Bad Brückenau district

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Bad Brückenau district
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '  N , 9 ° 47'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Bad Brueckenau
Area : 338.14 km 2
Residents: 19,600 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 58 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : BRK
Circle key : 09 6 35
Circle structure: 26 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		8788 Bad Brueckenau
Location of the Bad Brückenau district in Bavaria
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The district of Bad Brückenau (until April 7, 1970, the district of Brückenau ) belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia . Before the Bavarian regional reform began in the early 1970s, the district comprised 26 communities.

geography

Important places

The most populous places were Bad Brückenau , Wildflecken , Zeitlofs , Schondra and Motten .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise to the west, beginning with the districts of Schlüchtern and Fulda (both in Hesse ) and the districts of Bad Neustadt an der Saale , Bad Kissingen , Hammelburg and Gemünden am Main (all in Bavaria).

history

District Office

The district office of Brückenau followed in 1862 the area court of the older order of Brückenau .

district

On January 1, 1939, the uniform imperial designation Landkreis was introduced. The district office became the Brückenau district.

On April 8, 1970, the district of Brückenau was officially renamed the Bad Brückenau district.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Bad Brückenau in the course of which was administrative reform in Bavaria together with the district Hammelburg , until then independent town of Bad Kissingen , and individual communities of the districts Gemünden am Main and Karlstad the district of Bad Kissingen slammed shut.

District officials and district administrators

Population development

year Residents source
1864 13,639
1885 13,385
1900 12,714
1910 13,637
1925 14,198
1939 14,053
1950 20,273
1960 18,900
1971 19,600

Communities

The following cities and communities belonged to the district.

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Other communities

License Plate

On 1 July 1956 the county in introducing the still valid today was license plate the distinguishing sign BRK assigned. It was issued until April 28, 1973. Since July 10, 2013 it has been available again in the Bad Kissingen district.

literature

  • Fritz Dunkel: Folksy home book of the district of Brückenau. 2nd, revised edition. District Office Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 425 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ 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. 742 .
  5. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 106 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  7. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
  8. ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973