Office Angerland

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Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 6 ° 50'  E
Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1929-1974
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Dusseldorf
Circle :	Düsseldorf-Mettmann
Area :	78.98 km 2
Residents:	32,840 (Dec. 31, 1972)
Population density :	416 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	D.
Office structure:	6 municipalities
Office administration address :	Lintorf (Ratingen)
Mayor :	Wilhelm Droste ( CDU )

The Office Angerland (to 1950 Office Ratingen-country ) was from 1929 to 1974, a regulatory body in the north in 1929, as the newly created district of Dusseldorf-Mettmann in the administrative district of Dusseldorf the Prussian Rhine Province . The office and district became part of the new federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1947 with the dissolution of the Free State of Prussia . It was named after the Angerbach flowing through its area .

history

education

With the Prussian law on municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area was the old on 1 August 1929 bergische , historical Administrative Region Office Angermund dissolved. Its northern parts of Huckingen , Mündelheim , Serm, Ehingen, Rahm , Großenbaum , Wedau , Bissingheim and Buchholz were incorporated into the city of Duisburg.

The new Ratingen-Land office took the place of its southern areas . It consisted of the communities Angermund and Wittlaer (with Kalkum and Bockum ), which today belong to Düsseldorf, as well as the community of Lintorf, which today belongs to the Mettmann district . A resolution of March 7, 1930 expanded the administrative area to include the municipalities of Hösel , Eggerscheidt and Breitscheid, which today also belong to the Mettmann district (excluding Selbeck , but including the Ruhr heights around Landsberg Castle ).

Pre-war period

The first official mayor of Ratingen-Land was the Bonn-born administrative lawyer and central politician Heinrich Hinsen (1885–1956). He was elected for twelve years in the "Reichen" inn in Angermund on October 9, 1930, and was confirmed in office on October 31, 1930 by the Mettmann District Administrator Hans-Joachim Tapolski. He was assisted by elected, honorary councilors. His manageable apparatus of civil servants and employees administered police, passport and registration systems, road, path and hydraulic engineering, medical and veterinary systems as well as elementary schools.

From 1933, the powers were severely curtailed (January 1, 1934: introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933; renaming of the municipalities to cities. November 1, 1934: introduction of the Prussian official regulations of October 8, 1934. April 1, 1935: introduction of the German municipal code of January 30, 1935; renaming of the rural communities to municipalities). Up to April 1, 1934, the mayors of the municipalities carried the official title of “Community Head”, until the end of March 1935 “Community School” and from April 1, 1935 “Mayor”. From 1939 onwards, the deployment of forced laborers and air raids were among the most urgent tasks. The official seat was in the meantime Ratingen (Mülheimer Straße / corner Hauser Allee).

post war period

In 1945, after the Second World War , Heinrich Hinsen, who joined the NSDAP in 1933, was given early retirement by the Allies ( denazification ), although he was permanently in opposition to the Düsseldorf Gestapo, to the Niederberg district leadership and local National Socialists and at the same time closely Contact with Christian opponents of the regime was.

In 1950 the Ratingen-Land office was renamed to Angerland office . At that time it had 18,403 inhabitants. In 1962 there were already 22,550 inhabitants. Especially after the end of the Second World War, the municipalities experienced significant influx from the surrounding cities such as Düsseldorf , Duisburg and Essen . Hösel, Angermund and Wittlaer became the preferred places of residence for high-income sections of the population.

The administrative headquarters had been in Lintorf, the largest municipality of the office, since February 5, 1949, initially in the "Holtschneider restaurant" on Lintorfer Markt, and from 1956 in the newly built Lintorf town hall on Speestrasse.

Hermann Thiele (1945–1956), Heinrich Holtschneider (1956–1960), Johannes Overmans (district director 1960–1974) and, most recently, Wilhelm Droste (1972–1974, as mayor) held office as mayor after Heinrich Hinsen .

resolution

Around 1969 it became known that in the course of the local reorganization ( territorial reform ) in North Rhine-Westphalia a dissolution of the office was planned. Soon afterwards there were efforts from the municipalities to have "Angerstadt" united in a new city instead of being broken up. This proposal, supported by a large majority of the affected population, achieved a relative majority of 95 to 86 votes with 10 abstentions in the second reading in the state parliament vote on June 11, 1974.

