Mayor's office in Königswinter

Old town hall of Königswinter, from 1892/93 the official seat of the mayor's office

The mayor's office in Königswinter was one of nine Prussian mayor's offices in which the Siegburg district, formed in 1816 (merged with the dissolved Uckerath district in 1820 and renamed the Siegkreis in 1825) in the administrative district of Cologne, was administratively divided. The administrative district, including the mayor of Königswinter, initially belonged to the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which in 1822 was combined with the province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine to form the Rhine province . The administrative district of the mayor's office in Königswinter originally comprised four communities . The administrative seat was in today's city of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1843, with 7,218 inhabitants, it was the third largest mayor (after Cologne and Bonn) in the Cologne district.

In 1889, when the municipality of Königswinter was raised to the status quo, the mayor's office of Königswinter-Land was established with the municipalities of Aegidienberg and Ittenbach. Since then, the mayor's office of Königswinter has only consisted of the city of Königswinter. The mayor's office in Königswinter-Land was renamed to Amt Königswinter-Land in 1927 . In 1969 the Königswinter-Land office was dissolved.

Associated municipalities

The mayor's office included the following communities with their localities and residential areas (as of 1843; partly today's spelling):

Community of Aegidienberg with the parish village of Aegidienberg, the former honors Brüngsberg , Himberg , Höhe , Hövel , Orscheid , Retscheid , Siefenhoven and Wülscheid , the hamlets of Efferoth and Neichen , individual houses in Rottbitze and Wintersberg , a single house in Schuß and the Quirrenbach grinding mill
Municipality of Honnef with the former honors Bondorf , Beuel , Mülheim , Rhöndorf , Rommersdorf and Selhof , the hamlet of Menzenberg , the Grafenwerth , Hagerhof , Löwenburg (with grinding mill), Servatius , Steinbusch and Zickelburg as well as the oil mill and millet mill; In 1862, with town elevation, it was spun off from the Königswinter mayor as a separate mayor's office
Municipality of Ittenbach with the church village Ittenbach, the former Honschaft Hüscheid , the hamlet Döttscheid, the farms Laagshof , Margarethenkreuz and Stöckerhof, individual houses in Röttchen, a single house in Lahr and the grinding mill Hüscheidermühle
Königswinter municipality with the courtyards Burghof , Drachenfels , Herrmannsroth, Obersten-Kuckstein , Rüdennet , Untersten-Kuckstein, Wintermühlenhof and Wülsdorferhof, the mills Kreuzmühle and Wintermühle as well as the Löwensprüchen grinding mill.

history

The administrative area of the mayor's office in Königswinter was divided into two parts until the beginning of the 19th century: the communities Aegidienberg and Honnef were part of the office of Löwenburg in the Duchy of Berg until 1806 , the municipalities of Königswinter and Ittenbach until 1803 part of the office of Wolkenburg in the electorate of Cologne , which from 1803 to 1803 1806 belonged to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . In 1806 the entire area was opened up in connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation in the Grand Duchy of Berg . The office of Löwenburg initially remained, expanded to include the area of the office of Wolkenburg and the glory of Vilich . With the introduction of the municipal constitution by the “Provincial and Communal Administrative Regulations for the Grand Duchy of Berg” on December 18, 1808, the Mairie Königswinter was formed by the French administration under Napoléon Bonaparte and began work in the spring of 1809. Until 1813 the Mairie belonged to the canton of Königswinter , Arrondissement Mülheim am Rhein, Département Rhein . During the provisional administration in the Generalgouvernement Berg , the Mairie was called "Mayor's Office" from December 1813.

Based on the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, provinces , administrative districts and districts were formed in 1816 , the administrative structures at the level of the mayor's offices (called "Mairien" until 1813) were initially retained. The mayor's office in Königswinter belonged to the district of Siegburg (from 1825 "Siegkreis") in the administrative district of Cöln , province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . In 1822 the administrative district of Cologne and with it the mayor's office of Königswinter came to the then newly formed Rhine province . With the enactment of a municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, the municipalities administered by the mayor's office were legally recognized as local authorities with their own head and council . In 1862, the municipality of Honnef was raised to the status of a city according to the Rhenish city code and separated from the mayor's office. Since then, the community Koenigswinter became a town in 1889 and formed its own mayor in this way, its mayor was in personal union also head of the "mayor Koenigswinter country".

