District of Füssen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ' N , 10 ° 42' E |
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Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
Existing period: | 1862-1972 | |
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Swabia | |
Administrative headquarters : | Feet | |
Area : | 500.69 km 2 | |
Residents: | 36,200 (Dec. 31, 1971) | |
Population density : | 72 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | FEET | |
Circle key : | 09 7 35 | |
Circle structure: | 18 parishes | |
Address of the district administration: |
8958 Füssen | |
Location of the district of Füssen in Bavaria | ||
The district of Füssen belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . When it was dissolved in the regional reform in 1972, the district comprised 18 communities. The former district area is now part of the Ostallgäu district .
geography
Important places
The most populous communities were Füssen , Pfronten , Schwangau and Nesselwang . Füssen was 808 m above sea level. d. M. the highest district town in Bavaria.
Neighboring areas
In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the west, beginning with the districts of Sonthofen , Kempten (Allgäu) , Marktoberdorf , Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the south, the district bordered the Austrian state of Tyrol (Reutte district).
history
District Office
The district office in 1862 feet followed the same area district court earlier order feet .
On August 4, 1865, the community of Schwangau moved from the district office of Schongau to the district office of Füssen.
On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Füssen received two more municipalities from the district office of Schongau ( Buching and Trauchgau ) on January 1, 1880 and ceded the municipality of Lengenwang to the district office of Oberdorf .
district
On January 1, 1939, the uniform designation Landkreis was introduced in the German Reich . So the district office became the district of Füssen.
On July 1, 1972, the district of Füssen was merged with large parts of the districts of Kaufbeuren and Marktoberdorf as part of the regional reform in Bavaria to form the new district of Ostallgäu , which until May 1, 1973 still bore the provisional name of the district of Marktoberdorf .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1864 | 12,774 | |
1885 | 15,934 | |
1900 | 18,167 | |
1910 | 20,520 | |
1925 | 22,667 | |
1939 | 25,811 | |
1950 | 36,924 | |
1960 | 34,600 | |
1971 | 36,200 |
Communities
The municipalities of the district of Füssen before the municipal reform in 1971/78. The churches that still exist today are in bold .
former parish | today's parish | today's district |
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Booking | Halbch | District of Ostallgäu |
Eisenberg | Eisenberg | District of Ostallgäu |
Enzenstetten | Seeg | District of Ostallgäu |
Eschach | Feet | District of Ostallgäu |
Füssen (city) | Feet | District of Ostallgäu |
Hops on the lake | Feet | District of Ostallgäu |
Hopferau | Hopferau | District of Ostallgäu |
Lechbruck am See | Lechbruck am See | District of Ostallgäu |
Nesselwang (market) | Nesselwang | District of Ostallgäu |
Pfronten | Pfronten | District of Ostallgäu |
Vineyards | Vineyards on the Forggensee | District of Ostallgäu |
Horseheads | Horseheads | District of Ostallgäu |
Backwood | Backwood | District of Ostallgäu |
Schwangau | Schwangau | District of Ostallgäu |
Seeg | Seeg | District of Ostallgäu |
Trauchgau | Halbch | District of Ostallgäu |
Weissensee | Feet | District of Ostallgäu |
Zwieselberg | Horseheads | District of Ostallgäu |
The community of Faulenbach was incorporated into the city of Füssen on November 1, 1921. The two communities Pfronten-Berg and Pfronten-Steinach were merged on April 1, 1935 to form the community of Pfronten .
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign FÜS when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . The license plates of the districts of Füssen and Marktoberdorf ( MOD ) remained valid for a few years after these districts were dissolved on July 1, 1972. In particular because of violent protests from the former Füssen district, the OAL license plate was only valid for the entire district without restrictions since August 1, 1979 .
Since July 10, 2013, the FÜS distinguishing mark has been available again in the Ostallgäu district due to the license plate liberalization .
literature
- Squidward Steiner : Fuessen. Former district of Füssen (= historical book of place names of Bavaria, Swabia. Vol. 9). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-6861-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB 453660959 , Section II, Sp. 937 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 468 .
- ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952 (= contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB 451478568 , p. 40–41, 226 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 772 and 779 .
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section II, p. VIII ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Füssen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 7, 2010)