Jülich-Kleve-Berg Province

Jülich-Kleve-Berg (red), Prussia (blue)

Jülich-Kleve-Berg was one of the ten provinces of the Kingdom of Prussia until 1822 . It was formed after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 with the “Ordinance for Improved Establishment of the Provincial Authorities” of April 30, 1815. The province officially started work on April 22, 1816.

history

Representation of the province Jülich-Kleve Berg (abbreviation J CL Berg ) on the map of north-western Germany in the pocket atlas covering all parts of the world by Josef Arnz , 1836

The province included not only the areas that were already in Prussian possession, the Duchy of Kleve , parts of the former Duchy of Geldern and the Principality of Moers , but also the Rhenish territories that came to Prussia after 1815, the Duchy of Berg and a large part of the Duchy of Jülich - Strangely enough, but without the eponymous city of Jülich , which, like the entire Jülich district, belonged to the Aachen administrative district of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province - the Electorate of Cologne and the Free Imperial City of Cologne as well as smaller lordships. She was the successor to the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Berg . After the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the Generalgouvernement Berg was provisionally formed, from whose parts the province Jülich-Kleve-Berg emerged. Already in the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute , Elector Johann Sigismund of Brandenburg had raised a claim to the areas - at that time summarized in the United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . Brandenburg-Prussia later held fast to the claim in principle.

The chief president of the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province (provincial government) had his seat in Cologne, the only chief president was Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach .

The province was divided into the three administrative districts of Düsseldorf , Kleve and Cologne , whose administrations also began their activities on April 22, 1816.

On June 22, 1822, the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg was united with the province of Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine to form the Prussian Rhine province with the administrative seat in Koblenz .

Administrative division

The administrative structure as of 1819:

District of Düsseldorf City district of Düsseldorf District of Düsseldorf Elberfeld district Circle food District of Gladbach Grevenbroich district Krefeld district Lennep district Mettmann district Neuss district District of Opladen District of Solingen

Administrative region of Kleve Dinslaken district District of Geldern Kempen district Kleve district Rees County Rheinberg district

Cologne district City district of Cologne District of Cologne Bergheim district District of Bonn Lechenich district District of Mülheim Rheinbach district Siegkreis Uckerath district Waldbröl district District of Wipperfürth

The two until 1806 direct imperial dominions Gimborn and Homburg were initially within the Prussian territory able dominions . The Prussian district administrator was only responsible for sovereignty, military and tax matters; all communal matters, including jurisdiction, belonged to the landlords. Regarding the (Prussian) administrative allocation, there are different details to which the geographer Hassel referred as early as 1819: According to his sources, both class lords were incorporated into the neighboring districts, Gimborn in the district of Wipperfürth , Homburg in the district of Waldbröl . The geographer Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein, on the other hand, lists both class lords as the district of Gimborn and the district of Homburg . After the district office was relocated to Gummersbach in 1819 and the two districts were administratively combined, in 1825 they were formally merged and renamed the Gummersbach district .

literature

• Georg Mölich / Veit Veltzke / Bernd Walter: Rhineland, Westphalia and Prussia - a relationship story , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-12793-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PrGS 1815 pp. 85-98
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.
3. ↑ Georg Hassel: Complete and newest description of the earth of the Prussian Monarchy ... Geographisches Institut, Weimar 1819, pp. 451 ff. ( Google Books ).
4. ↑ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of geography and statistics according to the latest views for the educated classes ... Volume 2, J. C. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1819, p. 195 ( Google Books ).
5. ^ State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia