Westerburg district

Basic data
Inventory period	1886-1932
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	Wiesbaden
Administrative headquarters	Westerburg
surface	317 km²
Residents	32,114 (1925)
Population density	101 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	82
Location of the Westerburg district

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  The district was formed from the offices of Rennerod (wine red) and Wallmerod (ocher).

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  In Grün the Westerburg district from 1886 to 1932 within today's Westerwaldkreis.

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  The district was divided into the Oberwesterwaldkreis (blue) and the Unterwesterwaldkreis (red) in 1932.

The Westerburg district was a district in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1886 to 1932 . Today his area belongs to the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The district seat was in Westerburg .

history

The area of ​​the Westerburg district originally belonged to the Duchy of Nassau . After its annexation by Prussia as a result of the German War , the area of ​​the later district initially belonged to the Unterwesterwaldkreis and the Oberwesterwaldkreis in the Wiesbaden administrative district of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . In 1886 the Westerburg district was formed from the former offices of Rennerod and Wallmerod .

During the Prussian territorial reform of October 1, 1932, the three existing Westerwald districts were merged into two districts. The communities Girod , Goldhausen, Görgeshausen , Großholbach , Heilberscheid , Hundsangen , Kleinholbach , Nentershausen , Niedererbach , Nomborn , Obererbach , Oberhausen, Pütschbach , Ruppach , Steinefrenz and Weroth moved from the Westerburg district to the Unterwesterwaldkreis. The rest of the district was merged with the Oberwesterwaldkreis to form a new district, which was initially temporarily known as the Westerburg district and, from 1933, the Oberwesterwaldkreis .

Since 1946, the Upper and Lower Westerwald districts belonged to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and in 1974 they were combined to form today's Westerwaldkreis .

Population development

Residents	1900	1910	1925
Westerburg district	28,119	28,869	32.114

Population of the municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1925):

Dog chants	1101
Rennerod	1658
Westerburg	1758

District administrators

• 1886–1893 00Friedrich von der Goltz
• 1893–1900 Max Duderstadt00
• 1900–1910 Leopold Rademacher00
• 1910–1919 Karl Abicht00
• 1919–1926 Martin Schieren00
• 1926–1931 Egon Schunck00
• 1931–1932 Hermann Schüling00

Communities

The district comprised the following municipalities:

Arnshöfen Berod Berzhahn Bilkheim Brandscheid Dahlen Duringia Ehringhausen iron Elbingen Elsoff Emmerichenhain Ettinghausen Ewighausen Gemünden Gershasen Girkenroth Girod Goldhausen Goergeshausen Großholbach

Peep home Hahn am See Half Härtlingen Heilberscheid Hellenhahn-Schellenberg Hergenroth Herschbach Homberg Hüblingen Dog chants Irmtraut Kaden Kleinholbach Koelbingen Cow farms Moravia Meudt Mittelhofen Molsberg Nentershausen

Neunkirchen Neustadt / Westerwald Niederahr Niedererbach Niederroßbach Niedersayn Nister-Möhrendorf Nomborn Oberahr Obererbach Oberhausen Oberrod Oberroßbach Obersayn Pottum Pütschbach deer Rennerod Rothenbach Ruppach Sainerholz

Sainscheid salt Salzburg Seck Stahlhofen am Wiesensee Stone frenzy Waigandshain Forest mills Wallmerod Willow cock Weltersburg Wengenroth Weroth Westerburg , city Western ear Willmenrod Win Zehnhausen near Rennerod Zehnhausen near Wallmerod

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ History of Simmern / Westerwald. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of rural districts of August 1, 1932, § 90
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. oberwesterwald.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).