District victories

This article deals with the district of Siegen before the regional reform in 1975. For the legal successor of the same name until 1984, see the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein .

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Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1816-1974
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg
Regional association :	Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters :	Wins
Area :	649.45 km 2
Residents:	246,500 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density :	380 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	SI
Circle key :	05 8 39
Circle structure:	10 municipalities
Location of the district of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia

The district of Siegen was a district in the administrative district of Arnsberg from 1817 to 1974 . With this he first belonged to the Prussian province of Westphalia , from 1946 finally to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1923 to 1969 the administrative unit was called the district of Siegen . The county seat was Siegen . On March 1, 1923, the city of Siegen left the district of Siegen and became an independent city, but remained the seat of the district of Siegen. In the course of the municipal reorganization on July 1, 1966 through the law for the reorganization of the district of Siegen , the city of Siegen was reintegrated into the district of Siegen.

The district was dissolved on January 1, 1975 on the basis of the Sauerland / Paderborn law . Legal successor is the new district of Siegen, from 1984 district of Siegen-Wittgenstein .

geography

Neighboring areas

In 1974 the district of Siegen bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest with the districts of Olpe and Wittgenstein (both in North Rhine-Westphalia), the Dill district (in Hesse ) and the Oberwesterwaldkreis and the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) (both in Rhineland-Palatinate ).

history

Prehistory and foundation

The winner land belonged to the early 19th century country wonderfully to the Principality of victories , which owned the Ottonian line of the House of Nassau was. In connection with the establishment of the Rhine Confederation , the area was added to the Grand Duchy of Berg . On November 6, 1813, Wilhelm Friedrich von Oranien was able to take back the Siegerland. However, in 1815 he exchanged this with Prussia for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Prussia also acquired Selbach and Burbach and the four Hickendörfer from Nassau in 1815 and 1816 . The district of Siegen was formed from these lands in 1816, which until the beginning of 1817 initially belonged to the Koblenz administrative district in the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province . In 1817 the district of Siegen became part of the administrative district of Arnsberg in the province of Westphalia , after the area had previously been briefly incorporated into the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg .

Administrative history until 1966

Initially, the district was divided into the nine mayor offices of Dresselnau , Ferndorf, Freudenberg, Hilchenbach, Netphen, Neunkirchen, Siegen, Weidenau and Wilnsdorf. As part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia, cities and offices free of charge were set up in 1843/44 . The cities of Hilchenbach and Siegen remained vacant. The two offices of Dresselnorf and Neunkirchen, which were dissolved in 1851 and incorporated into the office of Burbach, only existed for a short time. The administrative structures created in this way remained essentially unchanged until 1966. During this time, the circle was structured as follows:

