District of Memmingen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ' N , 10 ° 11' E |
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Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
Existing period: | 1862-1972 | |
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Swabia | |
Administrative headquarters : | Memmingen | |
Area : | 564.21 km 2 | |
Residents: | 52,402 (May 27, 1970) | |
Population density : | 93 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | MM | |
Circle key : | 09 7 42 | |
Circle structure: | 55 parishes | |
Location of the district of Memmingen in Bavaria | ||
The district of Memmingen was part of the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . The seat and namesake of the district was the independent city of Memmingen , which only belonged to the district from 1940 to 1948. Before the start of the regional reform in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1970s, the district comprised 55 municipalities.
geography
Important places
The largest towns were Grönenbach , Buxheim and Legau .
Neighboring areas
In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the districts of Illertissen , Mindelheim , Marktoberdorf and Kempten (Allgäu) (all in Bavaria) and the districts of Wangen and Biberach (both in Baden-Württemberg ). The independent city of Memmingen was an enclave in the west of the district.
history
Regional courts
In 1804, the Grönenbach and Ottobeuren regional courts were formed, and the Memmingen city court four years later. The city of Memmingen became a district immediate in 1809 .
District Office
The district office of Memmingen was formed in 1862 through the merger of the district courts of the older order of Grönenbach and Ottobeuren. On October 1, 1865, some communities in the Memmingen district office were added to the Mindelheim district office.
district
On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . So the district office became the district of Memmingen.
On April 1, 1940, the independent city of Memmingen was incorporated into the Memmingen district, but this was reversed on April 1, 1948.
On July 1, 1972, the district of Memmingen was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . Its communities Amendingen and Buxach were incorporated into the independent city of Memmingen. All other municipalities were with one exception, all the churches of the old district of Mindelheim, 13 municipalities of the district Illertissen, municipalities Hasberg and Tiefenried the district Krumbach (Schwaben) and the local loops of the district Kaufbeuren to a new district Mindelheim together. On May 1, 1973, the new district was given its current name, Landkreis Unterallgäu .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1864 | 31,331 | |
1885 | 28,433 | |
1900 | 30,070 | |
1910 | 32,453 | |
1925 | 35.107 | |
1939 | 51,658 | |
1950 | 52,433 | |
1960 | 47,700 | |
1971 | 53,400 |
politics
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on March 13, 1969.
Blazon : “Split between gold and red; in front two blue diagonal waves, behind at the gap a left-turned half silver eagle. "
The two wave beams symbolize the two rivers Iller and Günz , the eagle is taken from the coat of arms of the Ottobeuren monastery . It is said to refer to the sovereignty of the Ottobeuren abbey in the eastern part of the former district.
The design of the coat of arms comes from the monastery archivist and district home administrator Aegidius Kolb and the design was done by Rudolf Mussgnug from Nördlingen.
Communities
In the case of the parishes that were dissolved, it is noted in brackets to which parish the place belongs today. The churches that still exist today are in bold .
- Erkheim
- Grönenbach (today: Bad Grönenbach)
- Legau
- Rettenbach market
- Ottobeuren
Other communities
- Amendingen (independent city of Memmingen )
- Arlesried ( Erkheim )
- Attenhausen ( Sontheim )
- Benningen
- Betzisried ( Ottobeuren )
- Boom
- Boos
- Buxach (independent city of Memmingen )
- Buxheim
- Daxberg ( Erkheim )
- Dickenreishausen (independent city of Memmingen )
- Dietratried ( Wolfertschwenden )
- Egg on the Günz
- Eisenburg (independent city of Memmingen )
- Engetried ( Market Rettenbach )
- Fellheim
- Ferthofen (independent city of Memmingen )
- Frechenrieden ( Rettenbach Market )
- Frickenhausen ( arbours )
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License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive MM symbol when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is only issued in the city of Memmingen until today. It was issued in the Unterallgäu district until August 3, 1974.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 520 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ 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. 734 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
- ^ 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. 781 .
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
- ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Former district of Memmingen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Page on the former Memmingen district at gemeindeververzeichnis.de - accessed on February 28, 2010
literature
- Maximilian Dietrich (ed.): The district of Memmingen. Landscape, history, culture, economy. Dietrich, Memmingen 1971, ISBN 3-87164-059-X .