Unna district

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E

Basic data
Existing period: 1930–
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Regional association : Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters : Unna
Area : 543.21 km 2
Residents: 394,891 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 727 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : UN, LH, LÜN
Circle key : 05 9 78
Circle structure: 10 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 17
59425 Unna
Website : www.kreis-unna.de
District Administrator : Michael Makiolla ( SPD )
Location of the Unna district in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The district of Unna is located in the center of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the administrative district of Arnsberg . Its name has existed since October 17, 1930 (by renaming the district of Hamm ) and in its current form since January 1, 1975. It is a member of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association and the Ruhr Regional Association . Its county seat is Unna .

geography

location

The district of Unna can be assigned to three landscape zones and regions. Together with Hamm, it forms the eastern Ruhr area . The south of the district forms the border with the Sauerland , and the northern municipalities of the district are part of the Münsterland . The Ardey Mountains and the Haarstrang rise in the Unna district .

Both the Ruhr and the Lippe flow through the district. The Emscher rises in the district area .

Communities

The district of Unna, with its 394,891 inhabitants (December 31, 2019), is divided into ten municipalities , including two large cities , five medium-sized cities and another city . The municipalities are generally responsible for their local affairs, while the district takes on local and otherwise supra-regional tasks for smaller municipalities.

Dortmund Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Hagen Hamm Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Soest Kreis Warendorf Märkischer Kreis Bergkamen Bönen Fröndenberg/Ruhr Holzwickede Kamen Lünen Schwerte Selm Unna WerneMunicipalities in UN 2011.svg
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Cities
  • Bergkamen , Middle District City (48,740)
  • Fröndenberg / Ruhr , district town (20,760)
  • Kamen , middle district town (43,023)
  • Lünen , large district city (86,348)
  • Schwerte , middle district town (46,195)
  • Selm , middle district town (25,925)
  • Unna , large city belonging to the district, district town (58,936)
  • Werne , middle district town (29,717)

Other communities

  • Bönen , district municipality (18,171)
  • Holzwickede , district member municipality (17,076)

The population as of December 31, 2019 in brackets

The population of the Unna district has fallen from around 430,000 in 2000 to around 395,000 in 2017, i.e. by around 8%.

Neighboring districts and cities

The district of Unna borders clockwise in the north, beginning with the district of Coesfeld , the district of Hamm , the district of Soest , the Märkische district , the independent cities of Hagen and Dortmund and the district of Recklinghausen .

history

District House Unna

The area of ​​the Unna district, with the exception of the later Lüner districts of Altlünen and Brambauer , the Schwerter district of Ergste and the cities of Selm and Werne, belonged to the county of Mark and, after their end, to Prussia . In 1753 its division was reformed. The first district of Hamm was founded. During the Napoleonic period it was part of the Ruhr district, later the district was re-established with some changes. On April 1, 1901, the city of Hamm left the district and became a district. Nevertheless, the administration of the district initially remained in Hamm. The communities of Holzwickede (including part of the community of Sölde), Hengsen and Opherdicke were incorporated from the dissolved district of Hörde into the district of Hamm on October 1, 1929 . Its district administration was relocated to Unna and the district was renamed as District Unna with effect from October 17, 1930 . Later reorganizations further changed the boundaries of the district. For example, on January 1, 1968, he lost the municipality of Niederaden to the then still independent city of Lünen and on July 1, 1969, the municipality of Sönnern to the city of Werl , district of Soest . During the district reform, which took effect on January 1, 1975, the Unna district lost the communities of Pelkum , Rhynern (excluding Hilbeck , which came to the Soest district and to the town of Werl there) and Uentrop to the town of Hamm. The cities of Lünen, Schwerte and Werne as well as the municipality of Selm - which received city rights on September 27, 1977 - were incorporated into the Unna district.

