Meschede district

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E
Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1832-1974
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg
Regional association :	Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters :	Meschede
Area :	675.16 km 2
Residents:	71,913 (Dec. 31, 1974)
Population density :	107 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	MES
Circle key :	05 8 37
Circle structure:	26 municipalities
Location of the Meschede district in North Rhine-Westphalia

The district of Meschede was from 1819 to 1974 (until 1832 under the name of Eslohe district ) a district in the administrative district of Arnsberg . With that he first belonged to the Prussian province of Westphalia and from 1946 to North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1939 to 1969, the district was called Meschede District . The district town was Meschede after the seat of the district had been moved from Eslohe to Meschede in 1819 .

geography

location

The district was in the middle east of the Sauerland .

Neighboring areas

In 1974 the district of Meschede bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the districts of Arnsberg , Lippstadt , Brilon , Wittgenstein and Olpe . Until June 30, 1969, it also bordered what was then the Lüdenscheid district , which had emerged from the Altena district six months earlier .

history

In 1817 the administrative district of Arnsberg was divided into districts. The former district of Fredeburg in the west also belonged to the Medebach district formed in this way. Since the district town on the eastern border was difficult to reach from there, especially in winter, and there were repeated complaints as a result, major changes were made as early as 1819. The Eslohe district was newly formed, the Medebach district was divided into the Brilon and Eslohe districts and the Arnsberg district was greatly changed.

On January 1, 1819, the parishes of Meschede, Eversberg, Velmede, Calle, Remblinghausen, Eslohe, Oedingen, Cobbenrode, Reiste, Schliprüthen, Wenholthausen, the branch locations of the parish of Schönholthausen in the Eslohe office were merged with the western part of the Medebach district to form the new Eslohe district . District Administrator Christian Adolf Wilhelm Pilgrim was transferred from Medebach to Eslohe.

Since the district administrator in Eslohe could not find suitable premises, the seat of the district was relocated - initially for the time being - from the more centrally located Eslohe to Meschede in December 1819. On September 2, 1832, "the city of Meschede was now definitely determined to be the district capital" and the Eslohe district was renamed Meschede.

On January 1, 1832, the localities Hohenwibbecke , Lenscheid, Saal and Wildewiese from the Eslohe district were incorporated into the Arnsberg district.

The circle Meschede was in the 1830s in the mayors Eslohe, Eversberg, Fredeburg, Schmallenberg and Serkenrode and the mayor districts Calle, Drasenbeck , Gellinghausen , Meschede, Remblinghausen and Stockhausen divided. As part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia, the district was divided into the offices of Bödefeld, Eslohe , Eversberg , Fredeburg , Meschede , Schmallenberg and Serkenrode in 1843 . As early as 1844, the Bödefeld office was dissolved again and incorporated into the Fredeburg office.

Between 1844 and 1974 there were the following changes in the administrative structure of the district:

• In 1866 the seven new municipalities Berlar , Gevelinghausen , Halbeswig , Heringhausen , Nuttlar , Ostwig and Ramsbeck , which until then belonged to the municipality of Velmede, were formed.
• In 1910 Berlar was incorporated into Ramsbeck.
• In 1911 the Eversberg office was renamed Bestwig .
• In 1920 the new community Fleckenberg was formed from parts of the county and Wormbach .
• In 1938 Halbeswig was incorporated into Velmede.
• In 1969, through the law on the reorganization of the district of Olpe, the communities Schliprüthen and Schönholthausen were incorporated into Finnentrop and Oedingen into Lennestadt in the district of Olpe . The Serkenrode office was dissolved.

On October 1, 1969, the district became the district of Meschede.

