Ruhrort district

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Seal of the district committee of the Ruhrort district
The former Royal District Office, built in 1890 by August Jording , on Fürst-Bismarck-Strasse in Ruhrort

The Ruhrort district was a district in the Düsseldorf administrative district of the Prussian Rhine province from 1887 to 1909 . It included parts of today's cities of Duisburg and Oberhausen as well as today 's Wesel district .

Administrative history

On July 1, 1887, the cities of Ruhrort and Dinslaken as well as the mayorships of Beeck, Dinslaken-Land, Duisburg-Land, Gahlen, Götterswickerhamm, Meiderich and Sterkrade left the Mülheim an der Ruhr district , the remainder of the old area after Duisburg and Essen had left District of Duisburg and formed the new Ruhrort district . The district initially had the following administrative structure:

Mayorry Cities and Towns (1887)
Beeck Beeck , Hamborn
Dinslaken Land Hiesfeld , Walsum
Dinslaken city Dinslaken (city)
Duisburg country Wanheim-Angerhausen
Gahlen Bruckhausen , Bucholtwelmen , Gahlen , Gartrop-Bühl , Hünxe
Götterswickerhamm Görsicker , Löhnen , Mehrum , Möllen , Spellen , Voerde
Meiderich Meiderich
Ruhrort city Ruhrort (city)
Sterkrade Buschhausen , town and field mark Holten , Amt Holten , Sterkrade

The following changes were made to the administrative structure:

  • On April 1, 1900 Hamborn was raised to its own mayor's office. At the same time, the towns of Alsum , Bruckhausen and Marxloh were reclassified from the Beeck community to the Hamborn community.
  • On April 1, 1902, Wanheim-Angerhausen was incorporated into the city of Duisburg.
  • On April 1, 1904, Beeck was incorporated into the city of Ruhrort.
  • On October 1, 1905, Meiderich and Ruhrort were incorporated into the city of Duisburg.
  • Walsum and Hiesfeld formed their own mayor's offices since 1905.
  • On April 1, 1908, the municipalities Stadt and Feldmark Holten and Amt Holten were merged to form the municipality of Holten .

The Ruhrort district was finally structured as follows:

Mayorry Cities and Towns (1909)
Dinslaken Dinslaken (city)
Gahlen Bruckhausen , Bucholtwelmen , Gahlen , Gartrop-Bühl , Hünxe
Götterswickerhamm Görsicker , Löhnen , Mehrum , Möllen , Spellen , Voerde
Hamborn Hamborn
Hiesfeld Hiesfeld
Sterkrade Buschhausen , Holten , Sterkrade
Walsum Walsum

Since the district town of Ruhrort was incorporated into the city of Duisburg in 1904, the district administration was relocated to Dinslaken on April 1, 1909 and the district was renamed the Dinslaken district . The district building became the seat of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Duisburg-Wesel-Kleve zu Duisburg . At the same time, the municipality of Buschhausen was divided between the cities of Sterkrade and Oberhausen.

Population development

year Residents
1890 080.145
1900 146.146

Local transport

In 1893, the Ruhrort district founded the Ruhrorter tram transport company , which operated local transport in the district. The local transport company still existed after the Ruhrorts district was dissolved and was only taken over by the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft on January 1, 1941 .

District administrators

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1887, p. 195.
  2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1900, p. 4.
  4. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1902, p. 119.
  5. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1904, p. 45.
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1905, p. 397.
  7. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1908, p. 140.
  8. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1909, p. 83.
  9. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1909, p. 155.
  10. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. duisburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).