Forbach district

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lorraine
Administrative headquarters	Forbach
surface	701 km² (1910)
Residents	94,191 (1910)
Population density	134 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	87 (1910)
Location of the Forbach district

The county Forbach was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in District Lorraine of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The area of ​​the district is now in the Forbach-Boulay-Moselle arrondissement of the French department of Moselle .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Forbach district was formed in 1871 from the previously French arrondissement of Forbach. After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, belonged to the French state again as Arrondissement Forbach .

During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the Forbach arrondissement initially formed the Forbach district . On 1 December 1940, the district Forbach with the neighboring county was Bolchen the district Saint Avold together. The district area was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was part of the CdZ area of ​​Lorraine . This was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Saarpfalz (from 1942 Westmark ) in Saarbrücken . Between November and December 1944, the district was liberated by Allied forces and returned to France. The two pre-war arrondissements of Forbach and Boulay-Moselle were again established by France .

District Directors

1871–1882 Johann Spiecker00

1882–1884 Richard Albrecht (District Director)00

1884–1889 Becker ( provisional )00

1889–1896 Albert Dieckmann00

1871–1903 Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg00

1903–1908 Georg von Loeper00

1908–1918 Wilhelm von Woellwarth-Lauterburg00

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Forbach district	68,696	76.005	94.191

Municipalities with more than 4,000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Forbach	10,107
Small chokes	6,909
Mörchingen	6,966
Saint Avold	6,400
Spittel	5,742
Stieringen-Wendel	4,751

Communities

In 1910 the Forbach district comprised 87 communities:

Alstingen Altrip Altweiler Baronweiler Burst Beningen mountain Bertringen Bettingen Biedingen Bischdorf Brülingen Buschbach Busdorf Cappel Destrich Thieves Diefenbach near Hellimer Through thal Enschweiler Ernstweiler Ersdorf

Etzlingen Farschweiler Folk sounds Folschweiler Forbach Free bus Allowances Fremersdorf Geblingen Genweiler Geßlingen Greningen Granddaughter Harprich Hassenburg Hellimer Herrchweiler Helpful Holvingen Johannsrohrbach Chambers Kappelkinger

Karlingen Kerbach Kirweiler Small chokes Little dances Stoves Landorf Lanningen Lellingen Leyweiler Lixingen Makers Maxstadt Merlenbach Metzingen Mörchingen Morsbach Nellingen Nussweiler Oberhomburg Oberhost Ötingen

Pfarrebersweiler Porcelette Püttlingen Rakring Remeringen Richlingen Rossbrücken Saar albums Saint Avold Sengbusch Save Spittel Stieringen-Wendel Brawns Tentelingen Things Vahl-Ebersing Walleringen Hips hamlet Willerwald

literature

• Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical manual, administrative schematic and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 128–140 ( online )
• Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 372-401 ( online ).
• M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_forbach.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).