District of Kötzting

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1862-1972
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
Administrative headquarters :	Kötzting
Area :	451.42 km 2
Residents:	32,200 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	KÖZ
Circle key :	09 2 38
Circle structure:	44 municipalities
Address of the ; district administration:	8493 Kötzting
District Administrator :	Paula Volkholz ( Bavaria Party )
Location of the district of Kötzting in Bavaria

The district of Kötzting belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Niederbayern . Its former area is now in the district of Cham in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate .

geography

Important places

The most populous communities were Kötzting , Neukirchen b.Hl.Blut , Eschlkam , Lam and Hohenwarth .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered counterclockwise in the west, beginning with the districts of Cham , Bogen , Viechtach and Regen . In the north and east it bordered the Západočeský kraj of Czechoslovakia .

history

District Office

In accordance with the “Royal Highest Ordinance of February 24, 1862”, the judicial and administrative system in Bavaria was reorganized.

The regional courts can be regarded as forerunners ; one of these was established in 1803 as the (from 1806 royal) "Regional Court Kötzting".

With effect from July 1, 1862, the Kötzting district office was set up as a purely administrative authority, and the previously existing interdependence of the administration of justice and administration in the lower administrative area was lifted. On July 15, 1862, the previous district court was converted into a district office and appointed a district officer first class. The jurisdiction of the regional court (as a judicial authority) was divided between two local courts.

The district of the district office comprised the district courts of Kötzting with 30 communities and Neukirchen b.Hl.Blut with 16 communities. This stock of 46 municipalities was reduced to 44 by the spin-off of Sengenbühl in 1904 and the incorporation of Allmannsdorf in 1963 until the regional reform .

On July 1, 1904, the Sengenbühl community was reclassified from the Kötzting district office to the Cham district office.

The state rule over the municipal associations was abolished by the self-administration law of May 22, 1919, with the result that the state authorities - such as the district office - only had legal supervision over the municipalities. As a result, the districts belonging to the Kötzting district office were merged into the district association. The administration was entrusted to the district committee and the district assembly.

district

The district regulations that came into force on April 1, 1928 survived the National Socialist era without any major changes. However, with the “3. Ordinance on the Rebuilding of the Reich ”of November 28, 1938 determined the renaming of the Bavarian district offices to districts . The change came into effect on January 1, 1939. So the district office became the district of Kötzting. Until the end of the Second World War , the district officials or district administrators were appointed by the state.

District reform

On July 1, 1972, the area of the districts of Kötzting and Waldmünchen and the eastern part of the district of Roding was added to the district of Cham and thus to the administrative district of Upper Palatinate as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . The municipality of Lohberg formed a specialty, which , with the exception of the municipal parts of Chamer Hütte (to Bodenmais ) and Brennes (to Bayerisch Eisenstein ), was only assigned to the district of Cham on May 1, 1978 . Before that, it was incorporated into the district of Regen as part of the regional reform , but the municipality successfully defended itself against it and was finally able to achieve the almost complete reclassification within the framework of a norm review suit before the Bavarian Administrative Court.

Population development

year	Residents	Displaced persons
1810	18,000	-
1840	21,795	-
1864	23,065	-
1885	25,154	-
1910	26,701	-
1933	28,872	-
1939	28,593	-
1946	38,703	12.007
1950	37,169	8,562
1955	33,400	5,276
1960	31,574	3,769
1961	31,695	k. A.
1962	32.202	3,348
1963	32,357	k. A.
1970	32,811	k. A.
1971	33,200	k. A.

Source: Karl B. Krämer: District of Kötzting. 1964, p. 52, 1961 and 1970: census results as well as and.

politics

District officials

The former district judge Carl von Paur became the first district captain . His term of office lasted until 1869. He was followed by:

District Administrator	from	to
Dandl	1869	1879
Möhl	1879	1881
Peringer	1881	1882
Ebner	1882	1892
Baron von Schacky	1892	1898
from Decker	1898	1900
from Körbling	1900	1903
from fox	1903	1912
Germ	1912	1921

The last district administrator and the first district administrator Wolfgang Fiesenig (1935–1944).

Post-war period until the district was dissolved

The first post-war district councilors were appointed provisionally by the US military government :

District Administrator Weiger was appointed in 1945, District Administrator Backmund in 1946.

In 1946 there was the first election of a district administrator after the war. However, this was not elected directly, but by the district council.
After political parties had been allowed again in Bavaria, the first mayoral and municipal council elections took place in the district in January 1946. In the district there was a turnout of 80% of the electorate .
On April 28, 1946, the first post-war district assembly was constituted, which in May 1946 elected the Eschlkamer pastor Josef Pongratz as district administrator in its first meeting.

He was succeeded by District Administrator Scholz from 1948.

With the introduction of the new Bavarian district regulations on February 16, 1952, direct election of the district administrator was determined by the district population.
In the 1952 district council and district council elections , the farmer and businessman Rudolf Nemmer from Miltach was elected district administrator.
In the subsequent elections in 1956, 1960 and 1964 he was confirmed in office.
In the 1970 district election, he lost to Paula Volkholz from the Bavarian Party , who ran for the election in place of her husband Ludwig Volkholz , so that Paula Volkholz was the last district administrator in the Kötzting district until it was dissolved.

coat of arms

“Under the shield head with the Bavarian diamonds split by a silver wave pole; in front a golden bear's trunk in green, behind in green a golden fir tree. "

The content of the national emblem is to be justified as follows: The diamonds indicate the Counts of Bogen who - verifiably since 1204 - used the diamonds as shield and banner symbols. The bear's trunk was included in the coat of arms at the special request of the district committees. It symbolizes the occurrence of these animals in the Kötzting area until the middle of the 19th century. The last bear was shot in 1835. Wave pole and tree are symbols for the landscape. The former indicates the white rain that flows through the district from east to west, with the field color green indicating agriculture. The fir stands as a heraldic symbol for the Bavarian Forest and for forestry.

Communities

Before the start of the regional reform, the Kötzting district comprised 44 municipalities in the 1960s:

The community of Allmannsdorf was incorporated into Eismannsberg on February 1, 1963.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign KÖZ when the vehicle registration number was introduced. It was issued until August 3, 1974. Since July 10, 2013, it has been available again in the Cham district due to the license plate liberalization .

literature

Karl B. Krämer: District of Kötzting. Bavarian forest. District administration, Kötzting 1964.
Commission for Bavarian State History: Historical Atlas of Bavaria - The District Court Kötzting, Altbayern Series I, Issue 5, 1953

Individual evidence

^ Karl B. Krämer: District of Kötzting. 1964, p. 10ff.
^ 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. 612 .
↑ "Ordinance amending the boundaries of the administrative districts" of March 25, 1976, BayGVBl. 1976, p. 111ff.
^ "Law on the new delimitation of the administrative districts" of December 27, 1971, Bay.GVBl. 1971, 494
↑ Judgment of the BayVGH of July 26, 1977, No. 100 V 76
^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964