District of Gelsenkirchen

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The district of Gelsenkirchen was a district in the Münster administrative district of the Prussian province of Westphalia from 1885 to 1926 . Before the city of Gelsenkirchen left the district as a separate urban district in 1896 , its name was Gelsenkirchen District . The seat of the district administration was in the city of Gelsenkirchen.

history

The steady increase in population that took place in the second half of the 19th century in the area of ​​what would later become the Ruhr area also affected the Bochum district . Its population soon exceeded the level considered appropriate for districts. A reduction in size seemed advisable. Therefore, on April 1, 1885, the new Gelsenkirchen district was formed from the western parts of the Bochum district area. The district office was set up in Gelsenkirchen. After 1887 from the communities Braubauerschaft , Bulmke and covers the Office Braubauerschaft and 1891. Eickel and Holsterhausen the Office Eickel had been formed, the county initially comprised six offices and a total of 20 municipalities:

Administrative division 1891
Office Communities
Brewing community Brewery , Bulmke and Hüllen
Eickel Eickel and Holsterhausen
Schalke Hessler and Schalke
Ückendorf Ückendorf
Tub Bickern , Crange and Röhlinghausen
Wattenscheid Eppendorf , Günnigfeld , Höntrop , Leithe , Munscheid , Sevinghausen and Westenfeld
free of charge Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid

On January 1, 1896, the city of Gelsenkirchen left the district and from then on formed its own urban district. The district office remained in Gelsenkirchen. The district was now referred to as a district . In 1897 the community of Bickern was renamed to Wanne and in 1900 the community and the office of brewing farmers were renamed Bismarck.

On April 1, 1903, the district area was further reduced by incorporating the communities of Bismarck, Bulmke, Heßler, Hüllen, Schalke and Ückendorf into the city of Gelsenkirchen. In 1906 Crange was incorporated into Wanne and in 1910 Holsterhausen was incorporated into Eickel. At the end of its existence, the district still comprised three offices and a total of eleven municipalities:

Administrative division 1926
Office Communities
Eickel Eickel
Tub Wanne and Röhlinghausen
Wattenscheid Eppendorf, Günnigfeld, Höntrop, Leithe, Munscheid, Sevinghausen and Westenfeld
free of charge Wattenscheid

On April 1, 1926, Eppendorf, Günnigfeld, Höntrop, Leithe, Munscheid, Sevinghausen and Westenfeld were incorporated into the now independent city of Wattenscheid, while Eickel, Röhlinghausen and Wanne were combined to form the independent city of Wanne-Eickel . The district of Gelsenkirchen was thus dissolved.

Population development

year Residents
1890 127.344
1900 188.033
1910 143,399

District administrators

literature

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Gelsenkirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b territorial.de: Gelsenkirchen district
  2. ↑ gelsenkirchen.de: Stadtgeschichte ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gelsenkirchen.de
  3. ↑ a b c territorial.de: Office Eickel
  4. ↑ territorial.de: Office of brewing farmers
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Gelsenkirchen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).