Unofficial cities

1. Hilchenbach
2. Siegen (on March 1, 1923, left the district as an independent city)

Offices and municipalities

1. Office of Burbach
   1. Altenseelbach
   2. Burbach
   3. Gilsbach
   4. Holzhausen
   5. lip
   6. Lützeln
   7. Neunkirchen
   8. Niederdresselnorf
   9. Oberdresselnorf
   10. Salchendorf
   11. Strut huts
   12. Wahlbach
   13. Wiederstein
   14. Wilden (1894 to the Wilnsdorf Office)
   15. Würgendorf
   16. Zeppenfeld
2. Amt Eiserfeld (newly formed in 1878 from three municipalities of the Amten Weidenau)
   1. Eiserfeld
   2. Gosenbach
   3. Niederelden
3. Ferndorf Office
   1. Bockenbach (incorporated into Eichen in 1960)
   2. Book
   3. Burgholdinghausen
   4. Bush huts
   5. Oak trees
   6. Ernsdorf (renamed Kreuztal in 1928 )
   7. Fellinghausen
   8. Ferndorf
   9. Kredenbach
   10. Krombach
   11. Littfeld
   12. Eastern heroes
   13. Stendenbach (incorporated into Eichen in 1960)
4. Freudenberg Office
   1. Alks
   2. Bottenberg
   3. Buhl
   4. Büschergrund
   5. Dirlenbach
   6. Freudenberg , Flecken
   7. Heisberg
   8. Hohenhain
   9. Langenholdinghausen
   10. Lindenberg
   11. Mausbach
   12. Meiswinkel
   13. Middle Hees
   14. Niederheuslingen
   15. Niederholzklau
   16. Niederndorf
   17. Oberfischbach
   18. Oberhees
   19. Oberheuslingen
   20. Oberholzklau
   21. Oberschelden
   22. Plittershagen
5. Hilchenbach office , from 1917 Keppel office
   1. Allenbach
   2. Dahlbruch
   3. reason
   4. Haarhausen (incorporated into Allenbach in 1930)
   5. Hadem
   6. Helberhausen
   7. Hillnhütten (incorporated into Dahlbruch in 1901)
   8. Lützel
   9. Have to
   10. Oberndorf
   11. Öchelhausen
   12. Ruckersfeld
   13. Vormwald
6. Office Netphen
   1. Afholderbach
   2. Anzhausen
   3. Beienbach
   4. Brauersdorf
   5. Breitenbach
   6. Deuz
   7. Dreis-Tiefenbach (until about 1885 also Dreisbach-Tiefenbach)
   8. Eckmannshausen
   9. Eschenbach
   10. Feuersbach
   11. Flammersbach
   12. Frohnhausen
   13. Gernsdorf
   14. Grissenbach
   15. Grove
   16. Helgersdorf
   17. Herzhausen
   18. Irmgarteiche
   19. Nauholz
   20. Nenkersdorf
   21. Niedernetphen
   22. Sit down
   23. Obernau
   24. Obernetphen
   25. Put on
   26. Olgershausen
   27. Rudersdorf
   28. Salchendorf
   29. Sohlbach
   30. Unglinghausen
   31. Walpersdorf
   32. Werthenbach
7. Weidenau office
   1. Achenbach (incorporated into Siegen in 1937)
   2. Birlenbach
   3. Bürbach
   4. Buschgotthardshütten (incorporated into Siegen and Weidenau in 1937)
   5. Dillnhütten
   6. Eiserfeld (1878 to the Eiserfeld office)
   7. Gosenbach (1878 to the Eiserfeld office)
   8. Kaan-Marienborn
   9. Klafeld
   10. Niederelden (1878 to the Eiserfeld office)
   11. Seelbach
   12. Sohlbach
   13. Trupbach
   14. Volnsberg
   15. Weidenau
8. Wilnsdorf Office
   1. Iron
   2. Niederdielfen
   3. Oberdielfen
   4. Obersdorf
   5. Rinsdorf
   6. Wild (from 1894)
   7. Wilgersdorf
   8. Wilnsdorf

Restructuring in 1966, 1969 and 1975

With the first Siegerland Act on July 1, 1966, the city of Siegen was reorganized into the district of Siegen, several municipalities were incorporated into the city of Siegen, several municipalities were merged to form the cities of Hüttental and Eiserfeld and the offices of Weidenau and Eiserfeld were dissolved .

As part of the second Siegerland Act , the remaining offices were formed into further large municipalities and all offices were dissolved.

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

Until December 31, 1974, the district consisted of the cities of Eiserfeld, Freudenberg, Hilchenbach, Hüttental, Kreuztal and Siegen and the communities of Burbach, Wilnsdorf, Netphen and Neunkirchen.

On January 1, 1975, the towns of Hüttental and Eiserfeld were incorporated into the town of Siegen and the Siegen district merged with the neighboring Wittgenstein district .

Population numbers

The population of the Siegen district from 1819 to 1969 is shown below:

year Residents source 1819 033,532 1855 046,642 1880 071,425 1885 077,674 1890 082,088 1900 098,511 1910 114,828 1925 093,298 1933 103,498

year Residents source 1939 107,655 1950 141,306 1960 162,800 1961 156.107 1967 230.174 1969 240,400 1970 239.132 1973 246,500

politics

Results of the district elections from 1946 to 1969

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	BHE	DRP	KPD
1946	30.0	59.5	05.4			5.1
11948 1	35.6	42.0	08.8		7.2	4.0
1952	29.3	34.4	17.1	9.6	6.6	2.3
21956 2	34.1	32.6	16.5	7.2
1961	39.8	38.2	14.8	6.3
31964 3	46.6	36.6	12.2
1969	49.7	43.5	06.8

Footnotes

¹ 1948: additionally: DZP: 2.2%
² 1956: additionally: GVP: 9.6%
³ 1964: additionally: UWG: 3.4%

District administrators of the district of Siegen until 1975

The list contains inaccuracies in terms of dates and names.

