Office Lank

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Coat of arms of the Lank office
Office Lank
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 6 ° 41'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period: 1927-1969
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Circle : Kempen-Krefeld
Area : 39.8 km 2
Residents: Template: Infobox administrative unit in Germany / maintenance / no information for residents
Population density :
Office structure: 6 municipalities
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The Lank office was an office in the Kempen-Krefeld district on the left Lower Rhine in the Düsseldorf administrative district until 1969 . Until 1927 it was formed by the Lank mayor in the Krefeld district .

Administrative history

In the districts of the Prussian Rhine Province that were newly formed in 1816 , the Mairien , founded in the French era , were retained as mayor's offices. In the Krefeld district these were among others

  • the mayor's office of Langst with the villages of Gellep, Kierst, Langst and Stratum
  • the mayor's office Lank with the villages Lank, Latum and Ilverich
  • the mayor's office Strümp with the villages of Bösinghoven, Ossum and Strümp.

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. Eight municipalities were formed in the unified Lank mayor:

The two communities Lank and Latum were merged on April 1, 1910 to form the community Lank-Latum . Since 1927, the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province were designated as an office . When the district of Krefeld was dissolved in 1929, Gellep-Stratum left the Lank office and was incorporated into the independent city of Krefeld-Uerdingen . The Lank office has belonged to the Kempen-Krefeld district since then.

The Lank office was dissolved on January 1, 1970 by the law on the reorganization of the Kempen-Krefeld district and the independent city of Viersen . All municipalities of the office went together with Osterath and Büderich in the new city of Meerbusch , which today belongs to the Rhine district of Neuss .

coat of arms

From August 30, 1952, until its dissolution in 1970, the Lank Office had the following coat of arms: The coat of arms shows under a silver shield head, in it a continuous black cross, in a gold field the figure of Saint Stephen with a golden halo and a red dalmatica decorated with gold On the right a green palm frond , in the left a black stone. The saint is accompanied on the right by three bunches of silver asparagus placed two to one and on the left by three red strawberries placed two to one with green stems. The black cross indicates the historical affiliation of the administrative area to the Electorate of Cologne . St. Stephen represents the patron saint of the parish church in Lank. Asparagus and strawberries are among the main products of local agriculture; the number of six is ​​aimed at the number of municipalities belonging to the office.

literature

  1. Adult Education Center Meerbusch: Home Meerbusch. Meerbusch 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 129 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  2. ↑ GenWiki: Amt Lank
  3. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, §1
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  5. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Krefeld