Alzenau district in Lower Franconia

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Alzenau district in Lower Franconia
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Alzenau i. Ufr.
Area : 261.62 km 2
Residents: 54,300 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 208 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : ALZ
Circle key : 09 6 31
Circle structure: 42 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		8755 Alzenau
District Administrator : Karl Lautenschläger ( CSU )
Location of the district of Alzenau in Lower Franconia in Bavaria
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The district of Alzenau in Lower Franconia (short district of Alzenau i.UFr. ) Belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia . District town was Alzenau i.Ufr. The additional designation "in Lower Franconia" was used to demarcate Alzenau in Silesia (now Poland).

geography

location

The district area was in today's Aschaffenburg district and included the entire Kahlgrund (except for Bamberger Mühle ). It reached from the Main in the west to over Eselshöhe to the Aubach in the east. The highest mountain in the Alzenau district was 522  m above sea level. NHN the Schindershöh near Heinrichsthal . Other striking mountains in the former district area are the Franzosenkopf and the Hahnenkamm .

Important places

The largest communities were Kahl am Main , Dettingen am Main , Großwelzheim , Michelbach , Mömbris , Krombach and the markets of Alzenau in Lower Franconia , Hörstein and Schöllkrippen .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Hanau and Gelnhausen (both in Hesse ), Lohr am Main and Aschaffenburg (both in Bavaria) and Offenbach (again in Hesse).

history

District Office

Administrative area of ​​the Alzenau district office around 1875

On July 1, 1862, the administrative regions of formed in 1816 was by merging district court earlier order Alzenau and 1858 incurred District Court Schoellkrippen the district office Alzenau formed. Headquarters was the market Alzenau, who then district chief town was, and again in 1951 received city rights.

district

On January 1, 1939, the uniform imperial designation Landkreis was introduced. So the district office became the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia.

On July 1, 1972, the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia was dissolved in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria and, along with the communities of the dissolved districts of Lohr am Main and Obernburg am Main, it was added to the Aschaffenburg district. When it was dissolved, the district comprised 42 communities. As early as 1966, the merger of the communities Groß- and Kleinblankenbach and the brief incorporation of Königshofen to Schimborn led to a reduction in the number of communities.

Population development

year Residents source
1864 19,127
1885 19,286
1900 21,333
1910 25,668
1925 29,671
1939 32,994
1950 41,963
1960 45,600
1971 54,300

Municipalities with districts

Municipalities with districts in the Alzenau district in 1950.

Map of the Alzenau district around 1950

(Population from 1830 *, 1950 and 1987 **)

Markets :

Other municipalities :

The communities Großblankenbach and Kleinblankenbach were merged on January 20, 1966 to form the community Blankenbach . The communities of Huckelheim , Oberwestern and Unterwestern were merged on January 1, 1972 to form the community of Westerngrund .

politics

District administrators

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided and split above; in front a six-spoke, silver wheel in red; behind three red rafters in gold; below in silver a growing blue crook. "

The coat of arms symbolizes the historical development of the district. It indicates the centuries-long rule between the Archdiocese of Kurmainz (the Mainz wheel ) and the Counts of Hanau (the three rafters ). In the lower half of the shield the spiritual masters are represented (crook). It is reminiscent of the Seligenstadt Abbey and Aschaffenburg Abbey .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing sign ALZ when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until April 28, 1973. Since July 11, 2013, it has been available again in the Aschaffenburg district due to the license plate liberalization .

literature

  • Working group for local research and home care Kahlgrund e. V .: Our bald ground. Homeland yearbook for the former Alzenau district. Vol. 1 ff., 1956 ff., ISSN  0933-1328 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 734 .
  3. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 106 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  5. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
  6. ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
  7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  11. ^ District map of Alzenau: Topographic map 1: 50,000
  12. ↑ a b Places in the former Alzenau district
  13. ↑ State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation and Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing
  14. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1966: Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district . Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328