District of Moers

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Coat of arms of the district of Moers
District of Moers
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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '  N , 6 ° 38'  E

Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period: 1857-1974
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Regional association : Rhineland
Region : Lower Rhine
Administrative headquarters : Moers
Area : 563.6 km 2
Residents: 354,000 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density : 628 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : MO
Circle key : 05 2 37
Circle structure: 17 municipalities

The Moers was from 1857 to 31 December 1974, a district on the left Niederrhein in the administrative district of Dusseldorf , first in the Prussian Rhine province and since 1946 in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The district comprised an area of Xanten in the north, the Rhine in the east, the border with the city of Krefeld in the south and the border with the Kleve district in the west . The seat of the district was the city of Moers .

Neighboring areas

In 1974, the Moers district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Rees and Dinslaken districts , the independent cities of Duisburg and Krefeld and the Kempen-Krefeld , Geldern and Kleve districts .

history

The Moers district from 1857 to 1969

1857 were obtained from the circuit Geldern the area that the to 1823 circuit Rheinberg had formed and dissolved out with the Bürgermeisterei Friemersheim from the circuit Krefeld to Moers together. The Moers district initially had the following administrative structure:

Mayorry Communities
Alps Alps , Alpsray , Bönninghardt , Drüpt , Huck , Millingen
Baerl Baerl
Budberg Budberg , Eversael , Vierbaum
Buderich Buderich
Friemersheim Bliersheim , Friemersheim , Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen , Rumeln
Hochemmerich Bergheim , Hochemmerich , Oestrum
Hoerstgen Hoerstgen
Homberg Essenberg , Homberg , Hochheide
Camp Camp
Chapels Chapels
Labbeck Labbeck
Marienbaum Marienbaum , Obermörmter , Vynen
Moers-Land Asberg , Hochstraß , Hülsdonk , Schwafheim , Vinn
Moers city Moers (city)
Neukirchen Neukirchen
Orsoy land Orsoy land
Orsoy city Orsoy (city)
Ossenberg Borth , Ossenberg , Wallach
Repelen Repelen
Rheinberg country Winterswick
Rheinberg city Rheinberg (city)
Rheurdt Rayen , Rheurdt , Vluynbusch
Schaephuysen Schaephuysen
Sonsbeck Hamb , Sonsbeck
Veen Birten , Bönning , Menzelen , Veen , Winnenthal
Four quarters Kamperbruch , Lintfort , Rossenray , Saalhoff
Vluyn Vluyn
Wardt Wardt
Xanten Xanten (city)

The first incorporations took place after the turn of the century:

  • Asberg, Hochstraß, Hülsdonk, Schwafheim and Vinn were incorporated into the city of Moers in 1906.
  • Essenberg and Hochheide were incorporated into Homberg in 1907.
  • Repelen and Baerl were merged in 1910 to form the municipality of Repelen-Baerl .

In the 1920s, the heavily industrialized south of the district was reorganized:

  • Bliersheim was incorporated into Friemersheim in 1920.
  • Bergheim and Oestrum were incorporated into Hochemmerich on April 1, 1921.
  • The communities of Hochemmerich and Friemersheim were merged on April 6, 1923 to form the new community of Rheinhausen .
  • The previous mayorships of Hochemmerich and Friemersheim were merged in the same year to form the mayor's office of Rheinhausen , which in addition to the municipality of Rheinhausen included the municipalities of Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen and Rumeln.
  • The southern part of the community Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen was umgemeindet in 1927 in the city of Uerdingen in the district of Krefeld . The rest of the community Hohenbudberg-Kaldenhausen remained as community Kaldenhausen in the mayor's office Rheinhausen.
  • The rural mayor's offices have been designated as offices since 1927 .
  • Neukirchen and Vluyn were merged in 1928 to form Neukirchen-Vluyn .

In the 1930s, the number of parishes was further reduced:

  • Rheinhausen received city rights in 1934. At the same time Kaldenhausen was incorporated into Rumeln. The Rheinhausen office was abolished, which meant that Rumeln, which was enlarged by Kaldenhausen, became an office-free municipality.
  • Eversael and Vierbaum were incorporated into Budberg in 1934.
  • Hörstgen, Kamp, Kamperbruch, Lintfort, Rossenray and Saalhoff were merged in 1934 to form Kamp-Lintfort .
  • Obermörmter and Vynen were incorporated into Marienbaum in 1934.
  • All individual municipal offices were abolished in 1934. The communities concerned have been vacant since then.
  • Alpsray and Winterswick were incorporated into Rheinberg in 1934.
  • Rayen and Vluynbusch were incorporated into Neukirchen-Vluyn in 1935.
  • Schaephuysen was incorporated into Rheurdt in 1935.
  • Labbeck took up office in Sonsbeck in 1935.
  • Bönninghardt, Drüpt, Huck and Millingen were incorporated into the Alps in 1939.
  • Winnenthal was incorporated into Birten in 1939.
  • Bönning was incorporated into Menzelen in 1939.
  • The offices of Alpen and Veen were merged in 1939 to form the office of Alpen-Veen, which now comprised the four municipalities of Alpen, Birten, Menzelen and Veen.

The following changes were made after the Second World War :

  • Rumeln was renamed Rumeln-Kaldenhausen in 1950 .
  • Repelen-Baerl was renamed Rheinkamp in 1950 .
  • Ossenberg and Wallach were incorporated into Borth in 1951.
  • Rheurdt and Schaephuysen were again separated into independent communities in 1953 and have since formed the Rheurdt office .

From then until the end of the 1960s, the district was divided into 26 cities and municipalities:

Office Parishes (1968)
free of charge Borth , Budberg , Büderich , Homberg , Kamp-Lintfort , Kapellen , Marienbaum ,
Moers , Neukirchen-Vluyn , Orsoy , Orsoy-Land , Rheinhausen , Rheinberg ,
Rheinkamp , Rumeln-Kaldenhausen , Wardt , Xanten
Alpen-Veen Alps , Birten , Menzelen , Veen
Rheurdt Rheurdt , Schaephuysen
Sonsbeck Hamb , Labbeck , Sonsbeck

The Moers district from 1969 to 1974

On July 1, 1969, the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the district of Moers in the first phase of the territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia reorganized several municipalities:

  • Birten, Marienbaum and Wardt were incorporated into the city of Xanten.
  • Alpen, Menzelen and Veen have been merged to form the new municipality of Alpen.
  • Hamb, Labbeck and Sonsbeck were merged to form the new municipality of Sonsbeck.
  • Rheurdt and Schaephuysen were merged to form the new municipality of Rheurdt.
  • The three offices of Alpen-Veen, Rheurdt and Sonsbeck were dissolved.

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

On January 1, 1972, the Orsoy-Land community was incorporated into the city of Rheinberg. Thereafter the district of Moers consisted of 17 communities:

Regional reform in 1975

On January 1, 1975, the Ruhr Area Act and the Lower Rhine Act in the course of the second reorganization program led to the dissolution of the Moers district and further municipal reorganizations:

  • Homberg, Rheinhausen and Rumeln-Kaldenhausen became part of the city of Duisburg .
  • Rheinkamp was divided between the cities of Duisburg and Moers.
  • Büderich was incorporated into the city of Wesel .
  • Borth, Budberg and Orsoy were incorporated into the city of Rheinberg.
  • Kapellen was incorporated into the city of Moers.
  • Rheurdt came to the Kleve district .
  • Alps, Kamp-Lintfort, Moers, Neukirchen-Vluyn, Rheinberg, Sonsbeck and Xanten came to the new Wesel district .

Population development

year Residents source
1871 58.043
1880 63,596
1890 67,612
1900 82.501
1910 132.013
1925 172,367
1939 191.291
1946 202,518
1950 235,477
1960 309,400
1961 313,722
1970 349.504
1973 354,000

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 DZP KPD
1946 42.2 43.4 03.5 1.9 8.9
1948 41.3 40.8 02.1 6.5 7.5
11952 1 42.9 32.9 10.9 5.3 4.0
21956 2 51.1 35.5 08.3 2.5
1961 48.6 42.2 08.1
1964 54.4 38.8 06.8
1969 52.7 41.3 06.0

Footnotes

1 1952: additionally: DP: 2.1%
2 1956: additionally: BHE: 2.6%

District administrators

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the former district of Moers

Blazon : A divided shield, split twice at the bottom. Above in gold (yellow) a black bar, below field 1 an eight-pointed golden (yellow) lily reel with a silver (white) heart label in red, field 2 a black cross in silver (white), field 3 in blue a golden (yellow) lion .

Meaning: The old county of Moers formed the largest part of the district (upper field), the three lower coats of arms express the remaining parts of the area with their former affiliation: Field 1 Duchy of Kleve , Field 2 of the Elector and Archbishopric of Cologne and Field 3 of the Duchy of Geldern .

traffic

In addition to the state railway , the train bus and the Kraftpost, public transport was mainly served by the Moers-Homberg GmbH tram, the Moerser Verkehrsbetriebe and the Niederrheinische Automobilgesellschaft mbH (NIAG) .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign MO when the vehicle license plates were introduced . It was issued until December 31, 1974. It has been available in the Wesel district since December 3, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, Moers district
  2. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Moers
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1920, p. 240
  4. ^ Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District 1921, p. 147
  5. ↑ Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region 1923, p. 159
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1923, p. 299
  7. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1927, p. 277
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Moers district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ City of Rheinberg: Historical outline
  10. ↑ de.genealogy.net: Office Sonsbeck
  11. ↑ a b History of the municipality of the Alps. Retrieved April 14, 2013 .
  12. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1950, p. 201
  13. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1950, p. 203
  14. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1951, p. 83
  15. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1952, p. 341
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1971, p. 572
  18. ↑ 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. 296 .
  19. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  20. ↑ 1946 census
  21. ↑ Statistical Yearbook 1975, p. 53
  22. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  23. ↑ Coat of arms of the Moers district on ngw.nl

Web links

Wikisource: Statistical representation of the district of Moers  - sources and full texts