Office of Liedern-Werth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of the Liedern-Werth office

The office Liedern-Werth was from April 1, 1937 to December 31, 1974 an administrative unit and regional body of local self-government in the old district of Borken , administrative district of Münster .

history

The office was formed on April 1, 1937 when the ( titular ) town of Werth was incorporated into the song office . The Office was songs from the 1844 mayoralty songs emerged and consisted of the eleven communities (formerly rural communities ) Barlo , Biemenhorst , shirts , Herzebocholt , Holtwick , songs , Lowick , Mussum , Spork , Stenern and Suderwick . With the second reorganization program of the municipal reform in North Rhine-Westphalia (Sections 51 and 52 of the Münster / Hamm Act ), the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia divided the twelve municipalities of the Liedern-Werth district into the cities of Isselburg and Bocholt with effect from January 1, 1975 on. Werth and Herzebocholt fell to Isselburg, the rest to Bocholt. In 1966, in the first phase of the regional reform , the Liedern-Werth office opposed the reorganization plans.

In 1939 the office had 10,430 inhabitants, in 1950 12,887. The administrative area of ​​the office, which is predominantly agricultural and naturally located in the Lower Rhine lowlands , extended over 107.71 km². With the municipalities of Suderwick, Spork, Hemden, Sternern and Barlo it bordered on the national territory of the Netherlands , with Suderwick and Herzebocholt on the city of Anholt , with Herzebocholt, Werth and Mussum on the administrative district of Düsseldorf ( Rees district ), with Mussum and Biemenhorst on the Dingden municipality , with Biemenhorst to the municipality of Büngern , with Stenern and Barlo to the municipality of Vardingholt . Biemenhorst, Mussum, Lowick, Holtwick, Hemden and Stenern surrounded the Bocholt district . The administration building (office building) of the Liedern-Werth district was on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse in Bocholt. The legal basis of the public administration of the official area was the official order for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia of March 10, 1953. The administration was led by the official director . The mayor chaired the representative office , the elected decision-making body of the office . Since July 17, 1948, the office has had a golden post windmill above a green mountain on a red field as its coat of arms . The official coat of arms reminds of a mill that was destroyed by a storm in 1941, the "Sporker Bockwindmühle". From April 23, 1949 to August 1, 1963 part of the administrative area, the west of Suderwick, was under the Dutch administration of the municipality of Dinxperlo (→ Dutch annexation plans and occupation of German national territory from 1949 to 1963 ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Rave (among others): The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 45: Borken district . Münster / Westphalia 1954.
  • Jan Nikolas Dicke: Reform and Protest. Conflicts over the reorganization of the Borken district in the 1960s and 1970s . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77859-8 .
  • Gerhard Schmalstieg: Administrative history of the office of songs and the office of songs-Werth . In: Unser Bocholt , 66th year, Bocholt 2015, pp. 70–72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ During the French period (1810–1813) and until the formation of mayorships in 1816: Mairie Liedern in the canton of Bocholt , Arrondissement Rees , Département Lippe , French Empire . - See Mairie Liedern , accessed on the portal wiki-de.genealogy.net on August 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Liedern (Bocholt) , accessed on the portal wiki-de.genealogy.net on August 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Mayor's office , accessed on the wiki-de.genealogy.net portal on August 3, 2015
  4. ↑ Sabine Mecking , Janbernd Oebbecke (ed.): Between efficiency and legitimacy. Municipal territorial and functional reforms in the Federal Republic of Germany from a historical and current perspective . Research on regional history, Volume 62, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-50676-852-0 , p. 91 f.
  5. ↑ Official regulations for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from March 10, 1953 , accessed on the link.springer.com portal on August 2, 2015