District of Gemünden am Main

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District of Gemünden am Main
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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 9 ° 42'  E

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
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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

Administrative area of ​​the Gemünden District Office around 1865

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
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.

Cities

  1. Gemünden am Main
  2. Rieneck

Other communities

  1. Adelsberg
  2. Aschenroth
  3. Aura in mind
  4. Burgsinn
  5. Skins
  6. Goessenheim
  7. Graefendorf
  8. Harrbach
  9. Hessdorf
  10. Höllrich
  11. Hofstetten
  12. Karsbach
  13. Mass book
  14. Michelau on the Saale
  15. Middle sense
  16. Upper sense
  17. Rengersbrunn
  18. Sachsenheim
  19. Schaippach
  20. Schonderfeld
  21. Seifriedsburg
  22. Weickersgrüben
  23. Wernfeld
  24. Weyersfeld
  25. 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

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 434 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ 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 .
  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. 762 .
  6. ^ 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 ).
  7. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
  8. ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973