Rees County

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Coat of arms of the Rees County
Rees County
Map of Germany, position of the Rees district highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 37 ′  E

Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period: 1816-1974
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Regional association : Rhineland
Region : Lower Rhine
Administrative headquarters : Wesel
Area : 528.23 km 2
Residents: 122,300 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density : 232 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : WES
Circle key : 05 1 38
Circle structure: 28 municipalities

The Rees district existed from April 23, 1816 to December 31, 1974 as a district on the right Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia . It included the area from the Lippe in the south, the Rhine in the west downstream to the German - Dutch border and the border with the former province of Westphalia in the east. Its administrative seat was initially the eponymous city of Rees , but from May 20, 1842, the city of Wesel .

geography

location

The Rees district was the last German district to the right of the Rhine before the river crossed into the Netherlands.

Neighboring areas

In 1974 the Rees district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Borken , Recklinghausen , Dinslaken , Moers and Kleve districts . In the northwest it bordered the Dutch province of Gelderland .

history

The area of ​​the Rees district belonged to the County of Kleve, which had existed since 1020 and which became the Duchy of Kleve in 1417 . This duchy had been part of Brandenburg-Prussia since 1666 at the latest . In 1815 the Prussian area was added to the Congress of Vienna . As part of the Prussian administrative organization , the Rees district was founded on April 23, 1816 as one of over 40 districts in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province in the Kleve administrative district. From 1822 the Rees district belonged to the Düsseldorf administrative district of the Rhine province .

The district was initially made up of the eight mayorships of Elten, Emmerich, Haldern, Isselburg, Rees, Ringenberg, Vrasselt and Wesel, which were formed during the French era . On September 27, 1823, the mayor's office of Schermbeck was also reclassified from the Dinslaken district to the Rees district. On May 20, 1842 the seat of the district changed from Rees to Wesel , whereby the district name was retained ("District Rees, seat in Wesel"). After the municipal ordinance for the Rhine Province of 1845 and the Rhenish city ordinance of 1856 for the cities of Emmerich, Isselburg, Rees and Wesel came into force, the Rees district was structured as follows:

Mayorry Parishes (1885)
Parents Borghees , Elten , Grondstein-Steinward , Hüthum
Emmerich country Little Nice Earth
Emmerich city Emmerich (city)
Haldern Groin , Haffen-Mehr , Haldern , Heeren-Herken , Loikum , Wertherbruch
Millingen Heelden , Hurl , Millingen , Vehlingen
Isselburg Isselburg (city)
Obrighoven Obrighoven-Lackhausen
Rees Land Bergswick , Esserden , Reesereyland , Reeserward , Speldrop
Rees town Rees (city)
Ringenberg Bislich , Diersfordt , Flüren , Hamminkeln , Ringenberg
Schermbeck Breaks , Brünen , Damm , Dusk Forest , Drevenack , Krudenburg , Overbeck , Schermbeck , Weselerwald
Rattles Bees , Dornick , Grietherbusch , Praest , Vrasselt
Wesel Wesel (city)

The mayor's offices , which consisted of several municipalities, were designated as offices since 1927 . The municipality of Grondstein-Steinward was incorporated into Elten in 1935. On April 1, 1958, the new municipality of Grietherort was formed from the part of the municipality of Grieth on the right bank of the Rhine, which belongs to the Kleve district , and incorporated into the Vrasselt district of the Rees district. The municipality of Hurl was renamed Empel in 1962 .

Before the regional reforms began in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rees district consisted of

  1. the city of Emmerich
  2. the city of Isselburg
  3. the city of Rees
  4. the city of Wesel
  5. the community of Obrighoven-Lackhausen
  6. the office of Elten with the communities
    1. Borghees
    2. Parents
    3. Huethum
    4. Little Nice Earth
  7. the office of Haldern with the communities
    1. Groin
    2. Haffen-Mehr
    3. Haldern
    4. Heeren-Herken
    5. Loikum
    6. Collapse of value
  8. the office Millingen with the communities
    1. Empel
    2. Heelden
    3. Millingen
    4. Vehlingen
  9. the Rees-Land office with the municipalities
    1. Bergswick
    2. Earthenware
    3. Reesereyland
    4. Reeserward
    5. Speldrop
  10. the office Ringenberg (seat in Hamminkeln) with the communities
    1. Up to now
    2. Diersfordt
    3. Hallways
    4. Hamminkeln
    5. Ringenberg
  11. the office Schermbeck with the communities
    1. Breaks
    2. Brünen
    3. dam
    4. Gloamwood
    5. Drevenack
    6. Krudenburg
    7. Overbeck
    8. Schermbeck
    9. Weselerwald
  12. the Amt Vrasselt with the municipalities
    1. Bees
    2. Dornick
    3. Grietherbusch
    4. Grietherort
    5. Praest
    6. Rattles

Through the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Rees district , the offices of Elten, Rees-Land and Vrasselt were dissolved on July 1, 1969 in the first phase of regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia and the cities of Emmerich, Rees and Wesel were restructured:

  • Borghees, Dornick, Hüthum, Klein-Netterden, Praest and Vrasselt became part of the city of Emmerich.
  • Bergswick, Bienen, Esserden, Grietherbusch, Grietherort, Reesereyland, Reeserward and Speldrop became part of the town of Rees.
  • Flüren and Obrighoven-Lackhausen became part of the city of Wesel.

On October 1, 1969, the county became Rees County.

On January 1, 1975, in the second restructuring phase, several municipalities were restructured and the Rees district dissolved:

  • Bislich and Diersfordt became part of the city of Wesel.
  • Drevenack and Krudenburg became part of the municipality of Hünxe .
  • Bricht, Damm, Dämmerwald, Overbeck and Weselerwald became part of the municipality of Schermbeck.
  • Brünen, Loikum, Ringenberg and Wertherbruch became part of the Hamminkeln municipality.
  • Empel, Groin, Haffen-Mehr, Haldern, Heeren-Herken and Millingen became part of the city of Rees.
  • Elten became part of the city of Emmerich.
  • Heelden and Vehlingen became part of the town of Isselburg.
  • The offices of Haldern, Millingen, Ringenberg and Schermbeck were dissolved.
  • Emmerich and Rees came to the Kleve district.
  • Hamminkeln, Schermbeck and Wesel came to the Wesel district.
  • Isselburg came to the Borken district.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 036,247
1835 043,876
1871 058,149
1880 063,772
1890 065,807
1900 070,893
1910 078.001
1925 081,253
1939 083,782
1950 076,868
1960 096,900
1961 100,783
1970 115.037
1973 122,300

politics

Results of the district elections from 1946

Only parties and voter communities that received at least two percent of the votes in the respective election are listed.

year CDU SPD FDP DZP KPD
1946 59.5 20.0 11.1 5.4
1948 48.5 26.4 04.2 18.0 2.9
1952 43.6 24.6 15.6 14.0 2.2
1956 43.4 31.4 16.5 08.2
1961 49.4 32.4 15.3 02.9
1964 48.6 37.4 14.0
1969 50.4 37.9 11.7

District administrators

coat of arms

Blazon : In red divided by a silver (white) wavy bar, above a silver (white) weasel and below a silver (white) key with a beard pointing to the right .

Meaning: The coat of arms shows parts of the coats of arms of the most important cities of the former district, Wesel (Wiesel), the district seat and Rees (key) of the namesake. The wave bar stands for the Rhine .

traffic

In addition to the state railway , the railway bus and the power post , the local public transport was mainly served by the Reeser district and the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign WES when the vehicle registration number was introduced. It is derived from the district town of Wesel. It is issued in the Wesel district until today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin Schulteis: The maps of 1813 and 1818 , publications by the Society for Rhenish History, Bonn: Behrendt, 1895, p. 170 ( online edition at the University and State Library in Düsseldorf )
  2. ^ Territorial.de: Rees district
  3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rees.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ Law on the formation of the community of Grietherort
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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. 297 f .
  8. ^ A b Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 109 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  9. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook 1975, p. 53
  11. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  12. ^ 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. 302 .
  13. ↑ Coat of arms of the Rees district in Wesel on ngw.nl