Eisenberg district
Basic data (as of 1942) | |
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Prussian Province | Hessen-Nassau |
Administrative district | kassel |
Administrative headquarters | Korbach |
surface | 302 km² (1910) |
Residents | 24,491 (1939) |
Communities | 47 (1942) |
The Eisenberg district , named after the Eisenberg , was a German district that existed from 1850 to 1942. The district administration was in Korbach . The former district area is now part of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .
history
The Eisenberg district was founded on April 27, 1850 in the Principality of Waldeck . On April 1, 1929, as part of the dissolution of the state of Waldeck, the district was reclassified into the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . The communities Deisfeld , Eimelrod , Hemmighausen and Höringhausen of the district of Frankenberg fell to the Eisenberg district. By then, these communities had formed two Prussian enclaves within Waldeck.
On January 1, 1939, the district was renamed the Eisenberg district . On February 1, 1942, it was combined with the district of Eder and the district of Twiste to form the new district of Waldeck .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1900 | 17,593 | |
1910 | 19,567 | |
1925 | 21,549 | |
1933 | 24,109 | |
1939 | 24,491 |
District administrators
- 1850 Adolph Giesecken
- 1869 Werner Schotte
- 1873 Carl Giesecken
- 1891 Hermann Engelhard
- 1897 Fritz Waldschmidt
- 1906 Ernst Klapp
- 1937 Gert Kloeppel
Historical responsibilities
- Justice (. 1894 and 1927): Amtsgericht Korbach , Kassel Regional Court , Court of Appeal Kassel
- Tax office (1927): Corbach tax office , Cassel regional tax office
- NS-Gau (1933–1945): Kurhessen
- Military (1885): XI. Army Corps
- Ev. Church (1939): Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
- Catholic Church (1939): Archdiocese of Paderborn
Communities
The Eisenberg district last comprised 47 municipalities, three of which had city rights:
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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
- ↑ a b c Municipal directory 1900: Waldeck
- ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. eisenberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).