With the Sauerland / Paderborn law , the district of Meschede was dissolved with effect from January 1, 1975. Its area was merged with that of the Arnsberg and Brilon districts to form the Hochsauerlandkreis .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1819	22,910
1832	24,523
1871	33,627
1880	35,302
1900	38.134
1933	50,300
1939	52,911
1950	73,919
1961	78,643
1969	71,100
1970	69,724
1974	71,913

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	CDU	SPD	FDP	DZP	KPD
1946	75.6	21.6			2.8
1948	57.2	23.8	00.8	11.5	2.9
1952	59.9	23.4	11.1	04.0
1956	63.1	24.6	12.3
1961	67.2	21.8	11.0
1964	65.6	25.6	07.8
1969	62.0	30.1	06.9

In the 1948 election, independent candidates received 3.8% of the valid votes.

District administrators

• 1819–1833 Christian Adolf Wilhelm Pilgrim (until December 1819 in Eslohe, renaming of the district in 1832)00
• 1835–1839 Clemens August von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg00
• 1839-1853 Friedrich Boese00
• 1854–1878 Johannes Franz August von Devivere00
• 1878–1897 Markus Hammer00
• 1897–1926 Meinulf von Mallinckrodt00
• 1926–1933 Otto Werra00
• 1933 Ludwig Runte (substitute)0000000
• 1934 Theodor van de Sandt (substitute)0000000
• 1934–1936 Georg Bald00
• 1936–1939 Wilhelm Behr00
• 1939–1942 Hermann Heimhardt00
• 1942–1945 Walter Schlueter00
• 1945–1946 00Kaspar Ebel
• 1946 0000000Walter Paul
• 1946–1961 Hans Gabriel00
• 1961–1969 Friedrich Geiecke00
• 1969–1974 Otto Entrup00

Upper District Directors

• Jakob Kloos (1946)
• Wilhelm Ammermann (1946–1964)
• Klaus Siebenkotten (1964–1971)
• Joachim Barbonus (1971–1974)

Offices and municipalities

1. Office Eslohe
   1. Cobbenrode
   2. Eslohe
   3. Traveled
   4. Wenholthausen
2. Office Bestwig (until 1910 Office Eversberg )
   1. Berlar (1866-1910)
   2. Eversberg , city
   3. Gevelinghausen (from 1866)
   4. Halbeswig (1866–1938)
   5. Heringhausen (from 1866)
   6. Nuttlar (from 1866)
   7. Ostwig (from 1866)
   8. Ramsbeck (from 1866)
   9. Velmede
3. Office Fredeburg
   1. Berghausen
   2. Freedom Bödefeld
   3. Bödefeld-Land
   4. Dorlar
   5. Fredeburg , city
   6. Rarbach
4. Meschede Office
   1. Calle
   2. Meschede , city
   3. Meschede-Land
   4. Remblinghausen
5. Schmallenberg Office
   1. Fleckenberg (from 1920)
   2. county
   3. Oberkirchen
   4. Schmallenberg , city
   5. Wormbach
6. Office Serkenrode (until 1969)
   1. Oedingen (until 1969)
   2. Schliprüthen (until 1969)
   3. Schönholthausen (until 1969)

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, when the license plates were introduced, the MES was assigned to the district at that time . After the formation of the new Hochsauerlandkreis it was issued there until February 11, 1979.

literature

• Albert Huyskens : The district of Meschede under the fire roller of the second world war - compiled from the experience reports of many employees from the entire district area and presented on behalf of the district administration. W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 1949.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Conrad: The Westphalian circles and the remainder of their registry. 27th Westphalian Archives Day in Bocholt, minutes and presentations, May 12 and 13, 1975, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, July 1975 ( PDF file; 2.05 MB )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johannes Dornseiffer : History about Eslohe. Paderborn 1896, p. 204f ( digitized version ); Reprint: Kath. Pfarramt, Eslohe 1983 (PDF file; 1.9 MB) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government in Arnsberg of October 6, 1832, p. 294 ( online ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978, p. 91 (reprint of the original from 1834).
5. ↑ Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
6. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Arnsberg 1843. Retrieved on February 2, 2014 . 
7. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Arnsberg 1845, dissolution of the office Bödefeld. Retrieved February 22, 2014 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} GenWiki: Office Bestwig
9. ↑ www.fleckenberg.info ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 335 .
12. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Community Lexicon Westphalia 1887 p. 131
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. meschede.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
15. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.