Population development

Population development in the Unna district from 1975 to 2017 (blue) and its predecessor districts
year Residents
1975 375309
1980 386,966
1985 390.970
1990 406.434
1995 422,662
2000 431.740
year Residents
2005 423.830
2010 411.806
2015 396.035
2016 393,869
2017 393.934

According to a forecast by IT.NRW from 2015, the number of inhabitants in the district will decrease by approx. 36,000 inhabitants or just under 10% between 2014 and 2040.

On the other hand, IT.NRW predicts a decline of around 40,000 for the labor force for the same period, which corresponds to over 20.7% and would therefore more than double as a percentage (men: from 106,292 to 85,800; women from 88,513 to 68,700) . For the district of Unna, this can only be explained by an accelerated demographic change ( old age quota ) in addition to the general population decline . For example, for the neighboring cities of Dortmund and Hamm, the probable population development and the probable development of the labor force for the same period (2014-2040), contrary to the projected development of the Unna district, is roughly equal (Dortmund + 3%, Hamm −3.2%). The reasons for this were not given.

politics

Election of the Unna District Assembly in 2014
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Remarks:
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Allocation of seats in the
Unna district assembly 2014
         
A total of 70 seats

District council

Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (as of September 2014):

SPD CDU GREEN THE LEFT GFL / UWG Non-attached total
29 21st 8th 3 3 6th 70
GFL 2
UWG 1
FDP 2
PIRATE 2
FW 2

District administrators and senior district directors

District administrators

  • Friedrich Böckmann , born February 18, 1923, † July 3, 1999, term of office: December 14, 1970 to February 18, 1988
  • Rolf Tewes , born September 24, 1935, term of office: February 18, 1988 to September 30, 1999
  • Gerd Achenbach , born September 20, 1941, term of office: October 1, 1999 to October 13, 2004
  • Michael Makiolla , born January 15, 1956, term of office: since October 13, 2004

Michael Makiolla ( SPD ) won the runoff election on October 10, 2004 with 62.93% of the vote. In 2009 he was confirmed in office with 53.7%.

Upper District Directors

  • Lothar Voit , born August 15, 1911, † June 10, 1977, term of office: August 1, 1956 to August 31, 1976
  • Karl-Heinrich Landwehr , born August 14, 1935, term of office: September 1, 1976 to September 30, 1999

badges and flags

The coat of arms of the Unna district is a combination of the two coat of arms of the Counts of the Mark .

The lower part is made up of the red and silver (red and white) Mark chess bar on a golden background from the coat of arms of the County of Mark , which was introduced by Count Adolf I von der Mark around 1220 and is still featured in the coat of arms of the city of Hamm today. The chess bar is proven in a rider seal of Adolf in a certificate of the same year.

Above in the higher-ranking field, a red, uncrowned, single-tailed, right-rising lion is depicted on a golden (yellow) background , which is probably an allusion to the older Altenaic coat of arms of Counts Friedrich von Berg-Altena (-Mark), Adolf I von der Mark and Otto from Altena is. They had extensive allodial and feudal holdings in the area of ​​today's Unna district, which together with Hamm ( Burg Mark ) formed one of their main areas of ownership. However, these Counts of Altena led a black lion with red weapons and a gold crown. Adolf and Otto already carried it in the combination with the chess beam shown in this coat of arms. The red, soaring but double-tailed lion can be found in the coat of arms of the Counts of Berg from the House of Limburg and shows blue weapons and a crown. Both houses, Altena and Berg, were related through Irmgard von Berg ; however, she only married Henry IV of Limburg in 1218 . At this point in time, the Altena-Isenberg and Altena-Mark houses were already running the rose on a silver background and the black lion on a gold background.

The largest city in the district, Lünen, also has a right-ascending, but two-tailed lion in its coat of arms.

The flag of the Unna district is divided in red and white with the coat of arms in the middle.

District partnerships

The Unna district maintains a 1967 county partnership with the Kirklees Metropolitan Council in England .

In the course of German reunification , a partnership was established with the Brandenburg district of Templin , which - after the local reorganization - will be continued by its successor district, Uckermark .

Furthermore, there has been a partnership with the Polish powiat Nowosądecki since 1997 .

Economy and Transport

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Unna was ranked 252 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 234 out of 401.

The average primary incomes of the residents in the municipalities differ considerably geographically within the Unna district. In the northern municipalities of Bergkamen (19,651 euros), Lünen (19,823 euros) and Bönen (20,290 euros), they are far below the national average, whereas in the district town of Unna (27,723 euros) and in the southern municipalities of Schwerte (27,601 euros), Fröndenberg ( 27,974 euros) and in particular Holzwickede (30,002 euros) far above (as of 2016).

air traffic

The Unna district is very well connected to the European flight network via the Dortmund airports near Holzwickede and Düsseldorf Airport, which can be reached by car or train in around an hour . Dortmund Airport can be reached with a shuttle bus from the Holzwickede / Dortmund Airport train station and with the VKU line C 41 from Unna train station . The Münster / Osnabrück and Paderborn airports, which can be reached in about an hour, are also frequently used by the district residents.

Rail and bus transport

The district of Unna is connected to long-distance passenger rail traffic via the train stations Dortmund Hbf , Hagen Hbf and Hamm (Westf) .

In the local rail passenger transport it is served by ten railway lines on which 13 regional transport lines operate:

The S4 S-Bahn line also runs on the Unna - Unna-Königsborn - Dortmund Stadthaus - Dortmund-Dorstfeld - Dortmund-Lütgendortmund route (KBS 450.4) .

The local road traffic in the Unna district is largely carried out by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Kreis Unna mbH (VKU). Four express bus lines connect the individual towns and municipalities of the district with one another, plus city, regional and taxi buses .

Bergkamen , which does not have its own train station, is connected to Dortmund Central Station and the city center of Dortmund with the VKU express bus S 30 .

The western Lüner district Brambauer is connected to the main station and the city center of Dortmund with the DSW21 - tram line U 41 .

Streets

The district of Unna is connected to the German trunk road network via four motorways (two of which form the eastern part of the Dortmund motorway ring) and five federal highways:

  • A 1 Puttgarden – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Kamen – Dortmund – Wuppertal – Cologne – Saarbrücken (Hansalinie)
  • A 2 Oberhausen – Dortmund – Kamen – Bielefeld – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Berlin
  • A 44 Aachen – Düsseldorf – Bochum – Dortmund – Unna – Soest – Kassel – Eisenach
  • A 45 Dortmund – Schwerte – Hagen – Siegen – Gießen – Hanau – Seligenstadt (Sauerland line)
  • B 1 Aachen – Unna – Küstrin-Kietz
  • B 54 Gronau – Werne – Lünen – Wiesbaden
  • B 61 Bassum – Bergkamen – Kamen – Lünen
  • B 233 Iserlohn – Unna and Kamen – Bergkamen – Werne
  • B 236 Olfen – Lünen – Schwerte – Münchhausen

In December 2017, the registered number of vehicles was 303,172 (of which 239,658 cars, 20,683 motorcycles and 42,831 commercial vehicles), i.e. a quota of around 76 percent based on the population of around 396,000.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Unna district was assigned the UN distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the cities of Lünen, Selm and Werne received license plates with the letter pairs LA to RZ and the numbers from 100 to 999, later also with the numbers from 1 to 99. After a few years, the license plates with the Letters from L to R with numbers from 1 to 999 are output.

The distinguishing mark LÜN (Lünen) has been available since November 24, 2012, and the distinguishing mark LH (Lüdinghausen) since September 1, 2015 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  3. ^ 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 f .
  4. ^ Unna district - partnerships and sponsorships
  5. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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.prognos.com
  6. Future Atlas 2019 | Handelsblatt. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  7. Primary income in NRW per inhabitant in 2016 by municipalities

literature

  • Lothar Voit: The district of Unna . Stalling, 1966.
  • Harald Polenz: The two-stream region of Westphalia - Unna district on Lippe and Ruhr . Klartext, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-035-7 .
  • Carola Bischoff, Rudolf Grothues, Karl-Heinz Otto (eds.): Unna district . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-14941-6 .

Web links

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