Driburg Office

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Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 9 ° 1'  E
Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period:	1843-1969
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Höxter
Residents:	3180 (Dec. 31, 1967)
Office structure:	6 municipalities

The Driburg Office was an office in the East Westphalian district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia that existed until 1969 .

Organization and population

The office was divided into the six communities Alhausen , Erpentrup , Herste , Langeland , Pömbsen and Reelsen , none of which had city rights. The administrative seat was the city of Bad Driburg , which itself did not belong to the office.

In the last census before the dissolution of the office on May 6, 1961, the municipalities of the office had a resident population of 3,012. According to the extrapolation of the census results, this number rose to 3180 inhabitants by the end of 1967. With an area of ​​45.77 km², there is an average population density of 69 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is far below the district average of 140 inhabitants per square kilometer. This made the office the second smallest in the district and at the same time the one with the lowest population density. The following overview shows the six municipalities with their population and territorial status as of December 31, 1967:

Surname	Residents	Area in km²
Alhausen	572	7.56
Erpentrup	191	4.91
Herste	712	8.48
Langeland	260	3.70
Pömbsen	791	13.60
Reelsen	654	7.52
Driburg Office	3180	45.77

geography

The Driburg office was in the southwest of the Höxter district. The offices of Nieheim and Brakel (district of Höxter), the district of Warburg , the city of Bad Driburg (district of Höxter), the district of Paderborn and the municipality of Grevenhagen , which formed an exclave of the district of Detmold , bordered the office in a clockwise direction .

history

The Driburg office was established in 1843 as part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia . On the basis of an area change agreement of December 14, 1968 and Section 4 of the “Law on the Reorganization of the District of Höxter” of December 2, 1969, which also confirms the area change agreement in Section 8 (4), the city of Bad Driburg and the municipalities of the office joined forces January 1, 1970 together to form the new town of Bad Driburg. The Driburg office was dissolved. The legal successor is the city of Bad Driburg.

Web links

• Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district of December 2, 1969

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
2. ^ Official Journal of the Minden Government 1843: Formation of the Driburg Office. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .