District of Krefeld

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The district Krefeld until 1872 Kreis Krefeld , one was until 1929 the district in the administrative district of Dusseldorf the Prussian Rhine Province . The seat of the district was Krefeld , even after the city was spun off from the district in 1872 and formed its own urban district. In 1925 the district of Krefeld had 46,722 inhabitants.

Administrative history

The circle in 1816 Krefeld substantially from the region of the French period furnished cantons formed Krefeld and Uerdingen. The district area was initially divided into the thirteen mayor offices of Bockum, Fischeln, Friemersheim, Krefeld, Langst, Lank, Linn, Neersen, Osterath, Strümp, Süchteln, Uerdingen and Willich.

The mayor's office in Süchteln moved to the Kempen district in 1818 . The mayor's office Neersen was reclassified to the Gladbach district in 1819 ; at the same time, the mayor's office in Klein-Kempen moved from the Gladbach district to the Krefeld district. It was renamed the mayor's office in Anrath in 1840 . The mayor's offices Langst and Strümp were incorporated into the mayor's office in Lank in 1842. In 1845, the municipal code for the Rhine Province gave all places that had their own households the status of a municipality. Krefeld and Uerdingen, the two towns in the district, have been subject to the Rhenish Town Code since 1856 . The circle was then structured as follows:

Mayorry cities and communes
Anrath Anrath
Friemersheim Bliersheim , Friemersheim , Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen , Rumeln
Bockum Bockum , Oppum , Rath-Vennikel , Verberg
Krefeld Krefeld (city)
Linn Linn
Fishing Fishing
Uerdingen Uerdingen (city)
Lank Gellep-Stratum , Ilverich , Langst-Kierst , Lank , Latum , Nierst , Ossum-Bösinghoven , Strümp
Osterath Osterath
I want to I want to

The following changes were made to the administrative structure:

  • The mayor's office in Friemersheim was given to the district of Moers in 1857 .
  • The city of Krefeld left the district in 1872 and formed its own urban district. Since then, the district has been known as the District of Krefeld .
  • The municipality of Rath-Vennikel was renamed Traar in 1886 .
  • Linn was incorporated into the city of Krefeld on August 3, 1901.
  • Bockum and Verberg were merged in 1902 to form the municipality of Bockum-Verberg .
  • Bockum-Verberg and Oppum were incorporated into the city of Krefeld on October 15, 1907. At the same time, the municipality of Traar was raised to its own mayor's office.
  • Lank and Latum were merged on April 1, 1910 to form the municipality of Lank-Latum .
  • Hohenbudberg , part of the municipality of Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen in the Moers district, was incorporated into the city of Uerdingen in 1927

With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of August 1, 1929, the district of Krefeld was dissolved. Fischeln, Gellep-Stratum, Traar and part of Benrad were incorporated into the city of Krefeld. The southern part of Kaldenhausen (Hagschinkel) was incorporated into the city of Uerdingen. At the same time, the two cities were united to the city ​​of Krefeld-Uerdingen on the Rhine . All other communities came to the new district of Kempen-Krefeld .

The name Kreis Krefeld still exists in some sports leagues today.

Population development

Note: The municipalities are not arranged alphabetically, but according to their affiliation to the mayorships of that time and today's municipalities; in addition, after leaving the district, the earlier a community has left the district, the higher up it is.

local community Mayor's office (1857) to the city today 1815/16 1832 1867 1885 1895 1910
Bliersheim Friemersheim Duisburg 187 157 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Friemersheim Friemersheim Duisburg 471 492 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen Friemersheim Duisburg 631 717 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Rumbling Friemersheim Duisburg 501 535 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1
Krefeld Krefeld Krefeld 13.199 2 19,040 2 53,945 - 1 - 1 - 1
Linn Linn Krefeld 874 956 1,292 1,449 1,760 - 1
Bockum Bockum Krefeld 708 904 1,907 2,826 4,802 - 1
Oppum Bockum Krefeld 332 422 623 1,064 2,065 - 1
Concealment Bockum Krefeld 404 553 794 862 917 - 1
Rath-Vennickel / Traar 3 Bockum Krefeld 901 1,064 1,487 1,593 1,645 2.010
Fishing Fishing Krefeld 1,200 1,493 3,980 6,072 6,509 9,017
Uerdingen Uerdingen Krefeld 1,906 4 2,218 4 3.116 3,923 5,238 9,757
Gellep stratum Lank Krefeld 375 427 511 529 595 856
Ilverich Lank Meerbusch 257 275 369 341 308 300
Langst-Kierst Lank Meerbusch 353 366 353 343 343 372
Lank Lank Meerbusch 550 709 778 795 809 2,361 5
Latum Lank Meerbusch 587 753 736 757 784
Kidney Lank Meerbusch 291 328 379 344 326 367
Ossum-Bösinghoven Lank Meerbusch 290 378 503 465 438 609
Stocking Lank Meerbusch 426 481 499 514 519 655
Osterath Osterath Meerbusch 1,217 1,480 2,104 2,418 2,620 3,756
Anrath 6 Anrath I want to 1,788 2,056 3,695 4,071 3,420 4,970
I want to I want to I want to 2,253 2,382 4,275 5,426 5,345 6,485
total 29,701 38.186 81,346 33,792 38,443 41,515

1 : no longer belongs to the Krefeld district
2 : Krefeld mayor's office. City of Krefeld: 1815/16 9,839 Ew., 1832 15,015 Ew.
3 : until 1886 Rath-Vennickel; 1815/16 Rath 352 Ew., Vennickel 549 Ew .; 1832 Rath 393 Ew., Vennickel 671 Ew.
4 : Mayor's office Uerdingen. City of Uerdingen: 1815/16 1,844 Ew., 1832 2,146 Ew.
5 : Municipality of Lank-Latum
6 : called Kleinkempen until 1840

geography

The Krefeld district was on the left bank of the Rhine . Around 1900 it bordered the Moers district in the north, the Düsseldorf district in the east, the Neuss district in the south, the Gladbach district in the southwest and the Kempen district in the west . The urban district of Krefeld was within the district boundaries. The former district area now belongs to the cities of Krefeld , Duisburg , Willich ( Viersen district ) and Meerbusch ( Neuss district ).

The following table shows the area of ​​the mayor's offices in the district in 1867.

Mayorry surface
Anrath 753.93 ha
Bockum 3544.24 ha
Fishing 1601.34 ha
Krefeld (city) 2074.41 ha
Lank 4,458.66 ha
Linn 701.18 ha
Osterath 1207.59 ha
I want to 3692.94 ha
Uerdingen (city) 562.06 ha
total 18596.35 ha

District administrators

District Administrator Karl Limbourg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. /krefeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1816, p. 13
  3. ^ Territorial.de: Krefeld district
  4. ↑ GenWiki: Amt Lank
  5. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, §1
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  7. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1857
  8. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1886
  9. ↑ krefeld-traar.de