District of Büdingen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1852-1972
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
Administrative headquarters :	Büdingen
Area :	706.16 km 2
Residents:	87,800 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	124 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	BÜD
Circle key :	06 1 34
Circle structure:	20 municipalities
District Administrator :	Kurt Moosdorf

The district of Büdingen was a German district in Hesse . Between 1852 and 1972 it comprised the eastern part of the Wetterau and some communities in the south of the Vogelsberg . The city of Büdingen as the namesake was the district town and the administrative seat of the area.

geography

Beginning in 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Gießen , Alsfeld , Lauterbach , Gelnhausen , Hanau and Friedberg .

history

Overview map

In 1852, the Büdingen district was formed in the Upper Hesse province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt . It initially consisted of the former regional court district of Büdingen (without Staden ) and the places Enzheim ^*) , Glauberg, Hainchen and Lindheim.

When the Nidda and Vilbel districts were dissolved as part of an administrative reform in 1874 , the vast majority of the Nidda district with a total of 34 municipalities fell to Büdingen. From the old Vilbel district, five communities and the independent Engelthal district were incorporated into the Büdingen district. On April 1, 1900, the new Bad Salzhausen municipality was formed from parts of the municipality of Kohden . The independent district Engelthal belonged to the municipality of Altenstadt since the 1900s .

The end of the Grand Duchy and the transition to the People's State of Hesse in 1918 did nothing to change this composition. On October 31, 1924, the new community Grund-Schwalheim was formed from parts of the community of Unter-Widdersheim . Since then, the Büdingen district has comprised 76 communities, including the cities of Büdingen , Nidda and Ortenberg .

On October 1, 1938, 26 municipalities of the dissolved Schotten district were incorporated into the Büdingen district. With effect from January 1, 1939, the districts in several countries of the German Empire were given the designation Landkreis, including that of the People's State of Hesse, and the Büdingen district became the Büdingen district . In 1942 Kurt Janthur became district administrator.

On April 1, 1954, the new Harb community was formed from parts of the Borsdorf community . Since then, the district of Büdingen has comprised 103 communities.

As part of the Hessian regional reform , numerous municipalities in the Büdingen district were merged from 1970 onwards. The new community Glauburg was created on July 1, 1970 and the new Limeshain community on December 31, 1971 . The district of Büdingen has also been reduced in size several times:

• On December 31, 1970, the congregation was long Bergheim by Hammerbach incorporated in the district of Hanau.
• On December 31, 1971, the community was Berstadt to Wölfersheim incorporated in the district of Friedberg.
• Also on 31 December 1971, the communities were Böß buttocks and Illnhausen to Birstein incorporated in the district of Gelnhausen.
• On February 1, 1972, the communities were Blofeld and Heuchelheim to Reichelsheim incorporated in the district of Friedberg.
• Also on February 1, 1972, the community was Leidhecken to Florstadt incorporated in the district of Friedberg.

This, as well as other incorporations in preparation for the regional reform, reduced the number of towns and communities in the Büdingen district to just 20 by July 1972.

On August 1, 1972, the law to reorganize the rural districts of Büdingen and Friedberg came to an end:

• Most of the district was merged with the Friedberg district to form the Wetteraukreis , the administrative seat of which was the city of Friedberg .
• The city of Schotten, which was enlarged by numerous incorporations, was assigned to the new Vogelsberg district .
• The Altwiedermus community was incorporated into Ronneburg in the Hanau district.
• The two communities of Hain-Gründau and Mittel-Gründau were incorporated into the community of Gründau in the Gelnhausen district.

Hain-Gründau and Mittel-Gründau did not want to be incorporated into the city of Büdingen despite intensive efforts by the then Büdingen mayor Willi Zinnkann ; their citizens' representatives preferred to form the community of Gründau with some communities in the Gelnhausen district . Between 1972 and the establishment of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis in 1974, the communities became part of the Gelnhausen district. To compensate for the “loss” of these two places, the community Wolferborn from the Gelnhausen district was incorporated into the city of Büdingen and thus into the Wetterau district on August 1, 1972 .

The last district administrator in the Büdingen district was Kurt Moosdorf , who was in office from 1946 .

Area and population development

year	Residents	Area in km²	source
1852	18,960
1900	39,032	491.22
1910	40,827	491.61
1933	44,648
1939	60.139
1950	88,308
1961	82,563	729.32
1970	88.101	723.02
1971	87,800	706.16

badges and flags

coat of arms

Bismarck tower on the font, the template for the district coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue on a red mountain, a square silver tower with a golden gate."

The right to use a coat of arms was granted to the district on July 16, 1952 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim pastor i. R. and heraldist Hermann Knodt .

The coat of arms of the district shows the Bismarck tower standing near Schotten on the baptismal font , the highest point in the district. The red mountain is supposed to symbolize the autumn forest and the Vogelsberg. The colors of the coat of arms are kept in the old Hessian colors blue-white-red.

flag

The flag was approved for the district on August 26, 1965 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and is described as follows:

Description of the flag: "On a wide white central panel - separated by two narrow red side panels - the circular coat of arms is placed in the upper part."

