District of Wertingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ' N , 10 ° 41' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Swabia | |
| Administrative headquarters : | Wertingen | |
| Area : | 364.41 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 33,700 (May 27, 1970) | |
| Population density : | 92 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | WHO | |
| Circle key : | 09 7 49 | |
| Circle structure: | 53 municipalities | |
| District Administrator : | Anton Rauch | |
| Location of the district of Wertingen in Bavaria | ||
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The district of Wertingen belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . Before the start of the regional reform in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1970s, the district comprised 53 municipalities. Its former area is now in the districts of Augsburg and Dillingen on the Danube .
geography
Important places
The most populous communities were Meitingen , Wertingen , Biberbach and Buttenwiesen .
Neighboring areas
Starting in 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the north on the districts of Donauwörth , Neuburg an der Donau , Aichach , Augsburg and Dillingen an der Donau .
history
District Office
The Wertingen district office followed the district court of the older order of Wertingen in the same area in 1862 .
On March 20, 1871, the Wertingen District Office ceded the Druisheim community to the Donauwörth District Office .
On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Wertingen district office received the Riedsend municipality from the Dillingen district office on January 1, 1880, with the Nordendorf municipality ceding to the Donauwörth district office at the same time .
On January 1, 1910, the Donauwörth district office ceded the Lauterbach community to the Wertingen district office.
On October 1, 1929, the communities of Altenmünster , Baiershofen , Eppishofen , Hennhofen , Neumünster , Unterschöneberg and Wörleschwang of the dissolved district office of Zusmarshausen were incorporated into the district office of Wertingen.
district
On January 1, 1939, the uniform designation Landkreis was introduced in the German Reich . This is how the district office became the district of Wertingen.
On July 1, 1972, the district of Wertingen was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . 28 municipalities were added to the Augsburg-West district , from May 1, 1973, Augsburg district. The city of Wertingen and 24 other communities were assigned to the district of Dillingen an der Donau together with the previously independent city of Dillingen an der Donau .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1864 | 18,099 | |
| 1885 | 18,818 | |
| 1900 | 18,235 | |
| 1910 | 20,292 | |
| 1925 | 20,447 | |
| 1939 | 22,318 | |
| 1950 | 36,322 | |
| 1960 | 31,300 | |
| 1971 | 34,300 |
politics
List of district officials (until 1939) or district administrators
| Surname | Term of office |
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| Konrad Vanderome | 1862-1874 |
| Franz Xaver Edlhard | 1874-1883 |
| Ludwig Lutzenberger | 1883-1905 |
| Josef Frank | 1905-1925 |
| Hugo Peckert | 1925-1927 |
| Ernst Schmitt | 1927-1932 |
| Ludwig Pollak | 1932-1945 |
| Heinrich Buschlinger | 1945-1946 |
| Karl Kocher | 1946-1948 |
| Anton Rauch | 1948-1972 |
Communities
The 53 communities in the Wertingen district before the community reform. The churches that still exist today are in bold .
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive symbol WER when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until June 30, 1972. Since July 10, 2013, it has been available again in the district of Dillingen an der Donau and since March 1, 2017 also in the district of Augsburg due to the license plate liberalization .
literature
- Hans Jakob Wörner : Former district of Wertingen, (brief inventory) (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 33, ISSN 0522-5264 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1973.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 593 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ 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. 786 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
- ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ^ The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present, Dillingen 2005
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Wertingen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 4, 2010)
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1939–1945 affiliated districts: Bergreichenstein | Eisenstein market | Prachatitz