Lohr am Main district

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Coat of arms of the district of Lohr a.Main
Lohr am Main district
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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 9 ° 35'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1862-1972
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Lohr am Main
Area : 381.95 km 2
Residents: 36,800 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 96 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : LOH
Circle key : 09 6 45
Circle structure: 24 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		8770 Lohr am Main
District Administrator : Rudolf Balles ( CSU )
Location of the Lohr a.Main district in Bavaria
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The district of Lohr am Main , officially the district of Lohr am Main , today often called Altlandkreis Lohr , was a district in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the district of Gelnhausen (in Hesse ) and the districts of Gemünden am Main , Karlstadt , Marktheidenfeld , Aschaffenburg and Alzenau .

history

District Office

Administrative area of ​​the Lohr district office around 1890

The district office of Lohr was formed in 1862 through the merger of the regional courts of the older order Lohr and Rothenfels.

The Royal District Office Lohr was enlarged in 1872 by the dissolved District Office Gemünden am Main . At the same time, the communities of Bergrothenfels , Erlach am Main , Neustadt am Main , Rothenfels , Steinfeld and Waldzell of the old Rothenfels district court were assigned to the Marktheidenfeld district office .

On October 21, 1873, the Pflochsbach community was incorporated into the Marktheidenfeld district office.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Lohr am Main received the municipalities of Habichsthal , Krommenthal , Neuhütten , Rothenbuch and Wiesthal from the district office of Aschaffenburg and the municipalities of the old Rothenfels district office from the district office of Marktheidenfeld on January 1, 1880 .

On January 1, 1889, the Steinbach community was incorporated into the Karlstadt district office.

In 1902, the Gemünden am Main district office was re-established as a spin-off from the Lohr am Main district office.

On January 1, 1905, the community of Halsbach moved from the district office of Gemünden am Main to the district office of Lohr am Main.

district

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . This is how the district office became the district of Lohr am Main.

On July 1, 1972, the largest part of the district in the course of the regional reform with the districts of Gemünden , Karlstadt and Marktheidenfeld in the district of Mittelmain , which received its current name of Main-Spessart on May 1, 1973 . The community of Rothenbuch , together with the community-free area of ​​Rothenbucher Forst, was added to the Aschaffenburg district.

Population development

year Residents source
1864 22,401
1885 33,999
1900 34,012
1910 21,601
1925 22,937
1939 24,691
1950 34,397
1960 33,700
1971 36,800

politics

District administrators

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a white, vertical, winding division that symbolizes the Main. On the ( heraldic ) left side there is oak leaves that represent the Spessart . At the top on the right is the white Kurmainzer wheel on a red background, below it is yellow and red bars from the coat of arms of the Counts of Rieneck .

Communities

The Lohr district initially comprised 26 communities, including two towns and a market. After Sendelbach was annexed to the city of Lohr in 1939 and Bergrothenfels to the city of Rothenfels in 1971 , the district still comprised 24 communities when it was dissolved. The churches that still exist today are written in bold :

former parish today's parish today's district
1 Erlach am Main municipality Municipality Neustadt a. Main Main-Spessart
2 Market Frammersbach Market Frammersbach Main-Spessart
3 Community Habichsthal Market Frammersbach Main-Spessart
4th Halsbach municipality City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
5 Krommenthal municipality Community Wiesthal Main-Spessart
6th community Langenprozelten City of Gemünden am Main Main-Spessart
7th City of Lohr am Main City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
8th Community Neuendorf Community Neuendorf Main-Spessart
9 community Neuhütten community Neuhütten Main-Spessart
10 Neustadt am Main municipality Municipality Neustadt a. Main Main-Spessart
11 Community Partenstein Community Partenstein Main-Spessart
12 community Pflochsbach City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
13 Rechtenbach municipality Rechtenbach municipality Main-Spessart
14th community Rodenbach City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
15th Municipality Rothenbuch Municipality Rothenbuch Aschaffenburg
16 City of Rothenfels City of Rothenfels Main-Spessart
17th Community Ruppertshütten City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
18th Community Sackenbach City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
19th municipality Steinbach City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart
20th Municipality Steinfeld Municipality Steinfeld Main-Spessart
21st Community Waldzell Municipality Steinfeld Main-Spessart
22nd Municipality of Wiesen 1 community pastures Aschaffenburg
23 Community Wiesthal Community Wiesthal Main-Spessart
24 community Wombach City of Lohr a.Main Main-Spessart

1 Wiesen first came to the Main-Spessart district in 1972 and moved to the Aschaffenburg district in 1976.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign LOH when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued until August 3, 1974.

Web links

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. 513 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  3. ^ 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. 749; 762 .
  4. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  5. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 106 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  7. ↑ a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Lower Franconia
  8. ↑ for the Free State of Bavaria, according to the census of June 16, 1925
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  13. ↑ Confectioner becomes mayor and district administrator , accessed on April 15, 2014
  14. ↑ Rudolf Balles is dead: last district administrator of the Lohr district , accessed on April 15, 2014. Much moved in three election periods