District of Hanover
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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ N , 9 ° 44 ′ E |
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| Basic data (as of 2001) | ||
| Existing period: | 1885-2001 | |
| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| Administrative region : | Hanover | |
| Administrative headquarters : | Hanover | |
| Area : | 2,086.15 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 604,897 (Sep. 30, 2001) | |
| Population density : | 290 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | H | |
| Circle key : | 03 2 53 | |
| Circle structure: | 20 municipalities | |
The district of Hanover was a district founded in 1885 , which on November 1, 2001 became part of the Hanover region , a local association of a special kind . County seat was the county-level state capital Hanover .
Neighboring areas
The second district of Hanover bordered at the beginning of 1974 in a clockwise direction in the northwest, starting with the districts of Neustadt am Rübenberge , Burgdorf , Hildesheim-Marienburg , Springe and Grafschaft Schaumburg as well as the city of Hanover.
The district of Hanover, enlarged by the territorial reform of 1974, bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Soltau-Fallingbostel (today Heidekreis) , Celle , Gifhorn , Peine , Hildesheim , Hameln-Pyrmont , Schaumburg and Nienburg / Weser . The independent city of Hanover has been completely enclosed by the district since 1974.
history
1885 to 1932
The district of Hanover was formed on April 1, 1885 when districts in the Prussian province of Hanover were formed from the Hanover Office . It essentially comprised the area of today's cities of Hemmingen and Langenhagen as well as large parts of today's cities of Laatzen and Hanover. In the period that followed, the district lost large parts of its territory to the independent city of Hanover:
- On July 1, 1891, the communities of Hainholz , Herrenhausen , List and Vahrenwald were incorporated into the city of Hanover.
- On October 1, 1907, the communities of Bothfeld , Döhren , Groß-Buchholz , Klein-Buchholz , Kirchrode , Stöcken and Wülfel as well as the manor district of Mecklenheide were incorporated into the city of Hanover.
Since then, the district has consisted of two parts separated by the city of Hanover, with the northern part mainly comprising the area of today's city of Langenhagen. In 1928 the palace district and the garden district of Herrenhausen as well as the manor district of Leinhausen left the district and were incorporated into the city of Hanover.
1932 to 1974
On October 1, 1932, the municipalities of the dissolved Linden district and the Anderten municipality from the Burgdorf district were incorporated into the Hanover district. As a result, the area of the district more than doubled. Langenhagen received town charter in 1959, Misburg 1963, Laatzen 1968 and Barsinghausen 1969 from the municipalities of the district .
1974 to 2001
As part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , the district gave Ahlem , Anderten , Bemerode , Misburg , Vinnhorst , Wettbergen , Wülferode and parts of Laatzen and Langenhagen to the city of Hanover on March 1, 1974 . At the same time, it was enlarged by large parts of the Burgdorf , Neustadt am Rübenberge and Springe districts , which were dissolved on this date . The area of the district of Hanover increased to 2086 km². Since then, the district has formed a closed ring around the city of Hanover and when the Hanover region was founded in 2001, with more than 600,000 inhabitants, it had a higher population than the state capital. Ronnenberg 1975, Seelze 1977, Sehnde 1997 and Hemmingen 1999 received town charter from the municipalities of the district .
Population development
The district of Hanover was significantly enlarged in 1932 and 1974 through regional reforms.
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1890 | 35,401 | |
| 1900 | 37,728 | |
| 1910 | 26,029 | |
| 1925 | 30,886 | |
| 1939 | 89,156 | |
| 1950 | 154,768 | |
| 1960 | 171,600 | |
| 1970 | 233,600 | |
| 1980 | 542,900 | |
| 1990 | 562,418 | |
| 2000 | 603.090 | |
| 2001 | 604,897 |
politics
The management of the district was divided according to the two-pronged model into the office of the (senior) district director, who headed the administration full-time, and the district administrator . This was chosen on a voluntary basis from among the district council for representative purposes. It was not until the Hanover region was founded in 2001 that the dual-track system was abandoned in accordance with state law. Since then, the directly elected President of the Hanover Region has been responsible for all official business.
