Meisenheim district

Basic data
Inventory period	1869-1932
Prussian Province	Rhine Province
Administrative district	Koblenz
Administrative headquarters	Meisenheim
surface	176 km² (1910)
Residents	13,772 (1910)
Population density	78 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	25th
Location of the Meisenheim district

The Meisenheim district was a district in the Prussian Rhine Province from 1869 to 1932 . Today his area belongs to the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The district seat was in Meisenheim .

history

The area of ​​the Meisenheim district originally consisted of the Meisenheim rule , which had belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg since 1816 . After their annexation by Prussia as a result of the German War , the Meisenheim district was formed in 1869 from the mayorships of Becherbach , Meddersheim , Meisenheim , Merxheim and Staudernheim and assigned to the Koblenz administrative district of the Prussian Rhine province . In 1932, the Meisenheim district was incorporated into the Kreuznach district, which has belonged to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

Residents	1871	1890	1900	1910	1925
	13,530	13,419	13,737	13,772	13,534

Population of the municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Meisenheim	1822
Merxheim	1266
Staudernheim	1324

District administrators

• 1869–1872 Johann Georg Martin Reinhardt00
• 1872–1874 Adalbert von Schroetter00
• 1875 Gustav von Salmuth (acting)0000000
• 1876–1879 Ernst Vohwinkel00
• 1879–1885 Karl Otto von Klewitz00
• 1885–1907 Bernhard Schlenther00
• 1907–1917 Gustav von Quadt-Wyckradt-Hüchtenbroeck00
• 1917–1919 Otto Wermuth00
• 1919–1924 Ernst August Schwebel00
• 1924–1932 Maximilian Wilhelm Johannes Sell00

Communities

Abtweiler Bärenbach Bärweiler Becherbach Breitenheim Desloch Heimberg High cities Hoppstädten

Hundsbach Jeckenbach Cherry red Cancer hamlet Listening song Limbach Löllbach Meckenbach Medard

Meddersheim Meisenheim , city Merxheim Otzweiler Raumbach Schweinschied Staudernheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. kreuznach.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 285 .