Circle of twist

Basic data (as of 1942)
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	kassel
Administrative headquarters	Arolsen
surface	302.3 km²
Residents	17,650 (1939)
Population density	58 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Communities	32 (1942)

The Twiste district was a German district that existed from 1850 to 1942. The former district area is now part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .

history

The Twiste district was founded on April 27, 1850 in the Principality of Waldeck . The district administration was initially in Mengeringhausen and was later moved to Arolsen . On April 1, 1929, the Twiste district was reclassified into the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau on the occasion of the dissolution of the state of Waldeck . On January 1, 1939, the district was renamed the Twiste district . On February 1, 1942, it was combined with the district of Eder and the district of Eisenberg to form the new district of Waldeck .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1900	16,430
1910	16,154
1925	16,169
1933	16,485
1939	17,650

District administrators

• 1850 Wilhelm Schumann
• 1869 Otto von Klewitz
• 1880 Robert Ebersbach
• 1883 Karl Rösener
• 1916 Max Wittmer
• 1934 Friedrich Marquardt

Communities

The Twiste district last comprised 32 municipalities, four of which had municipal rights:

Ammenhausen Arolsen , city Braunsen Bühle Dehausen Dehringhausen Elleringhausen Gembeck

Helmighausen Helsen Peas Hesperinghausen Hörle Kohlgrund Cold Landau , city

Luetersheim Massenhausen Mengeringhausen , city Neu-Berich (from 1912) Neudorf Nieder-Waroldern Ober-Waroldern Orpethal

Rhoden , city Schmillinghausen Twist Vasbeck Volkhardinghausen Wethen Wetterburg Wrexen

The community of Neu-Berich emerged as part of the resettlement of residents of the villages that were flooded by the new Eder reservoir .

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

• Municipal directory Germany 1900, Principality of Waldeck - District of Twiste

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. twiste.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).