District of Memmingen

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Coat of arms of the district of Memmingen
District of Memmingen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '  N , 10 ° 11'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
Administrative headquarters : Memmingen
Area : 564.21 km 2
Residents: 52,402 (May 27, 1970)
Population density : 93 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : MM
Circle key : 09 7 42
Circle structure: 55 parishes
Location of the district of Memmingen in Bavaria
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The district of Memmingen was part of the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . The seat and namesake of the district was the independent city of Memmingen , which only belonged to the district from 1940 to 1948. Before the start of the regional reform in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1970s, the district comprised 55 municipalities.

geography

Important places

The largest towns were Grönenbach , Buxheim and Legau .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the districts of Illertissen , Mindelheim , Marktoberdorf and Kempten (Allgäu) (all in Bavaria) and the districts of Wangen and Biberach (both in Baden-Württemberg ). The independent city of Memmingen was an enclave in the west of the district.

history

Regional courts

In 1804, the Grönenbach and Ottobeuren regional courts were formed, and the Memmingen city court four years later. The city of Memmingen became a district immediate in 1809 .

District Office

The district office of Memmingen was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order of Grönenbach and Ottobeuren. On October 1, 1865, some communities in the Memmingen district office were added to the Mindelheim district office.

district

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . So the district office became the district of Memmingen.

On April 1, 1940, the independent city of Memmingen was incorporated into the Memmingen district, but this was reversed on April 1, 1948.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Memmingen was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . Its communities Amendingen and Buxach were incorporated into the independent city of Memmingen. All other municipalities were with one exception, all the churches of the old district of Mindelheim, 13 municipalities of the district Illertissen, municipalities Hasberg and Tiefenried the district Krumbach (Schwaben) and the local loops of the district Kaufbeuren to a new district Mindelheim together. On May 1, 1973, the new district was given its current name, Landkreis Unterallgäu .

Population development

year Residents source
1864 31,331
1885 28,433
1900 30,070
1910 32,453
1925 35.107
1939 51,658
1950 52,433
1960 47,700
1971 53,400

politics

The coat of arms of the former district of Memmingen

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on March 13, 1969.

Blazon : “Split between gold and red; in front two blue diagonal waves, behind at the gap a left-turned half silver eagle. "

The two wave beams symbolize the two rivers Iller and Günz , the eagle is taken from the coat of arms of the Ottobeuren monastery . It is said to refer to the sovereignty of the Ottobeuren abbey in the eastern part of the former district.

The design of the coat of arms comes from the monastery archivist and district home administrator Aegidius Kolb and the design was done by Rudolf Mussgnug from Nördlingen.

Communities

The district of Memmingen before the regional reform in 1972; All places that give the municipality their name are shown; all municipalities not labeled in bold were dissolved in the course of the regional reform;

In the case of the parishes that were dissolved, it is noted in brackets to which parish the place belongs today. The churches that still exist today are in bold .

Markets

Other communities

Unregulated areas

  • Eggerwald
  • Wood forest
  • Ungerhauser Wald (3.26 km²; still exists today)

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive MM symbol when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is only issued in the city of Memmingen until today. It was issued in the Unterallgäu district until August 3, 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 520 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  6. ^ 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. 781 .
  7. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  9. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  10. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  14. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  15. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Former district of Memmingen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  16. ↑ Page on the former Memmingen district at gemeindeververzeichnis.de - accessed on February 28, 2010

literature

  • Maximilian Dietrich (ed.): The district of Memmingen. Landscape, history, culture, economy. Dietrich, Memmingen 1971, ISBN 3-87164-059-X .