The Bürgermeisterei Weyerbusch ("Mayoralty of Weyerbusch") was one of the nine PrussianBürgermeistereien or mayoralties, into which the county of Altenkirchen, created in 1816 as part of the Regierungsbezirk Coblenz was administratively divided. The mayoralty had 25 municipalities with a population of 2,564 in 1817.[1] From 1845 to 1848, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was the mayor. The mayoralty was renamed in 1927 to Amt Weyerbusch.
According to statistics in 1843 and 1861 the following municipalities belonged to the Bürgermeisterei (today's spelling is used; the division is based on the old territorial allocation):[2][3]
Originally part of the ecclesial parish of Mehren in the County of Sayn-Altenkirchen
Friedrich von Restorff: Topographisch-Statistische Beschreibung der Königlich Preußischen Rheinprovinz. Nicolai, Berlin und Stettin 1830, S.700 (Google Books)