Arrondissement of Wissembourg

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The Arrondissement Wissembourg was an administrative district in the Bas-Rhin department in the French region of Alsace with 68,299 inhabitants last (as of January 1, 2012) on an area of ​​598 km². With the dissolution of the arrondissement, the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg was created on January 1st, 2015 . The seat of the sub-prefecture was Wissembourg , the last sub-prefect was Magali Daverton (2008 to 2014).

history

On March 4, 1790, with the establishment of the Département Bas-Rhin, a "District Wissembourg" was founded, which essentially coincided with the later Arrondissement Wissembourg. With the founding of the arrondissements on February 17, 1800, the district was transferred to the new arrondissement Wissembourg. Since May 18, 1871, the name of the area was the district of Weißenburg in the district of Lower Alsace in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . At that time the district covered 603 km² and in 1885 had 58,270 inhabitants. District director at this time was Joseph von Stichaner from February 1, 1872 to November 1886 . The arrondissement revived in the course of the reintegration of Alsace into France on June 28, 1919 ( Treaty of Versailles ). On January 1, 2015, the Haguenau and Wissembourg arrondissements were merged to form the new Haguenau-Wissembourg arrondissement .

geography

The arrondissement bordered in the north on Germany with the former administrative district Rheinhessen-Pfalz , in the east also on Germany with the administrative district Karlsruhe and in the south and west on the arrondissement Haguenau .

Map of the arrondissement of Wissembourg with its administrative structure and location in the Bas-Rhin department

There were five constituencies in the arrondissement:

Communities

A total of 68 municipalities belonged to the Arrondissement of Wissembourg, the largest municipality of the Arrondissement was Wissembourg in 2012 with 7757 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree No. 2014-1722 of the French Ministry of the Interior dissolving the arrondissements of Strasbourg-Campagne and Wissembourg and reallocating communes in the arrondissement of Saverne in the Bas-Rhin department