District Office Berneck

Basic data
Administrative district	Upper Franconia
Administrative headquarters	Berneck
surface	211.52 km²
Residents	15,932 (1925)
Population density	75 inhabitants / km² (1925)

The Berneck District Office was an administrative district in the Upper Franconia administrative district in Bavaria from 1862 to 1929 . The Bavarian district offices were comparable to a district in terms of their function and size as lower state administrative authorities .

history

The Berneck District Office was formed as part of the Bavarian administrative reform of 1862 . The seat of the district office was in Berneck , which is now called Bad Berneck in the Fichtelgebirge and belongs to the Bayreuth district. On October 1, 1929, the district office was dissolved:

• The communities Bärnreuth, Berneck , Bischofsgrün , Brandholz, Escherlich , Gefrees , Goldkronach , Goldmühl , Leisau, Lützenreuth , Metzlersreuth , Nemmersdorf, Neudorf, Rimlas and Wülfersreuth came to the district office of Bayreuth . Gefrees, Lützenreuth and Metzlersreuth moved from these communities to the Münchberg district office on July 1, 1931 .
• The communities of Gössenreuth, Himmelkron , Lanzendorf , Marktschorgast , Wasserknoden and Ziegenburg came to the district office of Kulmbach .
• The municipalities of Falls, Kornbach, Streitau , Walpenreuth, Witzleshofen and Zettlitz came to the Münchberg district office .

Population development

year	1864	1880	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	15,954	16,282	15.306	15.123	15,792	15,932

Population of the municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Berneck	1948
Bischofsgrün	1857
Gefrees	1583
Sky crown	1123

Communities

Bärnreuth Berneck , city Bischofsgrün Firewood Escherish If Gefrees , town Goldkronach , city Gold mill Gössenreuth

Greenstone Sky crown Kornbach Lanzendorf Leisau Lützenreuth Marktschorgast Metzlersreuth Nemmersdorf Neudorf

Rimlas Streitau Walpenreuth Water balls Witzleshofen Wülfersreuth Wundenbach Zettlitz Goat castle

The municipality of Wundenbach was incorporated into the city of Gefrees on April 1, 1926; on April 1, 1927 also the community of Grünstein.

District officials

• 1904–1910: Adolf Ufer

literature

• Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts. 1799-1980. Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on July 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Announcement on the dissolution of the Berneck District Office from September 21, 1929
3. ^ Amendment to the notice on the dissolution of the Berneck District Office from October 18, 1929
4. ^ City history Gefrees on fichtelgebirge.Bayern-online.de
5. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bay_bayreuth.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).