Kemnath district

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Kemnath district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 11 ° 53'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Kemnath
Area : 315.52 km 2
Residents: 23,000 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 73 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : KEM
Circle key : 09 3 36
Circle structure: 36 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		8584 Kemnath
Location of the district of Kemnath in Bavaria
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The district of Kemnath belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate . Before the beginning of the regional reform in the early 1970s, the district comprised 36 communities, most of which came to the Tirschenreuth district .

geography

Important places

The most populous communities were Kemnath , Kulmain and Immenreuth .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise to the north, starting with the districts of Wunsiedel , Tirschenreuth , Neustadt an der Waldnaab , Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate and Bayreuth .

history

District Office

The district office of Kemnath was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order of Erbendorf and Kemnath .

On March 22, 1871, the Kemnath District Office ceded the Voithenthan community to the Tirschenreuth District Office.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Kemnath district office ceded the municipalities to the Neustadt an der Waldnaab and Tirschenreuth district offices on January 1, 1880.

On January 1, 1931, other communities were ceded: Altenstadt b. Erbendorf, Bernstein , Burggrub , Erbendorf , Grötschenreuth , Hauxdorf, Krummennaab , Naabdemenreuth , Neuenreuth, Pfaben , Reuth bei Erbendorf , Röthenbach , Siegritz, Thumsenreuth , Trautenberg , Wetzldorf and Wildenreuth to the District Office Neustadt an der Waldnaab , Hohenhard , Friedenfels and Helnhöhe , Friedenfels and Poppenreuth to the Tirschenreuth district office.

district

On January 1, 1939, the uniform designation Landkreis was introduced in the German Reich . So the district office became the district of Kemnath.

In 1946 the community of Schadenreuth was incorporated into Erbendorf in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Kemnath was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria :

On January 1, 1978, the municipality of Hessenreuth was incorporated into Pressath in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district.

Population development

year Residents source
1864 24.202
1885 23,577
1900 22,673
1910 23,757
1925 24,297
1939 16,558
1950 23,175
1960 21,000
1971 23,000

Communities

Before the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform, the district comprised 36 municipalities in the 1960s:

Several poorly populated municipalities were incorporated on January 1, 1946:

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign KEM when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974. Since July 10, 2013 it has been available again in the districts of Bayreuth and Tirschenreuth due to the license plate liberalization .

literature

  • Günther U. Müller (Ed.): Our district of Kemnath. Publishing house Bild + Druck, Munich 1969.
  • Heribert Sturm : Kemnath. Landrichteramt Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Old Bavaria. Issue 40). Laßleben , Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 (reprint. Bodner, Pressath 1991, ISBN 3-926817-03-8 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 537 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 494 .
  3. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB  451478568 , p. 109–110, 115, 116, 126, 127 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digital copy ).
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  5. ^ 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. 646 .
  6. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section II, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  9. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  14. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964