Vilbel district

Upper Hesse with district boundaries from 1905

The Vilbel district was a district in the Upper Hesse province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The former district area today belongs to the city of Frankfurt am Main , the Hochtaunuskreis and the Wetteraukreis in Hesse .

history

The Vilbel district was formed in 1852 from the district courts of Groß-Karben and Rödelheim. It existed until July 1, 1874 and then merged with the neighboring districts of Büdingen , Friedberg and Offenbach after it was dissolved .

In 1852 the district had 22,758 inhabitants in 26 communities. Due to the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 between Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse after the German War , the district boundaries changed:

• The community of Rödelheim moved from the Vilbel district to the Prussian Main district
• the community Niederursel moved from the Vilbel district to the Prussian urban district of Frankfurt am Main
• the community of Harheim of the Nassau authorities Höchst moved to the district of Vilbel
• the communities of Dortelweil and Nieder-Erlenbach , which had previously belonged to the Free City of Frankfurt , moved to the Vilbel district
• the community of Massenheim , which had previously belonged to the Hanau district , moved to the Vilbel district.

Communities

The municipalities of the Vilbel district with their population from 1852 and later district membership:

local community	Inhabitants 1852	Circle from 1874	annotation
Altenstadt	1086	Büdingen
Büdesheim	815	Friedberg
Burg-Graefenrode	536	Friedberg
Holzhausen	901	Friedberg
Dortelweil	527	Friedberg	until 1866 Free City of Frankfurt
Groß-Karben	973	Friedberg
Harheim	760	Friedberg	Office Höchst until 1866
Heroes Mountains	1554	Friedberg
At the top of the Nidder	597	Büdingen
Kaichen	726	Friedberg
Klein-Karben	788	Friedberg
Kloppenheim	208	Friedberg
Massenheim	321	Friedberg	until 1866 Hanau district
Nieder-Erlenbach	726	Friedberg	until 1866 Free City of Frankfurt
Nieder-Eschbach	707	Friedberg
Niederursel	479		1866 to Prussia
Ober-Erlenbach	1059	Friedberg
Ober-Eschbach	626	Friedberg
Oberau	308	Büdingen
Okarben	643	Friedberg
Petterweil	820	Friedberg
Rendel	814	Friedberg
Rödelheim	1994		1866 to Prussia
Rodenbach	315	Büdingen
Rodheim before the height	1670	Friedberg
Rommelhausen	247	Büdingen
Stammheim	748	Friedberg
Steinbach	603	Offenbach
Vilbel	2823	Friedberg

District councils

• Egid Joseph Carl von Rüding (1852-1854)
• Strecker (1854-1857)
• W. Dietsch (1857-1860)
• Gustav von Zangen (1860–1872)
• Friedrich Hallwachs (1872–1874)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 30, 1852 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de )
2. ^ ^{A b c} Philipp AF Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality . 1854, p. 464 ( books.google.de ).
3. ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 28 . Darmstadt June 12, 1874, p. 247 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
4. ^ Willi Giegerich: Bad Vilbel: Landscape, History, Art Monuments and Culture. 1969, p. 110, ( books.google.de ).