Administrative region of Kleve

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The administrative district of Kleve (contemporary spelling: Cleve ) was a Prussian administrative district in the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg . The administrative seat was in the city of Kleve .

history

Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna (1815), extensive areas in the Rhineland had been assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . With two issued in Vienna possession Seizure patents of April 5, 1815 Posted on 15 or 19 April 1815 took King Friedrich Wilhelm III. these areas. On April 30, 1815, the "Ordinance for Improved Establishment of the Provincial Authorities" was issued, according to which the Prussian state was to be divided into 10 provinces to a total of 25 administrative districts. As a result, governments were ordered in Stralsund, Aachen and Trier, so that in 1816 there were initially 28 districts, one of which was the Cleve administrative district in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province .

With effect from January 1, 1822, the Cleve administrative district was dissolved after barely six years and added to the Düsseldorf administrative district, the only district president Friedrich August von Erdmannsdorff transferred to Liegnitz in the same capacity .

Despite the dissolution of the civil administration in 1822, the area of ​​the administrative district remained assigned to the VII Army Corps in Munster and not, like the rest of the Rhineland, to the VIII Army Corps in Koblenz. This connection only ended with its dissolution in 1919

Circles

According to a notice dated April 23, 1816, the Cleve government district was divided into six districts :

Trivia

To this day, the area of ​​the administrative district of Kleve belongs to the Catholic diocese of Münster, which was only assigned these areas in 1821. Thus, the Lower Rhine areas are still a relic of the Kleve administrative district to this day.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal for the Rhine and Moselle Department of April 19, 1815, p. 263 (online edition at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center)
  2. ^ Official Journal for the Rhine and Moselle Department of September 15, 1815, p. 603 (online edition at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center)
  3. ^ Friedrich Eduard Keller: The Prussian State: A Handbook of Fatherland Studies. August Volkening, 1864, p. 237 (online edition at Google Books)
  4. ↑ Announcement of December 8, 1821 in the government gazette of Cleve 1821 No. 53, p. 427
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the development of the provincial division in 1815/1816 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
  6. ^ 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. 288 .
  7. ^ Constantin Schulteis: The maps from 1813 and 1818. Publications of the Society for Rhenish History. Behrendt, Bonn 1895, p. 170. (Online edition at the University and State Library Düsseldorf)