Incorporation into the city of Aachen
As a result of the incorporation into the city of Aachen , i.e. the incorporation of formerly independent communities or other parts of the area, the territory of the city of Aachen grew considerably from the end of the 19th century and in the course of the 20th century.
history
The Aachener Reich , whose area was about 9,000 hectares, comprised from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century other than the actual urban area of the old city of Aachen , the of the city walls was surrounded, and an out of the wall area. In addition to the so-called bell sound in the immediate vicinity of the city wall, this included seven quarters. Other territories that were at least partially in what is now Aachen's urban area were the Burtscheid Imperial Abbey , the Kornelimünster Imperial Abbey and the Office Schönforst and Herrschaft Heyden areas belonging to the Duchy of Jülich .
With the invasion of the French in 1792 and the annexation of the Rhineland to Prussia in 1815, the political structure of the region changed. Aachen first became a mairie and then a mayor's office . The municipalities of Laurensberg (Berger Quartier, Orsbacher Quartier, Vaalser Quartier and Soerser Quartier), Haaren (Haarener Quartier), Würselen (Würselener Quartier), and Weiden (Weidener Quartier) emerged from the former quarters of the Aachen Empire . The imperial abbeys were dissolved, the city of Burtscheid and the villages of Brand , Eilendorf , Kornelimünster and Walheim , which were formerly part of the imperial abbey of Kornelimünster , became independent political communities. The municipality of Forst emerged from the office of Schönforst , and part of the Heyden rulership became the municipality of Richterich .
The first expansions of the urban area of Aachen were made to the southeast by incorporating the city of Burtscheid in 1897 and the municipality of Forst in 1906. As a result of border corrections between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Belgium , areas of East Belgium were added in 1922 , which had previously belonged to the Eupen district, which was dissolved in 1921 to Aachen. In 1968, parts of the community of Brand were incorporated as part of a consolidation . The largest expansion of the urban area was the last, on January 1, 1972, incorporation of seven surrounding municipalities in accordance with the Aachen Law of 1971 . It increased the area of the urban area to about three times and the population by about 35%. The urban area of Aachen grew from 3,056 hectares before the first incorporation to 16,082.9 hectares in 1998, which means it has more than quintupled. Changes due to minor limit corrections and new measurements are also taken into account.
Even if the incorporated areas were politically absorbed in the city of Aachen, the names of the corresponding territories are still preserved in the form of the districts of Aachen . During the incorporation of 1972, the greatly enlarged urban area was divided into districts of Aachen . Since then, the previous urban area has essentially formed the Aachen-Mitte district . Five of the seven newly incorporated municipalities became their own municipal districts, Kornelimünster and Walheim were combined into a common urban district.
Inclusions
The urban area of Aachen has been expanded since the end of the 19th century by incorporating the following cities , municipalities or districts :
| date | surface | area | with the districts | District | City District (since 1972) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 3,056.0 ha | Old Aachen | Aachen | Aachen center | |
| April 1, 1897 | 858.6 ha | City of Burtscheid | Burtscheid | Aachen center | |
| April 1, 1906 | 1,145.7 ha | Forst community | Forest | Aachen center | |
| November 1, 1922 | 789.1 ha | Areas of East Belgium | Picture | Aachen | Aachen center |
| Lichtenbusch | Lichtenbusch | Kornelimünster / Walheim | |||
| Sief | Sief | Kornelimünster / Walheim | |||
| August 30, 1968 | 30.8 ha | Parts of the community of Brand | Driescher Hof , Hitfeld | Forest | Aachen center |
| January 1, 1972 | 10,595 ha | Brand community | fire | fire | |
| Eilendorf municipality | Eilendorf | Eilendorf | |||
| Haaren community | Hair | Hair | |||
| Parts of the Kornelimünster community | Kornelimünster | Kornelimünster | Kornelimünster / Walheim | ||
| Laurensberg community | Laurensberg | Laurensberg | |||
| Richterich community | Richterich | Richterich | |||
| Walheim community | Walheim | Kornelimünster / Walheim | |||
| Individual parcels of the municipality Broichweiden , the city of Stolberg and the city of Würselen | various | various | |||
Outsourcing
Over the years, smaller areas have also been spun off from the city of Aachen:
| date | surface | area | outsourced to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st October 1968 | 6.88 hectares | Berliner Ring, Wurmbach, Am Reitersweg | Haaren community |
| 1st January 1974 | 384.00 ha | Münsterbildchen , Rotter Dell , camping site of Mulartshütte | Roetgen municipality |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen . December 14, 1971 ( aachen.de [PDF]).
- ↑ a b City of Aachen (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook 2016 . 1.3 Development of the urban area, p. 12 ( aachen.de [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
- ^ Law on the unification of the municipality of Burtscheid with the municipality of Aachen . plus contract. March 29, 1897 ( aachen.de [PDF]).
- ^ Law on the union of the community of Forst with the city of Aachen . plus contract. March 31, 1906 ( aachen.de [PDF]).
- ^ Through border corrections between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Belgium
- ^ Regulation of the municipal boundary between Aachen and Brand
- ↑ Area change agreements between the city of Aachen and the communities of Brand, Eilendorf, Haaren, Laurensberg and Richterich as well as provisions on details of the integration of the communities Kornelimünster and Walheim into the city of Aachen on the occasion of the reorganization of the communities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen on January 1st, 1972 . ( aachen.de [PDF]).
- ↑ Individual parcels of the community of Brand were incorporated into the city of Stolberg .
- ↑ Individual parcels of the municipality of Haaren were incorporated into the city of Würselen .
- ↑ Other parts of the Kornelimünster community, u. a. the districts of Breinig and Venwegen were incorporated into the city of Stolberg .
- ↑ Individual parcels of land in the community of Richterich and the districts of Bank and Wilsberg , which had merged with Kohlscheid , were incorporated into the town of Herzogenrath .