Gunzenhausen district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ' N , 10 ° 45' E |
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Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
Existing period: | 1862-1972 | |
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Middle Franconia | |
Administrative headquarters : | Gunzenhausen | |
Area : | 514.64 km 2 | |
Residents: | 40,100 (Dec. 31, 1971) | |
Population density : | 78 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | GUN | |
Circle key : | 09 5 37 | |
Circle structure: | 65 parishes | |
Address of the district administration: |
Marketplace 23
8820 Gunzenhausen |
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District Administrator : | Karl Friedrich Zink (independent) | |
Location of the district of Gunzenhausen in Bavaria | ||
The district of Gunzenhausen belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia . Before the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform in the early 1970s, the district comprised 65 communities.
geography
Important places
The most populous municipalities were Gunzenhausen , Merkendorf , Wolframs-Eschenbach and Markt Berolzheim .
Neighboring areas
In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the districts of Ansbach , Schwabach , Weißenburg in Bavaria , Donauwörth , Nördlingen , Dinkelsbühl and Feuchtwangen .
history
district Court
The area of the later district of Gunzenhausen only became part of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, a completely new administrative structure was set up for the young state. In the course of this administrative division of Bavaria , the district courts Gunzenhausen and Heidenheim were set up in 1808 , which initially belonged to the Altmühlkreis , from 1810 to the Oberdonaukreis and from 1817 to the Rezatkreis , which was renamed Middle Franconia in 1838 .
District Office
The district office of Gunzenhausen was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order Gunzenhausen and Heidenheim.
On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Gunzenhausen district office received four municipalities from the dissolved Heilsbronn District Office and the municipality of Fünfbronn from the Schwabach District Office on January 1, 1880 .
district
On January 1, 1939, the uniform designation Landkreis was introduced in the German Reich . So the district office of Gunzenhausen became the district office.
On July 1, 1972, the district of Gunzenhausen was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria :
- The communities of Biederbach , Gerbersdorf , Hirschlach , Ismannsdorf , Merkendorf , Mitteleschenbach , Reutern , Selgenstadt and Wolframs-Eschenbach came to the district of Ansbach .
- The Steinhart community came to the Donau-Ries district in the administrative district of Swabia .
- The communities of Enderndorf and Fünfbronn came to the district of Roth .
- All other communities came to the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , which until May 1, 1973, was the district of Weißenburg i. Bay. was called.
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1864 | 28,152 | |
1885 | 32,582 | |
1900 | 31,798 | |
1910 | 32,602 | |
1925 | 32,260 | |
1939 | 31,211 | |
1950 | 45,854 | |
1960 | 38,800 | |
1971 | 40,100 |
Communities
Places in italics are still independent communities today. In the case of places that are no longer independent today, it is noted which congregation they belong to today. Most of the communities in the former district now belong to the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, otherwise it is also noted.
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the GUN distinctive sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974. Since July 10, 2013, it has been available again in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district due to the license plate liberalization .
literature
- Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Franconia . Series I, Issue 8. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1960, DNB 452071089 ( digitized version ).
- Hansgeorg Klauss et al. (Ed.): The district of Gunzenhausen . Verl. F. Authorities and Economy Hoeppner, Aßling-Pörsdorf / Obb. 1966, DNB 456843604 .
- Christa Liebert: Our Gunzenhausen district. Verlag Bild + Druck, Holzmühle-Falkenstein 1966.
- Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen (= historical book of place names of Bavaria, Middle Franconia . Volume 5 ). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7696-9922-X .
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. 477 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
- ^ 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. 715 .
- ^ 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. 730 .
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
- ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Middle Franconia
- ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on 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