Rüstringen (city)
Rüstringen was a town in the state of Oldenburg from 1911 to 1937 . It emerged from the Oldenburg communities of Bant , Heppens and Neuende, which are adjacent to the city of Wilhelmshaven . These three communities had already formed the Oldenburg office of Rüstringen between 1902 and 1911 .
history
As part of the port construction measures in Wilhelmshaven operated by the Prussian state, the population of Wilhelmshaven and the surrounding Oldenburg communities of Bant, Heppens and Neuende rose sharply. In the Oldenburg communities belonging to the Jever district, the housing and social conditions in the remaining agricultural district were completely different due to the progressive urban development. Therefore, on November 1, 1902, the three municipalities were spun off from the Jever office and merged into a separate office, which was named after the old Frisian Gau Rüstringen . The request to found an independent city was initially rejected because the government of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg feared that it would lose its influence on the composition of the city administration. In this way the possible formation of a social democratically run city administration with its own police administration by the predominantly social democratically oriented workers in the communities was to be prevented.
The status of rural communities in the Rüstringen office did not end for the three communities Bant, Heppens and Neuende until May 1, 1911, when they were merged into the town of Rüstringen. With around 48,000 inhabitants, Rüstringen was the largest city in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and therefore also larger than the royal seat of Oldenburg .
By the Greater Hamburg Law of 1937, the Prussian Wilhelmshaven and the Oldenburg town of Rüstringen were united on April 1, 1937 to form the new, now Oldenburg town of Wilhelmshaven.
| Tabular representation of the development of Wilhelmshaven | ||||||
| year | Wilhelmshaven | Heppens | New end | Bant | Sengwarden | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1869 | Naming of Wilhelmshaven |
Heppens | New end 1 | - | Sengwarden | |
| 1873 | Wilhelmshaven becomes a city |
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| 1879 | Wilhelmshaven | Creation of Bant |
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| 1902 | Merger to form the city of Rüstringen | |||||
| 1937 | Association for the new city of Wilhelmshaven | |||||
| 1938 | Parts of the municipality of Kniphausen zu Wilhelmshaven | |||||
| 1948 | Wilhelmshaven |
Fedderwarden to Sengwarden |
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| 1972 | Sengwarden to Wilhelmshaven | |||||
1 community of Neuende with the village of Rüstersiel
coat of arms
With the unification of the communities of Bant, Heppens and Neuende on May 1, 1911 to form the town of Rüstringen, separate emblems were required. On July 3, 1911, the "Rüstringer Friese" became the symbol of the town of Rüstringen based on a design by Georg Sello . He derived his design of the Frisian with spear and shield from the medieval seal image of the Rüstringer country. When the cities of Wilhelmshaven and Rüstringen were united to form the city of Wilhelmshaven on April 1, 1937, the coat of arms of the city of Rüstringen was abandoned. However, in 1948 Wilhelmshaven introduced a very similar Rüstringer Frisian with a spear and shield as the new city coat of arms.
sons and daughters of the town
- Hugo Henke (1888–1945), politician (KPD), member of the state parliament
- Wilhelm Wiebens (1906–1990), SS-Obersturmbannführer and convicted war criminal
- Hermann Behrends (1907–1948), SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police and convicted war criminal
- Hans Hartmann (1909–2000), Celtologist and university professor
- Hans Janßen (1918–2001), politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament and Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven
- Helmut Heißenbüttel (* 1921 in Rüstringen; † 1996), writer, critic and essayist
literature
- Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987
- Georg Sello: The territorial development of the Duchy of Oldenburg . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1917
- Martin Wein: City against its will. Municipal development in Wilhelmshaven / Rüstringen 1853–1937 . Tectum, Marburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8288-9201-9