Communities

List of cities (in bold) and other municipalities according to the 1953 Heimat-Jahrbuch:

Büdingen district from 1852 Altwiedermus 3) , Aulendiebach , Bindsachsen , Böß-Gesäß 4) , Büches , Büdingen , Burgbracht , Calbach , Diebach am Haag , Dudenrod , Düdelsheim , Eckartshausen , Enzheim *) , Glauberg , Hainchen , Hain-Gründau 5) , Heegheim , Himbach , Hitzkirchen , Illnhausen 4) , Kefenrod , Langenbergheim 6) , Lindheim , Lorbach , Merkenfritz , Michelau , Mittel-Gründau 5) , Nieder-Mockstadt , Ober-Mockstadt , Orleshausen , Rinderbügen , Rohrbach , Stockheim , Vonhausen , Wenings , Wolf

District reform 1874 from the district of Nidda: Bad Salzhausen 7) , Bellmuth , Bergheim , Berstadt , Bingenheim , Bisses , Bleichenbach , Blofeld , Bobenhausen I , Borsdorf , Dauernheim , Echzell , Eckartsborn , Effolderbach , Fauerbach , Geiß-Nidda , Gelnhaar , Gettenau , Grund-Schwalheim 8 ) , Harb 9) , Heuchelheim , Hirzenhain , Kohden , Leidhecken , Lißberg , Michelnau , Nidda , Ober-Widdersheim , Ortenberg , Ranstadt , Schwickartshausen , Selters , Unter-Schmitten , Unter-Widdersheim , Usenborn , Wallernhausen , Wippenbach from the Vilbel district: Altenstadt , Höchst an der Nidder , Oberau , Rodenbach , Rommelhausen

District reform 1938 from the district of Schotten Betzenrod 2) , Breungeshain 2) , Burkhards 2) , Busenborn 2) , Eichelsachsen 2) , Eichelsdorf 1) , Einartshausen 2) , Eschenrod 2) , Gedern 1) , Glashütten 1) , Götzen 2) , Kaulschlag 2) , Michelbach 2) , Mittel-Seemen 1) , Nieder-Seemen 1) , Ober-Lais 1) , Ober-Schmitten 1) , Ober-Seemen 1) , Rainrod 2) , Rudingshain 2) , Schotten 2) , Sichenhausen 2) , Steinberg 1) , Stornfels , Ulfa , Wingershausen 2)

^*) Enzheim lost its independence in 1855 and became part of the Lindheim community.

¹⁾ On July 1, 1874 from the Nidda district to the Schotten district

²⁾ On August 1, 1972 as part of the city of Schotten to the Vogelsbergkreis

³⁾ On August 1, 1972 in the Hanau district, since July 1, 1974 in the Main-Kinzig district

⁴⁾ On December 31, 1971 to the district of Gelnhausen, since July 1, 1974 in the Main-Kinzig district

⁵⁾ On August 1, 1972 to the Gelnhausen district, since July 1, 1974 in the Main-Kinzig district

⁶⁾ On December 31, 1970 in the Hanau district, since July 1, 1974 in the Main-Kinzig district

⁷⁾ Re-formed on April 1, 1900 from parts of Kohden

⁸⁾ Re-formed on October 31, 1924 from parts of Unter-Widdersheim

⁹⁾ Re-formed on April 1, 1954 from parts of Borsdorf

The municipalities without footnote 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 were absorbed into the Wetterau district on August 1, 1972 .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the BÜD distinctive sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until July 31, 1972. Since January 2, 2013, it has been available again in the Wetterau district on request .

Web links

• Büdingen district at territorial.de

References and comments

1. ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . 1852, pp. 221-232.
2. ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 28 . Darmstadt June 12, 1874, p. 249 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District Büdingen
4. ^ Grund-Schwalheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ Reg.Bl. 1938, p. 7f.
6. ↑ Section 1, Paragraph 3 of the Third Ordinance on the Rebuilding of the Reich of November 28, 1938, (Reichsgesetzblatt) RGBl. 1938 I p. 1675; The regulation only applied in Anhalt, Baden, Bavaria, Braunschweig, in the People's State of Hesse, in Oldenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Württemberg; it did not apply in Prussia.
7. ↑ Harb, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
8. ↑ Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
9. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230-232 , second section; § 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
10. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 353 .
11. ^ Philipp AF Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. 1854, Retrieved July 28, 2009 . 
12. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. buedingen.html. (There also election results from 1933; online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
13. ↑ 1961 census
14. ↑ 1970 census
15. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
16. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt , Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 82.
17. ↑ Authorization to carry a coat of arms to the district of Büdingen, administrative district of Darmstadt from June 16, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 26 , p. 487 , point 530 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.7 MB ]).
18. ↑ Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 1 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1964, p. 22.
19. ^ Approval of a flag for the district of Büdingen, administrative district of Darmstadt from August 26, 1965 . In: State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1965 no. 37 , p. 1070 , point 971 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,9 MB ]).