Circle of Eder

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Basic data (as of 1942)
Prussian Province Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district kassel
Administrative headquarters Bad Wildungen
surface 334 km²
Residents 19,507 (1939)
Population density 58 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Communities 33 (1942)

The district of Eder was a German district that existed from 1850 to 1942. The seat of the district administration was the town of Niederwildungen (from 1906 Bad Wildungen ). The former district area is now part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .

history

The Eder district was founded on April 27, 1850 in what was then the Principality of Waldeck . On April 1, 1929, the district came into the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in the course of the dissolution of the Free State of Waldeck , which followed the principality . On January 1, 1939, the district was renamed the Eder district . On February 1, 1942, it was united with the district of Eisenberg and the district of Twiste to form the new district of Waldeck .

Population development

year Residents source
1900 15,259
1910 16,637
1925 18,098
1933 19,562
1939 19,507

District administrators

Communities

When the district was founded in 1850, 36 parishes were assigned to it, six of which had city rights:

The town of Niederwildungen was renamed Bad Wildungen on October 27, 1906 . The municipality of Berich was flooded by the new Ederstausee and abolished in the 1910s . At the same time, the new Edersee municipality was formed on the banks of the Eder reservoir . On May 1, 1940 Altwildungen, Reitzenhagen and Reinhardshausen were incorporated into the city of Bad Wildungen.

literature

  • Thomas Klein (Ed.): Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945 , Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn; Row B: Central Germany (except Prussia); Volume 16: Central Germany (Smaller Countries) , 1981, ISBN 3-87969-131-2 (Part V: Waldeck , edited by Thomas Klein)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Municipal directory 1900: Waldeck
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ederkreis.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).