Kirchhain district

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	kassel
County seat	Kirchhain
Inventory period	1821-1932
surface	329.8 km²
Residents	23,931 (1925)
Population density	73 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	38 (1932)

The Kirchhain district had been an Kurhessische and later until 1932 a Prussian district in Central Hesse .

history

The Kirchhain district was formed on August 30, 1821 from the offices of Amöneburg , Kirchhain , Neustadt and Rauschenberg and belonged to the Hessian province of Upper Hesse , also Oberkurhessen, the seat of administration was Kirchhain . After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the district remained and then belonged to the administrative district of Kassel in the province of Hessen-Nassau .

The Schröck community left the Kirchhain district in 1886 and moved to the Marburg district . As part of a "minor administrative reform", the Kirchhain district was incorporated into the Marburg district on October 1, 1932 .

Population development

year	Residents
1871	22,214
1900	21,547
1910	22,870
1925	23,931

Communities

The Kirchhain district consisted of the following communities from 1821 to 1932, in the following arranged according to today's affiliations:

• (today's city of Amöneburg )
  • Amöneburg, Erfurtshausen , Mardorf , Roßdorf , Rüdigheim (→ all districts)
• (today's municipality of Antrifttal )
  • Court Katzenberg with Ohmes , Ruhlkirchen , Seibelsdorf , Vockenrod (→ all districts except Bernsburg ) (until 1866)
• (today's municipality of Ebsdorfergrund )
  • Rauischholzhausen
• (today's city of Gemünden (Wohra) )
  • Schiffelbach
• (today's city of Kirchhain )
  • Anzefahr , Burgholz , Emsdorf , Großseelheim , Himmelsberg , Kirchhain, Kleinseelheim , Langenstein , Niederwald , Schönbach , Sindersfeld , Stausebach (→ all districts except Betziesdorf )
• (today's city of Marburg )
  • Schröck (until 1886 in the Kirchhain district, then until 1974 in the Marburg district )
• (today's city of Neustadt )
  • Momberg , Neustadt, Speckswinkel (→ all districts except Mengsberg )
• (today's city of Rauschenberg )
  • Albshausen , Ernsthausen , Josbach , Rauschenberg, Schwabendorf , Wolfskaute (→ all districts except Bracht )
• (today's city of Stadtallendorf )
  • Allendorf , Niederklein , Schweinsberg (an der Ohm), Erksdorf , Hatzbach , Wolferode (→ all districts)
• (today's municipality of Wohratal )
  • Wohra , Halsdorf , Hertingshausen , Langendorf (→ all districts)

Until it was dissolved in the 1920s, the Kirchhain district also had four manor districts: Oberförsterei Bracht, Holzhausen, Oberförsterei Mengsberg and Oberförsterei Neustadt.

District office from 1890

District Office Building

In 1890 the new district office building was built at Niederrheinische Strasse 32 in Kirchhain . After the district was dissolved, the building was used by the Kirchhain district court .

District administrators

• 1833: Friedrich Cranz
• 1841:
• 1855 to 1856: Wilhelm Uloth
• 1857: Carl Wilhelm Rohde
• 1883: Wilhelm Rabe
• 1886: Rudolph Schenck zu Schweinsberg
• 1910: Adolf von und zu Gilsa
• 1929: Theodor Beaucamp

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General

• Hessian State Statistical Office: Historical municipality register for Hesse. Issue 2. Area changes of the Hessian communities and districts from 1834 to 1967 . Wiesbaden 1968
• Neumann local lexicon of the German Empire

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipal directory 1910: Kirchhain district
2. ↑ ^{a b} administrative history
3. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223-224
4. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Hesse-Nassau province and their population in 1871
5. ^ Ulrich Reuling : Historical local dictionary of the state of Hesse; Booklet 3 Marburg - Former district and independent city (book and map 1: 50,000) . NG Ellwert, Marburg 1979.

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 38.6"  E