District of Cologne

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Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period: 1816-1974
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Cologne
Area : 298.44 km 2
Residents: 276,400 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density : 926 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : K
Circle key : 05 3 34
Circle structure: 10 municipalities
District Administrator : Matthias Fischer ( SPD )

The district of Cologne (from 1969 as the district of Cologne ) was a district in the administrative district of Cologne 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 . The former district area is now part of the Rhein-Erft district and the city of Cologne .

Neighboring areas

At the end of its existence in 1974, the district of Cologne bordered the Grevenbroich district , the independent city of Cologne, the Rheinisch-Bergisch district , the Rhein-Sieg district and the Euskirchen and Bergheim (Erft) districts.

history

The district Cologne was added in 1816 in the former Prussian Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg from 1798 to 1814 to France belonging cantons Brühl and pastures in Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer and the right bank of the Rhine Mairie Deutz , previously to the 1806 to In 1814 the French-ruled Grand Duchy of Berg or, after the withdrawal of the French troops, belonged to the Prussian Generalgouvernement Berg and was part of the canton of Mülheim am Rhein in the arrondissement of Mülheim am Rhein in the Rhine department .

Entrance of the former district building in Cologne

The district of Cologne was initially divided into 13 mayorships :

With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, the mayorships of the district were partially subdivided into several municipalities .

Seal mark Königl. Landraths-Amt - District of Cologne

Deutz received the Rhenish Town Code in 1857 . Kalk , Poll and Vingst have since formed the Deutz-Land mayor , whose name was changed to Kalk Mayor in 1867 . The localities of Ehrenfeld and Subbelrath were combined in the mayor's office of Müngersdorf in 1867 to form a separate municipality of Ehrenfeld . The new municipality received the Rhenish City Code in 1879 and was thus raised to a separate mayor's office. In 1881, Kalk also received the Rhenish City Code. The municipalities of Poll and Vingst have since formed the mayor's office in Kalk-Land . In the mayor's office of Longerich, the localities of Nippes , Mauenheim and Riehl were merged on January 1, 1886 into a separate municipality of Nippes . On January 1, 1887, the municipality of Nippes was spun off from the Longerich mayor and raised to its own mayor's office.

Before the major incorporations in 1888, the district of Cologne had the following administrative structure:

Mayorry Communities
Bruehl Badorf , Berzdorf , Brühl , Kierberg , Schwadorf , Vochem
Deutz Deutz
Effers Efferen , Kriel , Stotzheim
Ehrenfeld Ehrenfeld
Cheeky Bachem , Buschbell , Frechen
Freimersdorf Freimersdorf
Huerth Berrenrath , Fischenich , Gleuel , Hermülheim , Hürth , Kendenich
Lime city lime
Lime land Poll , Vingst
Lövenich Lövenich
Longerich Longerich
Müngersdorf Müngersdorf
Trinkets Trinkets
Pulheim Geyen , Pulheim
Rondorf Rondorf
Stomping Sinnersdorf , Stommeln
Worringen Worringen

On April 1, 1888, the mayor's offices of Deutz, Ehrenfeld, Longerich, Müngersdorf and Nippes, the municipalities of Kriel and Poll and the localities of Bayenthal , Klettenberg , Marienburg , Raderberg , Raderthal and Zollstock were incorporated into the city of Cologne. On April 1, 1910, the city of Kalk and the municipality of Vingst were also incorporated into the city of Cologne. In the same year, Brühl was given the Rhenish City Code. The municipalities of Badorf , Berzdorf , Kierberg , Schwadorf and Vochem have formed the mayor's office of Brühl-Land since then .

In 1922 most of Worringen was incorporated into the city of Cologne. A small part came to the city of Dormagen in what was then the district of Neuss . The two communities Bachem and Buschbell were incorporated into Frechen in 1927. The municipality of Freimersdorf was renamed Brauweiler in 1928 . As in the entire Rhine Province, the mayor's offices were transferred to offices on January 1, 1928 . The municipality of Freimersdorf was renamed Brauweiler in 1928 .

Berrenrath , Fischenich , Gleuel , Hermülheim , Hürth and Kendenich were merged in 1930 to form the new municipality of Hürth . Badorf, Kierberg, Schwadorf and Vochem were incorporated into the city of Brühl in 1932. In the same year, Keldenich and Wesseling moved from the Bonn district to the Cologne district. The two communities together with Berzdorf formed the new Wesseling office . On October 1, 1933 Efferen and Stotzheim were incorporated into Hürth. The municipality of Brauweiler was incorporated into the Lövenich office in 1934 . In the same year, the Stommeln Office was incorporated into the Pulheim Office . Keldenich was incorporated into Wesseling in 1935. The Lövenich office was renamed the Weiden office in 1937 .

Frechen received city rights in 1951. In the same year the office of Weiden was abolished, whereby Brauweiler and Lövenich became non-office communities. The municipality of Stommeln left the Pulheim office in 1953 and became vacant. The municipality of Rondorf, which emerged from the mayor's office of the same name, was renamed the municipality of Rodenkirchen in 1961, as Rodenkirchen had meanwhile become the capital. In the same year Berzdorf was incorporated into Wesseling. On January 1, 1964, Geyen were incorporated into Brauweiler and the Pulheim office was dissolved. Pulheim and Sinnersdorf thus became municipalities that were free of office.

