District Friedberg (Hesse)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '  N , 8 ° 45'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1832-1972
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
Administrative headquarters :	Friedberg
Area :	573.62 km 2
Residents:	181,000 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	316 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	FB
Circle key :	06 1 39
Circle structure:	31 municipalities
District Administrator :	Erich Milius ( SPD )

The Friedberg district was a district in Hesse until 1972 . It was north of Frankfurt am Main and comprised the western part of the Wetterau . The seat of the administration was the city of Friedberg .

geography

At the beginning of 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the districts of Gießen , Büdingen and Hanau , the independent city of Frankfurt am Main and the Obertaunus district and the districts of Usingen and Wetzlar .

history

The province of Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy of Hesse was divided into districts in 1832. One of these districts was the Friedberg district. It was created by the Grand Ducal Edict of August 20, 1832 from the districts of Friedberg and Vilbel .

After the March Revolution in 1848, the district was dissolved and integrated into the newly created Friedberg district . With the victory of the reaction , however, the Friedberg district was rebuilt in 1852. It now consisted of the district court districts of Butzbach and Friedberg and also included the places Weckesheim , Wohnbach and Wölfersheim from the district court district of Hungen and the village of Staden from the district court district of Büdingen . In 1860 Trais-Münzenberg was reclassified from the Nidda district to the Friedberg district. Through the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 , the Kurhessische Amt Dorheim with the places Dorheim , Nauheim , Schwalheim and Rödgen as well as the Nassau communities Dorn-Assenheim and Reichelsheim came to the Friedberg district. On July 1, 1874, according to the decree of the Grand Duke, the division of the Grand Duchy into districts relating to June 11, 1874, the Vilbel district was dissolved and mainly incorporated into the Friedberg district. After the community of Fauerbach bei Friedberg was incorporated into the city of Friedberg in 1901 , the district comprised 71 communities.

As part of the Hessian regional reform , numerous communities in the Friedberg district were merged between 1968 and 1972. In addition, the outer borders of the district were changed several times:

• On January 1, 1970, Heldenbergen left the district and was incorporated into Nidderau in the Hanau district.
• On December 31, 1970, Büdesheim left the district and was incorporated into Schöneck in the Hanau district.
• On July 1, 1971, the community of Gronau was incorporated from the Hanau district to Bad Vilbel in the Friedberg district.
• On December 31, 1971, Ober-Eschbach left the district and was incorporated into Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Obertaunus district. On the same day, the municipality of Ober-Hörgern from the district of Gießen to Munzenberg and the municipality of Berstadt from the district of Büdingen to Wölfersheim in the district of Friedberg were incorporated.
• On February 1, 1972, the communities Blofeld and Heuchelheim from the Büdingen district were incorporated into Reichelsheim in the Friedberg district. On the same day, the community of Leidhecken was incorporated from the Büdingen district to Florstadt in the Friedberg district.

Overall, the number of municipalities in the district decreased to 31 by July 1972. On August 1, 1972, the Friedberg district was dissolved by the law on the reorganization of the Büdingen and Friedberg districts of July 11, 1972:

• The largest part of the district together with the Büdingen district formed the new Wetterau district. At the same time, other communities were merged.
• The municipality of Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe was incorporated into the town of Friedrichsdorf and the municipality of Ober-Erlenbach into the town of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the new Hochtaunuskreis .
• The communities Harheim , Nieder-Erlenbach and Nieder-Eschbach were incorporated into the independent city of Frankfurt am Main .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1852	39.210
1900	69,673
1910	79,034
1925	90,099
1933	93,481
1939	95,071
1950	138,855
1960	150,300
1970	177,300
1971	181,000

politics

Seat of the district administration

Building In der Burg 23 (Bünauischer Hof), first seat of the district administration in Friedberger Burg, from the southeast

The seat of the newly created district (as in the past also the district administration district) was in the castle from 1832 to spring 1888 (address Burgstrasse 196, today: In der Burg 23). From spring 1888 to September 1920, the seat of the district administration was the house at Bismarckstraße 2, which was later used as the town hall (until the move to Mainzer-Tor-Anlage 6). From 1920 to 1955 the Grand Ducal Palace was used in the castle before the new district building was moved into in 1955.

District administrators

• Friedrich Küchler (1832–1848)
• Ludwig Ouvrier (1848-1852)
• Friedrich Müller (1852-1859)
• Adolph Trapp (1859–1876)
• Johann Braden (1877–1901)
• Friedrich Fey (1901-1910)
• Karl Schliephake (1910–1913)
• Baron Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1913–1921)
• Heinrich Leonhard Graef (1921–1924)
• Heinrich Gebhardt (1924–1928)
• Bernhard Rechthien (1928–1933)
• Otto Straub (1934–1937)
• Hermann Braun (1937-1940)
• Otto Straub (1940-1944)
• Hermann Josef Bach (1945–1949)
• Jens Krauss (1949–1952)
• Erich Milius (1952–1973)

coat of arms

In October 1953, the district received the right to use a coat of arms.

