Arnsberg administrative district

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Basic data
Administrative headquarters : Arnsberg
Surface: 8,012.41  km²
Residents: 3,580,568 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 447 inhabitants per km²
District structure: 78 municipalities
in 7 districts and
5 independent cities
Regional Council
District President : Hans-Josef Vogel ( CDU )
Address of the regional council: Seibertzstrasse 1
59821 Arnsberg
Website: www.bezreg-arnsberg.nrw.de
Location of the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The administrative district of Arnsberg is one of five administrative districts in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The administrative district of Arnsberg is located in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia . In its northwestern area, with the five large cities of Bochum , Dortmund , Hagen , Hamm and Herne, it covers a substantial part of the densely populated Ruhr area . In contrast, the eastern and southern areas have a lower population density and rather small-scale settlement.

In terms of landscape, both the mountainous regions of South Westphalia and the southern areas of the Westphalian Bay, including the middle section of the lip lowlands and the Hellwegbörden, belong to the administrative district.

Neighboring Districts and Countries

The administrative district borders in the north on the administrative districts of Münster and Detmold , in the east on the state of Hesse , in the south on the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and in the west on the administrative districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf .

history

Emergence

The history of the administrative district goes back to the Prussian "Ordinance on the Improved Establishment of Provincial Authorities" of April 30, 1815 . As part of the Prussian reforms , Prussia's administration was reorganized after the Congress of Vienna and initially divided into ten provinces , each with two or more administrative districts, which were to be subdivided into several districts. One of the newly formed provinces was the province of Westphalia . The division of the province of Westphalia and the formation of the administrative districts of Münster , Minden and Arnsberg was announced on July 25, 1816. The administrative seat of Hamm , the seat of the Märkische War and Domainkammer in the pre-Napoleonic era and the main town of the County of Mark since 1226 , was given up and the new authority relocated to Arnsberg due to the election of the Chief President Ludwig von Vincke . The Hamm location, originally planned in 1815, instead became the seat of the Royal Westphalian Higher Regional Court , today's Hamm Higher Regional Court . The cause was, on the one hand, the will of the government to bind the Catholic population of the former Duchy of Westphalia ( Sauerland ) more closely to the predominantly Protestant Prussian state, and on the other hand, the goal of developing the region more economically.

Like the other district governments in the province of Westphalia, the new government in Arnsberg formally began its work on August 1, 1816.

Further development

One of the central challenges for the regional presidents in Arnsberg in the 19th and early 20th centuries was the state support for the industrialization process, especially in the eastern Ruhr area . In this context, a reallocation of the districts and the creation of urban districts in the metropolitan areas became necessary during the German Empire and then again in the late 1920s. The communal reforms of the 1960s and 1970s also resulted in the amalgamation of various smaller units to form larger circles.

The seat of the district government in the city of Arnsberg was always controversial. At the latest with the rise of the Ruhr area to a central industrial landscape, efforts to relocate the location to the Ruhr area or to found a new administrative district of the Ruhr increased.

The district governments in North Rhine-Westphalia were only called into question under the Rüttger government . In the coalition agreement of 2005 between the CDU and FDP , the dissolution of the district governments was agreed. However, this project was not to be implemented until 2012. The government under Jürgen Rüttgers later withdrew from these plans, even after protests from its own ranks. In the coalition agreement of the red-green government under Hannelore Kraft and Sylvia Löhrmann , the preservation of all government districts is expressly agreed.

In 2016, the authority had its history processed during the Nazi era . A multi-stage process of adaptation to the new political conditions emerged. The district government was not just an executive authority. Against the background of the need to present themselves as politically reliable to the municipalities dominated by the National Socialists and to assert themselves against the Gau Westfalen-Süd , some departments showed their own initiative.