On October 1, 1969, the Cologne district was renamed the Cologne district. The municipality of Wesseling received city rights in 1972.

In November 1963, the district administration, which had resided in Cologne since 1816, decided to move its headquarters to a new building to be built in Hürth. This was completed in September 1974 after overcoming some resistance in the planning phase. Nevertheless, in November of the same year it was planned that the future Erftkreis would become Bergheim and that the administration would be divided between both locations. The district of Cologne recently comprised three cities and seven other municipalities:

  1. DEU Brauweiler (Pulheim) COA.svg Brauweiler
  2. DEU Bruehl (Rhld.) COA.svg Brühl (city)
  3. DEU Frechen COA.svg Frechen (city)
  4. DEU Huerth COA.svg Huerth
  5. DEU Loevenich COA.svg Lövenich
  6. DEU Pulheim COA.svg Pulheim
  7. DEU Rodenkirchen COA.svg Rodenkirchen
  8. DEU Sinnersdorf COA.svg Sinnersdorf
  9. DEU Stommeln COA.svg Stomping
  10. DEU Wesseling COA.svg Wesseling (City)

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

  • The Brauweiler community was dissolved. The district of Widdersdorf came to the city of Cologne, the district of Neufreimersdorf to the city of Frechen and all other districts to the municipality of Pulheim.
  • The community of Lövenich was dissolved. The district of Königsdorf came to the city of Frechen and all other districts to the city of Cologne.
  • The community Rodenkirchen was incorporated into the city of Cologne and essentially forms the current city ​​district of Rodenkirchen .
  • The community of Sinnersdorf was dissolved. The districts of Auweiler , Esch and Pesch came to the city of Cologne and the districts of Sinnersdorf and Orr to the municipality of Pulheim.
  • The community of Stommeln was incorporated into the community of Pulheim.
  • The city of Wesseling was incorporated into the city of Cologne.
  • The Cologne district was dissolved. Brühl, Frechen, Hürth Pulheim were Bedburg , Bergheim , Elsdorf and Kerpen from the also dissolved circle Bergheim and with Erftstadt from Euskirchen to new Erftkreis summarized, since 2003 Rhein-Erft 's.

The Erftkreis, into which on June 1, 1976 the Wesseling Act also incorporated the city of Wesseling, which was again spun off from Cologne, became the legal successor to the Cologne district.

Population development

year Residents
1816 029,714
1828 035,495
1880 121,795
1890 066.210
1900 085.293
1910 077,664
1925 092,677
1939 114,766
1950 147.310
1960 191,400
1970 253,900
1973 276,400

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 BHE KPD
1946 34.6 55.4 09.98
1948 42.5 42.6 04.1 09.4
1952 39.9 41.4 09.9 03.8 04.96
1956 45.3 52.5 06.6 04.0
1961 39.3 50.9 09.8
1964 43.9 48.7 07.4
1969 46.6 45.3 07.9

District administrators

At the head of the circle (district council and administration) stood a district administrator. The British occupation ordered a division after the Second World War. At the head of the district assembly was now an honorary district administrator elected by the district assembly. At the head of the administration was a senior district director as an electoral officer until 1975 .

Upper District Directors

  • 1946 -0000Werner Disse (April 1946 until his retirement on July 1, 1946)
  • seven months unoccupied
  • 1947–1950 Josef M. Koch
  • seven months unoccupied
  • 1950–1962 Willy Genrich
  • 1962–1974 Karlheinz Gierden

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign K when the vehicle registration number was introduced. To distinguish it from the city of Cologne, the code of the circle had two to four digits, i.e. one letter and up to three digits or two letters and up to two digits. The license plates remained valid after the end of the Cologne district.

literature

  • J. Klersch et al. a. (Ed.): Home chronicle of the district of Cologne , ed. i. A. of the Board of Trustees for German Homeland Care, Bonn. Archive for German Homeland Care, Cologne 1954
  • The district of Cologne, home calendar for the year .... (born 1926–1939, 1963–1974, each with chronicles, 1963 list of senior district directors). Published by the district of Cologne, Verlag Der Löwe Dr. Hans Reykers, Cologne
  • Hans Clemens: Design and Designer. Heads from the Cologne district. Verlag Der Löwe Dr. Hans Reykers, Cologne 1960
  • District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991. Düsseldorf 1992
  • Victor von Dewitz (overall editor): The Cologne district. History, culture, economy, administration. Stalling, Oldenburg 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, §1
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Historical Archive of the City of Cologne: Administrative affiliations in the Cologne area
  3. ^ Historical archive of the city of Cologne: City of Ehrenfeld
  4. ^ Historical archive of the city of Cologne: City of Kalk
  5. ^ Historical archive of the city of Cologne: Mayor's Office Longerich
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province (PDF; 1.3 MB), Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 124 ff
  7. ^ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: When Stommeln broke away from Pulheim
  8. ↑ Interest group Sinnersdorf: History of Sinnersdorf ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ig-sinnersdorf.de
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Herbert Heermann: Hürth and the foundation of the Erftkreis in the context of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform , in Hürther Heimat, No. 75 (1996), p. 36 ff
  11. ^ 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 .
  12. ^ 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. 304 .
  13. ^ Wesseling law
  14. ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
  15. ^ German Empire: Census 1880
  16. ↑ 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. rhp_koeln.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  17. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  18. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1975
  19. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  20. ↑ List at Archive NRW

Web links

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