Hofheim district in Lower Franconia

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1900-1972
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Hofheim in Lower Franconia
Area :	301.23 km 2
Residents:	18,900 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	HIGH
Circle key :	09 6 41
Circle structure:	49 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	8729 Hofheim i.UFr.

The district of Hofheim in Lower Franconia , officially the district of Hofheim i.UFr. , belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia .

geography

In 1972 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the northeast with the Hildburghausen district in the Suhl district of the German Democratic Republic and the Ebern , Haßfurt , Schweinfurt , Bad Kissingen and Königshofen districts in Grabfeld .

history

District Office

The Bavarian District Office was established in 1900 from parts of the Königshofen District Office in Grabfeld .

On July 1, 1920, the Hofheim district office in Lower Franconia was expanded to include the immediate city of Königsberg in Franconia and the municipalities of Altershausen , Dörflis , Erlsdorf , Hellingen , Köslau , Kottenbrunn and Nassach belonging to the Coburg district office . These were exclaves of the Free State of Coburg, which was incorporated into Bavaria .

district

On January 1, 1939, the uniform imperial designation Landkreis was introduced. The district office became the district of Hofheim in Lower Franconia.

As a result of the regional reform in Bavaria , the district was dissolved on July 1, 1972. The communities Altenmünster , Birnfeld , Fuchsstadt , Mailes , Oberlauringen , Stadtlauringen , Sulzdorf , Wettringen and Wetzhausen were incorporated into the district of Schweinfurt . All other communities came to the new Haßberg district , which was renamed the Haßberge district on May 1, 1973 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1900	13,935
1910	13,610
1925	15,946
1939	15,397
1950	21,727
1960	18,500
1971	18,900

Communities

49 municipalities belonged to the district of Hofheim in Lower Franconia:

Aidhausen Altenmünster Retirement home Birkach Birch field Birnfeld Bundorf Burgpreppach Dippach Ditterwind Dörflis Eichelsdorf Erlsdorf Ermershausen Fitzendorf Friesenhausen Fuchsstadt

Common field Goßmannsdorf Happertshausen Hellingen Hofheim i.Ufr. , City Mockery Ibind Junkersdorf Notch field Kimmelsbach Koenigsberg i.Bay. , City Koslau Kottenbrunn Lendershausen Mailes Manau Nassach

News Oberlauringen Ostheim Reckertshausen Rügheim Pig's heads Stadtlauringen Stockach Sulzbach Sulzdorf Ueschersdorf Not found Walchenfeld Competition Wetzhausen

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign HOH when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974. It has been available again in the Haßberge district since April 1, 2014 .

See also

• The Hessian Hofheim am Taunus is also the administrative seat of a district, but this bears the name Main-Taunus-Kreis .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
2. ^ 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. 745 f. and 758 .
3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
5. ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
6. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973