District of Koblenz

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District of Koblenz
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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E

Basic data (as of 1970)
Existing period: 1816-1970
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Koblenz
Administrative headquarters : Koblenz
Area : 334.79 km 2
Residents: 97,226 (Jun 30, 1969)
Population density : 290 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : KO
Circle key : 07 1 36
Circle structure: 41 municipalities
Location of the Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate
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Seal mark K.Pr. District Office Koblenz

The district of Koblenz is a former district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Today his area belongs to the Mayen-Koblenz district . The district seat was in Koblenz .

geography

Neighboring areas

At the beginning of 1969, the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the district of Neuwied and the Unterwesterwaldkreis , the independent city of Koblenz as well as the Loreley district and the districts of Sankt Goar and Mayen .

history

Koblenz district

In 1815 the Rhineland was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . 1815, 1822 in which it was under the Prussian administration Rhine Province risen Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine formed in 1816 and this in turn in circles in mayors were divided. The "District of Coblenz" was initially divided into the mayorships of Koblenz , Bassenheim , Bendorf , Ehrenbreitstein , Engers , Rhens , St. Sebastian , Vallendar and Winningen . In 1822 the mayor's office in Engers was assigned to the Neuwied district .

District of Koblenz

In 1887 the city of Koblenz left the district and became a district. At the same time the name was county in the district changed. In the period that followed, several municipalities in the district were incorporated into Koblenz: Neuendorf in 1891 , Moselweiß in 1902 , Wallersheim in 1923 and Ehrenbreitstein , Horchheim , Metternich , Neudorf , Niederberg and Pfaffendorf in 1937 .

In 1926 the official spelling was changed to the Koblenz district . Since 1946 the district has been part of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

As part of the first stage of the Rhineland-Palatinate district reform on June 7, 1969, the communities of Alken , Beulich , Brey , Brodenbach , Burgen , Dommershausen , Eveshausen , Macken , Morshausen , Niederfell , Nörtershausen , Oberfell and Spay became part of the dissolved district of St. Goar as well as the communities of Gondorf , Hatzenport , Kattenes , Lehmen and Löf from the Mayen district are incorporated into the Koblenz district. At the same time, the communities of Kapellen-Stolzenfels and Kesselheim left the district and were incorporated into Koblenz.

The district was dissolved on November 7, 1970:

Population development

Residents 1816 1871 1885 1900 1910 1925 1939 1950 1960 1969
39,698 46.054 54,755 60,563 63,619 68,457 58,029 67,227 74,900 98,000

District administrators

cities and communes

The following table contains all cities and municipalities that belonged to the district before 1969 as well as all incorporations:

local community incorporated after Date of
incorporation
Arenberg Arenberg-Immendorf 7th June 1969
Arzheim Koblenz November 7, 1970
Bassenheim
Bendorf , city
Bisholder Guls April 1, 1938
Bubenheim Koblenz November 7, 1970
Thieving
Ehrenbreitstein Koblenz July 1, 1937
Guls Koblenz November 7, 1970
Horchheim Koblenz July 1, 1937
Immendorf Arenberg-Immendorf 7th June 1969
Kaltenengers
Kapellen-Stolzenfels Koblenz 7th June 1969
Careless Mülheim-Kärlich 7th June 1969
Kesselheim Koblenz 7th June 1969
Chained
Kobern Kobern-Gondorf 7th June 1969
Lay Koblenz November 7, 1970
Mallendar Vallendar April 1, 1939
Metternich Koblenz July 1, 1937
Moselle white Koblenz April 1, 1902
Mülheim Mülheim-Kärlich 7th June 1969
Neudorf Koblenz July 1, 1937
Neuendorf Koblenz July 1, 1891
Niederberg Koblenz July 1, 1937
Niederwerth
Pfaffendorf Koblenz July 1, 1937
Rhens
Rübenach Koblenz November 7, 1970
Saint Sebastian
Sayn Bendorf October 1, 1928
Arable
Urmitz
Vallendar , city
Waldesch
Wallersheim Koblenz October 1, 1923
Weißenthurm
Weitersburg
Winningen
Clouds

The municipalities of Alken , Arenberg-Immendorf , Beulich , Brey , Brodenbach , Burgen , Dommershausen , Eveshausen , Hatzenport , Kattenes , Kobern-Gondorf , Lehmen , Löf , Macken , Morshausen , Mülheim-Kärlich , Niederfell , Nörtershausen , Oberfell and Spay belonged to the district only in the last year of its existence between June 7, 1969 and November 7, 1970.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign KO when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is issued in the independent city of Koblenz until today.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Koblenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Rhineland-Palatinate, digitization portal Dilibri: The Government District Coblenz after its location, Begränzung, size, population and classification. Pauli, Coblenz 1817, p. IX.
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany: District of Koblenz. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
  3. ^ 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. 421 .
  4. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 152 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  5. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rhp_koblenz.html # landkreis. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 283-284 .
  9. ^ Municipal directory 1910: District of Koblenz .