Communities

The following list contains all municipalities that belonged to the Friedberg district and the dates of all incorporations.

local community	incorporated after	Date of incorporation	today's district
Assenheim (city)	Niddatal	01st December 1970	Wetteraukreis
Bad Nauheim (City)			Wetteraukreis
Bad Vilbel (city)			Wetteraukreis
Farmer's home	Friedberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Beienheim	Reichelsheim	0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Soil dig	Butzbach	0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Bonstadt	Niddatal	01st December 1970	Wetteraukreis
Rupture bridges	Friedberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Büdesheim	Schöneck	December 31, 1970	Main-Kinzig district
Burg-Graefenrode	Karben	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Burgholzhausen in front of the height	Friedrichsdorf	0August 1, 1972	Hochtaunuskreis
Butzbach (city)			Wetteraukreis
Dorheim	Friedberg	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Dorn-Assenheim	Reichelsheim	0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Dortelweil	Bad Vilbel	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Fauerbach near Friedberg	Friedberg	0October 1, 1901	Wetteraukreis
Fauerbach in front of the height	Philippseck Butzbach	December 31, 1970 0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Florstadt 1			Wetteraukreis
Friedberg (city)			Wetteraukreis
Gambach	Munzenberg	01st October 1971	Wetteraukreis
Griedel	Butzbach	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Groß-Karben	Karben	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Harheim	Frankfurt am Main	0August 1, 1972	Frankfurt am Main
Hausen	Hausen-Oes Butzbach	0January 1, 1968 0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Hausen-Oes 2	Butzbach	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Heroes Mountains	Nidderau	0January 1, 1970	Main-Kinzig district
Hoch-Weisel	Butzbach	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Ilbenstadt	Niddatal	01st December 1970	Wetteraukreis
Kaichen	Niddatal	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Karben (city) 1			Wetteraukreis
Kirch-Göns	Butzbach	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Klein-Karben	Karben	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Kloppenheim	Karben	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Langenhain	Ober-Mörlen	01st February 1971	Wetteraukreis
Maibach	Butzbach	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Massenheim	Bad Vilbel	0June 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Melbach	Wolfersheim	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Muenster	Philippseck Butzbach	December 31, 1970 0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Munzenberg (city)			Wetteraukreis
Niddatal (city) 3			Wetteraukreis
Nieder-Erlenbach	Frankfurt am Main	0August 1, 1972	Frankfurt am Main
Nieder-Eschbach	Frankfurt am Main	0August 1, 1972	Frankfurt am Main
Nieder-Florstadt	Florstadt	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Nieder-Mörlen	Bad Nauheim	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Nieder-Rosbach	Rosbach Rosbach vor der Höhe	0December 1, 1970 0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Nieder-Weisel	Butzbach	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Nieder-Wöllstadt	Wöllstadt	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Ober-Erlenbach	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	0August 1, 1972	Hochtaunuskreis
Ober-Eschbach	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	December 31, 1971	Hochtaunuskreis
Ober-Florstadt	Florstadt	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Ober-Mörlen			Wetteraukreis
Ober-Rosbach (City)	Rosbach Rosbach vor der Höhe	0December 1, 1970 0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Ober-Wöllstadt	Wöllstadt	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Ockstadt	Friedberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Oes	Hausen-Oes Butzbach	0January 1, 1968 0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Okarben	Karben	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Oppershofen	Rockenberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Ossenheim	Friedberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Ostheim	Butzbach	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Petterweil	Karben	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Philippseck 4	Butzbach	0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Pohl-Göns	Butzbach	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Reichelsheim (City)			Wetteraukreis
Rendel	Karben	0July 1, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Rockenberg			Wetteraukreis
Rödgen	Bad Nauheim weather valley	0February 1, 1971 December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Rodheim before the height	Rosbach vor der Höhe	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Rosbach (city) 3	Rosbach vor der Höhe	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Schwalheim	Bad Nauheim	0February 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Södel	Wolfersheim	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Staden	Florstadt	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Stammheim	Florstadt	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Steinfurth	Bad Nauheim	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Trais Munzenberg	Munzenberg	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Weckesheim	Reichelsheim	0August 1, 1972	Wetteraukreis
Wetterertal 5	Bad Nauheim	December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Wisselsheim	Bad Nauheim weather valley	0February 1, 1971 December 31, 1971	Wetteraukreis
Wohnbach	Wolfersheim	December 31, 1970	Wetteraukreis
Wolfersheim			Wetteraukreis

¹ Re-formed on July 1, 1970

² Re-formed on January 1st, 1968

³ Re-formed on December 1st, 1970

^4th Re-formed on December 31, 1970

⁵ Re-formed on February 1, 1971

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing mark FB when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is issued in the Wetteraukreis until today.

literature

• Erich Milius (Ed.): The Hessian district Friedberg. Home and Work book series. Home and Economy, Aalen 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette . No. 28 . Darmstadt June 12, 1874, p. 247 ( digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Friedberg district
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230-232 , second section; § 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
5. ^ 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. 361 .
6. ↑ Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse according to history, country, people, state and locality . Darmstadt 1854, p. 420 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. friedberg_hessen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972.
9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973.
10. ↑ Approval to carry a coat of arms to the Friedberg district, Darmstadt administrative district from October 22, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 45 , p. 1003 , item 1279 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,4 MB ]).