Feuchtwangen district

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Coat of arms of the Feuchtwangen district
Feuchtwangen district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′  N , 10 ° 19 ′  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Wet cheeks
Area : 453.21 km 2
Residents: 37,038 (May 27, 1970)
Population density : 82 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : FEU
Circle key : 09 5 35
Circle structure: 51 municipalities
Location of the district of Feuchtwangen in Bavaria
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Location of the Feuchtwangen district in today's Ansbach district

The district of Feuchtwangen was a district in Bavaria , which was dissolved in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria in 1972. He belonged to the administrative region Middle Franconia . Before the beginning of the Bavarian territorial reform in the early 1970s, the district comprised 51 communities.

geography

Important places

The most populous places in the district were Feuchtwangen , Herrieden , Bechhofen and Aurach .

Neighboring areas

Starting in 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the north on the districts of Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Ansbach , Gunzenhausen and Dinkelsbühl (all in Bavaria) and Crailsheim (in Baden-Württemberg ).

history

Up until 1791, Feuchtwangen was a Brandenburg-Ansbach Oberamtsstadt with a wide area belonging to it, which already comprised essential parts of the later district office or district. The sub-offices belonging to the Oberamt Feuchtwangen were the Stiftsverwalteramt Feuchtwangen, Stadtvogteiamt Feuchtwangen, Monastery Administrator's Office Sulz, Administrator's Office Waizendorf, Administrator's Office Forndorf, Kasten- und Vogtamt Feuchtwangen, Vogtamt Ampfrach, Administrator's Office Bechhofen, Vogtamt Schopfloch. The last childless Margrave Carl Alexander ceded his land to the Kingdom of Prussia that year . Through the new Prussian organization of the principality, the Crailsheimer Kreis was formed from the Ansbach upper offices in Crailsheim and Feuchtwangen , followed by the separation of powers through the separation of administration and justice. This ended the administrative structure that was sometimes centuries old. With the patent of the Prussian King dated November 19, 1795 and the instructions for all city courts, judicial offices and patrimonial courts of the Principality of Ansbach dated June 11, 1797, the regulations were specified and the judicial offices established. In the Crailsheim district there were then the Crailsheim and Feuchtwangen judicial offices as well as the Crailsheim City Court. In 1805 there was a third coalition war against France. During the march to Munich, General Bernadotte had violated the neutrality of the Prussian principality of Ansbach . In the Treaty of Schönbrunn of December 15, 1805, Prussia had to surrender the Principality of Ansbach to France in exchange for the Electorate of Hanover , which came to the new Kingdom of Bavaria on January 1, 1806 . Bavaria introduced a new administrative division one: from Crailsheim circle as "were regional court circles labeled" Gerhardsbronn (now Gerabronn ), Crailsheim and Feuchtwangen formed which later formed the counties, including the county Feuchtwangen. Parts of the Crailsheimer Kreis also went to the newly formed Bavarian district court Dinkelsbühl , all of which belonged to the newly formed Rezatkreis (which later became Middle Franconia ) of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The district ( district ) office and the district court later emerged from the regional court . Through the border treaty between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Württemberg of May 18, 1810, the Bavarian regional courts of Gerabronn and Crailsheim as well as small parts of the regional courts of Dinkelsbühl and Feuchtwangen became part of Württemberg and the western parts of the Feuchtwanger Land became border areas. The former state border Kingdom of Bavaria / Kingdom of Württemberg or the Free State of Bavaria / Baden-Württemberg continues to exist between the federal states and thus also between the district of Feuchtwangen or the district of Ansbach and Crailsheim or the district of Schwäbisch Hall .

District Office

The Feuchtwangen district office was formed in 1862 through the merger of the older district courts Feuchtwangen and Herrieden .

Residents District office or
district Feuchtwangen
26,332 (1890) 17,143 of them Evangelicals 9,037 Catholics 121 Jews
25,898 (1900) 16,732 of them Evangelicals 9,027 Catholics
26,631 (1910) of which 17,028 Protestants 9,481 Catholics
26,957 (1925) 17.096 of them Evangelicals 9,785 Catholics 75 Jews
26,970 (1933) 17,175 of them Evangelicals 9,714 Catholics 71 Jews
26,346 (1939) 16,403 of them Evangelicals 9,895 Catholics 0 Jews 1 other Christian
38,650 (1950)
33,900 (1960) 5,500 of them displaced

district

On January 1, 1939, the term rural district was introduced throughout the empire. The district office became Feuchtwangen.

On July 1, 1971, the communities of Heinersdorf and Königshofen adHeide came from the Dinkelsbühl district to the Feuchtwangen district and were incorporated into the Bechhofen market .

On July 1, 1972, most of the Feuchtwangen district, together with the Dinkelsbühl and Rothenburg ob der Tauber districts and the previously independent city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, as well as some communities in the Gunzenhausen, Schwabach and Neustadt an der Aisch districts and parts of the old district Ansbach united to form today's Ansbach district . The Claffheim community was incorporated into the independent city of Ansbach .

