Landau district in the Palatinate

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E
Basic data (as of 1969)
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	Palatinate
Administrative headquarters :	Landau in the Palatinate
Area :	357.27 km 2
Residents:	61,552 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density :	172 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	LD
Circle key :	07 5 37
Circle structure:	46 municipalities

The district of Landau in der Pfalz , which emerged from the Bavarian Landau commissioner formed in 1818 , was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate. The seat of the district administration was the eponymous city of Landau in the Palatinate , which did not belong to the district.

geography

The district essentially consisted of today's association communities Maikammer , Edenkoben , Offenbach an der Queich , Herxheim and Landau-Land . At the beginning of 1969 it bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest with the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , the urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the districts of Speyer , Germersheim and Bergzabern . The independent city of Landau in the Palatinate was surrounded by the district.

history

In 1818, after the territorial changes of the Congress of Vienna in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Landau Landau commissioner was formed, from which the Landau district office in the Palatinate emerged in 1862 .

On 1 January 1910, the city eliminated Landau from the district office and was to circle immediate city . In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district . On April 1, 1940 the city of Landau in the Palatinate was reintegrated into the district. After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The city of Landau an der Pfalz was regained its district freedom. The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

With the exception of Diedesfeld , which was incorporated into Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , the district was merged on June 7, 1969 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform with most of the Bergzabern district to form the Landau-Bad Bergzabern district.

Arzheim , Dammheim , Godramstein , Mörzheim , Nussdorf and Wollmesheim were incorporated into the town of Landau in the Palatinate on April 22, 1972 from the municipalities of the old district of Landau . The Landau-Bad Bergzabern district was renamed the Südliche Weinstrasse district in 1978 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1864	59,726
1885	61,439
1900	69,899
1910	54.024
1925	55,633
1939	53,058
1950	59,844
1960	60,000
1968	61,552

District administrators

• Richard Forthuber , from 1945 to 1949
• Friedrich Graß , from 1950 to 1967
• Paul Schädler , from 1967 to 1969

Communities

At the time of its dissolution, the district belonged to a city and 45 other communities:

Altdorf (Palatinate) Arzheim Birkweiler Boebingen Böchingen Bornheim Burrweiler Dammheim Diedesfeld Edenkoben , city Edesheim Eschbach

Essingen Flemings Frankweiler Freimersheim Gleisweiler Godramstein Goecklingen Gommersheim Großfischlingen Hainfeld Herxheim Herxheimweyher

Ilbesheim near Landau in the Palatinate Vaccinees Insheim Kirrweiler Small fishlings Knöringen Leinsweiler May Chamber Moerzheim Niederhochstadt Nussdorf Upper High City

Offenbach on the Queich Ranschbach Rhodt under Rietburg Roschbach Saint Martin Siebeldingen Venningen Walsheim Weyher in the Palatinate Wollmesheim

The communities of Mörlheim and Queichheim left the former district office on April 1, 1937 and were incorporated into the town of Landau in the Palatinate.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign LD when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is issued in the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate until today.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
2. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 165 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
4. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. landau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).