Eisenberg district

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Basic data (as of 1942)
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
1900 17,593
1910 19,567
1925 21,549
1933 24,109
1939 24,491

District administrators

Historical responsibilities

Communities

The Eisenberg district last comprised 47 municipalities, three of which had city rights:

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