Like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province, the mayor's office in Königswinter-Land was renamed “Amt Königswinter-Land” in 1927, and the mayor's office from the city of Königswinter has since been considered an “unofficial municipality”. As part of the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area , the Koenigswinter-Land office and the municipalities belonging to the office were dissolved on August 1, 1969 . Ittenbach and Königswinter were merged with other municipalities to form the new municipality under the name "Stadt Königswinter" in the Rhein-Sieg district , and the municipality of Aegidienberg was assigned to the city of Bad Honnef as a district .

statistics

According to the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" from 1830, the mayorry of Königswinter included a town, three villages and ten individual courtyards . Eight churches and chapels were available to the population. There were also 13 public buildings and 970 private houses. In 1816 there were a total of 5,182 inhabitants in the towns belonging to the mayor's office, in 1828 there were 5,959 inhabitants, including 2,949 men and 3,010 women; 5,822 inhabitants belonged to the Catholic, 31 to the Protestant and 106 to the Jewish faith. It should be noted here that the municipality of Königswinter, which is listed as a “city”, only received city rights in 1889 , but this designation can also be understood in terms of settlement geography and as a synonym for “urban structure”.

Further details, which cannot be compared with the information from 1830 due to the fact that a community has been hived off in the meantime, come from the "Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia" from 1888, which is based on the results of the census of December 1, 1885. A total of 5,266 inhabitants lived in 971 buildings and 1,140 households in the administrative area of the Königswinter mayor; 2,478 of the population were male and 2,788 female. Regarding religious affiliation, 4,995 were Catholic and 248 were Protestant; 22 Jews were resident in Königswinter.

In 1885 the total area of the three associated municipalities was 3,354 hectares , 1,085 hectares of which were arable land, 262 hectares of meadows and 1,697 hectares of forest.

Individual evidence

↑ Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia , 1st volume / 1817, p. 70
^ Rüdiger Schütz: Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia, Volume 7 Rhineland. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute , Marburg (Lahn) 1978, ISBN 3-87969-122-3 , pp. 11-12.
↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 162-165 ( digitized version ).

↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 85-87 ( digitized version ).

^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus: Germany for a Hundred Years , Volumes 2 and 3, Voigt & Günther, 1862, p. 352 ( Online Google Books )

↑ Winfried Biesing: From the office of Wolkenburg to the canton of Königswinter , Königswinter 1984, p. 16 ff

↑ Manfred van Rey : 100 years of elections and parties in the Rhein-Sieg district , Verlag Schmitt, Siegburg 1978, ISBN 3-87710-082-1 , p. 152

↑ Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of June 10, 1969; §§ 1 and 11 ( Onlinerecht.nrw.de )

^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 289 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b Community dictionary for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 114 ff . ( Digitized version ).

[1] Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalia , 1st volume / 1817, p. 70

[2] Rüdiger Schütz: Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia, Volume 7 Rhineland. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute , Marburg (Lahn) 1978, ISBN 3-87969-122-3 , pp. 11-12.

[OV1846-162ff-3] Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 162-165 ( digitized version ).

[OV1846-85ff-4] Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 85-87 ( digitized version ).

[berghaus18-5] Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus: Germany for a Hundred Years , Volumes 2 and 3, Voigt & Günther, 1862, p. 352 ( Online Google Books )

[Biesing-6] Winfried Biesing: From the office of Wolkenburg to the canton of Königswinter , Königswinter 1984, p. 16 ff

[7] Manfred van Rey : 100 years of elections and parties in the Rhein-Sieg district , Verlag Schmitt, Siegburg 1978, ISBN 3-87710-082-1 , p. 152

[8] Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of June 10, 1969; §§ 1 and 11 ( Onlinerecht.nrw.de )

[Restorff-9] Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 289 ( digitized version ).

[Gemeindelexikon1885-10] Community dictionary for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 114 ff . ( Digitized version ).