Schleiden district

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Coat of arms of the Schleiden district
Schleiden district
Map of Germany, position of Schleiden district highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E

Basic data (as of 1971)
Existing period: 1829-1971
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Aachen
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Schleiden
Area : 822.56 km 2
Residents: 65,900 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 80 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SLE
Circle key : 05 4 36
Circle structure: 15 municipalities
District Administrator : Peter Milz ( CDU )

The Schleiden district was a district in the Eifel in the former administrative district of Aachen in the Prussian Rhine province and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It was created in 1829 by renaming it from the Gemünd district . The county seat was Schleiden . The district belonged to the Rhine Province until 1946 and since then to North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1972, as part of the municipal reorganization of the state, it was added to the Euskirchen district, except for four places that were added to the Düren district and two places (Einruhr and Hirschrott) that were added to the Aachen district .

Neighboring areas

In 1971, the Schleiden district bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest with the Monschau , Düren and Euskirchen districts (all in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the Ahrweiler , Daun and Bitburg-Prüm districts (all in Rhineland-Palatinate ). To the west it bordered the Belgian province of Liège .

history

Schleiden district on a map from 1905

Administrative history

The Schleiden district emerged from the Gemünd district, which was established in 1816 when the Prussian Rhine provinces were reorganized in the Aachen administrative region. In 1829 it was renamed “Kreis Schleiden” after the district administrator's seat had been relocated to Schleiden. The Schleiden district initially consisted of the 23 mayorships Blankenheim, Bleibuir, Dollendorf, Dreiborn, Eicks, Gemünd, Heimbach, Hellenthal, Hollerath, Holzmülheim, Kall, Keldenich, Kronenburg, Lommersdorf, Marmagen , Nöthen, Schleiden, Tondorf, Udenbreth, Vussem, Wahlen, Wallenthal and Weyer together. The mayor's offices of Holzmülheim and Tondorf were later merged into a common mayor's office.

With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, most of the mayor's offices in the district were divided into several municipalities . Gemünd was given the Rhenish Town Code in 1856 and Schleiden in 1857 . The municipalities of Broich , Bronsfeld , Harperscheid , Oberhausen and Schöneseiffen , which until then belonged to the Schleiden mayor , have formed the Harperscheid mayor since then. Since then there have been 23 mayor's offices with a total of 76 municipalities in the Schleiden district on an area of ​​824 km²:

Mayorry Parishes (1885)
Blankenheim Blankenheim , Blankenheimerdorf , Mülheim , Reetz
Bleibuir Bleibuir , Hergarten , Vlatten
Dollendorf Alendorf , Dollendorf , Hüngersdorf , Ripsdorf , Waldorf
Thriorn Thriorn
Eicks Berg , Eicks , Floisdorf , Glehn , Hostel
Gemünd Gemünd (city)
Harperscheid Broich , Bronsfeld , Harperscheid , Oberhausen , Schöneseiffen
Heimbach Hausen , Heimbach
Hellenthal Hellenthal
Hollerath Hollerath
Holzmuelheim-Tondorf Bouderath , Buir , Engelgau , Frohngau , Holzmülheim , Lindweiler , Roderath , Rohr , Tondorf
Call Frohnrath , Golbach , Heistert , Kall , Rinnen , Sistig , Sötenich (Mayor of Kall)
Keldenich Keldenich , Sötenich (Mayor Keldenich)
Kronenburg Baasem , Dahlem , Kronenburg
Lommersdorf Ahrdorf , Freilingen , Lommersdorf , Uedelhoven
Marmagen Marmagen , Nettersheim , Schmidtheim , Urft
Necessities Mockery , Nöthen , Pesch
Schleiden Schleiden (city)
Udenbreth Berk , Udenbreth
Vussem Breitenbenden , Harzheim , Holzheim , Lorbach , Mechernich , Roggendorf , Strempt , Vussem-Bergheim
elections elections
Wallenthal Wallenthal
Weyer Kallmuth , Weyer , Zingsheim

The mayor's office in Vussem was renamed the Mayor's office in Mechernich around 1900 . The communities Strempt and Roggendorf were incorporated into the community Mechernich in 1914 . After the First World War , the Losheim community was incorporated into the Schleiden district. Losheim fell to Belgium in 1919 as part of the Malmedy district , but returned to the German Reich in 1921 after renegotiations . As in the entire Rhine Province, the mayorships of the district have been designated as offices since January 1, 1928 . In the 1930s the communities Frohnrath and Heistert were incorporated into the community Sistig . In addition, the two Sötenich sub-municipalities and the Rinnen municipality were merged to form the Sötenich municipality .

From April 1, 1949 to August 28, 1958, Losheim again belonged to Belgium, until it returned to the Federal Republic of Germany and the Schleiden district on the basis of the German-Belgian border treaty of 1956. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the number of offices in the district was reduced several times, including the offices of Bleibuir and Eicks in 1949 to form the new office of Hergarten . On April 8, 1959 Heimbach was granted city rights. In 1967 there were nine offices and a total of 71 municipalities in the Schleiden district:

Offices Parishes (1967)
free of charge Dreiborn , Gemünd (city), Schleiden (city)
Blankenheim Ahrdorf , Alendorf , Blankenheim , Blankenheimerdorf , Dollendorf , Freilingen , Hüngersdorf , Lommersdorf , Mülheim , Reetz , Ripsdorf , Uedelhoven , Waldorf
Harperscheid Broich , Bronsfeld , Harperscheid , Oberhausen , Schöneseiffen
Heimbach Hausen , Heimbach (City)
Hellenthal Hellenthal , Hollerath , Losheim , Udenbreth
Hergarten Berg , Bleibuir , Eicks , Floisdorf , Glehn , Hergarten , Hostel , Vlatten
Call Golbach , Kall , Keldenich , Sistig , Sötenich , Urft , Wahlen , Wallenthal
Mechernich Breitenbenden , Harzheim , Holzheim , Lorbach , Mechernich , Vussem-Bergheim
Schmidtheim Baasem , Berk , Dahlem , Kronenburg , Marmagen , Nettersheim , Schmidtheim
Zingsheim Bouderath , Buir , Engelgau , Frohngau , Hohn , Holzmülheim , Kallmuth , Lindweiler , Nöthen , Pesch , Roderath , Rohr , Tondorf , Weyer , Zingsheim

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform, Heimbach and Hausen were initially merged on July 1, 1968 to form a new, larger town, Heimbach. At the same time the Heimbach office was dissolved. On July 1, 1969, the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Schleiden district came into force:

  • Ahrdorf, Alendorf, Blankenheim, Blankenheimerdorf, Dollendorf, Freilingen, Hüngersdorf, Lindweiler, Lommersdorf, Mülheim, Reetz, Ripsdorf, Rohr, Uedelhoven and Waldorf were merged into a new, larger municipality of Blankenheim .
  • Baasem, Berk, Dahlem, Kronenburg and Schmidtheim were merged into a new, larger municipality of Dahlem .
  • Heimbach, Hergarten and Vlatten were merged to form a new, larger town, Heimbach .
  • Hellenthal, Hollerath, Losheim and Udenbreth were merged into a new, larger municipality of Hellenthal .
  • Golbach, Kall, Keldenich, Sistig, Sötenich, Urft, Wahlen and Wallenthal were merged into a new, larger municipality of Kall .
  • Berg, Bleibuir, Breitenbenden, Eicks, Floisdorf, Glehn, Harzheim, Holzheim, Hostel, Kallmuth, Lorbach, Mechernich, Vussem-Bergheim and Weyer were merged into a new, larger municipality of Mechernich .
  • Bouderath, Buir, Engelgau, Frohngau, Holzmülheim, Marmagen, Nettersheim, Pesch, Roderath, Tondorf and Zingsheim were merged into a new, larger municipality of Nettersheim .
  • The offices of Blankenheim, Hellenthal, Hergarten, Kall, Mechernich, Schmidtheim and Zingsheim were dissolved.

At the same time, due to the law on the reorganization of the Euskirchen district, Hohn and Nöthen left the Schleiden district and became part of the town of Bad Münstereifel in the Euskirchen district.

On October 1, 1969, the Schleiden district , which now comprised 15 towns and communities, became the Schleiden district .

The Aachen-law brought on 1 January 1972 more municipal mergers and the end of the circle Schleiden:

  • Broich, Bronsfeld, Dreiborn, Gemünd, Harperscheid, Oberhausen, Schleiden and Schöneseiffen were merged into a new, larger town of Schleiden .
  • The Harperscheid office was dissolved.
  • Blankenheim, Dahlem, Mechernich, Hellenthal, Kall, Nettersheim and Schleiden were incorporated into the new, larger Euskirchen district.
  • The places Einruhr and Hirschrott left the district and became part of Simmerath (Aachen district).
  • Heimbach became part of the town of Nideggen in the Düren district . On August 4th of the same year, Heimbach was again an independent town in the Düren district by a court order.

Population development

year
Total population
Protestants
Catholics 		source
1816 28,795
1825 31,357 1,416 29,767
1852 36.207 1,764 34,215
1871 42,638
1880 45,564
1890 44,809 1,763 43,646
1900 44,839 1,843 42,624
1910 47,029 1.923 44,760
1925 49.179 2,054 46,780
1933 50,997 2,068 48,615
1939 54,340 2,785 49,967
1950 59,375
1960 61,100
1961 60,237
1969 64,500
1970 64,718
1971 65,900

Responsibilities

Responsible courts in 1894 were the district court of Blankenheim, the district court of Aachen and the higher district court of Cologne and later the district court of Gemünd in the lower instance. The responsible tax offices since 1927 were the Gemünd Tax Office and the Cologne Regional Tax Office.

The responsible military service in the time of the monarchy was the Montjoie district command as part of the VIII Army Corps until 1918 .

From 1933 to 1945 the Schleiden district belonged to the NSDAP district of Cologne-Aachen .

The Protestant church in the Schleiden district belonged to the Old Prussian Union , ecclesiastical province of Rhineland, the Catholic institutions until 1930 to the Archdiocese of Cologne , since the second foundation of the Diocese of Aachen .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Schleiden district
 Blazon : “Quartered; in the 1st golden (yellow) field a red zigzag bar, in the 2nd golden (yellow) field a black lion, in the 3rd silver (white) field a black cross and in the 4th red field three 2: 1 set golden (yellow ) Roses. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Richard Schwarzkopf was approved by the Prussian State Ministry in 1935 . The zigzag bar is reminiscent of the Counts of Manderscheid , who were represented in the district with the two lines Blankenheim and Schleiden. The lion of the Duchy of Jülich refers to the dominions Dreiborn and Wildenburg as well as the Heimbach office. The black cross stands for the Electorate of Cologne , to which the dominions of Steinfeld, Urft, Marmagen and Wahlen, along with Weyer and half of Zingsheim, were subordinate. As the fourth sovereign, the Duke of Arenberg was taken into account with the motif of the Arenberg heiress, the three golden medlar blossoms (incorrectly roses).

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.

Note

In the 1952 election, the district had a fairly high percentage of votes (5.8%) for independent candidates.

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year CDU SPD FDP UWV DZP
1946 85.5 12.1
1948 65.4 25.7 0.1
1952 56.0 14.2 19.3 4.2
1956 64.3 10.7 17.7 6.4
1961 66.7 10.8 14.5 05.6 2.4
1964 60.4 15.4 13.6 10.5
1969 56.1 20.6 11.8 08.2 3.3

In the 1948 election, independent candidates received 8.3% of the valid votes. In 1952 it was 5.8%.

District administrators

The first district administrator of the Schleiden district was Clemens August Freiherr von Syberg (1754–1833), Lord of Eicks Castle

In the Prussian state, the district administrators were appointed by the government. The first elected district administrator of the Schleiden district was Peter Lauterbach in 1948.

Taking office Surname Life dates
1816 (in the Gemünd district) / 1826 Clemens August von Syberg * December 8, 1754, † April 21, 1833
November 29, 1829 Richard Beissel from Gymnich * August 25, 1802; † April 21, 1879
October 1, 1863 Clemens von Harff * August 6, 1821; † January 21, 1895
February 26, 1895 Hermann von Schlechtendal * January 11, 1859; † November 7, 1920
November 10, 1906 Albert Kreuzberg * August 25, 1871; † February 28, 1916
July 17, 1916 Josef von Spee * April 18, 1876; † November 10, 1941
July 28, 1933 Josef Schramm * April 2, 1901; † September 2, 1991
April 7, 1945 Bruno Klausener * 1887
November 11, 1948 Peter Lauterbach * January 21, 1896
December 14, 1951 Willy Müller
December 12, 1952 Karl-Theodor Molinari * February 7, 1915; † December 11, 1993
November 23, 1954 Georg Linden * November 17, 1911
November 26, 1969 Peter Spleen * December 7, 1934; † November 26, 1986

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Schleiden district was assigned the distinguishing sign SLE when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued until December 31, 1971. It has been available in the Euskirchen district since February 20, 2013 due to the license plate liberalization and in the Düren district since July 15, 2015.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 52 ff.
  2. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Aachen 1857, p. 270.
  3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province (PDF; 1.3 MB), Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, Berlin 1888, p. 220 ff.
  4. ↑ Mining Museum Mechernich: History of Mechernich, p. 2 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergbaumuseum-mechernich.de
  5. ↑ Mining Museum Mechernich: History of Mechernich, p. 4 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergbaumuseum-mechernich.de
  6. ↑ eifelreise.de: Losheim
  7. ↑ Municipal directory Schleiden district 1930
  8. ↑ Municipal directory Kreis Schleiden 1939 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichte-on-demand.de
  9. ↑ BT-Drs. 3/315 German-Belgian border treaty of 1956 (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  10. ↑ Daniel-Erasmus Khan: The German state borders: legal historical bases and open legal questions . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148403-7 , p. 471 ( footnote 177 in the Google book search with reference to BGBl. II , 1958, p. 263f.).
  11. ↑ GenWiki: Amt Bleibuir
  12. ^ City archive Mechernich: Findbuch Hergarten
  13. ↑ Law on the amalgamation of the town of Heimbach and the community of Hausen
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1827, p. 116.
  17. ↑ Statistics of the administrative district of Aachen 1852, p. 214.
  18. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244.
  19. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schleiden.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  20. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 309 f .
  21. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  22. ^ Corps district of the VIII Army Corps on GenWiki (accessed August 16, 2018)
  23. ↑ Coat of arms of the district and the municipalities in the Euskirchen district
  24. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  25. ↑ District of Euskirchen: Chronology. (PDF; 29 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 8, 2012 ; Retrieved October 5, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis-euskirchen.de