District Höchst

This article describes the Prussian district. For the Höchst district, which existed briefly between 1849 and 1854, see Höchst district office

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	Wiesbaden
County seat	High on the Main
Inventory period	1886-1928
surface	143.5 km²
Residents	86,129 (1925)
Population density	600 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	21 (1886) 18 (1928)
Map (1905)

The former district office in Frankfurt-Höchst

The Höchst am Main district was a district in the Wiesbaden administrative district of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau , located between the city of Frankfurt am Main in the east and the Wiesbaden district in the west. The county seat was Höchst am Main .

history

The district Höchst was formed on April 1, 1886 as part of a regional reform in the province of Hessen-Nassau from the communities of the old office Höchst (except the community Heddernheim ) and the communities Langenhain , Lorsbach and Marxheim of the old office Hochheim . The district area had formed the eastern part of the Mainkreis founded in 1867 .

On July 1, 1917, Sindlingen , Unterliederbach and Zeilsheim were incorporated into the city of Höchst am Main.

The Höchst district was dissolved on April 1, 1928. The city of Höchst am Main and the communities of Griesheim , Nied , Schwanheim and Sossenheim were incorporated into the independent city of Frankfurt am Main . All other communities became part of the newly established Main-Taunus-Kreis . The Frankfurt district of Höchst remained the administrative seat of the Main-Taunus-Kreis until 1987.

Population development

year	Residents
1900	55,493
1910	76,811
1925	86,129

District administrators

Seal of the district administrator of the Höchst district

The district administrators were:

• 1886–1892: August von Trott zu Solz (1855–1938)
• 1892–1894: Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935)
• 1894–1900: Otto von Steinmeister (1860–1937)
• 1900–1910: Heinrich von Achenbach (1863–1933)
• 1910–1920: Robert Klauser (1867–1951)
• 1921–1926: Josef Zimmermann (1871–1929)
• 1926–1928: Wilhelm Apel (1873–1960)

Communities

The Höchst district originally included 21 cities and municipalities, eight of which became districts of Frankfurt am Main and 13 municipalities were assigned to the Main-Taunus district, which comprises a total of 45 cities and municipalities. The towns and municipalities in the district are listed below:

former parish	today's parish	today's circle
Eschborn	Eschborn	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Griesheim	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Hattersheim	Hattersheim am Main	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Höchst am Main , city	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Hofheim am Taunus	Hofheim am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Kriftel	Kriftel	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Langenhain	Hofheim am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Lorsbach	Hofheim am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Marxheim	Hofheim am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Muenster	Kelkheim	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Nied	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Niederhofheim	Liederbach am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Oberliederbach	Liederbach am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Okriftel	Hattersheim am Main	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Schwanheim	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Sindlingen ( 1917 to Höchst )	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Soden am Taunus	Bad Soden am Taunus	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Sossenheim	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Sulzbach	Sulzbach	Main-Taunus-Kreis
Unterliederbach ( 1917 to Höchst )	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main
Zeilsheim ( 1917 to Höchst )	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• District Höchst administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of April 14, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b Register of} municipalities in Germany 1900: Landkreis Höchst
2. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Höchst. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ District order for the province of Hessen-Nassau 1886 (digitized version)
4. ^ "Sindlingen, City of Frankfurt am Main". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).