Altkirch district

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Upper Alsace
Administrative headquarters	Altkirch
surface	654 km² (1910)
Residents	51,748 (1910)
Population density	79 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	116 (1910)
Location of the Altkirch district

The circle Altkirch was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in the district of Upper Alsace the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The area of ​​the district is now essentially in the Altkirch arrondissement of the French department of Haut-Rhin .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Altkirch district was formed in 1871 from parts of the previously French arrondissements of Mulhouse and Belfort . After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, again belonged to the French state as the Arrondissement Altkirch . During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the Altkirch arrondissement was referred to by the German side as the Altkirch district . It was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Baden in Karlsruhe . Between November 1944 and February 1945, the district was retaken by Allied forces and returned to France.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Altkirch district	50,840	49,863	51,748

Municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Altkirch	3,491
Carspach	1,518
Dammerkirch	1,175
Hirsingen	1,444
Hirtzbach	1,045
Hochstatt	1,207
Illfurt	1,395
Pfetterhausen	1,210

politics

District Director

The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director.

1871–1874 Karl Boehm00

1874-1882 Albert Halley00

1882 Emil von Maillot de la Treille0000000

1882–1899 Wilhelm Illing00

1899–1903 Heitmann00

1903–1908 Ottomar Weber00

1908–1916 Georg Lang von Langen00

Land Commissioner

The following district administrators were in office during the German occupation:

1940 Rudolf Ritter ( acting )-999900

District administrators

1940–1942 Rudolf Ritter00

1942–1943 Alois Wunsch00

Communities

In 1910 the Altkirch district comprised 116 communities:

Altenach Altkirch Altmünsterol Altpfirt Ammerzweiler Aspach Ballersdorf Balschweiler Baronsweiler Bendorf Berenzweiler Bettendorf Bed laugh Biederthal Bisel Boards Brückensweiler Brünighofen Buchsweiler Butweiler Carspach Dammerkirch Diefmatten Dürlinsdorf Dürmenach Perches Ellbach Emlingen Enschingen

Falkweiler Feldbach Fislis Francs Friezes Fröningen Fillers Gevenatten Gildweiler Gommersdorf Gottesthal Grenzingen Hagenbach House districts Hedges Heidweiler Heimersdorf Heiweiler Henflingen Hindlingen Hirsingen Hirzbach Hochstatt Hundsbach Illfurt Jettingen Jungmünsterol Kiffis Köstlach

Largitz Liebsdorf Linsdorf Luffendorf Lümschweiler Lutter Sucking Lützel Lüxdorf Mansbach Menglatt Merzen Mittelmüspach moss Mörnach Niederlarg Niedermüspach Lower sept Niederspechbach Niedertraubach Oberdorf Oberlarg Obermorschweiler Obermüspach Upper sept Oberspechbach Obertraubach Oltingen Ottendorf

Pfetterhausen Pfirt Radersdorf Retzweiler Riespach Roppenzweiler Rüderbach Saint Cosman Ortisei Schaffnatt at the pond Floated Sondersdorf Stone brine Star Mountain Strüth Tagolsheim Day village To take over Overstrass Waldighofen Walheim hamlet Welschsteinbach Werenzhausen Willing angle Wittersdorf Wolfersdorf Wolschweiler

literature

• Johannes Schäfer: The vascular plants of the Altkirch district: a contribution to the flora of the Reichslande . Masson, Altkirch 1895 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_altkirch.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).