Dinslaken district

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '  N , 6 ° 44'  E

Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period: 1909-1974
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Dinslaken
Area : 220.9 km 2
Residents: 146,000 (Dec. 31, 1973)
Population density : 661 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : DIN
Circle key : 05 2 31
Circle structure: 6 municipalities

The district of Dinslaken was from 1816 to 1823 and from 1887 (until 1909 as Ruhrort ) to 1974 a district on the right Lower Rhine in the Düsseldorf administrative district (until 1822: Kleve administrative district ), initially in Prussia and later in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The district last comprised an area from the Lippe in the north, the border to the former province of Westphalia in the east, Duisburg and Oberhausen in the south and the Rhine in the west. The seat of the district was the city of Dinslaken .

Neighboring areas

In 1974, the Dinslaken district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Rees and Recklinghausen districts , the independent cities of Oberhausen and Duisburg, and the Moers district .

history

The Dinslaken district from 1816 to 1823

The forerunner of the first district of Dinslaken was the canton of Dinslaken . It was built by the French in 1808 after the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Berg was formed in 1806 from the remains of the Prussian Rhineland on the right bank of the Rhine, the Duchy of Berg , which was previously owned by Bavaria , and some neighboring areas . An administrative reform based on the French model was carried out. In 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, the area of ​​the Dinslaken district was again added to Prussia - consisting of a part of the Duchy of Kleve from the pre-revolutionary period, which had belonged to Brandenburg-Prussia since 1666 at the latest .

In the course of the Prussian administrative organization, the Dinslaken district was re-established on April 23, 1816 as one of 29 districts in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg Province , which later became the Rhine Province . The district was made up of the seven mayorships of Dinslaken, Duisburg, Gahlen, Götterswickerham, Holten, Ruhrort and Schermbeck, which were formed during the French era . The district was dissolved again on September 27, 1823. The mayor's office of Schermbeck came to the northern neighboring district of Rees and the other six mayor's offices to the new district of Duisburg , into which the dissolved district of Essen was incorporated.

The Dinslaken district from 1909 to 1974

The old district belonged to the Duisburg district until 1873, then to the Mülheim an der Ruhr district until 1887 and since then to the Ruhrort district . The Ruhrort district was renamed the Dinslaken district on April 1, 1909 ; at the same time the district office was moved from the city of Ruhrort to the city of Dinslaken. The Dinslaken district initially had the following administrative structure:

Mayorry Parishes (1909)
Dinslaken Dinslaken (city)
Gahlen Bruckhausen , Bucholtwelmen , Gahlen , Gartrop-Bühl , Hünxe
Götterswickerhamm Görsicker , Löhnen , Mehrum , Möllen , Spellen , Voerde
Hamborn Hamborn
Hiesfeld Hiesfeld
Sterkrade Holten , Sterkrade
Walsum Walsum

The following changes were made in the period that followed:

  • Götterswickerhamm mayor's office was renamed Voerde's mayor's office in 1911 .
  • Hamborn, which had exceeded the population limit of 100,000 in 1910 and thus more than half of the district's residents lived there, left the district in 1911 and formed its own urban district.
  • The two communities of Mehrum and Görsicker were incorporated into the community of Löhnen in 1913.
  • On April 1, 1913, Sterkrade was granted town charter and the municipality of Holten became its own mayor's office.
  • Hiesfeld was incorporated into the city of Dinslaken in 1917.
  • Sterkrade and Holten left the district in 1917 and were combined to form the Sterkrade district.
  • Möllen and Spellen was incorporated into Voerde in 1922.
  • The mayor's offices of Voerde and Gahlen, which consist of several municipalities, have been designated as offices since 1927 .
  • Wages was incorporated into Voerde in 1950. The Voerde office was dissolved.
  • On July 1, 1958, the municipality of Walsum received city rights.
  • Bruckhausen and Bucholtwelmen were incorporated into Hünxe in 1960.

Since then the Dinslaken district has existed

  1. the city of Dinslaken
  2. the city of Walsum
  3. the municipality of Voerde (Niederrhein) and
  4. the Amt Gahlen (seat in Hünxe ) with the communities
    1. Gahlen
    2. Gartrop-Bühl and
    3. Hünxe .

In addition to the state railway and the postal service, local public transport was mainly served by the Duisburg transport company .

On October 1, 1969, the district became the district of Dinslaken.

On January 1, 1975, the Dinslaken district was dissolved in the course of the second reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia :

  • Walsum was incorporated into the city of Duisburg.
  • Gartrop-Bühl became part of Hünxe.
  • Gahlen became part of the community of Schermbeck except for the district of Östrich, which came to the city of Dorsten .
  • Dinslaken, Hünxe and Voerde came to the new Wesel district .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 19,827
1910 180.502
1925 61,037
1939 65,315
1950 79,813
1960 116,500
1961 118,554
1970 141.158
1973 146,000

politics

Results of the district elections from 1946

Only parties and voter communities that received at least two percent of the votes in the respective election are listed.

year SPD CDU FDP DZP KPD
1946 35.7 38.3 03.9 11.1 11.0
1948 37.0 27.3 11.9 14.8 09.0
1952 44.1 24.2 13.1 11.5 07.1
1956 56.7 31.8 09.8
1961 53.3 38.2 08.5
1964 54.2 35.4 07.6
1969 55.4 35.8 07.8

District administrators

Upper District Directors

Coat of arms of the former Dinslaken district

coat of arms

Blazon : “Above a green shield base, inside a golden (yellow) deer head, in silver (white) a red miner with helmet, pickaxe and lamp. In the upper right corner above a red anchor a red fish and in the left corner a red ear of wheat crossed with a red scythe. ”The coat of arms was adopted on February 10, 1936.

The coat of arms refers to the most important branches of industry in the district, mining, agriculture and shipping on the Rhine as well as nature with its forests (Hirschkopf).

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinction DIN when the vehicle license plates were introduced that are still valid today . It was issued until December 31, 1974. It has been available in the Wesel district since December 3, 2012 due to the license plate liberalization .

literature

  • Willi Dittgen: Moving times. The Dinslaken district in the years 1909–1959 . Published by the district of Dinslaken on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Dinslaken 1959
  • Willi Dittgen: Stations or “From the vicissitudes in the history of the Dinslaken district” , in: Dinslaken district yearbook, last edition December 1974; Edited by Dinslaken District Administration, Dinslaken 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Territorial.de: Dinslaken district
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1909, p. 83
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1911, p. 143
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Düsseldorf Government 1913, p. 177
  5. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1913, p. 234
  6. ↑ Announcement of the new version of the district regulations for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from August 11, 1969 in the Law and Ordinance Gazette for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, year 1969, No. 2021, p. 670 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c 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. 202 f .
  8. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 109 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
  9. ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 2, 2014 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dinslaken.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook 1975, p. 52
  12. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  13. ^ [1] Coat of arms of the district of Dinslaken on ngw.nl