Population development

The following overview shows the population of the administrative district of Arnsberg according to the respective territorial status. The figures are census results up to 1970 and official updates from the State Statistical Office from 1975 onwards . The figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 are estimated values, the figures from 1987 onwards based on the results of the 1987 census. The figures for 1837 relate to the “civilian population”, from 1861 to the “local population”, from 1925 to the resident population and from 1987 on the “population at the place of the main residence”.

year Residents
1819 0.388.456
1837 0. 502.810
1861 (December 3) 0.703.523
1867 (December 3) 0.791.361
1871 (December 1) 0.865.815
1880 (December 1) 1,068,141
1885 (December 1) 1,189,688
1890 (December 1) 1,342,711
1900 (December 1) 1,851,319
year Residents
1910 0(December 1) 2,399,849
1925 (June 16) 2,721,367
1939 (May 17) 2,678,026
1950 (Sep 13) 3,041,700
1961 0(June 6) 3,597,920
1970 (May 27) 3,720,550
1975 (Dec. 31) 3,744,303
1980 (Dec. 31) 3,688,780
1985 (Dec. 31) 3,567,208
year Residents
1987 (May 25) 3,605,066
1990 (Dec. 31) 3,731,986
1995 (Dec. 31) 3,827,480
2000 (Dec. 31) 3,805,904
2005 (Dec. 31) 3,760,454
2008 (Dec. 31) 3,699,748
2011 0(May 9) 3,575,207
  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p census result

Administrative division

District division 1818

In 1818 the administrative district was divided into:

  1. Altena district
  2. Arnsberg district
  3. District of Bilstein
  4. Bochum district
  5. Brilon district
  6. Dortmund district
  7. District of Hagen
  8. Hamm district
  9. Iserlohn district
  10. Lippstadt district
  11. Medebach district
  12. District victories
  13. Soest district
  14. Wittgenstein district

Change of district division on January 1, 1819

On January 1, 1819 there was a new district division:

  1. Altena district : cession of communities to the new Eslohe district
  2. Arnsberg district : Assignment of communities to the new Eslohe district and the Hamm district, acceptance of communities from the Iserlohn district, exchange of territory with the Soest district
  3. District of Bochum : assignment of municipalities to the district of Hagen, exchange of territory with the district of Dortmund
  4. District of Brilon : inclusion of communities from the district of Medebach
  5. Dortmund district : Assignment of municipalities to the Hagen district, exchange of territory with the Bochum district
  6. Eslohe district : new formation from communities in the Altena, Arnsberg, Bilstein and Medebach districts
  7. District of Hagen : inclusion of communities from the districts of Bochum and Dortmund
  8. District of Hamm : inclusion of communities from the district of Arnsberg
  9. District Iserlohn : Assignment of communities to the District of Arnsberg
  10. District of Lippstadt : incorporation of communities in the district of Soest
  11. District of Olpe : New formation from several communities in the district of Bilstein
  12. District victories
  13. Soest district : cession of municipalities to the Lippstadt district, exchange of territory with the Arnsberg district
  14. Wittgenstein district
District of Bilstein: Dissolution and division into the districts of Eslohe and Olpe (main part)
District Medebach: Dissolution and division into the districts Brilon (main part) and Eslohe

Change of district division on January 1, 1832

On April 1, 1826, small border shifts between individual districts came into force. On January 1, 1832, there was a new district division:

  1. Altena district : incorporation of municipalities in the Olpe district
  2. Arnsberg district : incorporation of communities in the Eslohe district
  3. District of Bochum : incorporation of municipalities in the district of Hagen (April 1, 1826)
  4. Brilon district
  5. Dortmund district
  6. District of Hagen : Assignment of municipalities to the district of Bochum (April 1, 1826)
  7. District of Hamm : Assignment of municipalities to the District of Soest (April 1, 1826)
  8. District Iserlohn : Assignment of communities to the District of Arnsberg
  9. Lippstadt district
  10. District of Meschede : New formation from communities in the Eslohe district
  11. District of Olpe : Assignment of municipalities to the district of Altena
  12. District victories
  13. District of Soest : incorporation of municipalities in the district of Hamm (April 1, 1826)
  14. Wittgenstein district
Eslohe district: dissolution and division into the Arnsberg and Meschede districts (main part)

Formation of urban and rural districts

In the further course of the 19th century, industrialization and the associated urbanization led to changes. In particular, larger cities were spun off as urban districts from some old districts. New districts were partly formed from the remains.

Formation of the city districts

  1. Dortmund : February 15, 1875
  2. Bochum : May 24, 1876
  3. Hagen : April 1, 1887
  4. Gelsenkirchen : April 1, 1897
  5. Witten : April 1, 1899
  6. Hamm : April 1, 1901
  7. Herne : July 1, 1906
  8. Iserlohn : April 1, 1907
  9. Lüdenscheid : April 1, 1907
  10. Hörde : April 1, 1911
  11. Siegen : March 1, 1923

Formation of new circles

  1. District of Gelsenkirchen : July 1, 1885
  2. District of Hattingen : July 1, 1885
  3. District of Hörde : April 1, 1887
  4. Schwelm district : April 1, 1887

Local government reform of the 1920s

The part of the Ruhr area belonging to the administrative district was reorganized in three time steps. The first reforms came into effect on April 1, 1926 and April 1, 1928, the other reforms in accordance with the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area on August 1, 1929. As early as 1922, the Schwelm district lost municipalities to the Rhenish town of Barmen . As a result of the incorporation of Holzwickede into the Hamm district, Unna finally became the new district town in 1930 , which changed its name to the Unna district.

The most decisive interventions in the administrative structure, however, represented the dissolution of a number of urban districts / rural districts and their integration into existing ones.

August 5, 1922

April 1, 1926

April 1, 1928

August 1, 1929

17th October 1930

April 1, 1939

List of urban and rural districts on January 1, 1939

City districts

  1. Bochum
  2. Castrop-Rauxel
  3. Dortmund
  4. Hagen
  5. Hamm
  6. Herne
  7. Iserlohn
  8. Ludenscheid
  9. Luenen
  10. Wins
  11. Wanne-Eickel
  12. Wattenscheid
  13. Witten

Counties

  1. Altena district
  2. Arnsberg district
  3. Brilon County
  4. Ennepe-Ruhr district
  5. Iserlohn district
  6. Lippstadt district
  7. Meschede district
  8. District of Olpe
  9. District of Siegen
  10. Soest district
  11. Unna district
  12. Wittgenstein district

Development of the districts after 1945

Old building of the district government (today administrative court)
  1. Altena district ( until December 31, 1968, then in the Lüdenscheid district , now in the Märkisches Kreis )
  2. Arnsberg district ( until December 31, 1974, then mainly in the Hochsauerland district , former parts of the area also in the Märkisches Kreis and in the Soest district )
  3. District of Brilon ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Hochsauerland district )
  4. Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis ( from January 1, 1975 enlarged to include the formerly independent city of Witten )
  5. Hochsauerlandkreis ( from January 1, 1975 from areas of the Arnsberg , Meschede , Brilon , Wittgenstein and Büren districts , the latter in the Detmold administrative district )
  6. Iserlohn district ( until December 31, 1974, then mainly in the Märkisches Kreis , former areas also in the Unna district and in the city of Hagen )
  7. District of Lippstadt ( until December 31, 1974, then in the district of Soest )
  8. District of Lüdenscheid ( from January 1, 1969 to December 31, 1974, then in the Märkisches Kreis )
  9. Märkischer Kreis ( from January 1, 1975 from areas of the former Lüdenscheid , Iserlohn [ including the former independent city of Iserlohn ] and Arnsberg )
  10. District of Meschede ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Hochsauerlandkreis )
  11. District of Olpe
  12. District of Siegen ( from January 1, 1975 with large parts of the Wittgenstein district ; until December 31, 1983, then renamed the Siegen-Wittgenstein district )
  13. District of Siegen-Wittgenstein ( from January 1, 1984, previously District of Siegen )
  14. Soest district ( from January 1, 1975 with the Lippstadt district and parts of the Arnsberg district )
  15. District of Unna ( from January 1, 1975 with parts of the districts of Iserlohn and Lüdinghausen [the latter so far in the Münster administrative district ])
  16. Wittgenstein district ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Siegen district , from January 1, 1984 in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district )
View of the current building of the district government in Arnsberg

