District of Kempten (Allgäu)

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Coat of arms of the district of Kempten (Allgäu)
District of Kempten (Allgäu)
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Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '  N , 10 ° 17'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
Administrative headquarters : Kempten (Allgäu)
Area : 602.3 km 2
Residents: 59,400 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 99 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : KE
Circle key : 09 7 39
Circle structure: 29 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		8960 Kempten, Germany
Location of the district of Kempten (Allgäu) in Bavaria
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Old place-name sign in Kimratshofen, Mkt. Altusried

The district of Kempten (Allgäu) belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . Until the beginning of the regional reform in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1970s, the district had 29 municipalities. In today's parlance it is called Altlandkreis Kempten .

geography

The largest places were Altusried , Buchenberg , Durach and Waltenhofen . In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Memmingen , Marktoberdorf , Füssen , Sonthofen and Lindau (Lake Constance) (all in Bavaria ) and the district of Wangen (in Baden-Württemberg ).

history

District Office

The Kempten district office followed the Kempten regional court of the same area in 1862 .

On April 1, 1927, the Kempten district office was expanded to include the communities of Moosbach and Petersthal of the Sonthofen district office .

district

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . The district office became the Kempten (Allgäu) district.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Kempten (Allgäu) was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . The two communities Sankt Lorenz and Sankt Mang were incorporated into the independent city of Kempten (Allgäu) . All other communities were combined with the district of Sonthofen to form the new district of Oberallgäu .

Population development

year Residents source
1864 22,746
1885 30,649
1900 33,353
1910 37,046
1925 41,430
1939 38,422
1950 55,159
1960 50,800
1971 59,400

Communities

The municipalities of the Kempten district before the municipal reform. The churches that still exist today are in bold .

former parish today's parish today's district
1 Altusried (market) Altusried District of Oberallgäu
2 Betzigau Betzigau District of Oberallgäu
3 Buchenberg (market) Buchenberg District of Oberallgäu
4th Dietmannsried (market) Dietmannsried District of Oberallgäu
5 Durach Durach District of Oberallgäu
6th Frauenzell Altusried District of Oberallgäu
7th Haldenwang Haldenwang District of Oberallgäu
8th Kimratshofen Altusried District of Oberallgäu
9 Kreuzthal Buchenberg District of Oberallgäu
10 Krugzell Altusried District of Oberallgäu
11 Arbors Arbors District of Oberallgäu
12 Martinszell in the Allgäu Waltenhofen District of Oberallgäu
13 Memholz Waltenhofen District of Oberallgäu
14th Mittelberg Oy-Mittelberg District of Oberallgäu
15th Moosbach Sulzberg District of Oberallgäu
16 Muthmannshofen Altusried District of Oberallgäu
17th Petersthal Oy-Mittelberg District of Oberallgäu
18th Probstried Dietmannsried District of Oberallgäu
19th Reicholzried Dietmannsried District of Oberallgäu
20th Saint Lawrence Kempten (Allgäu) 1972 incorporated into the independent city of Kempten (Allgäu)
21st Santa Mang Kempten (Allgäu) 1972 incorporated into the independent city of Kempten (Allgäu)
22nd Schrattenbach Dietmannsried District of Oberallgäu
23 Sulzberg (market) Sulzberg District of Oberallgäu
24 Überbach Dietmannsried District of Oberallgäu
25th Waltenhofen Waltenhofen District of Oberallgäu
26th Weitnau (market) Weitnau District of Oberallgäu
27 Wengen Weitnau District of Oberallgäu
28 Wiggensbach (market) Wiggensbach District of Oberallgäu
29 Wildpoldsried Wildpoldsried District of Oberallgäu

The community of Rechtis was incorporated into Weitnau on January 1, 1963.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the KE distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is only issued in the city of Kempten (Allgäu) until today. In the Oberallgäu district it was issued until August 3, 1974.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 495 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ 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. 777 .
  5. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  6. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  8. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  9. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  14. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Kempten. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  15. ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 7, 2010)