District of Bergheim (Erft)

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Coat of arms of the Bergheim (Erft) district
District of Bergheim (Erft)
Map of Germany, position of the Bergheim (Erft) district highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '  N , 6 ° 39'  E

Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period: 1816-1974
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Bergheim (Erft)
Area : 364.7 km 2
Residents: 136,700 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density : 375 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : BM
Circle key : 05 3 31
Circle structure: 26 municipalities
District Administrator : Richard Kasper ( SPD )

The Bergheim (Erft) district was a district in the Cologne administrative district from 1816 to 1974 . With this he belonged first to the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , from 1822 to the Rhine province and from 1946 to North Rhine-Westphalia . Today his area belongs to the Rhein-Erft district . The seat of the district administration was Bergheim .

Neighboring areas

In 1971, the Bergheim (Erft) district bordered clockwise to the north, starting with the Grevenbroich , Cologne , Euskirchen , Düren and Jülich districts .

Administrative history

Bergheim district on a map from 1905

The Bergheim district was formed in 1816 from the French cantons of Bergheim and Kerpen from 1798 to 1814 , which until 1813 belonged to the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . The circle was initially divided into 14 mayor's offices, which were established as Mairien during the French era . With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, some mayorships in the district were subdivided into several municipalities . Since that time there have been 33 communities in the Bergheim district:

Administrative division 1885
Mayorry Communities
Bedburg Bedburg
Bergheim Bergheim , Kenten , Quadrath-Ichendorf , Wiedenfeld , Zieverich
Blatzheim Blatzheim
Buir Buir , Manheim
Esch Angelsdorf , Apartehöfe , Elsdorf , Esch , Niederembt , Oberembt , Tollhausen
Heppendorf Heppendorf
Hüchelhoven Hüchelhoven
Caster Epprath , Kaster , Lipp
Kerpen Kerpen , Mödrath
Königshoven Königshoven , Morken-Harff
Paffendorf Glesch , Niederaussem , Oberaussem , Paffendorf
Pütz Pütz
Sindorf Hemmersbach , Sindorf
Türnich Türnich

The municipality of Hemmersbach was renamed Horrem in 1907 . As in the entire Rhine Province, the mayor's offices were transferred to offices in 1927 . In the further course of the 20th century, the office structure was changed several times. Several communities in the district were dredged as part of lignite mining , dissolved and added to other communities:

  • Apartehöfe was incorporated into Elsdorf in 1938.
  • Kenten and Zieverich were incorporated into Bergheim in 1938.
  • Tollhausen was incorporated into Esch in 1938.
  • Wiedenfeld was incorporated into Bergheim in 1958.
  • Epprath and Morken-Harff were incorporated into Kaster in 1956.

At the end of its existence, the district was divided into seven offices and a total of 26 communities:

Administrative division 1974
Office Communities
Bedburg Bedburg (city), Lipp
Bergheim (Erft) Bergheim (Erft) (town), Glesch , Hüchelhoven , Niederaußem , Oberaußem-Fortuna , Paffendorf , Quadrath-Ichendorf
Buir Buir , Manheim
Elsdorf (Rhld.) Angelsdorf , Elsdorf (Rhld.) , Esch , Heppendorf , Niederembt , Oberembt
Horror Horrem , Sindorf
Kerpen Blatzheim , Kerpen (city), Mödrath
Königshoven Kaster (city), Königshoven , Pütz
free of charge Türnich

The Cologne Act brought about a fundamental reform of the municipality and the dissolution of the Bergheim (Erft) district with effect from January 1, 1975:

  • The cities of Bedburg and Kaster were merged with all other municipalities of the offices of Bedburg and Königshoven to form a new city of Bedburg .
  • The city of Bergheim (Erft) was merged with all other municipalities of the Bergheim office to form a new city of Bergheim .
  • The city of Kerpen was merged with all other municipalities of the offices of Buir, Horrem and Kerpen as well as the municipality of Türnich to form a new city of Kerpen .
  • All municipalities of the Elsdorf Office (Rhld.) Have been merged into a new municipality of Elsdorf .
  • The circle and all offices were dissolved. Bedburg, Bergheim, Elsdorf and Kerpen were combined with Brühl , Frechen , Hürth and Pulheim from the Cologne district, which was also dissolved, and Erftstadt from the Euskirchen district to form the new Erftkreis .

In 2003, the Erftkreis was renamed the Rhein-Erft-Kreis by unanimous decision of the district council .

Population development

year Residents
1816 27,996
1828 31,284
1871 39,940
1880 41,154
1890 42,706
1900 47,518
1910 53,108
1925 64.286
1939 69.504
1950 92,321
1960 103,500
1970 119,400
1973 136,700

politics

Results of the district elections from 1946

The list only shows parties and constituencies that received at least two percent of the votes in the respective election.

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year SPD CDU FDP KPD
1946 38.0 54.0 7.0
11948 1 48.2 42.3 5.8
1952 45.9 37.4 13.3
1956 51.7 38.0 10.2
1961 46.1 46.0 07.9
21964 2 49.4 41.4 06.1
1969 51.5 41.9 0005.002

Footnotes

1 1948: additionally: DZP: 3.2%
2 1964: additionally: UWG: 3.1%

District administrators

Infrastructure

The Bergheim district was particularly marked by lignite mining . After the end of the Second World War , the local lignite and energy industries were the main employers. This was accompanied by a strengthening of the SPD in the district and its communities.

The district primarily focused on education. After 1945 numerous schools were established, including secondary schools and today's Adolph Kolping vocational college in Horrem .

The district itself also took care of the population. Until it was sold to RWE , the district operated its own district works for electricity and water supply.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinction BM when the vehicle license plates were introduced that are still valid today . It is issued in the Rhein-Erft district (initially Erftkreis) until today.

swell

  • 150 years of the Bergheim district 1816–1966. Published by the Bergheim district. Bedburg (Erft) 1966.
  • Ground plan for the German administrative history 1815–1945. Row A: Prussia. Ed. Walter Hubatsch. Volume 7: Rhineland. Edited by Rüdiger Schütz. Pp. 353-358. Marburg (Lahn) 1978. ISBN 3-87969-122-3 .

Web links

Commons : Kreis Bergheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, §1
  2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province (PDF; 1.3 MB), Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 126 ff
  3. gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Bergheim district
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 300 .
  5. a b Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
  6. a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244
  7. a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bergheim.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  9. Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1975
  10. Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.