Weissenburg District

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lower Alsace
Administrative headquarters	Weissenburg
surface	604 km² (1910)
Residents	56,579 (1910)
Population density	94 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	83 (1910)
Location of the Weißenburg district

The circle White Castle was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in the district of Lower Alsace of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The area of ​​the district is now in the Haguenau-Wissembourg arrondissement of the French department of Bas-Rhin .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the district of Weissenburg was formed in 1871 from the then French arrondissement of Wissembourg. After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in November 1918 and, after the declaration of annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to France on December 6, 1918 and the dissolution of the country by the French central government on October 17, 1919 and finally with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920 again as Arrondissement Wissembourg to the French state. During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944 and received a German civil administration. During this time, the district of Wissembourg formed the district of Weißenburg . The district was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Baden in Karlsruhe as the head of civil administration. Between November 1944 and February 1945, the district was liberated by Allied forces and then returned to France.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Weissenburg District	55,842	56,420	56,579

Municipalities with more than 1,500 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Had	1,598
Lauterburg	1,951
Oberseebach	1,681
Schleithal	1,935
Selz	1,684
Sulz under the forest	1,515
Weissenburg	6,772

politics

District Director

1871–1872 Volkheimer00

1872–1886 Joseph Philipp von Stichaner (1838–1889)00

1886–1890 Johann Spiecker00

1890–1891 Ludwig Munzinger ( acting )00

1891–1898 Sengenwald00

1898–1906 Heitz00

1906–1909 Kajetan von Bissingen-Nippenburg00

1909–1911 Karl Dippacher ( acting )00

1911–1918 Emil Petri (1852–1918)00

State Committee

From 1879 to 1911 the district elected a representative to the regional committee of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . These were

1879–1900 Florent Charpentier00

1900–1908 Adolf Goetz00

1908–1911 Alfred Wolf (1878–1949)00

Land Commissioner

1940 Arnold Köpfler-999900

District administrators

1940–1942 Arnold Köpfler00

1942 Alois Wunsch-999900

1942–1944 Erich Stuible00

Communities

In 1910 the Weißenburg district comprised 83 communities:

Altenstadt Aschbach Beinheim Biblisheim Birlenbach Bremmelbach Buhl Diefenbach Drachenbronn Durrenbach Eberbach near Selz Eberbach near Wörth Eschbach Forstheim Fröschweiler Görsdorf Gunstett Had Hegeney Hermersweiler Hofen

Hohweiler Hunspach Ingolsheim Keffenach Kesseldorf Kleeburg Klimbach Kröttweiler Kühlendorf Kutzenhausen Lampertsloch Langensulzbach Laubach Lauterburg Leitersweiler Lembach Lobsann Mattstall Memmelshofen Merkweiler Mitschdorf

Morsbronn Mothern Munchausen Neeweiler near Lauterburg Nehweiler near Wörth Niederbetschdorf Niederlauterbach Letting down Niederseebach Niedersteinbach Oberbetschdorf Oberdorf Oberhofen Oberlauterbach Oberrödern Oberseebach Obersteinbach Preuschdorf Reimersweiler Retschweiler Riedselz

Rittershofen Red Salmbach Schaffhausen Scheibenhard Schleithal Schönenburg Schwabweiler Selz Wins Steinselz Stundweiler Sulz under the forest Surburg Trimbach Walburg Weissenburg Wings Winzenbach Wörth an der Sauer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_weissenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ^ Francois J. Himly: Chronologie de la Basse Alsace, 1972, p. 254