Waldbröl district

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Location of the Waldbröl district (1905)

The Waldbröl district was a Prussian district in the Cologne administrative district of the Rhine province from 1825 to 1932 . Today his area belongs to the Oberbergischer Kreis and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . The administrative seat was in Waldbröl .

Administrative history

The Grand Duchy of Berg was awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna on May 31, 1815. In 1816 Prussian administrative division into provinces, administrative districts and counties was introduced. The district of Waldbröl was founded, which essentially consisted of the area of ​​the canton of Waldbröl in the Arrondissement Siegen , Département Sieg of the Grand Duchy of Berg. The district was divided into the five mayorships Dattenfeld , Denklingen , Eckenhagen , Morsbach and Waldbröl , which were called Mairien during the French era had been founded. The first district administrator was Heinrich Joseph Joesten .

After the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, all the mayor's offices in the district, with the exception of the mayor's office Dattenfeld, each formed a municipality. The two independent communities Dattenfeld and Rosbach were established in the mayor's office Dattenfeld . The area of ​​the district in 1885 covered an area of ​​300.08 km².

Carl Maurer since 1852 district administrator, founded the Kreissparkasse Waldbröl. In 1913 District Administrator Gerdes welcomed the German Emperor Wilhelm II in Waldbröl.

As in the entire Rhine Province, the district's mayorships were transferred to offices in 1927 . On October 1, 1932, the Waldbröl district was dissolved. Denklingen , Eckenhagen , Morsbach and Waldbröl were merged with the communities of the also dissolved Gummersbach district to form the Oberbergisches Kreis . The Dattenfeld office with the communities Dattenfeld and Rosbach came to the Siegkreis .

history

The Waldbröl district was a stronghold of the NSDAP . In the Reichstag election on September 14, 1930 , 36.2% of the voters in the Waldbröl district voted for the National Socialists. Their share of the vote was twice as high as the Reich average (18.3%).

Population development

year Residents
1816 15,109
1828 16,444
1852 19,565[0]
1871 21,543
1880 22,895
1890 24,046
1900 24,861
1910 28,370
1925 30,212

District administrators

literature

  • Emil Hundhausen: Anno Tubak. Citizens, pictures and reports from the Oberbergisches Land and its border area. Hiking club Altwindeck, Verlag F. Franz, Windeck-Stromberg 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, § 1
  2. ^ Official Journal for the Cologne District 1847, p. 192.
  3. ↑ a b c Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885, p. 244.
  4. ↑ Birgit Rosendahl-Kraas: The city of the people's tractor works. A city utopia in the “Third Reich”. The plans and large-scale buildings of the German Labor Front for the city of Waldbröl. Martin Galunder-Verlag, Wiehl 1999, ISBN 3-931251-45-4 , p. 6.
  5. ↑ a b Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 22 , accessed November 11, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. oberbergkreis.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Web links

Commons : Kreis Waldbröl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 2 ″  E