District of Ludwigshafen am Rhein

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Coat of arms of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district
District of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Map of Germany, position of the district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '  N , 8 ° 22'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period: 1886-1969
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Area : 130.14 km 2
Residents: 48,353 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density : 372 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : LU
Circle key : 07 5 38
Circle structure: 13 municipalities
District Administrator : Hermann Scherer (SPD)

The district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein was a district in the east of the Palatinate ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) that existed until the territorial reform of 1969 , which was merged into what is now the Rhine-Palatinate district , which until the end of 2003 was called the Ludwigshafen district .

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the west, beginning with the district of Mannheim (in Baden-Württemberg ), the districts of Speyer , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Frankenthal (Palatinate) and the independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

history

In 1886, the Ludwigshafen district office was reorganized as a spin-off from the Speyer district office . Previously, the area belonged to the Bavarian regional court of the older order Mutterstadt, which was renamed Ludwigshafen in 1860 . In the years from 1892 to 1938, the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein was enlarged several times. The following parishes moved to the city:

On March 1, 1920, the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein left the district office and became and became a city ​​immediately within the district .

On January 1, 1930, the Limburgerhof community was re-established by assignments from the communities of Mutterstadt , Neuhofen , Rheingönheim and Schifferstadt .

In 1921 the community of Alsheim was renamed Alsheim-Gronau .

On January 1, 1939, from the district office of the district Ludwigshafen.

After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . 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.

On June 7, 1969, the district was dissolved. Together with the district of Speyer , the east of the district of Frankenthal (Pfalz) and the communities of Birkenheide and Rödersheim of the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , it formed the new district of Ludwigshafen , which was officially renamed the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis on January 1, 2004 . Rödersheim merged with Alsheim-Gronau at the same time.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district
 Blazon : “Under a fallen, lowered, shortened, curled black tip, inside a growing, red armored golden (yellow) lion holding an upright golden (yellow) key in his paws, two green ones in red over a silver (white) wavy bar Sea leaves with twice crossed stalks intersecting the tip. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was approved on October 13, 1960 by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior . The lion stands for the former territorial lord Kurpfalz , the key comes from the coat of arms of Mutterstadt and indicates the Weißenburg monastery . The wave bar and the water lily leaves indicate the location on the Rhine and flora on the Old Rhine . The coat of arms violates the heraldic color rule several times . Black on red and green on red are not permitted.

Population development

year Residents source
1885 51,923
1900 90,474
1910 118.130
1925 40,346
1939 30,168
1950 35,365
1960 42,300
1968 48,353

Parishes (1969)

Alsheim-Gronau , Altrip , Assenheim , Böhl , Dannstadt , Fußgönheim , Hochdorf , Iggelheim , Limburgerhof , Mutterstadt , Neuhofen , Ruchheim and Schauernheim

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district was assigned the distinguishing mark LU when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued in the independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein to this day.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 515 and 572 .
  2. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  3. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  4. ↑ a b 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 (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.  
  5. ↑ Klemens Stadler: Deutsche Wappen, Volume 1, Bremen 1964, p. 58
  6. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ a b c d e Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ludwigshafen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961