District of Hattingen

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The district of Hattingen was a district in the administrative district of Arnsberg in the Prussian province of Westphalia from 1885 to 1929 . The seat of the district administration was in the city of Hattingen .

Administrative 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 district of Hattingen was formed from the southern parts of the Bochum district. In 1886 the district comprised five offices and a total of 28 municipalities:

Administrative division 1886
Office Communities
Blankenstein Blankenstein , Buchholz , Holthausen , Stiepel and Welper
Hattingen Altendorf , Baak , Bredenscheid , Dumberg , Niederbonsfeld , Niederelfringhausen , Niederstüter , Niederwenigern , Oberelfringhausen , Oberstüter and Winz
Herbede Durchholz , Heven , Ostherbede , Vormholz and Westherbede
Royal stele Eiberg , Freisenbruch , Horst and Königssteele
Linden-Dahlhausen Dahlhausen and Linden
free of charge Hattingen

After the First World War , the number of parishes in the district gradually decreased. Initially, in 1919 Eiberg, Freisenbruch and Horst were incorporated into Königssteele. In 1921 Linden and Dahlhausen were merged to form the municipality of Linden-Dahlhausen . On July 1, 1921, Heven was incorporated into the independent city of Witten .

Most of Königssteele was incorporated into Steele in the Rhenish district of Essen in 1926 . The remaining part of Königssteele fell to the city of Wattenscheid and remained Westphalian . In the same year Baak, Dumberg, Niederbonsfeld and Niederwenigern were incorporated into Winz, Bredenscheid and Niederstüter were united to form the municipality of Bredenscheid-Stüter , and Durchholz, Ostherbede, Vormholz and Westherbede were merged to form the municipality of Herbede . Most recently, the district comprised four offices and a total of 14 municipalities:

Administrative division 1929
Office Communities
Blankenstein Blankenstein, Buchholz, Holthausen, Stiepel and Welper
Hattingen Altendorf, Bredenscheid-Stueter , Niederelfringhausen, Oberelfringhausen, Oberstueter and Winz
Herbede Herbede
Linden-Dahlhausen Linden-Dahlhausen
free of charge Hattingen

Between 1923 and 1925, 52 mines had to be closed in the Ruhr area for economic reasons , including 21 in the Hattingen district alone. This resulted in enormous tax reductions and called the continued existence of the district into question. In the course of the reorganization of the Ruhr area and the Rhineland , the district of Hattingen was dissolved on August 1, 1929. Linden-Dahlhausen and Stiepel were incorporated into Bochum while the remaining 12 communities were assigned to the newly created Ennepe-Ruhrkreis .

Population development

year Residents
1890 61,763
1900 79,821
1910 97,327
1925 75,420

Local constitution

The district of Hattingen was subdivided into the township of Hattingen , and also into rural communities that were grouped into offices .

This applied until the circle was dissolved

The district constitution was based on the district ordinance for the province of Westphalia of July 31, 1886.

District administrators

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Territorial.de: District of Hattingen
  2. ^ WAZ: Eiberg, dismembered district
  3. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 225 and 258 .
  4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 245 .
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hattingen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).