Development of independent cities since 1945

  1. Bochum ( enlarged by Wattenscheid on January 1, 1975 )
  2. Castrop-Rauxel ( until 31 December 1974, then in the district of Recklinghausen , Münster Region )
  3. Dortmund ( on January 1, 1975, enlargement through incorporations )
  4. Hagen ( on January 1, 1975 around Hohenlimburg , previously in the Iserlohn district and enlarged around the Dahl district from the city of Breckerfeld in the Ennepe-Ruhr district )
  5. Hamm ( enlarged on January 1, 1968 to include the municipalities of Berge, Westtünnen and most of the Wiescherhöfen municipality from the Unna district ; from January 1, 1975 to include the cities of Heessen from the Beckum district and Bockum-Hövel from the Lüdinghausen district ( both previously in Münster administrative district ) and areas from the Unna district enlarged )
  6. Herne ( enlarged by Wanne-Eickel on January 1, 1975 )
  7. Iserlohn ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Märkischer Kreis )
  8. Lüdenscheid ( until December 31, 1968, then in the Lüdenscheid district until December 31, 1974, then in the Märkisches Kreis )
  9. Lünen ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Unna district )
  10. Siegen ( until June 30, 1966, then in the Siegen district , renamed the Siegen-Wittgenstein district from January 1, 1984 )
  11. Wanne-Eickel ( until December 31, 1974, then incorporated into Herne )
  12. Wattenscheid ( until December 31, 1974, then incorporated into Bochum )
  13. Witten ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Ennepe-Ruhr district )

Current status

The administrative district consists of seven districts with a total of 78 municipalities belonging to the district and five independent cities .

Circles One district cities
  1. Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis ( 000000000324106.0000000000324,106 pop.)
  2. Hochsauerlandkreis ( 000000000259777.0000000000259,777 inh.)
  3. Märkischer Kreis ( 000000000410222.0000000000410,222 pop.)
  4. District of Olpe ( 000000000133955.0000000000133,955 pop.)
  5. District of Siegen-Wittgenstein ( 000000000276944.0000000000276,944 inh.)
  6. Soest district ( 000000000301785.0000000000301,785 pop.)
  7. District of Unna ( 000000000394891.0000000000394,891 pop.)
  1. Bochum ( 000000000365587.0000000000365,587 pop.)
  2. Dortmund ( 000000000588250.0000000000588,250 pop.)
  3. Hagen ( 000000000188686.0000000000188,686 pop.)
  4. Hamm ( 000000000179916.0000000000179,916 pop.)
  5. Herne ( 000000000156449.0000000000156,449 pop.)

District President

Beginning of the term of office Term expires District President Political party
August 1, 1816 March 24, 1825 Friedrich von Bernuth
1825 1831 Karl von Flemming
1831 March 5, 1836 Philip-Ludwig Wolfart
March 5, 1836 April 18, 1845 Georg Wilhelm Keßler
July 8, 1845 August 1848 Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz
November 16, 1848 June 4, 1849 Moritz von Bardeleben
July 18, 1849 1851 Carl von Bodelschwingh
November 1851 May 18, 1854 Ernst von Bodelschwingh
September 28, 1854 July 3, 1863 Friedrich von Spankeren
July 18, 1863 October 1874 Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck
October 29, 1874 November 14, 1880 Georg von Steinmann
November 14, 1880 June 22, 1889 Alfred von Rosen
June 26, 1889 April 16, 1901 Wilhelm Julius Reinhold winemaker
April 17, 1901 February 13, 1903 Ludwig von Renvers
March 26, 1903 June 18, 1907 Franz Coels of the Brügghen
September 9, 1907 December 1907 Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin
January 6, 1908 September 30, 1919 Alfred von Bake
October 16, 1919 February 15, 1933 Max King SPD
February 23, 1933 September 20, 1935 Max von Stockhausen DNVP
October 1935 August 31, 1941 Ludwig Runte NSDAP
January 1, 1942 May 16, 1945 Lothar Eickhoff NSDAP
June 1, 1945 July 31, 1949 Fritz Fries SPD
March 15, 1950 February 28, 1956 Hubert Biernat SPD
June 2, 1956 July 31, 1973 Ernst Schlensker SPD
1st August 1973 January 12, 1977 Fritz Ziegler SPD
January 13, 1977 19th February 1990 Richard Grünschläger SPD
February 20, 1990 June 30, 1998 Raghilt Berve SPD
August 1, 1998 November 12, 2002 Wolfram Kuschke SPD
January 1, 2003 July 22, 2005 Renate Drewke SPD
July 23, 2005 August 18, 2010 Helmut Diegel CDU
August 18, 2010 August 31, 2015 Gerd Bollermann SPD
September 1, 2015 August 31, 2017 Diana Ewert SPD
1st September 2017 Hans-Josef Vogel CDU

Regional council

Allocation of seats in the
Arnsberg Regional Council 2014
     
A total of 15 seats

The regional council is formed after each local election on the basis of the local election results (city council or local council election) of the districts belonging to the districts of Hochsauerlandkreis, Märkischer Kreis, Olpe, Siegen-Wittgenstein and Soest. The independent cities of Bochum, Dortmund, Hagen, Hamm and Herne as well as the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis and Unna districts are not represented in the regional council, as the association assembly of the Ruhr Regional Association assumes the role of regional council for them .

