Waltrop Office

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E
Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1844-1974
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Muenster
Circle :	Recklinghausen
Residents:
Office structure:	3 municipalities

The Waltrop office was an office in the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia until 1974 .

history

As part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia , the Waltrop Office was founded in the Recklinghausen district in 1844 . The office included the three communities Henrichenburg , Horneburg and Waltrop . The office was initially administered by a common bailiff with the neighboring Datteln office, before the two offices were finally separated in 1857.

The municipality of Waltrop received town charter in 1939.

The Waltrop Office was dissolved by the Ruhr Area Act on January 1, 1975:

• Henrichenburg was incorporated into the town of Castrop-Rauxel , which at the same time became part of the Recklinghausen district.
• Horneburg was incorporated into the city of Datteln .
• The boundaries of the city of Waltrop remained unchanged.

The legal successor to the Waltrop office is the city of Waltrop.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided into black and silver (white); above a fallen, shortened curly golden (yellow) tip and below a continuous black cross. "

Crest Reason: The 1937 approved by the Provincial President of the Prussian province of Westphalia coat of arms shows above the coat of arms of the Lords of Goy, the great 15th and 16th century influence in Waltrop had and down the Electorate of Cologne cross, as a symbol of belonging to the Vest Recklinghausen which to Bull Pius VII. "De salute animarum" belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne, after which it was incorporated into the Monastery of Münster .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the Waltrop Office
2. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1857: Separation of the administration of the offices Datteln and Waltrop
3. ^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .