Westerburg district
Basic data | |
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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 | |
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 |
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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 Friedrich von der Goltz
- 1893–1900 Max Duderstadt
- 1900–1910 Leopold Rademacher
- 1910–1919 Karl Abicht
- 1919–1926 Martin Schieren
- 1926–1931 Egon Schunck
- 1931–1932 Hermann Schüling
Communities
The district comprised the following municipalities:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
- ^ History of Simmern / Westerwald. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of rural districts of August 1, 1932, § 90
- ↑ 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).