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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Frankfurter Societät |
| First edition | September 17, 1849 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 26,355 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Local editorial office only |
| Web link | hoechster-kreisblatt.de |
| ZDB | 952446-0 |
The Höchst Kreisblatt (HK) is a header of the Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP) published in Frankfurt am Main . The newspaper was founded on September 17, 1849 by Anton Alexander Wagner as a "Kreisamts-Blatt". The first edition of the weekly published paper appeared on October 1, 1849. In 1963 the HK was taken over by the newspaper group of the FNP.
The paper traditionally reports from the western parts of Frankfurt and suburbs, especially Frankfurt-Höchst and the Main-Taunus-Kreis (the former district of Höchst ). Local editorial offices are located in Hofheim am Taunus and in Frankfurt-Höchst. Karl-Josef Schmidt has been the head of the HK local editorial team since 1992.
The single edition of the Höchst Kreisblatt is not shown separately. Together with the Main-Taunus-Kreis edition of the regional section of the FAZ , the Rhein-Main-Zeitung , the Höchst Kreisblatt has a sold circulation of 26,355 copies.
history
founding
In the Duchy of Nassau , the Duchy of Nassau's General Intelligence Gazette had existed on a supraregional level since 1809 and the Ordinance of the Duchy of Nassau as the official gazette . At the regional level, the need for an official gazette for the publication of official notices also arose in the course of the 19th century. The Taunusbote, which appeared in Usingen , had fulfilled this function since 1841 and was the official gazette of the offices of Usingen , Idstein , Königstein and Hoechst from 1843 . The Taunusbote was last published in 1849. For the offices of Hoechst, Hochheim and Königstein, the then 24-year-old book printer Anton Alexander Wagner closed the gap and published a sample number on September 17, 1849 and the first regular number of the district gazette for the Hoechst, Hochheim and Justice offices on October 1, 1849 Koenigstein .
The sheet was published weekly on Mondays, costs 30 Kreuzer per quarter and had a length of 4 pages (about Din A4). In addition to the official notices, it contained a small editorial section. The responsible district administrator Heinrich von Wintzingerode instructed the mayors of the communities in the publication area in an official letter to use and subscribe to the paper by the administrations. Anton Alexander Wagner was also a publisher, editor, typesetter and printer. The company was based in rented rooms in the Bolongaropalast in Höchst.
The editorial part was subsequently expanded. From 1852 a serial was printed ( birthdays in the forester's house ), and in 1854 the frequency of publication was extended to twice a week.
Weekly paper
Since March 1, 1864, the Nassauische Landeszeitung was founded in Wiesbaden as the official gazette of all authorities in Nassau. As a result, the local gazettes, including the district gazette, were banned. After Wagner protested to the Wiesbaden government, the ban was lifted. Since the paper was no longer an official journal, the name was changed to Wochenblatt for the districts of Höchst, Hochheim and Königstein .
With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, the Nassauische Landeszeitung was discontinued. Wagner began to publish official news again. However, in February 1867 Königstein im Taunus was incorporated into the newly founded Obertaunuskreis . The rest of the distribution area fell to the district of Wiesbaden , which published its own official gazette, the Kreisblatt for the district of Wiesbaden . Again the newspaper changed into a simple weekly paper and was continued as Wiesbadener Kreisblatt . The circulation of around 300 copies could be increased in 1871 after Wagner had purchased a modern high-speed press for 750 guilders . The money came from a donation from the Prussian state to honor the patriotic commitment that the newspaper had shown through its coverage of the Franco-German war.
After the death of Anton Alexander Wagner on September 22, 1885, his sons Jakob and Heinrich continued the newspaper.
Kreisblatt in Höchst
With the establishment of the district Höchst on April 1, 1886, the newspaper again became the official gazette and changed the name to Kreis-Blatt for the district Höchst aM. The property as an official gazette was determined by district administrator August von Trott zu Solz by official order.
The general upswing in the newspaper industry is also leading to noticeable growth for the Kreis-Blatt. The editorial section was expanded and supplements such as the Illustrierte Sonntagsblatt or Nassauischer Landwirth were introduced. The advertising segment in particular grew rapidly. Family notices , especially obituaries , became common and business was advertised for customers. On October 1, 1895, the format of the newspaper was doubled and the name was changed to Kreis-Blatt for the Höchst district and the town of Höchst am Main . From October 1st, 1895, the newspaper appeared three times a week.
In 1900 the editorial staff received one of the first telephone connections (with the telephone number 19). Since this year she has also received news from all over the world via the news agency Depeschen-Bureau Herold .
In October 1904 the newspaper became a daily newspaper. In 1905 the subscription price was 1.50 gold marks (10 euros in today's purchasing power) per quarter. The print run was around 8,000 copies in 1914 and rose to 12,000 after the start of the war. With the end of the First World War , changes came to the newspaper as well. From November 11, 1918, power rests with the workers 'and soldiers' council in Höchst and the newspaper becomes the official gazette for its orders. From December 14, 1918, the district belonged to the Mainz bridgehead and was subject to French occupation. The newspaper was subjected to censorship . Individual articles were both banned and the occupation authorities required the publication of articles.
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Since October 1, 1921, the newspaper has been called the Höchster Kreisblatt . The occasion was the creation of an official scoreboard as an official gazette. Even when it ceased its publication 1 year later and the Höchst Kreisblatt became the official gazette again, the new name remained.
With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 and the circular sheet was brought into line . The editors' law ensured that the new rulers could penetrate the newspapers. Even if the publisher Josef Wagner, a grandson of the founder, remained the owner, the contents were dictated by the NSDAP.
On May 31, 1941, the publication was discontinued due to lack of paper. Its function was taken over by the Frankfurter Volksblatt . After the end of World War II , the publication of newspapers required a license from the American occupation forces. The US military authorities mistrusted the old publishers and only granted licenses to politically reliable persons who had not previously worked as publishers (see license press ). It was not until October 1, 1949, when the license requirement ended, that Josef Wagner was able to publish another edition of the Höchst Kreisblatt. Since the licensed newspapers had a considerable head start on the market, Wagner decided to have the newspaper appear again as the head of the Wiesbadener Kurier . After Josef Wagner's death on November 17, 1950, his widow, Friedel Wagner b. Retzer, the newspaper until it was sold. In 1963 the Höchst Kreisblatt was taken over by the FNP newspaper group.
The newspaper's archive was destroyed in World War II. In 1990 the editions of the Kreisblatt from 1849 to 1941 collected in various archives were compiled and microfilmed as part of a project to film historically valuable newspapers of the DFG .
literature
- Gerhard Raiss: The Höchst Kreisblatt as the local newspaper in the Main-Taunus district . In: Yearbook of the Main-Taunus-Kreis . 2007, ISSN 0942-3419 , pp. 28-36.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Including the Main-Taunus-Kreis edition of the FAZ-Rhein-Main-Zeitung
- ↑ RheinMainMedia's circulation figures
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )