District of Düren (1816–1971)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ' N , 6 ° 29' E |
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| Basic data (as of 1971) | ||
| Existing period: | 1816-1971 | |
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Aachen | |
| Regional association : | Rhineland | |
| Administrative headquarters : | Düren | |
| Area : | 542.16 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 162,400 (Dec. 31, 1971) | |
| Population density : | 300 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | DN | |
| Circle key : | 05 4 32 | |
| Circle structure: | 43 municipalities | |
| District Administrator : | Johannes Kaptain ( CDU ) | |
The first district of Düren was a district in the former administrative district of Aachen from 1816 to 1971 . With this he belonged first to the Rhine Province and from 1946 to North Rhine-Westphalia . The district town was Düren , which also remained the district town of the extended Düren district .
geography
General
The circle was roughly the shape of an irregular pentagon. It consisted of 24 mayorships with 88 parishes. In 1905 there were 96,431 inhabitants.
Neighboring areas
In 1971, the Düren district bordered clockwise to the north, starting with the Jülich , Bergheim (Erft) , Euskirchen , Schleiden , Monschau and Aachen districts .
history
The Düren district was formed in 1816 from the former French cantons of Düren and Froitzheim and parts of the neighboring cantons of Eschweiler , Kerpen , Linnich and Monschau . The district was initially divided into 27 mayor's offices. In the further course of the 19th century, the mayor's offices Bergstein and Straß were merged to form the mayor's office of Straß-Bergstein and the mayor's office of Ollesheim was incorporated into the mayor's office in Nörvenich . With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, most of the mayor's offices in the district were divided into several municipalities . In 1856, Düren was given the Rhenish City Code . Since then there have been 25 mayor's offices with a total of 89 communities in the Düren district on an area of 563 km²:
The municipality of Pissenheim was renamed Muldenau in 1919 . As in the entire Rhine Province, the mayorships of the district have been designated as offices since January 1, 1928 . On January 1, 1932, the district of Düren lost the communities of Hastenrath and Nothberg , which were incorporated into the city of Eschweiler in the district of Aachen . In the 1930s the number of offices was reduced and several small communities lost their independence:
- Frangenheim was incorporated into Froitzheim on October 1, 1932.
- Kettenheim was incorporated into Vettweiß on October 1, 1932.
- Brück-Hetzingen was incorporated into Nideggen on April 1, 1936.
- Rölsdorf was incorporated into Düren on April 1, 1937.
After the Second World War , the official names of some municipalities changed:
- The community of Echtz was last called Echtz-Konzendorf .
- The community of Schlich was last called Schlich-D'horn .
- The community of Geich near Echtz was last called Geich-Obergeich .
- The community of Geich near Füssenich was last called Geich .
Until the start of the regional reforms in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Düren district was divided into a total of 83 municipalities:
On January 1, 1969, the municipalities of the Nörvenich office were merged to form the new, larger municipality of Nörvenich except for the municipality of Wissersheim. On July 1, 1969, the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Düren district came into force:
- Merode and Schlich-D'horn were merged to form the new municipality of D'horn .
- Füssenich, Geich and Juntersdorf were merged to form a new, larger municipality of Füssenich .
- Bergstein, Brandenberg, Gey, Großhau, Hürtgen, Kleinhau and Straß were merged to form the new municipality of Hürtgenwald .
- Bogheim, Boich-Leversbach, Drove, Kreuzau, Stockheim, Thum, Üdingen and Winden were merged into a new, larger municipality of Kreuzau .
- Berzbuir-Kufferath and Lendersdorf-Krauthausen were merged to form the new municipality of Lendersdorf .
- Girbelsrath, Golzheim, Merzenich and Morschenich were merged into a new, larger municipality of Merzenich .
- Disternich, Gladbach, Lüxheim, Müddersheim and Sievernich were merged into a new, larger municipality of Müddersheim .
- Niederzier and Oberzier were merged into a new, larger municipality of Niederzier . The Niederzier office was dissolved.
- Froitzheim, Ginnick, Jakobwüllesheim, Kelz, Soller and Vettweiß were merged into a new, larger municipality of Vettweiß .
At the same time, the community of Wissersheim left the Düren district through the law on the reorganization of the Euskirchen district and was incorporated into the city of Erftstadt in the Euskirchen district. The Nörvenich office was dissolved.
On October 1, 1969, the district became the Düren district, which until its dissolution consisted of 43 communities.
On January 1, 1972, the Aachen Act came into force:
- Arnoldsweiler, Birgel, Birkesdorf, Derichsweiler, Echtz-Konzendorf, Gürzenich, Lendersdorf, Mariaweiler-Hoven, Merken and Niederau were incorporated into the city of Düren .
- Frenz, Lamersdorf, Lucherberg, Pier and Schophoven became parts of the municipality of Inden .
- Obermaubach-Schlagstein and Untermaubach were incorporated into the Kreuzau community .
- D'horn, Geich-Obergeich, Jüngersdorf, Langerwehe, Luchem and Wenau were merged into a new, larger municipality of Langerwehe .
- Evenings, Berg-Thuir, Embken, Muldenau, Nideggen and Wollersheim became part of the new, larger town of Nideggen .
- Ellen, Hambach, Huchem-Stammeln, Niederzier, Selhausen and Steinstrasse were merged into a new, larger municipality of Niederzier .
- Müddersheim and Vettweiß were merged into a new, larger municipality of Vettweiß .
- Weisweiler was incorporated into the city of Eschweiler in the Aachen district.
- Bürvenich and Füssenich were incorporated into the town of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district.
- The Düren district and all of its offices were dissolved. Düren, Inden, Kreuzau, Langerwehe, Nideggen, Niederzier and Vettweiß were incorporated into the new Düren district.
traffic
The following Roman roads ran through the Düren district:
- the Roman road Neuss-Zülpich, today about the B 477
- the Steinstraße from Merzenich via Frauwüllesheim to Zülpich
- the Sievernicher way from Derichsweiler-Gürzenich near Rölsdorf over the Rur, south past Düren to Zülpich
- a road to the Eifel, visible in the field between Berg and Nideggen, through the Wollersheim forest, below Drove into the valley and above Kreuzau over the Rur
- the Heinzelmännchenweg from Oberbolheim via Girbelsrath and Distelrath and above Mariaweiler via the Rur
- a path from Golzheim via Merzenich to Birkesdorf, between Hoven and Merken over the Rur and on towards Lucherberg-Lamersdorf into the Indetal.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1816 | 37,186 |
| 1825 | 42,367 |
| 1852 | 53,296 |
| 1871 | 66,136 |
| 1880 | 72,664 |
| 1890 | 80.194 |
| 1900 | 90,679 |
| 1910 | 103,953 |
| 1925 | 116.119 |
| 1939 | 119.760 |
| 1950 | 118,527 |
| 1960 | 142,400 |
| 1971 | 162,400 |
politics
Results of the district elections from 1946 to 1969
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 | CDU | SPD | FDP | DZP | KPD |
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| 1946 | 63.6 | 28.5 | 6.1 | ||
| 1948 1 | 48.0 | 37.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 1952 | 49.3 | 34.9 | 6.4 | 4.98 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 50.3 | 40.5 | 5.1 | 3.0 | |
| 1961 | 55.0 | 34.7 | 10.3 | ||
| 1964 | 51.7 | 40.1 | 8.2 | ||
| 1969 | 54.6 | 40.2 | 4.9 |
footnote
1 1948: additionally: RVP: 9.5%
District administrators
- 1816–1824: Gerhard von Lommessem
- 1825–1837: August von Ripperda
- 1837–1841: Moritz von Egidy
- 1841–1887: Emmerich Stürtz
- 1867–1868: Otto Naumann (illness representation)
- 1887–1909: Maximilian von Breuning
- 1909–1920: Otto Kesselkaul
- 1919: Karl Sieger (substitute)
- 1920–1923: Wilhelm Rombach
- 1923: Franz von Bourscheidt (by order)
- 1923–1924: Peter Cremerius (by order)
- 1924–1933: Paul Schaaff
- 1933-1944: Theodor Beaucamp
- 1945–1946: Wilhelm Seeger
- 1946–1948: Armin Renker , CDU
- 1948–1954: Josef Hilgers , CDU
- 1954–1956: Wilhelm Anton Cremer , CDU
- 1956–1960: Fritz von Ameln
- 1960–1964: Anton Germscheid , CDU
- 1964–1971: Johannes Kaptain , CDU (until 1989 also district administrator of the new Düren district)
Upper District Directors
- 1946–1949: Alfred Grube
- 1949–1952: Fritz Kurth
- 1952–1965: Eduard Bierhoff
- 1965–1971: Elmar Dünschede
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, when the vehicle registration number was introduced, the district was assigned the distinction DN .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The art monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume 9: The art monuments of the Düren district. Published by Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1910, p. 1
- ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces. Nicolai, 1830, p. 796 ff.
- ^ District archive Düren: District history
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province (PDF; 1.3 MB), Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, pp. 206 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dueren.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ a b Address book District Düren 1954, chap. Office Vettweiß
- ^ Community names 1910
- ↑ Community names 1939 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Community names 1971
- ^ Law on the amalgamation of the municipalities of Binsfeld, Eggersheim, Eschweiler over Feld, Frauwüllesheim, Hochkirchen, Irresheim, Nörvenich, Oberbolheim, Poll and Rath near Nörvenich, Düren district
- ↑ Announcement of the new version of the district regulations for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from August 11, 1969 in the Law and Ordinance Gazette for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, year 1969, No. 2021, p. 670 ff.
- ↑ The art monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume 9: The art monuments of the Düren district. Published by Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1910, p. 1
- ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
- ^ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 110
- ↑ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1852, p. 76
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
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