Bernkastel district

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E
Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period:	1816-1969
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	trier
Administrative headquarters :	Bernkastel
Area :	667.73 km 2
Residents:	56,300 (June 30, 1968)
Population density :	84 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	UCS
Circle key :	07 2 31
Circle structure:	93 parishes

The district of Bernkastel was until 1969 a county in the Prussian Rhine province and Rheinland-Pfalz .

geography

structure

The district of Bernkastel had a size of 668 km² and was divided into the nine mayor's offices (from 1927 offices) Bernkastel-Land, Kempfeld, Lieser, Morbach , Mülheim, Neumagen, Zeltingen, Thalfang and Rhaunen (today to the district of Birkenfeld and in the case of Lindenschied and Woppenroth to the Rhein-Hunsrück district ). Then there was the municipality of Bernkastel-Kues.

The district comprised 92 communities in 1908 and 93 communities in 1967.

Neighboring areas

Beginning in 1969, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Wittlich , Zell (Mosel) , Simmern , Kreuznach , Birkenfeld and Trier .

history

The district founded in 1816, spelled with c in the word Berncastel until the beginning of the 20th century, was called "District Bernkastel" until 1938 and belonged to Prussia until 1945 . It got its name from the town of Bernkastel , part of today's town of Bernkastel-Kues . The district also kept its name when, on April 1, 1905, the town of Kues , then Cues, on the opposite side of the Moselle , was incorporated. The name of the district town changed to Bernkastel-Kues. During the district reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , which came into force on June 7, 1969, the district was dissolved:

• The communities Allenbach , Asbach , Bollenbach , Bruchweiler , Gösenroth , Hausen , Hellertshausen , Horbruch , Hottenbach , Kempfeld , Krummenau , Oberkirn , Rhaunen , Schauren , Schwerbach , Sensweiler , Stipshausen , Sulzbach , Weitersbach and Wirschweiler-Langweiler came to the Birkenfeld district.
• The communities Lindenschied and Woppenroth came to the new Rhein-Hunsrück district .
• All other communities came to the new district of Bernkastel-Wittlich with seat in Wittlich .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	32,555
1847	42,886
1871	44,138
1885	44,433
1900	46.282
1910	49.110
1925	50,453
1939	51,353
1950	54,553
1960	55,100
1968	56,300

Almost two thirds of the workforce were employed in agriculture , viticulture and forestry .

District administrators

• 1816–1832 Jakob Liessem00
• 1832–1844 Konstantin von Gaertner00
• 1845–1846 Wilhelm von Arnim (substitute)00
• 1846–1848 Moritz von Bardeleben00
• 1848–1852 Franz von Steinäcker (acting)00
• 1852–1863 Julius Wiethaus00
• 1861 Ludwig Ferdinand Timme (represented during Wiethaus's illness)-999900
• 1863–1864 Gustav von Puttkamer00
• 1864–1881 Friedrich von Kühlwetter00
• 1881–1903 Ferdinand Rintelen00
• 1903–1910 Adolf Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten00
• 1910–1923 Ernst von Nasse00
• 1924–1933 Friedrich Gorius00
• 1933–1945 Hermann Middendorf00
• 1945 Hans-Georg Alexander Kremmler-999900
• 1945–1952 Walter Hummelsheim00
• 1952–1959 Klemens Schlueter00
• 1959–1966 Hermann Krämer00
• 1966–1969 Helmut Gestrich00

cities and communes

At the end of its existence in 1969, the district had a city and 92 other parishes:

Allenbach Andel Asbach Bäsch Mountain light Bernkastel-Kues , city Bishop's throne Bollenbach Brauneberg 1 Bruchweiler Castles Burtscheid Deuselbach Thron Throne corners Elzerath Emmeroth Earth Etgert

Felting Fronhofen Gielert Gonzerath Gornhausen Gosenroth Götzeroth Graach on the Moselle Gräfendhron Gutenthal Hague Hausen Heinzerath Hellertshausen Hilscheid Hinzerath Hochscheid Horath Horbruch

Hottenbach Hoxel Dog home Hunolstein Ilsbach Always Kautenbach Kempfeld Kesten Kleinich Come Krummenau Readers Lindenschied Longkamp Losnich Lückenburg Malborn Maring-Noviand

Merschbach Merscheid Monzelfeld Morbach Morscheid-Riedenburg Mülheim on the Moselle New stomach Neunkirchen Niederemmel Upper brain Oberkleinich Or Pilmeroth Rapperath Rhaunen Rorodt Showers Schoenberg Schwerbach

Sensweiler Stipshausen Sulzbach Talling Thalfang Veldenz Wederath Wehlen Weiperath Weitersbach Lessath Wintrich Wirschweiler-Langweiler wolf Wolzburg Woppenroth Zeltingen-Rachtig

¹Brauneberg was called Dusemond until 1925

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign BKS when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until June 6, 1969. It has been available in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district since November 26, 2012 ( license plate liberalization ).

literature

• Hans Vogts : The art monuments of the Bernkastel district. (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province , Vol. 15, Section I) Düsseldorf 1935

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical information on territorial.de
2. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
3. ^ Description of the administrative district of Trier. 1849, p. 282 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bernkastel.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).