County of Prüm

Basic data (as of 1970)
Existing period:	1816-1970
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	trier
Administrative headquarters :	Prüm
Area :	916.88 km 2
Residents:	39,353 (Jun 30, 1969)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	PRÜ
Circle key :	07 2 34
Circle structure:	138 parishes

The district of Prüm existed from 1816 to 1970 in the administrative district of Trier and corresponded roughly to the present day area of the municipalities of Prüm and Arzfeld . The local communities of Birresborn , Densborn , Duppach , Hallschlag , Kerschenbach , Kopp , Mürlenbach , Oos , Ormont , Reuth , Scheid , Schönfeld , Schüller , Stadtkyll and Steffeln were added to the Daun district.

geography

The district was 916 km². At the beginning of 1969 it bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Schleiden district (in North Rhine-Westphalia ) and the Daun , Wittlich and Bitburg districts (all in Rhineland-Palatinate). In the west it bordered on Belgium .

history

The district of Prüm with the district town of Prüm was created after the Congress of Vienna in 1815/1816, when the Rhineland was added to the Kingdom of Prussia after the French era . Up to this time the arrondissement of Prüm belonged to the department of Sarre with headquarters in Trier . The Prüm district was now subordinate to the Trier administrative district in the Prussian Rhine province . It was the largest district in Prussia in terms of area, but the smallest in terms of population. When the districts of Eupen and Malmedy with Sankt Vith fell to Belgium in 1919 , the western border of the Prüm district became the state border. This resulted in economic disadvantages that could only be eliminated in the time of the European Union .

After the end of the Second World War , the administrative district of Trier and its districts became part of the French occupation zone , and after the dissolution of Prussia, it became part of the new federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

During the district reform , which came into force on November 7, 1970, it was merged with the Bitburg district to form the new Bitburg-Prüm district . Some state authorities were withdrawn or only remained in Bitburg .

In relation to the geographical location, the "Altkreis Prüm" is still used today.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	21,067
1847	31,117
1871	34,911
1885	35,349
1900	33,545
1910	36,312
1925	37,603
1939	40,598
1950	38,333
1960	38,700
1969	39,353

District administrators

1816–1817: Wilhelm Cattrein (by order)
1817: Matthias Rosbach (by order)-9999
1817–1819: Franz Karl Fürer (by order)
1819–1834: Georg Bärsch
1835–1850: Conrad Moritz
1850–1851: Albert von Holleuffer (by order)
1851–1858: Gustav Bournye
1858–1859: Ludwig Ferdinand Timme (by order)
1859–1873: Alfred Graeff
1873–1876: Hugo Strom
1876–1882: August of Harlem
1882–1886: Otto von Dewitz
1886–1890: Hugo Brasch
1890–1900: Friedrich Dombois
1900–1903: August von Galen
1903-1907: Quirin Lancelle
1908–1925: Joseph Burggraef
1925–1945: Alexander Schlemmer
1945–1946: Hubert Thome (by order)
1946–1947: Jakob Schaefgen
1947–1948: Peter Maria Roßmann (by order)
1948–1952: Hans Rüdel
1952–1959: Paul Leidinger
1959–1963: Constantin Boden
1963–1970: Hermann Becker

cities and communes

Before the regional reforms began in Rhineland-Palatinate in the 1960s, the Prüm district comprised the following cities and communities:

The municipalities of Berg and Großkampen were merged to form the municipality of Großkampenberg in 1914. The municipality of Wetteldorf was incorporated into Schönecken in 1960.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the PRÜ distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until November 6, 1970. Due to the license plate liberalization , it has been available in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm since November 14, 2012.

literature

Hans Frentzen: County of Prüm. Trier district . In: The districts in Rhineland-Palatinate (= The German districts . Volume 4 ). Bonn 1959.
Franz-Josef Faas: The district administrators of the Prüm district. In: Yearbook Prüm 1970. P. 34 f.

Web links

County of Prüm Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de, as of October 8, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ More speed with the district reform. Trierischer Volksfreund , June 10, 2011.
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 150 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
^ Description of the administrative district of Trier. 1849, p. 310 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pruem.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Hans Frentzen: List of district administrators . In: County of Prüm . S. 79 .

[1] More speed with the district reform. Trierischer Volksfreund , June 10, 2011.

[2] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 150 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

[beitraege-3] Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .

[4] Description of the administrative district of Trier. 1849, p. 310 , accessed November 11, 2017 .

[gelex-5] Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885

[demand-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pruem.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] Hans Frentzen: List of district administrators . In: County of Prüm . S. 79 .