Münster administrative district
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| Administrative headquarters : | Muenster |
| Surface: | 6,918.34 km² |
| Residents: | 2,624,625 (December 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 379 inhabitants per km² |
| District structure: | 75 municipalities in 5 districts and 3 independent cities |
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| District President : | Dorothee Feller ( CDU ) |
| Address of the regional council: | Domplatz 1–3 48143 Münster |
| Website: | www.brms.nrw.de |
| Location of the administrative district of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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The administrative district of Münster has existed since 1803. After the Prussian occupation, Karl Freiherr vom Stein became head of the “War and Domain Chamber” in Münster on December 1, 1803, the forerunner of today's district government. The administrative district of Münster is today one of five administrative districts in North Rhine-Westphalia . The administrative seat is in Münster .
In comparison with the GDP per capita in the EU expressed in purchasing power parity , the Münster administrative district achieved an index of 105 (EU-28 = 100) (2015).
geography
The administrative district of Münster is located in the north of North Rhine-Westphalia. Within the state, it borders on the administrative districts of Detmold in the east, Arnsberg in the south and Düsseldorf in the south-west, otherwise on the state of Lower Saxony in the north and the Netherlands in the west.
For the most part, the district comprises the predominantly rural Münsterland . In the northeast is the Tecklenburger Land . In the southwest it has a share in the urban agglomeration of the Ruhr area with a significantly higher population density.
The highest point in the Münster administrative district is the Westerbecker Berg in the municipality of Lienen with a height of 236 m above sea level. NHN and is located in the Teutoburg Forest.
An exclave of the city of Gelsenkirchen in the urban area of Bochum (administrative district Arnsberg) belongs to the administrative district of Münster .
Administrative division
The administrative district consists of five districts with a total of 75 municipalities belonging to the district and three independent cities .
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history
After the Münsterland fell to Prussia at the beginning of the 19th century, a war and domain chamber was set up in Münster in 1803 as a forerunner of the later district government . During the French era , Münster was the administrative seat of the department of the Ems in the Grand Duchy of Berg from 1808 to 1811 and the administrative seat of the arrondissement of Münster in the French Empire from 1811 to 1813 .
The history of today's administrative district of Münster goes back to the Prussian ordinance on the improved establishment of the provincial authorities of April 30, 1815. At that time, Prussia's administration was reorganized after the Congress of Vienna and initially divided into ten provinces , each of which had 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. In the course of the establishment of Friedrich Wilhelm III. Ludwig Baron Vincke already appointed as senior president on May 25, 1815 his official business in the provincial capital.
In it areas of the former territories Hochstift Münster , Vest Recklinghausen , Grafschaft Tecklenburg , Upper Grafschaft Lingen , Grafschaft Steinfurt , Herrschaft Anholt and Herrschaft Gemen were combined. Later, smaller areas were added that once belonged to County Mark .
From 1816 the administrative structure was as follows:
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- Ahaus district ( until December 31, 1974, then in the Borken district )
- Beckum district ( until December 31, 1974, then in Warendorf district )
- Borken district ( from January 1, 1975 with the Ahaus district and the city of Bocholt )
- Coesfeld district ( from January 1, 1975 with large parts of the Lüdinghausen district and parts of the Münster district )
- Kreis Lüdinghausen ( until 31 December 1974, followed by distribution to the circle Coesfeld , Warendorf and Unna [ in Arnsberg ] ; Bockum-Hoevel was in the city of Hamm [ in Arnsberg] incorporated )
- District of Münster ( until December 31, 1974, then split into the independent city of Münster and the districts of Coesfeld , Steinfurt and Warendorf )
- Recklinghausen district ( from January 1, 1975 with the previously independent cities of Recklinghausen and Castrop-Rauxel [ previously in the Arnsberg district ] , from July 1, 1976 also with the previously independent city of Gladbeck )
