District of Heinsberg (1816–1932)

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District of Heinsberg (1816–1932)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 6 ′  E

Basic data (as of 1932)
Existing period: 1815-1932
State : Free State of Prussia
Administrative region : Aachen
Administrative headquarters : Heinsberg
Area : 234.9 km 2
Residents: 43,273 (Jan. 1, 1925)
Population density : 184 inhabitants per km 2
Circle structure: 35 municipalities

The first district of Heinsberg was a district in the administrative district of Aachen from 1816 to 1932 . With this he belonged first to the Prussian province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and from 1822 to the Rhine province . His area today belongs to the much larger district of Heinsberg , which was newly founded in 1972 . The seat of the district administration was the city of Heinsberg .

Administrative history

The district of Heinsberg on a map from 1905

The district of Heinsberg was essentially formed in 1816 from the canton of Heinsberg, which until 1813 belonged to the Arrondissement of Aachen in the French Département de la Roer . The circle was initially divided into 21 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 . In 1857, Heinsberg was given the Rhenish Town Code . The municipality of Oberbruch, which until then had belonged to the mayor's office of Heinsberg, was raised to its own mayor's office. In the same year, the mayor's offices Millen and Tüddern were incorporated into the Havert mayor's office. The new community Schierwaldenrath was formed in 1926 from parts of the community Waldfeucht . Since then, in the district of Heinsberg there have been 34 other communities in addition to the city of Heinsberg on an area of ​​234.9 km²:

Mayorry Communities
Aphoven Aphoven , Schafhausen
Birgelen Birgelen , Effeld , Ophoven
Braunsrath Braunsrath
Breberen Breberen
Dremming Dremmen , Horst
Hair Hair
Havert Havert , Millen , Tüddern
Heinsberg Heinsberg (city)
Hilfarth Hilfarth , Porselen
Karken Karken , Kempen
Kirchhoven Kirchhoven
Myhl Arsbeck , Myhl , Wildenrath
Oberbruch Oberbruch
Ratheim Ratheim
Saeffelen Höngen , Saeffelen
Interruption Interruption
Waldenrath Waldenrath
Forest damp Schierwaldenrath , Waldfeucht
Wassenberg Orsbeck , Wassenberg
Weir Hillensberg , Süsterseel , Wehr

As in the entire Rhine Province, the district mayor's offices have been designated as offices since January 1, 1928 . The Heinsberg district was dissolved in 1932. Most of it was combined with the Geilenkirchen district, which was also founded in 1816, to form the new Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg district. The communities Arsbeck, Hilfarth, Myhl, Ratheim and Wildenrath came to the district of Erkelenz .

Population development

year Residents
1816 27,532
1825 29,476
1852 33,679
1871 35,655
1880 35,693
1890 34,940
1900 35,888
1910 40.008
1925 43,273

District administrators

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 118.
  2. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Aachen 1857, p. 506
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Aachen 1857, p. 392
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland, area of ​​the district of Heinsberg . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 244.
  5. ^ Territorial.de: Mayor offices and municipalities of the district of Heinsberg
  6. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
  7. ^ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1852, p. 136
  8. a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244
  9. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).