Niedermarsberg office

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 52'  E
Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1841-1974
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg
Circle :	Brilon
Area :	107.41 km 2
Residents:	17,355 (1966)
Population density :	162 inhabitants per km 2
Office structure:	12 municipalities

The office Niedermarsberg was an office in the district of Brilon , Sauerland , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The office was founded around 1841. In a text on the history of Padberg it says: "In 1841 Padberg becomes a municipality in the new Niedermarsberg office". The name of the office comes from the village of Niedermarsberg.

In 1864 it had 7222 inhabitants. In 1966 it had 17,355 inhabitants with an unchanged area of ​​107.41 km². In addition to the town of Niedermarsberg, it included the towns of Helminghausen, Padberg, Beringhausen, Bredelar, Giershagen, Borntosten, Leitmar, Heddinghausen, Canstein , Udorf and Erlinghausen. Obermarsberg did not belong to the office.

The office existed until December 31, 1974. At the turn of the year after 1975, the so-called Sauerland-Paderborn law came into force. There it says in paragraph 13 paragraph 3: “The office of Niedermarsberg is to be dissolved. The legal successor is the city of Marsberg. "

coat of arms

Blazon Divided diagonally by silver and gold by a blue cloud section; above a gold-crowned raven, below a double-row blue-silver inclined beam. description The coat of arms is composed of the individual coats of arms of the Lords of Padberg (the cloud-cut beam), the family of the ravens from Papenheim zu Canstein (the raven) and the family von Horhusen (the chess beam). Official approval took place on March 4, 1937.

swell

1. ↑ Padberg story
2. ↑ Statistical survey for the district of Brilon. Düsseldorf 1967, pp. 11-16.
3. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Arnsberg 1986, p. 171 ISBN 3-87793-017-4