- Steinfurt district ( from January 1, 1975 with the Tecklenburg district and parts of the Münster district )
- Tecklenburg district ( until December 31, 1974, then in Steinfurt district )
- Warendorf district ( from January 1, 1975 with large parts of the Beckum district and parts of the Münster and Lüdinghausen districts )
One district cities:
- Bocholt ( independent since 1923, back in the Borken district from January 1, 1975 )
- Bottrop ( since 1921 independent, from January 1 to December 5, 1975 to include the independent city of Gladbeck and Kirchhellen, Recklinghausen district , from July 1, 1976 Kirchhellen finally came to Bottrop )
- Buer ( independent from 1912 to 1928, part of Gelsenkirchen from April 1, 1928 )
- Gelsenkirchen ( independent since 1897, from January 1, 1975 with small areas of the former community Altendorf-Ulfkotte , Recklinghausen district )
- Gladbeck ( independent since 1921, from January 1 to December 5, 1975 in the city of Bottrop , then again independent, from July 1, 1976 back in the Recklinghausen district )
- Münster ( from January 1, 1975 with several municipalities in the Münster district )
- Osterfeld ( independent from 1922 to 1929, from August 1, 1929 part of Oberhausen , Düsseldorf administrative district )
- Recklinghausen ( independent since 1901, back in the Recklinghausen district from January 1, 1975 )
According to the law on the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area of July 29, 1929, the North Rhine-Westphalian territorial reform in 1975 brought about an extensive reorganization of the districts and independent cities and brought about the current division.
District President
| Period | District President | Political party |
| 1803-1806 | Karl Freiherr vom Stein | |
| 1806-1815 | under French administration | |
| 1816-1844 | Ludwig von Vincke | |
| 1845-1846 | Justus Wilhelm von Schaper | |
| 1846-1849 | Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell | |
| 1850-1871 | Franz von Duesberg | |
| 1871-1882 | Friedrich von Kühlwetter | |
| 1883-1889 | Norbert Eduard von Hagemeister | |
| 1887-1890 | August von Liebermann | |
| 1890-1897 | Hermann Schwarzenberg | |
| 1897-1909 | Alfred Gescher | DKP |
| 1909-1913 | Jaroslaw von Jarotzky | |
| 1913-1922 | Felix von Merveldt | DNVP |
| 1922-1926 | Heinrich Haslinde | |
| 1926 | Carl Hettlage | |
| 1926-1932 | Rudolf Amelunxen | center |
| 1932-1933 | Hermann Pünder | center |
| 1933-1934 | Kurt Matthaei | NSDAP |
| 1934-1941 | Kurt Klemm | NSDAP |
| 1941-1943 | Günther von Stosch | NSDAP |
| 1943 | Theodor Fründt | NSDAP |
| 1944-1945 | Walter Ruhs | NSDAP |
| 1945 | Clemens Freiherr von Oer | |
| 1945-1956 | Franz Hackethal | |
| 1957-1958 | Bernhard Reismann | center |
| 1959-1973 | Josef Schneeberger | CDU |
| 1973-1978 | Egbert Möcklinghoff | CDU |
| 1978-1995 | Erwin Schleberger | CDU |
| 1995-2007 | Jörg Twenhöven | CDU |
| 09/01/2007– 05/31/2011 | Peter Paziorek | CDU |
| 01.06.2011–30.09.2011 | Dorothee Feller (acting head of the authorities) | independent |
| 01.10.2011–31.08.2017 | Reinhard Klenke | CDU |
| since August 31, 2017 | Dorothee Feller | CDU |
Population development
The following overview shows the population of the Münster administrative district by area. 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”.
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Regional council
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 of the districts of Borken, Coesfeld, Steinfurt and Warendorf as well as the city of Münster. The independent cities of Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen as well as the Recklinghausen district 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 | GREEN | Non-attached | total |
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| 8th | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17th |
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Web links
- Website of the district government of Münster
- Website of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- History and maps of the district
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
- ↑ District government of Münster: Past and present ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ordinance on improving the establishment of the provincial authorities of April 30, 1815 ( text of the ordinance )
- ↑ Official Journal for the Province of Westphalia from July 20, 1816, p. 310 ( Münster State Library )
- ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821 ( digitized version ).
Arnsberg | Detmold | Düsseldorf | Cologne | Muenster
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ' N , 7 ° 26' E