District of Gemünden am Main
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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ' N , 9 ° 42' E |
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Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
Existing period: | 1862-1972 | |
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Lower Franconia | |
Administrative headquarters : | Gemünden a.Main | |
Area : | 353.19 km 2 | |
Residents: | 21,900 (Dec. 31, 1971) | |
Population density : | 62 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | GEM | |
Circle key : | 09 6 37 | |
Circle structure: | 27 municipalities | |
Address of the district administration: |
8780 Gemünden a.Main | |
Location of the district of Gemünden am Main in Bavaria | ||
The district of Gemünden am Main , officially the district of Gemünden a.Main, is a former district in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia . Before the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform in the early 1970s, the district comprised 27 communities.
geography
Important places
The largest towns were Gemünden , Rieneck , Burgsinn and Gräfendorf .
Neighboring areas
In 1972 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the districts of Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern (both in Hesse ) and Brückenau , Hammelburg , Karlstadt and Lohr (all in Bavaria).
history
District Office
The District Office Gemünden was formed in 1862 through the merger of the regional courts of the older order Gemünden and Orb .
On April 15, 1868, the municipalities of the Gemünden District Office ceded to Prussia were assigned to the Gelnhausen district in the Hesse-Nassau province . Affected communities were Alsberg , Aufenau , Burgjoss , Höchst , Kassel , Lettgenbrunn , Mernes , Neudorf , Oberndorf , Pfaffenhausen , Wirtheim and Orb . The village of Aura, which also belongs to the Orb district, remained in Bavaria.
In 1872 the Gemünden District Office was incorporated into the Lohr am Main District Office .
In 1902, the Gemünden am Main district office was re-established as a spin-off from the Lohr am Main district office.
On January 1, 1905, the community of Halsbach moved from the district office of Gemünden am Main to the district office of Lohr am Main.
district
On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . This is how the district office became the district of Gemünden am Main.
On July 1, 1972, the district was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria and merged with the former districts of Marktheidenfeld , Karlstadt and Lohr am Main to form the Mittelmain district. On May 1, 1973, the new district was given the current name of the district of Main-Spessart .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1864 | 23,979 | |
1910 | 15,498 | |
1925 | 15,754 | |
1939 | 16,162 | |
1950 | 21,967 | |
1960 | 20,800 | |
1971 | 21,900 |
Communities
The district of Gemünden comprised 27 communities, two of which were towns.
Other communities
- Adelsberg
- Aschenroth
- Aura in mind
- Burgsinn
- Skins
- Goessenheim
- Graefendorf
- Harrbach
- Hessdorf
- Höllrich
- Hofstetten
- Karsbach
- Mass book
- Michelau on the Saale
- Middle sense
- Upper sense
- Rengersbrunn
- Sachsenheim
- Schaippach
- Schonderfeld
- Seifriedsburg
- Weickersgrüben
- Wernfeld
- Weyersfeld
- Wolfsmünster
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the GEM distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 434 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ 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. 743 .
- ^ 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. 762 .
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 106 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
- ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973