Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Jülich -Cleves -Berg was one of the ten provinces of the state of Prussia, which was formed after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 with the " Regulation due to improved establishment of the provincial authorities " of 30 April 1815. The official start work the province took place on 22 April 1816.
History
The province included not only those that are already in possession of the Prussian territories, the Duchy of Cleves, parts of the former Duchy of funds and the principality of Moers, but also after 1815 came to Prussia bank of the Rhine, the Duchy of Berg, and a large part of the Duchy of Jülich - but curiously enough, without the eponymous town of Jülich, which belonged to the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine as the whole circle Jülich Aachen to the governmental district of the province - the Electorate of Cologne and the free imperial city of Cologne as well as smaller dominions. It was the successor to the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Berg. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the General Mountain was first provisionally formed from its parts then the province Jülich -Cleves -Berg was born.
The President of the Province Jülich -Cleves - Berg ( provincial government ) had its headquarters in Cologne, only upper president was Friedrich of Solms- Laubach.
The province was divided into three administrative districts of Dusseldorf, Cleves and Cologne, also for April 22, 1816 took up their Administrations their activities.
On 22 June 1822 Province of Jülich -Cleves -Berg with the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine was united to the Prussian Rhine province with headquarters in Koblenz by " Cabinet Order ".
Administrative divisions
The administrative divisions of the state in 1819:
Regierungsbezirk Dusseldorf
- County Dusseldorf
- County Dusseldorf
- Circle Elberfeld
- County Food
- County Gladbach
- Circle Grevenbroich
- Circle Krefeld
- Circle Lennep
- Mettmann
- County Neuss
- Circle Opladen
- County Solingen
Region of Cleves
- Circle Dinslaken
- County funds
- Circle Kempen
- Kreis Kleve
- Circle Rees
- Circle Rheinberg
Region of Cologne
- County Cologne
- District of Cologne
- Kreisberg Home
- County Bonn
- Circle Lechenich
- Circle Mülheim am Rhein
- Circle Rhine river
- Siegkreis
- Circle Uckerath
- Circle Waldbroel
- Circle Wipperfuerth
The two to 1806 direct imperial dominions Gimborn and Homburg were initially within the Prussian territory able dominions. The Prussian district were under only the territorial, military and tax matters, all municipal matters, including the jurisdiction was the lords to. Regarding the ( Prussian ) administrative assignment, there are different data on which the geographer Hassel in 1819 pointed: both able dominions were incorporated according to his sources in the neighboring counties, Gimborn into the circle Wipperfuerth, Homburg in the circle Waldbroel. By contrast, the geographer Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein leads both able dominions on a circle and circle Gimborn Homburg. Having already laid in 1819 the District Office to Gummersbach and the two counties were merged administratively, was 1825, the formal merging and renaming in county Gummersbach.