Currently there is the following distribution of seats in the regional council by parliamentary group (as of September 2014):

CDU SPD Non-attached total
7th 5 3 15th
GREEN 1
FW 1
FDP 1

Others

The Arnsberg district government is responsible for the distribution of refugees throughout North Rhine-Westphalia .

In comparison with the GDP per capita in the EU , expressed in purchasing power parity , the Arnsberg administrative region achieved an index of 109 (EU-28 = 100) (2015).

See also

Forerunner authorities of Prussia:

Summarized territories:

literature

  • Heinz Kaufung: The Arnsberg government and its city. 2nd expanded edition. 750 years of the city of Arnsberg, 1988.
  • Reinhard Feldmann, Hans Mühl (edit.): 175 years of the Arnsberg region. Highlights from history. Arnsberg 1991.
  • Heiko M. Kosow: The government location Arnsberg . In: Heimatblätter. Journal of the Arnsberger Heimatbund. Issue 30/2009, pp. 57-78.
  • Jürgen Kloß : Arnsberg as the administrative seat in South Westphalia, especially Freiherr Vincke and the transition to Prussia in 1816. South Westphalia Archive, 15th year. Arnsberg 2015.
  • District government Arnsberg (Hrsg.): 200 years District government Arnsberg - origin - development - insights. Exhibition companion volume. Arnsberg February 2016.
  • Theo Hirnstein: Like a clutch - 200 years of “government”. WOLL magazine Sundern-Arnsberg, issue 1/16, April 2016, pp. 46–48.
  • Heiko M. Kosow: 200 years of the Arnsberg district government - establishment and development. Sauerland 1/2016, pp. 29–33.
  • Heiko M. Kosow: 200 years of the Arnsberg district government - discussions about the administrative district and around Arnsberg as the location of a district government. Sauerland 2/2016, pp. 30–33.
  • Heiko M. Kosow: 200 years of the Arnsberg district government - the incorporation of special authorities 2005–2008 into the Arnsberg district government . Sauerland 3/2016, pp. 17–21.
  • Heiko M. Kosow: 200 years of the Arnsberg district government - 25 years of internal modernization. Sauerland 4/2016, pp. 13-16.
  • Arne Hennemann: Dimensions of Entanglement. The district government of Arnsberg 1933–1945. An investigation into the actions of the South Westphalian central authority under the conditions of the Nazi state. Arnsberg 2016 (advance publication).
  • District government Arnsberg (Hrsg.): Change, shape, diversity, life - 200 years of district government Arnsberg. Festschrift. Arnsberg December 2016.

Web links

Commons : Arnsberg District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ Ordinance on improving the establishment of the provincial authorities of April 30, 1815 ( text of the ordinance )
  3. ↑ Official Journal for the Province of Westphalia from July 20, 1816, p. 310 ( Münster State Library )
  4. ^ Official Journal for the Province of Westphalia from July 27, 1816, p. 324 ( Münster State Library )
  5. ↑ on this in detail the government vice-president a. D. Heiko M. Kosow: The government location Arnsberg . In: Heimatblätter. Journal of the Arnsberger Heimatbund. Issue 30/2009, pp. 57-78.
  6. ↑ Red-Green Coalition Agreement 2010 ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Line 3655ff .; PDF; 936 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene-nrw.de
  7. ↑ Arne Hennemann: Dimensions of entanglement. The district government of Arnsberg 1933–1945. An investigation into the actions of the South Westphalian central authority under the conditions of the Nazi state. Arnsberg 2016 (advance publication), p. 12.
  8. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ District government Arnsberg ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-arnsberg.nrw.de
  10. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 8 ° 1 ′  E