District of Speyer

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District of Speyer
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '  N , 8 ° 21'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Speyer
Area : 111.55 km 2
Residents: 37,809 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density : 339 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SP
Circle key : 07 3 45
Circle structure: 9 municipalities
Location of the district of Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The district of Speyer was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the district administration was the eponymous city of Speyer , which, however, did not belong to the district itself. Until its dissolution, the Speyer district was the smallest district in Germany in terms of area.

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered clockwise, beginning in the northwest, with the district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (in Rhineland-Palatinate), the district of Mannheim (in Baden-Württemberg ), the independent city of Speyer (in Rhineland-Palatinate), the Bruchsal district (in Baden-Württemberg) and the Germersheim and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse districts (both in turn in Rhineland-Palatinate).

history

The district goes back to the Landkommissariat Speyer and the Bavarian District Office Speyer, which emerged from it in 1862. The Ludwigshafen area initially also belonged to the Speyer district office. In 1886, the northern part of the district office around the city of Ludwigshafen was detached from the Speyer district office and has since formed the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district office

The city of Speyer left the district office on March 1, 1920 and became a city ​​immediately within the district . In 1939, like all Bavarian district offices, the Speyer district office was renamed the district .

After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

In the course of the administrative reform , the district of Speyer was completely integrated into the district of Ludwigshafen on June 7, 1969, which has been called the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis since 2004 .

Population development

date Residents source
1864 31,282
1885 53,646
1900 37,938
1910 43,322
1925 23,761
1933 24,725
1939 25,784
1950 30,026
1960 34,200
1968 37,809

Communities

One city and eight local parishes belonged to the district:

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign SP when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is issued in the independent city of Speyer until today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of 1969, page 26ff.
  2. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  3. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 165 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Speyer district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).