Bergzabern district

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Coat of arms of the Bergzabern district
Bergzabern district
Map of Germany, position of the Bergzabern district highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Bad Bergzabern
Area : 413.74 km 2
Residents: 49,323 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density : 119 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : BZA
Circle key : 07 5 31
Circle structure: 52 municipalities

The Bergzabern district was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate that was dissolved on June 7, 1969 as part of the administrative reform there.

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the west, starting with the districts of Pirmasens , Kaiserslautern , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Landau in der Pfalz and Germersheim . In the south it bordered the French department of Bas-Rhin .

history

In 1818, after the territorial changes at the Congress of Vienna in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Bergzabern Land Commissioner was formed, from which the Bergzabern District Office emerged in 1862 . In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district . After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

The district essentially comprised the area of ​​the present-day association communities Bad Bergzabern and Annweiler am Trifels . On June 7, 1969, it went largely in the newly created Landau-Bad Bergzabern district , which was renamed the Südliche Weinstrasse district on January 1, 1978 . Darstein , Dimbach , Lug , Schwanheim , Spirkelbach and Wilgartswiesen were assigned to the district of Pirmasens (today the district of Südwestpfalz ).

Population development

Population development in the Bergzabern district from 1864 to 1968 according to the table below
year Residents source
1864 40.241
1885 38,444
1900 37,925
1910 39,330
1925 40.003
1939 41,771
1950 42,454
1960 46,300
1968 49,323

District officials and district administrators

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Communities

At the time of its dissolution, the Bergzabern district included two towns and 50 other municipalities:

The community of Bindersbach was incorporated into the city of Annweiler on October 1, 1956.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign BZA when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until June 6, 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  2. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 165 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  4. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bergzabern.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).