District of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E
Basic data (as of 1969)
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	Palatinate
Administrative headquarters :	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Area :	519.07 km 2
Residents:	101,956 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density :	196 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	NW
Circle key :	07 5 39
Circle structure:	39 municipalities

The district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse was a district in southwest Germany that existed until 1969 (district office until the end of 1938) and was called Neustadt an der Haardt until 1936 and then again a few years after the Second World War . The seat of the district administration was the eponymous city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , which did not belong to the district.

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Frankenthal (Pfalz) , Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Speyer , the independent city Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the districts Landau in der Pfalz , Bergzabern and Kaiserslautern .

history

The later district was established in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1818 as the Neustadt district commissioner , which became the Neustadt an der Haardt district office in 1862 . On October 1, 1902, the new Dürkheim district office was formed from 22 municipalities in the district office . On March 1, 1920, the city of Neustadt an der Haardt left the district office and became a district- direct city . The district office of Dürkheim was dissolved again in 1931 and reorganized into the district office of Neustadt an der Haardt.

On November 12, 1936, the Neustadt an der Haardt district office was renamed the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse district office . In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district . After the Second World War , the district became part of the French occupation zone and became part of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was initially renamed the district of Neustadt an der Haardt until it was finally renamed the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1950 .

In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional reform , the district was dissolved on June 7, 1969:

• The seven surrounding communities Geinsheim , Gimmeldingen , Haardt an der Weinstrasse , Hambach an der Weinstrasse , Königsbach an der Weinstrasse , Lachen-Speyerdorf and Mußbach were incorporated as districts into the independent town of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.
• The communities of Birkenheide and Rödersheim moved to the district of Ludwigshafen (now the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis ). Rödersheim merged there with Alsheim-Gronau to form the municipality of Rödersheim-Gronau .
• All other communities came to the newly created Bad Dürkheim district .

On March 16, 1974, the municipality of Duttweiler was also incorporated into the independent city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse from the municipalities of the old district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1864	66,378
1885	72,813
1900	79,462
1910	53,578
1925	37,082
1939	74.906
1950	85,683
1960	95,600
1968	101,956

District administrators

• 1935–1940 Adolf Niedhammer00
• 1945 Julius Pieper0000000
• 1945–1946 Hanns Haberer00
• 1948–1968 Walter Unckrich00

Communities

At the time of its dissolution, four cities and 35 other municipalities belonged to the district:

• Bad Dürkheim , city
• Birch heather
• Bobenheim am Berg
• Dackenheim
• Deidesheim , city
• Duttweiler
• Ellerstadt
• Elmstein
• Erpolzheim
• Esthal
• Forest on the wine route
• Frankeneck
• Freinsheim
• Friedelsheim
• Geinsheim
• Gimmeldingen
• Gönnheim
• Haardt on the Wine Route
• Hambach on the Wine Route
• Hardenburg
• Hassloch
• Herxheim am Berg
• Kallstadt
• Königsbach on the Wine Route
• Lachen-Speyerdorf
• Lambrecht , city
• Leistadt
• Lindenberg
• Meckenheim
• Mustbach
• Neidenfels
• Niederkirchen near Deidesheim
• Roedersheim
• Ruppertsberg
• Ungstein
• Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse , city
• Weidenthal
• Weisenheim am Berg
• Weisenheim am Sand

The community Winzingen was in 1892 in the city of Neustadt a./H. incorporated. The communities of Grethen and Seebach were incorporated into the city of Bad Dürkheim on March 31, 1935.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign NH when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . On August 1, 1956, it received the new identifier NW . This is still issued in the independent city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to this day.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Details on the formation of the Dürkheim district office
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 147 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ^ 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 ).
4. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_haardt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).