(Senior) district directors
- Julius Fengler (1945 to 1948)
- August Steppat (1948 to 1966)
- Friedrich Bischoff (1967 to 1971)
- Herbert Droste (provisional since 1971; 1974 to 1999)
District administrators
- 1885–1904 Egmont von Brünneck
- 1904–1930 Clemens von Wedel-Gödens
- 1930–1932 Julius Fengler (SPD)
- 1932–1933 Robert Onnen (SPD)
- 1933–1945 Hans von Oldershausen
- 1946–1966 Karl Schönemann (SPD)
- 1966–1971 Günter Kiehm (SPD)
- 1971–1981 Jürgen Bauermeister (SPD)
- 1981–1989 Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt (CDU)
- 1989–1996 Eberhard Wicke (CDU)
- 1996–1998 Gertraude Kruse (SPD)
- 1999–2001 Michael Arndt (SPD), first directly elected and at the same time last district administrator of the district of Hanover (from 2001 regional president of the legal successor to the Hanover region)
coat of arms
New coat of arms from 1974
The design of the new emblem of the district comes from the Hannover in Gadenstedt born and later in Hannover living heraldic and graphic artist Alfred Brecht , who has the coat of arms of Bantorf , Barrigsen , Egestorf has designed and many other towns. The approval of the coat of arms was granted on December 19, 1974 by the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior .
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Blazon : " Red and gold divided , above a blue-armored , golden lion , below a red-armored, blue lion, both striding." |
| Foundation of the coat of arms: The new district of Hanover was formed on March 1, 1974 from the former districts of Burgdorf , Neustadt am Rübenberge , Springe and Hanover. This large administrative unit with over 520,000 inhabitants has received a district coat of arms on historical bases, which is significant for this area and was affirmed by its population. The coat of arms takes into account the Welfenhaus as the dominant bearer of the state's history, whereby the Brunswick and Lüneburg duchies are symbolically represented with their different coats of arms, as they are closely interwoven with the development of all places in the current district. |
Old coat of arms from 1935
The design of the old coat of arms of the district of Hanover comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who was born in Isernhagen and later lives in Hanover , who has already designed the coats of arms of Großburgwedel , Mellendorf , Wunstorf and many other localities. The approval of the coat of arms was granted by the Prussian State Ministry on April 15, 1935.
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Blazon : " Split , two blue-armored and tongued lions in front in red, golden lions bursting out of the gap, five times divided at the back by blue and red and the whole thing covered with a rising, gold-crowned , armored and tongued silver lion." |
| Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms contains emblems of the earlier coats of arms of the old Hanoverian offices of Calenberg and Hanover , from which the later district of Hanover was formed. In front the Calenbergian lions, actually leopards, from the Braunschweig family coat of arms. The lion of the former Hanover office is traced back to the Counts of Lauenrode-Roden or the Welfs. |
Communities
1885 to 1974
The following table lists all municipalities that belonged to the district of Hanover between 1885 and 1974, as well as all incorporations:
1974 to 2001
Since 1974 the district of Hanover has comprised 20 municipalities :
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License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign H when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today for the Hanover region.
literature
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Carl Wolff : The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Edited on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Preservation of the Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Carl Wolff, Hanover 1899–1927
- Districts of Hanover and Linden , 1899
- Konrad Maier: The district of Hanover: art and culture on both sides of the leash ( Deutsche Lande - German art ). Munich / Berlin 1981
- Edfried Bühler, Herbert Droste, Hans Georg Gmelin, Hans-Günter Peters, Horst Rohde , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Diedrich Saalfeld: Home chronicle of the district of Hanover (= home chronicle of the cities and districts of the federal territory , Volume 49), 1st edition, Cologne: Archive for German Homeland Care, 1980
Web links
- Administrative history and district administrators , accessed November 19, 2013
- Coat of arms of the district of Hanover
Individual evidence
- ^ District regulations for the province of Hanover (1885). In: Berlin State Library, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ^ 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. 196 f .
- ↑ 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. hannover.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972. In: DigiZeitschriften, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981. In: DigiZeitschriften, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Lower Saxony regional database. In: State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ↑ a b District Hanover: Wappenbuch district Hanover . Published by the author himself, Hannover 1985, p. 14-19 .
- ↑ a b District Hanover: Wappenbuch district Hanover . Published by the author himself, Hannover 1985, p. 22-23 .
- ^ Municipal directory from December 1, 1910: District of Hanover. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ^ Hanover / Linden. In: territorial.de, accessed on October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal statistics of Lower Saxony 1960/61. Part 1: Population and Employment, Hanover 1964.
1972 dissolved: District of Bersenbrück | District of Blankenburg | District of Melle | Wittlage district | Zellerfeld district
1973 dissolved: District of Duderstadt | Münden district
1974 dissolved: District of Braunschweig | District of Burgdorf | District of Einbeck | District of Hildesheim-Marienburg | District Neustadt am Rübenberge | Springe district
1977 dissolved: District of Alfeld (Leine) | Aschendorf-Hümmling district | District of Bremervörde | Fallingbostel district | District of Gandersheim | County of Diepholz County | County Hoya county | County of Schaumburg | District of Hadeln | District of Lingen | District of Meppen | North County | Rotenburg (Wümme) district | District of Schaumburg-Lippe | District of Soltau | District of Wesermünde
2001 dissolved: District of Hanover
Disbanded in 2016: District of Osterode am Harz