Frankenthal district (Palatinate)

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Coat of arms of the Frankenthal district
Frankenthal district (Palatinate)
Map of Germany, position of the Frankenthal district highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Frankenthal (Palatinate)
Area : 233.19 km 2
Residents: 62,687 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density : 269 ​​inhabitants per km 2
License plate : FT
Circle key : 07 3 34
Circle structure: 38 parishes

The district of Frankenthal (Palatinate) was a district in the northeast of the Palatinate ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) from 1818 to 1969 .

geography

In early 1969 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the district and the independent city of Worms (both in Rhineland-Palatinate), the Bergstrasse district (in Hesse ), the independent city of Frankenthal (Palatinate), the urban district of Mannheim (in Baden-Württemberg ) as well as the districts of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Kaiserslautern and Kirchheimbolanden (all in turn in Rhineland-Palatinate).

history

In 1818 the later circle was formed through the organizational merging of the cantons Frankenthal and Grünstadt as the Frankenthal Land Commissioner of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1862 the name was changed to "District Office".

In 1919 the district office took over the self-administration tasks that had previously been held by the district communities of Frankenthal and Grünstadt, which had been established in the former cantons. On March 1, 1920, the city of Frankenthal was spun off from the district office as a district immediate city, called Stadtkreis from 1935.

In 1938 the district office lost the municipality of Oppau (including Edigheim, which was incorporated in 1928 ) through incorporation into the city of Ludwigshafen . In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district. The district administration , which was then called the District Office , had its seat in the still independent city of Frankenthal (Palatinate).

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.

On June 7, 1969, the district was dissolved in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform:

Population development

year Residents source
1864 45.281
1885 50,364
1900 60,734
1910 67,658
1925 51,609
1939 44.131
1950 50,677
1960 56,100
1968 62,687

District administrators

  • Werner Spiess from Kleinkarlbach, deployed by the Americans from April 29, 1945.
  • 1948–1951: Ernst Roth ( SPD )
  • Philipp Kranz from Grünstadt was the deputy district administrator and provisional district administrator after the death of Ernst Roth.
  • Rudolf Hammer , previously District Administrator of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district and a member of the SPD, was appointed to act as a substitute on September 24, 1951 and was finally appointed District Administrator of the Frankenthal (Palatinate) district on April 1, 1953. He remained so until the dissolution of this district.

Communities

At the time of its dissolution, the district consisted of one city and 37 local parishes:

Congregations dissolved before 1969

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign FT when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued in the independent city of Frankenthal to this day.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkert, Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. 1983, p. 43.
  2. ^ Volkert, Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. 1983, p. 96.
  3. ^ Volkert, Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. 1983, p. 90.
  4. ↑ territorial.de , under "Kreise", "Frankenthal"
  5. ^ Volkert, Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. 1983, p. 97.
  6. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  7. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  8. ↑ 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. 158 (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.  
  9. ^ 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 ).
  10. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. frankenthal.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).