Usingen district
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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ' N , 8 ° 32' E |
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| Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
| Existing period: | 1886-1972 | |
| State : | Hesse | |
| Administrative region : | Darmstadt | |
| Administrative headquarters : | Usingen | |
| Area : | 288.07 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 33,900 (Dec. 31, 1971) | |
| Population density : | 118 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | USI | |
| Circle key : | 06 1 53 | |
| Circle structure: | 21 municipalities | |
| District Administrator : | Rudolf Thierbach ( SPD ) | |
The district of Usingen was a district in Hesse that existed between April 1, 1886 and August 1, 1972, with a brief interruption in the 1930s. Its county seat was Usingen .
geography
Today's churches
The district of Usingen essentially comprised the area of today's cities Neu-Anspach and Usingen as well as today's communities Grävenwiesbach , Schmitten , Waldems , Wehrheim and Weilrod .
Neighboring areas
The district bordered at the beginning of 1972 in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the Oberlahnkreis , the districts of Wetzlar and Friedberg , the Obertaunuskreis , the Main-Taunus-Kreis , the Untertaunuskreis and the district of Limburg .
history
Predecessor of the circle Usingen was the Office Usingen . This became more and more important over time. In 1667 the Altweilnau office and in 1729 the Stockheim office were incorporated into the Usingen office. In 1810, Reifenberg was added, and in 1814 the Cleeberg office , which was formed from the Wehrheim office and the Kransberg office . Around the middle of the 19th century, the Usingen office comprised all of the places that later belonged to Usingen as well as Ober- and Niederreifenberg .
The district of Usingen was formed by the new district order for the province of Hesse-Nassau from April 1, 1886. It was part of the administrative district of Wiesbaden and was composed of
- the 46 communities of the Usingen office, which have belonged to the Obertaunus district since 1867
- the two communities Niederreifenberg and Oberreifenberg from the Königstein office , which belonged to the Obertaunuskreis since 1867 and
- the five communities Niederems , Oberems , Reichenbach , Steinfischbach and Wüstems from the Idstein office , which had belonged to the Untertaunuskreis since 1867.
The first district administrator in the Usingen district was August Beckmann . In 1918, after the end of the First World War , the Königstein district was established around Königstein , to which the six communities Niederems , Oberems , Niederreifenberg , Oberreifenberg , Seelenberg and Wüstems were assigned from the Usingen district . Niederreifenberg, Oberems and Oberreifenberg did not return to the Usingen district on October 1, 1928 , as part of the reorganization of the districts in the Rhine-Main area , but instead became part of the new Main-Taunus district .
As part of a Prussian administrative reform , the Usingen district was dissolved on October 1, 1932:
- Haintchen and Hasselbach came to the Limburg district.
- Emmershausen , Gemünden , Heinzenberg , Mönstadt and Winden came to the Oberlahnkreis.
- Niederems , Reichenbach , Steinfischbach and Wüstems came to the Untertaunuskreis.
- Brandoberndorf , Cleeberg , Espa , Hasselborn and Weiperfelden came to the Wetzlar district.
- All other communities came to the Obertaunuskreis.
Due to an election promise made by the NSDAP , the Usingen district was rebuilt after Hitler's “ seizure of power ” on October 1, 1933, but not in the old scale. The seven communities that came to the districts of Limburg and Wetzlar in 1932 did not return to the district of Usingen, to which 43 communities now belonged.
As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the number of municipalities in the district was reduced to 21 through a series of mergers between December 1970 and June 1972.
On August 1, 1972, the Usingen district became part of the new Hochtaunus district, except for the communities of Niederems , Reichenbach , Steinfischbach and Wüstems , which came to the community of Waldems in the Untertaunus district . The Hochtaunuskreis also included most of the Obertaunuskreis, the communities of Ober-Eschbach , Ober-Erlenbach and Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe from the Friedberg district, the Glashütten and Reifenberg communities from the Main-Taunus district and the Hasselbach community from the Limburg district . At the same time, on August 1, 1972, other communities were also merged.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1890 | 21,534 | |
| 1900 | 21,661 | |
| 1910 | 23,648 | |
| 1925 | 23,847 | |
| 1933 | 19,474 | |
| 1939 | 19,023 | |
| 1950 | 27,268 | |
| 1960 | 27,700 | |
| 1970 | 32,200 | |
| 1971 | 33,900 |
politics
court House
As a district office was Prinzenpalais used in the upper lane.
District administrators
| From | To | Surname |
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| 1886 | 1914 | August Beckmann |
| 1914 | 1915 | Georg Albert Bacmeister |
| 1915 | 1921 | Oskar von Bezold |
| 1921 | 1929 | Siegfried von Campe |
| 1929 | 1932 | Hans Otto Glahn |
| 1933 | 1937 | Hans Lommel |
| 1937 | 1940 | Wolfgang of Hesse |
| 1940 | 1945 | Walter Heyse |
| 1945 | 1946 | Heinrich Schneider |
| 1946 | 1948 | Heinrich Muller |
| 1948 | 1952 | August Roesener |
| 1952 | 1966 | Heinrich Muller |
| 1966 | 1972 | Rudolf Thierbach |
The last district administrator before the union to the Hochtaunuskreis was Rudolf Thierbach. After the district reform, Werner Herr , the last district administrator in the Obertaunus district, became the first district administrator in the Hochtaunus district.
coat of arms
In August 1951, the Usingen district was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.
Communities
The following list contains all municipalities that belonged to the Usingen district, as well as the dates of all incorporations and district changes.
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the USI distinctive sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until July 31, 1972. It has been available again in the Hochtaunus district since January 2, 2013.
Web links
- Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945 . Usingen district. Herdecke 2010 ( HTML [accessed February 12, 2012]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ District order for the province of Hessen-Nassau 1886 (digitized version)
- ↑ 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. usingen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ a b Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II No. 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 13 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the district of Usingen, reg.-district Wiesbaden on August 2, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 33 , p. 471 , item 747 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.1 MB ]).
The districts in the Wiesbaden administrative region of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau
Biedenkopf | Dill circle | Limburg | Oberlahnkreis | Obertaunuskreis | Oberwesterwaldkreis | Rheingau district | Sankt Goarshausen | Unterlahnkreis | Untertaunuskreis | Unterwesterwaldkreis | Usingen | Wetzlar
Dissolved in 1886 : Mainkreis ; Dissolved in 1910 : Frankfurt ; Disbanded in 1928 : Höchst | Koenigstein | Wiesbaden ; Disbanded in 1933 : Westerburg
1972 dissolved: District Alsfeld | District of Büdingen | District of Erbach | District Friedberg | District of Hersfeld | District of Hofgeismar | District of Hünfeld | Lauterbach district | Obertaunuskreis | Rotenburg district | Usingen district | Wolfhagen district . 1973 dissolved: District of Eschwege | District of Frankenberg | District of Fritzlar-Homberg | District of Melsungen | District of Waldeck | District of Witzenhausen | Ziegenhain district . 1974 dissolved: District Biedenkopf | District of Gelnhausen | District of Hanau | Limburg County | District of Marburg | Oberlahnkreis | District of Schlüchtern . 1976 dissolved: Darmstadt district | District of Dieburg | Dill circle | Rheingau district | Untertaunuskreis | Wetzlar district .