Prussian period 1816 to 1945

• 1816 (1817) –1846: Wolfgang Friedrich von Schenck (1768–1848)
• 1846: Friedrich Leopold Hubert Heinrich Boese
• 1846–1854: Arnold Ludwig von Holtzbrinck (1811–1886), transferred to Altena in 1854
• ?: District Secretary Manger (?)
• 1855–1876: Albert von Dörnberg (1824–1915); Dr. theol. hc Albert Heinrich
• 1877–1894: Gustav Gottfried Keil (1836–1894)
• 1894–1900: Ernst Rudolf Schepp (1857–1901)
• (1899) 1900–1919: Ernst Bruno Bourwieg (1865–1944)
• (1919) 1920–1935: Heinrich Goedecke (1881–1959)
• 1935–1936: Gerhard Melcher (substitute)
• 1936–1939: Justus Weihe (1891–1980)
• 1939–1940: Heinrich Jansen (1876–1945)
• 1941–1944: Justus Weihe (1891–1980)
• 1945: Fritz Fries (1887–1967), SPD
• 1945–1946: Otto Schwarz (1891–1964), SPD (dual function with mayor's office in Siegen)

Period of municipal dual leadership from 1946 to 1999

• 1946: Heinrich Otto (1893–1983), KPD
• 1946–1954: Joseph Büttner (1898–1978), CDU
• 1954–1956: Karl Roth (1902–1980), FDP
• 1956–1958: Hermann Schmidt (1917–1983), SPD
• 1958–1961: Joseph Büttner (1898–1978), CDU
• 1961–1964: Wilhelm Albert Kettner (1913–1990), CDU (from 1964 deputy district administrator of the Siegen district)
• 1964–1983: Hermann Schmidt (1917–1983), SPD (from 1975 district administrator of the new district of Siegen)
• 1984: Hans-Jürgen Leutencke
• 1984: Hilmar Selle
• 1984–1999 Walter Nienhagen

Term of office and names of the senior district directors:

• 1946 Otto Schwarz (1891–1964), SPD
• 1946 Bernhard Meuser (1883–1949), CDU
• 1946–1963 Erich Moning (1902–1967), independent
• 1964–1972 Heinz Kuhbier (born April 16, 1907 in Gummersbach ; † November 28, 1998), non-party
• 1972–1999 Karlheinz Forster , SPD, from 1975 senior district director of the new district of Siegen (from 1984 district of Siegen-Wittgenstein)

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing sign SI when the vehicle registration number was introduced. It is still issued in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district to this day.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, p. 117 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
2. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817, page V.
3. ↑ August Horn: The Siegthal - from the mouth of the river to the source. Published by T. Habicht, Bonn 1854
4. ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978, p. 105 (reprint of the original from 1834).
5. ↑ Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
6. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Arnsberg 1843. Retrieved on February 2, 2014 . 
7. ^ Official Journal for the administrative district of Arnsberg 1844. Retrieved on February 2, 2014 . 
8. ^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 , p. 373 .
9. ^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ ^{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. 336 .
12. ↑ ^{a b} The mining, smelting and commercial nature of the government district of Arnsberg , published by Julius Gäbeler, Iserlohn 1857
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
14. ^ T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
15. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 250 .
16. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen - An expertise for elementary schools , 1968
17. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1975
18. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
19. ↑ German administrative history of the province of Westphalia, Siegen source probably contains some inaccuracies regarding the dates and names [1]
20. ↑ Time table of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ( memento of the original dated August 31, 2014 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. 
21. ↑ ^{a b c} Information according to the list "Timetable of the district administrators and senior district directors from 1816 to today", Siegen-Wittgenstein district archive July 2004
22. ↑ Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1969, p. 62, p. 112
23. ↑ Holtzbrinck's curriculum vitae ( PDF ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 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 note. ) 
24. ↑ Gabriele Aschöwer: Arnold Ludwig von Holtzbrinck. District administrator and business development agency with tradition ( PDF ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 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. ) 
25. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Ernst Bruno Bourwieg ( PDF ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 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 note. ) 
26. ↑ ^{a b} Curriculum vitae of Justus Weihe ( PDF ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2014 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 note. ) 
27. ^ Obituary in the Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1969, p. 159
28. ^ " Honoring the dead", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 2000, p. 41, 75th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature
29. ^ Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1990, p. 12, 65th edition, publisher Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature