Offenbach District (Starkenburg)

Hessen in 1930

The Offenbach district was a district in the Starkenburg Province in the Grand Duchy of Hesse or in the People's State of Hesse until November 1, 1938 . The city and district of Offenbach emerged from it. Offenbach left the district as an independent city in 1938, but remained the administrative seat.

Classification of the district in the Grand Duchy of Hesse

Together with the circles Bensheim , Darmstadt , Dieburg , Erbach , Gross-Gerau and Heppenheim , and occasionally, with the circles Lindenfels , Neustadt and Wimpfen , the District of Offenbach was the province of Starkenburg , in turn, along with the provinces of Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen , the Grand Duchy of Hesse represented .

history

After the proclamation of the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse on December 17, 1820, a comprehensive administrative reform followed on July 14, 1821. Instead of the offices , districts were now set up. These were the forerunners of the circles.
After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, the Offenbach district was formed from the Offenbach and Seligenstadt districts and part of the Langen district.
On July 31, 1848, the Offenbach district was incorporated into the Darmstadt administrative district, and some communities came into the Dieburg administrative district . However, this administrative reform lasted just under four years, because on May 12, 1852 the amalgamation was lifted and circles were created again. A newly delimited Offenbach district was created from parts of the district court districts of Langen, Offenbach and Seligenstadt.

With the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 between Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Rumpenheim community came from the Hanau district to the Offenbach district.

On July 1, 1874, the municipality of Steinbach from the disbanded Vilbel district was added to the Offenbach district as part of a Hessian district reform . From then on, it formed an exclave of the district located in the Taunus . The division of the Starkenburg province into the seven districts of Bensheim, Darmstadt, Dieburg, Erbach, Groß-Gerau, Heppenheim and Offenbach, created during the district reform of 1874, lasted for more than six decades.

After the dissolution of the provincial and district assemblies in what is now the People's State of Hesse (from 1918) and the dissolution of the three provinces of Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rhenish Hesse in 1937, a territorial reform was carried out in Hesse on November 1, 1938, under which the city of Offenbach Stadtkreis became independent. The remaining part of the district has existed since then as the Offenbach district .

District Councilors (Landräte)

1832–1848 Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Maurer
1852–1858 Wilhelm von Willich called von Pöllnitz
1858–1859 Karl Ernst Ludwig Melior
1859–1870 Julius Rinck von Starck
1872–1877 Ludwig von Grolmann
1877–1881 Gustav von Marquard
1881–1884 Karl Rothe
1884–1886 Friedrich Hallwachs
1886–1900 Wilhelm Haas
1900–1908 Friedrich von Hombergk zu Vach
1908–1914 Friedrich Lochmann
1915–1916 Heinrich Gennes
1916–1923 Gustav Spamer
1923–1924 Friedrich Martin von Bechtold
1924–1931 Ernst Werner
1931–1934 Ernst Merck
1934–1938 Hans-Reinhard Koch

Population numbers

The development of the population in the Offenbach district:

date	population
1852	43,282
1900	120,813
1910	161,569
1925	175,480
1933	185.038

Communities

The following communities belonged to the Offenbach district until November 1, 1938:

local community	annotation
Beaver	On April 1, 1938, incorporated into the city of Offenbach
Book cover	Re-formed on April 15, 1913
Bürgel	On April 1, 1908, incorporated into the city of Offenbach
Dietesheim
Dietzenbach
Dreieichenhain
Dudenhofen
Egelsbach
Froschhausen
Götzenhain
Groß-Steinheim , city	On April 1, 1938, merged with Klein-Steinheim to form the town of Steinheim am Main
Hainhausen
Hainstadt
Hausen
Heusenstamm
Jügesheim
Klein-Auheim
Klein-Krotzenburg
Klein-Steinheim	On April 1, 1938, merged with Groß-Steinheim to form the city of Steinheim am Main
Klein-Welzheim
Lamb game
Langen , city
Mainflingen
Muhlheim
Neu-Isenburg , city
Obertshausen
Offenbach , city
Offenthal
Rembrücken
Rumpenheim	Since 1866 in Offenbach district, previously in Hanau district
Seligenstadt , city
Jumpers
Steinbach	Since July 1, 1874 in Offenbach district, previously in Vilbel district
Steinheim am Main , city	Re-formed on April 1, 1938
Weiskirchen
Zellhausen
Zeppelinheim	Re-formed on January 1, 1938

Individual evidence

^ State of Hesse 1938 administrative structure
^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1832, p. 561
↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 30, 1852 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
^ ^A ^b Philipp AF Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. 1854, accessed March 2, 2016 .
^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 28 . Darmstadt June 12, 1874, p. 247 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Offenbach district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910: Offenbach district. Retrieved March 2, 2016 .

[1] State of Hesse 1938 administrative structure

[2] Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1832, p. 561

[3] Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette No. 30, 1852 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[hessen-4] A ^b Philipp AF Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. 1854, accessed March 2, 2016 .

[5] Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 28 . Darmstadt June 12, 1874, p. 247 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).

[demand-6] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Offenbach district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] Uli Schubert: German community register 1910: Offenbach district. Retrieved March 2, 2016 .