Kolverath , Kötterichen , Lirstal , Mannebach , Mosbruch , Nitz , Oberelz , Reimerath , Retterath , Sassen , Uersfeld , Ueß and Welcherath came to the district of Daun .
• All other communities together with most of the dissolved Koblenz district formed the new Mayen-Koblenz district .

Population development

Residents	1816	1871	1885	1900	1910	1925	1939	1950	1960	1969
	29,594	53,288	60,687	70,884	80,765	82,680	99.121	108,459	118,900	124,900

politics

District administrators

• 1816–1842 Franz Peter Hartung00
• 1842-1852 Ludwig Delius00
• 1852 Clemens Lenné (by order)0000000
• 1852–1857 Eduard von Keller00
• 1857–1858 Berthold von Nasse (by order)00
• 1858 Joseph von Brewer0000000
• 1858–1859 Heinrich Graeber (by order)00
• 1859–1886 Ludwig Delius00
• 1886–1900 Wilhelm Linz00
• 1900–1909 Otto Kesselkaul00
• 1909–1918 Peter Peters00
• 1918–1919 Walter The Losen (acting)00
• 1919–1927 Karl Wegeler00
• 1927–1932 Hanns Röttgen00
• 1932–1933 Franz Röhm00
• 1933 Karl Müller (acting)0000000
• 1933–1945 Edgar Heiliger00
• 1945–1948 00Hermann Josef Doetsch
• 1948–1951 Josef Jansen00
• 1951–1963 Josef Kohns00
• 1964–1970 Constantin Boden00

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver a silver millstone with a black grinding track in perspective view, growing through the stone eye a rooted five-leaf green may tree."

cities and communes

At the time of its dissolution on November 7, 1970, the Mayen district comprised the following towns and communities:

eight Alzheimer's Andernach , city Look Arbach Arft Baar Bell Bereborn Berenbach Bermel Bodenbach Bongard Boos Borler Brenk Bridge Burgbrohl Ditscheid Dreckenach Drees Calibration Some Angels Ettringen Galenberg Gappenach Gelenberg

Low Gierschnach Glees Gunderath Hausen b. Mayen Hausten Herresbach Shepherds Höchstberg Hohenleimbach Horperath Cold Caperich Sweeping Kelberg Message Kell Kempenich Notches Kirchwald Kirsbach Great Kolverath Kottenheim Kötterichen Kretz Kruft Kürrenberg

Küttig Langenfeld Langscheid Lasserg Lind Lirstal Fair Luxem Mannebach Mayen , town Mendig , city Mertloch Metternich Miesenheim Monreal Mörz Mosbruch Moselsursch Münk Münstermaifeld Night home Naunheim Nod Niederlützingen Nitz Nitztal Oberelz Attention

Pillig Plaidt Polch Reimerath Savior Reudelsterz Vineyards Over Saffig Saint Johann Sassen Spessart Door Trimbs Uersfeld Ueß Virneburg People field Wassenach Weir Women hamlet Which council Welling Welschenbach Wierschem

Before November 7, 1970, the following municipalities were incorporated into or left the district:

• Allenz and Berresheim , merged on June 7, 1969 to form the Alzheimer community
• Gondorf , on June 7, 1969 to the district of Koblenz
• Hatzenport , on June 7, 1969 to the district of Koblenz
• Hünerbach , incorporated into Kelberg on January 1, 1970
• Kattenes , on June 7, 1969, to the Koblenz district
• Kirchesch and Waldesch , merged on June 7, 1969 to form the Kirchwald community
• Köttelbach , incorporated into Kelberg on January 1, 1970
• Lehmen , on June 7, 1969 in the Koblenz district
• Löf , on June 7, 1969 in the Koblenz district
• Namedy , incorporated into Andernach on June 7, 1969
• Niedermendig and upper Mendig , to the city on June 7, 1969 Mendig together
• Niederoberweiler , incorporated into Burgbrohl on June 7, 1969
• Oberlützingen , incorporated into Burgbrohl on June 7, 1969
• Rothenbach , incorporated into Kelberg on January 1, 1970
• Zermüllen , incorporated into Kelberg on January 1, 1970

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing sign MY when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued until June 11, 1973 in the Mayen district of the Mayen-Koblenz district. Since May 6, 2013 it has been available again in the entire Mayen-Koblenz district.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817, p. 11 ( online edition at dilibri )
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 421 .
4. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. mayen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ^ 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. 285 .
8. ↑ Constantin Boden in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database RPPD (accessed on August 16, 2020)