For the third reading on July 10, 1974, however, the responsible state parliament committee again proposed the division, whereby Angermund should be incorporated into Duisburg , Breitscheid into Mülheim an der Ruhr , Wittlaer into Düsseldorf and the other municipalities after Ratingen . In the vote, a motion to integrate Breitscheid to Ratingen and Angermund to Düsseldorf received a majority of 101 against 87 votes with 6 abstentions. "Angerstadt" became obsolete and the office of Angerland was dissolved on December 31, 1974 by the Düsseldorf Act, which was finally passed .

On January 1, 1975, Angermund and Wittlaer were incorporated with Kalkum and Bockum in Düsseldorf and the communities Breitscheid, Eggerscheidt, Hösel and Lintorf became part of the newly formed city of Ratingen . Small areas of Breitscheid fell to the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr , peripheral areas from Hösel to Heiligenhaus and some properties from Angermund and Wittlaer to Duisburg and other properties from Angermund to Ratingen. In Duisburg since then also the northern part of the former forms Office Angermund the municipality Duisburg-South , only supplemented by the former Cleves location Wanheim-Angerhausen. The city of Ratingen is the legal successor to the Angerland office.

Trivia

The Angerland office can still be found under his name on Google Maps.

structure

Postcode	local community	surface	Population (December 31, 1972)	today too
4034	Angermund	9.47 km²	4.124	Dusseldorf
4035	Breitscheid	16.65 km²	3,730	Ratingen
4030	Eggerscheidt	4.30 km²	927	Ratingen
4033	Hösel	8.67 km²	6.212	Ratingen
4032	Lintorf	15.85 km²	12,186	Ratingen
4000	Wittlaer	24.04 km²	5,661	Dusseldorf

Infrastructure

In the 1930s the Autobahn 3 was built by the Angerland office. In the 1960s, the later (from January 1, 1975 this was called) A52 with the Breitscheid motorway junction was built

In 1967, the line between Ratingen-Ost and Essen became the first S-Bahn connection in North Rhine-Westphalia, today S-Bahn line 6 (Rhine-Ruhr) . It was built in the course of the Düsseldorf – Ratingen – Essen and Düsseldorf – Duisburg routes at the end of the 19th century in the previous Angermund office .

The opening of Düsseldorf Airport on April 19, 1927 also fell during the time of the Angermund office , which is largely located in Düsseldorf, but partly also in the Kalkums and Ratingen areas and thus the Angermund office at that time.

See also

• Angerland comparison
• District of Düsseldorf-Mettmann

literature

• Vasen, J .: The Angerland Office . In: Die Quecke - Angerländer Heimatblätter . No. 26/27 , 1956, pp. 4th ff .
• Wisotzky, Klaus: The Mittelstadt is still a real home for the residents - on the communal reorganization of 1929/30 . In: Die Quecke - Angerländer Heimatblätter . No. 63 , 1993, pp. 93 f .
• Hantsche, Irmgard: Atlas for the history of the Lower Rhine . 5th, revised. Edition. Bottrop 2004.
• District Mettmann (Hrsg.): History of the district Mettmann . edit by Ulrich Rauchbichler. Mettmann 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Amendment. (PDF) Deputies Droste et al., Printed matter 7/3923 (PDF). State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , June 11, 1974, accessed on February 27, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia , 7th electoral period, plenary minutes 7/105, p. 4279
3. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia , printed matter 7/3980, pp. 5, 15, 16, 18, 19
4. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia , 7th electoral period, plenary protocol 7/107, p. 4412 f.
5. ↑ Section 10 (1) of the Düsseldorf Act
6. ↑ Section 13 (1) of the Düsseldorf Act
7. ↑ Sections 11, 13 Paragraph 2 No. 1 and Paragraph 4, Section 14 No. 1 of the Düsseldorf Act .
8. ↑ Section 13 (3) of the Düsseldorf Act .
9. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia , printed matter 7/3700, pp. 37, 46, 51, 54