Population development

year Residents source
1864 25,939
1885 26,743
1900 25,898
1910 26,631
1925 26,957
1939 26,346
1950 38,650
1960 33,900
1971 37,900

Communities

Places in italics are still independent communities today. In the places that are no longer independent today, it is noted which municipality the place belongs to today. All the communities in the former district now belong to the district of Ansbach, with the exception of Claffheim , which was incorporated into the independent city of Ansbach.

Cities

  1. Wet cheeks
  2. Herrieden
  3. Ornbau

Markets

  1. Arberg
  2. Bechhofen
  3. Dentlein am Forst
  4. Weidenbach

Communities

  1. Aichau (City of Feuchtwangen)
  2. Aichenzell (City of Feuchtwangen)
  3. Aurach
  4. Banzenweiler (town of Feuchtwangen)
  5. Breitenau (town of Feuchtwangen)
  6. Burgoberbach
  7. Claffheim (City of Ansbach)
  8. Dorfgütingen (City of Feuchtwangen)
  9. Elbersroth (City of Herrieden)
  10. Gladly (City of Ornbau)
  11. Großbreitenbronn (City of Merkendorf)
  12. Grossenried (Bechhofen Market)
  13. Haundorf (municipality of Schnelldorf)
  14. Heilbronn (City of Feuchtwangen)
  15. Heuberg (City of Herrieden)
  16. Hohenberg (City of Herrieden)
  17. Kaudorf (Bechhofen Market)
  18. Kemmathen (Arberg Market)
  19. Krapfenau (City of Feuchtwangen)
  20. Lammelbach (City of Herrieden)
  21. Larrieden (town of Feuchtwangen)
  22. Leidendorf (Market Weidenbach)
  23. Liebersdorf (Market Bechhofen)
  24. Mörlach (Bechhofen Market)
  25. Mörsach (Arberg Market)
  26. Mosbach (town of Feuchtwangen)
  27. Neunstetten (City of Herrieden)
  28. Neuses (municipality of Burgoberbach)
  29. Niederoberbach (municipality of Burgoberbach)
  30. Oberampfrach (municipality of Schnelldorf)
  31. Oberschönbronn (City of Herrieden)
  32. Rauenzell (City of Herrieden)
  33. Roth (City of Herrieden)
  34. Sachsbach (Market Bechhofen)
  35. Sommersdorf (municipality of Burgoberbach)
  36. Stadel (City of Herrieden)
  37. Thann (Bechhofen Market)
  38. Thürnhofen (City of Feuchtwangen)
  39. Unterampfrach (Schnelldorf municipality)
  40. Vorderbreitenthann (town of Feuchtwangen)
  41. Waizendorf (Market Bechhofen)
  42. Weinberg (municipality of Aurach)
  43. Wieseth
  44. Wiesethbruck (Bechhofen Market)

Unregulated areas

  1. Aurach (Aurach)
  2. Dentleinerforst (Dentlein am Forst)
  3. Erl- u. Grünwald (Aurach, Herrieden)

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign FEU when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until April 28, 1973. It has been available in the Ansbach district since July 10, 2013 due to license plate liberalization .

Coat of arms of the district

The coat of arms of the district is explained on the back of the book Feuchtwangen and his district :

The coat of arms , created in 1953 , with its basic black and white colors, the Zollern colors , reminds of the long historical past:

From 1376 to 1806, a large part of the district belonged to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg or Margraviate Ansbach (or Prussia ), with which it came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 ; it also points to the close connection between Feuchtwangen and the German Order of Knights (the Grand Masters Conrad and Siegfried von Feuchtwangen ). The black Romanesque arch of the venerable cloister , built over 825 years ago, is widely known today because the cloister games have been taking place there since 1949 . In the two middle, small coats of arms, the German community of fate and the demand for a reunification of West , Central and East Germany is embodied by the old imperial eagle . Franconia's white and red rake symbolizes loyalty to the Franconian homeland . On the last page of the book, the entire coat of arms is surrounded by a strong, light green border, in which the Feuchtwanger city colors green and white can be found.

literature

  • Kurt von Ingersleben: Feuchtwangen and his district Herold Neue Verlags GmbH, Munich; 1971 published by the Frankenhöhe-Wörnitzgrund area committee in the Bay. Tourist Association.
  • Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District Feuchtwangen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 21 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB  453909426 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Arthur E. Imhof: Bernadotte. French revolutionary general and Swedish-Norwegian king . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1970, pp. 37-38.
  3. ↑ The House of Hohenzollern. A patriotic memorial book in pictures and words, Repr. D. Originals v. 1910, Europ.Geschichtsverlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86382-072-5 , pages 175–176
  4. ↑ Border Treaty between Bavaria and Württemberg from 1810 on Wikisource.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
  5. ↑ http://www.documentarchiv.de/nzjh/1810/ Grenzvertrag_baiern- wuertemberg.htm
  6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 460 .
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bay_feuchtwangen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  9. ^ Ordinance on the integration of the communities Heinersdorf and Königshofen ad Heide
  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. 713 .
  11. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  12. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
  13. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  14. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Middle Franconia
  15. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
  16. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  17. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  18. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  19. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973