Hofgeismar district

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1821-1972
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
Administrative headquarters :	Hofgeismar
Area :	600.81 km 2
Residents:	57,400 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	HOG
Circle key :	06 2 36
Circle structure:	15 municipalities

Historical map

The Hofgeismar district was a district in Hesse until 1972 . Its former area is now part of the Kassel district . The district seat was the city of Hofgeismar . Hofgeismar was the only district in Hesse that was almost exclusively in the Low German language area .

geography

Neighboring areas

At the beginning of 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Northeim and Münden (both in Lower Saxony ), Kassel and Wolfhagen (both in Hesse) and the districts of Warburg and Höxter (both in North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Reinhardswald

Over 40% of the former district area consisted of the Reinhardswald , a wooded low mountain range between Kassel in the south and Bad Karlshafen in the north and Hann. Münden in the east and Hofgeismar in the west.

Old oak from the sub-area "Urwald Sababurg" in the Reinhardswald

The Reinhardswald is home to many sagas and legends as well as Grimm's fairy tales and is still home to the Sababurg fairytale castle to this day . In the Reinhardswald mining was also carried out for centuries . At the heights of 472.1  m above sea level. NN high Gahrenberg , the lignite mining is documented from the year 1575. With the shift on October 30, 1970, the last coal was extracted from the Gahrenberg .

history

The Hofgeismar district was formed on August 21, 1821 as Hofgeismar district in Kurhessen . With the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia in 1866, the Hofgeismar district also became Prussian and in 1867 part of the new administrative district of Kassel in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau .

On December 1, 1970, the community of Hohenkirchen left the district and was incorporated into the new community of Espenau in the district of Kassel.

As part of the Hessian district reform, the new district of Kassel was created on August 1st, 1972 from the former districts of Hofgeismar, Wolfhagen and Kassel .

Population development

After the Second World War, the population increased sharply due to the influx of many expellees.

year	Residents	source
1871	36,317
1890	33,362
1900	36,109
1910	36,880
1925	39,249
1933	40,422
1939	40,665
1950	66,128
1960	58,300
1970	59,300
1971	57,400

politics

District administrators

• 1851-1853 Florus Auffarth
• 1868–1875 Otto von Dehn-Rotfelser
• 1875–1881 Adolph Friedrich Edwin von Posadowski-Wehner
• 1881–1886 Richard Wentzel
• 1886–1898 Ludwig Friedrich Franz Beckhaus
• 1898–1908 Karl Rieß von Scheurnschloß
• 1908–1919 Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach
• 1919–1924 Karl zu Solms-Laubach
• 1924–1933 Conrad Prange
• 1933–1935 Wilhelm Braun
• 1935–1943 Hans Graack (NSDAP)
• 1943–1945 Gerhard Luyken
• 1945–1948 Karl Höner (SPD)
• 1948–1966 Artur Steinbrenner (FWG)
• 1966–1972 Gerhard Arnold (SPD)

coat of arms

In March 1952, the Hofgeismar district was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

Communities

As of 1969

Until the first municipal mergers in 1970, the Hofgeismar district consisted of 50 municipalities, seven of which had municipal rights:

Arenborn Beberbeck Burguffeln Calden Carlsdorf Deisel Eberschütz Most honorable Ersen Friedrichsdorf Friedrichsfeld Fürstenwald Peace of mind

Gieselwerder Gottsbüren Godly Grebenstein , city Grimelsheim Haueda Heisebeck Helmarshausen , city Hofgeismar , city Hohenkirchen Holzhausen Hombressen Hümme

Immenhausen , city Karlshafen , city Kelze Lambs Langenthal Liebenau , city Lippoldsberg Mariendorf Meimbressen Niedermeiser Obermeiser Oedelsheim Ostheim

Shafts Schöneberg Sielen Come Trendelburg , city Udenhausen Vaake Veckerhagen Vernawahlshausen Westuffeln Dwarfs

As of July 31, 1972

After a series of community mergers, there were still 15 communities in the Hofgeismar district at the time of its dissolution on July 31, 1972:

Calden Most honorable Grebenstein , city Heisebeck

Helmarshausen , city Hofgeismar , city Immenhausen , city Karlshafen , city

Liebenau , city Obermeiser Upper Weser Reinhardshagen

Trendelburg , city Wahlsburg Dwarfs

Simultaneously with the dissolution of the district, further incorporations took place on August 1, 1972. Ehrsten and Obermeiser were incorporated into Calden, Helmarshausen to Karlshafen, Zwergen to Liebenau and Heisebeck to Oberweser. This means that ten communities from the old Hofgeismar district joined the new Kassel district.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign HOG when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until July 31, 1972. It has been available again in the Kassel district since January 2, 2013 .

literature

• Artur Steinbrenner: Economy and traffic in the Hofgeismar district. In: District Hofgeismar, Handbook of the Heimatbund for Kurhessen, Waldeck and Oberhessen III. Marburg / Lahn 1966, p. 51 ff.
• Helmut Jäger : The development of the cultural landscape in the Hofgeismar district. (= Göttingen geographical treatises. Issue 8). Magistrate of the city, 1988, unprocessed reprint, Geographical Institute of the University, Göttingen 1951.

Web links

• Hofgeismar district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of December 21, 2014.
• District of Kassel

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 399 .
2. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Hesse-Nassau province and their population in 1871
3. ↑ ^{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. hofgeismar.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
5. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
6. ↑ Granting the right to use a coat of arms to the Hofgeismar district in the Kassel administrative district on March 31, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 15 , p. 280 , point 353 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.1 MB ]).