Bitburg district

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 6 ° 31'  E
Basic data (as of 1970)
Existing period:	1816-1970
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	trier
Administrative headquarters :	Bitburg
Area :	788.11 km 2
Residents:	57,236 (Jun 30, 1969)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	BIT
Circle key :	07 2 32
Circle structure:	138 parishes

Location of the Bitburg district (1905)

The Bitburg district was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Today its area belongs mainly to the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm . The district seat was in Bitburg .

geography

Neighboring areas

Beginning in 1969, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Prüm , Wittlich and Trier . In the west it bordered on Luxembourg and Belgium .

history

The Bitburg district was established in 1816 after the Kingdom of Prussia, following the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna (1815), also assigned significant parts of the previous electorate of Trier . The Bitburg district was part of the Trier administrative district in the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province and, from 1822, part of the Rhine province , which existed until 1945.

The name Bitburg district was changed to Bitburg district in 1939 . In 1946, the Bitburg district became part of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the French occupation zone .

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate district reform, the district became the district of Bitburg on November 7, 1970 with several communities in the district of Prüm , the communities of Eisenach , Gilzem and Orenhofen of the district of Trier and the communities of Gransdorf , Oberkail , Seinsfeld , Spangdahlem and Steinborn of the district of Wittlich -Prüm , which has been called Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm since January 1, 2007 .

Population development

Residents	1816	1871	1890	1900	1910	1925	1939	1950	1960	1969
Bitburg district	27,896	44,543	42,777	43,486	47,200	49,454	52,485	51,124	55,800	57,200

Population of the municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1970):

local community	Residents
Bettingen	1,140
Bitburg	10.210
Bollendorf	1,520
Dudeldorf	1,149
Irrel	1,191
Body	1,090
Kyllburg	1,150
Mettendorf	1,064
Neuerburg	1,531
Rittersdorf	1,023
Storage	3,032

Sub-prefect in the arrondissement of Bitburg

• 1800–1811: Johann Georg Willmar
• 1811–1813: August Maria Raban von Helmstatt

District administrators

• 1816–1821: Heinrich Simonis
• 1822–1830: Ferdinand von Westphalen
• 1830–1831: Konstantin von Gaertner (substitute)
• 1831–1836: Friedrich Hesse
• 1837–1838: Engelbert Klingholz (provisional)
• 1838–1849: Nikolaus Thilmany
• 1849–1871: Johann Peter Sprenger
• 1871–1877: Dagobert Borchert
• 1878–1889: Viktor Eckard
• 1889–1900: Rudolf Schrakamp
• 1900–1913: Maximilian von Kesseler
• 1913–1919: Count Sigmund Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
• 1919–1927: Friedrich Loenartz
• 1927–1938: Albert Gilles
• 1939–1941: Otto Meyer-Tonndorf (acting)
• 1941–1944: Max Ringel
• 1944–1945: Max Ringel (substitute)
• 1945: Josef Niederprüm-9999
• 1945–1946: Albert Gilles
• 1946–1952: Josef Hammes
• 1952–1962: Konrad Schubach
• 1962–1970: Karl Vogt

cities and communes

Before the regional reforms began in Rhineland-Palatinate in the 1960s, the Bitburg district comprised the following cities and communities:

Affler Alsdorf Altscheid Ammeldingen on the Our Ammeldingen near Neuerburg Auw on the Kyll Bath Badenborn Bauler Baustert Applause Beilingen Berkoth Berscheid Bettingen Bickendorf Biersdorf am See Biesdorf Birtlingen Bitburg , city Bollendorf Brecht Brimingen Castle Burscheid Dahlem Dauwelshausen Dockendorf Dudeldorf Echternacherbrück Echtershausen Ehlenz Emmelbaum Enzen Erdorf Ernzen Esslingen Etteldorf

Feilsdorf Ferschweiler Fischbach Flowem Freilingen Geichlingen Gemünd Gentingen Gindorf Gondorf Halsdorf Hamm Heilbach Heilenbach Autumn mill Herforst Hermesdorf Hisel Holsthum Hommerdingen Hosting Huts Hütterscheid Hüttingen on the Kyll Hüttingen near Freilingen Idenheim Idesheim Ingendorf Irrel Irsch Karlshausen Kaschenbach Keppeshausen Little Body Koxhausen Kruchten Kyllburg

Kyllburgweiler Lahr Leimbach Ließem Malberg Malberg soft Masholder Matzo Meckel Messerich Mettendorf Metterich Mötsch Mülbach Muxerath Nasingen Nattenheim Neidenbach Neuerburg , city Niedergeckler Niederraden Lower counter Niederstedem Niederweidingen Niederweiler Niederweis Niehl Walnut Obergeckler Oberraden Upper counter Oberstedem Oberweiler Oberweis Olsdorf Orsfeld Outscheid Peffingen

Philippsheim Pickleem Plascheid Praises Prümzurlay Rittersdorf Rodershausen Röhl Roth an der Our Saint Thomas Schankweiler Sharply cheap Log basket Scrub Schleid Seffern Seffer soft Seimerich Sevenig near Neuerburg Sinspelt Storage steel Stockem Sülm Trimport Überisenbach Uppershausen Usch Waldhof-Falkenstein Wallendorf Weidingen Competitions Wiersdorf Wilsecker Wissmannsdorf Wolsfeld Doubt decision

Before the Second World War , the following communities were incorporated:

• Bierendorf , 1901/08 to Lahr
• Hoorhof , 1905 in Olsdorf
• Oberecken , before 1937 to Alsdorf
• Ordorf , 1937 to Dudeldorf

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the BIT distinctive sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is issued in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm until today.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ 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. 433 .
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. 160 (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. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bitburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ 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. 95 f . (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.