Recklinghausen district

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Coat of arms of the Recklinghausen district Map of Germany, position of the district of Recklinghausen highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 12'  E

Basic data
Existing period: 1816–
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Muenster
Regional association : Westphalia-Lippe
Administrative headquarters : Recklinghausen
Area : 761.31 km 2
Residents: 614,137 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 807 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : RE, CAS, GLA
Circle key : 05 5 62
NUTS : DEA36
Circle structure: 10 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Kurt-Schumacher-Allee 1
45657 Recklinghausen, Germany
Website : www.kreis-re.de
District Administrator : Cay Süberkrüb ( SPD )
Location of the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Recklinghausen district (also referred to as the Vestische Kreis ) is located in the north of the Ruhr area in the northwest of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is (apart from the Hanover region ) the most populous in the Federal Republic. It belongs to the administrative district of Münster and is a member of the regional association Westphalia-Lippe and the regional association Ruhr . The seat of the district is the large town of Recklinghausen .

geography

Population and spatial location

With around 617,000 inhabitants (December 31, 2016) (apart from the special case of the Hanover region ), the Recklinghausen district is the most populous (rural) district in Germany. It extends in the north to the southern Münsterland .

Waters

The largest river in the district is the Lippe . The Stever , the right tributary of the Lippe, serves to supply the northern Ruhr area with drinking water via water extraction systems in Haltern am See. The addition of the city name refers to the Stevertalsperre, which was created for drinking water . As an artificial waterway, the Wesel-Datteln Canal runs through the Lippe valley.

In the south of the district, the Emscher flows through the urban area of ​​Castrop-Rauxel and in Herten and Recklinghausen largely forms the district boundary with Herne. The Rhine-Herne Canal runs parallel to the river, and in Castrop-Rauxel an old route, an old section that is no longer used by shipping, has been preserved. Not far from the Alte Fahrt, the Emscher passes under the canal.

Starting from the Datteln Sea , short sections of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Datteln-Hamm Canal are located in the district.

District cities

Bochum Bottrop Dortmund Essen Gelsenkirchen Herne Kreis Borken Kreis Coesfeld Kreis Unna Kreis Wesel Oberhausen Castrop-Rauxel Datteln Dorsten Gladbeck Haltern am See Herten Marl Oer-Erkenschwick Recklinghausen WaltropMunicipalities in RE.svg
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The Recklinghausen district is divided into ten municipalities belonging to the district , four of which are medium-sized towns and six are large towns . The municipalities are generally responsible for their local affairs, while the district takes on local and otherwise supra-regional tasks for smaller municipalities. The Recklinghausen district is the only district in Germany in which all communities have more than 25,000 inhabitants.

Surname Residents surface status AGS
Castrop-Rauxel 073,343 51.68 km² large county town 05 562 004
Dates 034,596 66.10 km² middle district city 05 562 008
Dorsten 074,704 171.20 km² large county town 05 562 012
Gladbeck 075,610 35.97 km² large county town 05 562 014
Haltern am See 037,850 159.03 km² middle district city 05 562 016
Herten 061,821 37.33 km² large county town 05 562 020
Marl 084,067 87.76 km² large county town 05 562 024
Oer-Erkenschwick 031,421 38.66 km² middle district city 05 562 028
Recklinghausen 111,397 66.50 km² large county town 05 562 032
Waltrop 029,328 47.09 km² middle district city 05 562 036

(Population figures as of December 31, 2019)

Neighboring districts or cities

The district of Recklinghausen borders, starting in the west in a clockwise direction, on the districts of Wesel , Borken , Coesfeld and Unna as well as on the independent cities of Dortmund , Bochum , Herne , Gelsenkirchen , Essen and Bottrop .

history

In the Middle Ages , the area around Recklinghausen, Vest Recklinghausen , belonged to the Electorate of Cologne . From 1446 to 1576 it was leased to the lords of Gemen and Schaumburg-Lippe. In 1811 it was attached to the Duchy of Berg .

The Recklinghausen district in 1845
The Recklinghausen district on the map sheets of the German Empire (end of the 19th century) with today's administrative boundaries and water courses; All areas that belonged to the district are lightened and circled in light green, i.e. in addition to the territorial status in the 19th century, the parts of Haltern north of the Lippe and the parts of Castrop-Rauxels south of the Emscher as well as areas south of the Lippe and west that were added to Dorsten in 1929 and 1975 the old Town.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Vest Recklinghausen was added to the Kingdom of Prussia together with other Westphalian areas and integrated into the province of Westphalia . As a result, the Prussian administrative district of Münster and the district of Recklinghausen were established in 1816 . This included the former Vest Recklinghausen as well as the Herrlichkeit Lembeck with the parishes Altschermbeck, Erle, Hervest, Holsterhausen, Lembeck, Rhade and Wulfen (see below the mayorries Lembeck and Altschermbeck , which were administered in personal union).

Mayor offices and offices

The Recklinghausen district initially consisted of the following mayor's offices : (in brackets the number of residents in the mid-1830s and 1895):

Recklinghausen and Dorsten received the Prussian revised town regulations of 1831 in 1837 and left their respective mayorships. The remainder of the Dorsten mayor's office formed the Marl mayor's office . With the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia from 1841 to 1844, the mayor's offices were transferred to offices . The Recklinghausen district was then initially divided into the two unofficial cities of Dorsten and Recklinghausen as well as nine offices with a total of 28 municipalities belonging to the office:

Office Parishes (1844)
unofficial cities Dorsten and Recklinghausen
Altschermbeck Altschermbeck , Erle , Holsterhausen and Rhade
Bottrop Bottrop and Osterfeld
Buer Buer , Gladbeck , Horst and Westerholt
Dates Ahsen , Datteln and Flaesheim
Kirchhellen Kirchhellen
Lembeck Hervest , Lembeck and Wulfen
Marl Altendorf-Ulfkotte , Hamm , Marl and Polsum
Recklinghausen Herten , Oer , Recklinghausen-Land and Suderwich
Waltrop Henrichenburg , Horneburg and Waltrop

In the following period the division of office was changed several times:

  • In 1857, Herten resigned from the Recklinghausen office and formed an office of its own.
  • The offices of Datteln and Waltrop were administered in personal union until 1857 and then finally separated.
  • The offices of Bottrop and Kirchhellen were administered in personal union until 1858 and then finally separated.
  • In 1885 Gladbeck resigned from the Buer office and formed an office of its own.
  • In 1891 Horst left the Buer office and established his own office.
  • In 1891 Osterfeld resigned from the Bottrop office and formed his own office.
  • After the community Buer received 1911 municipal rights and resigned from office Buer, formed Westerholt as the only remaining in office Buer parish the Office Westerholt .
  • In 1926 the Recklinghausen office was dissolved and divided between the city of Recklinghausen and the Datteln, Herten and Marl offices.
  • In 1929, combining previous offices, the offices of Altschermbeck and Lembeck (together Herrlichkeit Lembeck ) became the office of Hervest-Dorsten . At the same time, the former town of Haltern and the Haltern office came from the Coesfeld district to the Recklinghausen district.
  • In 1934 the remaining individual parish offices in Herten, Kirchhellen and Westerholt were canceled.
  • In 1937 the city of Dorsten joined the Hervest-Dorsten office.
  • In 1964 the Datteln office was dissolved. His parishes have been vacant since then.
  • On January 1, 1975, the four remaining offices of Haltern, Hervest-Dorsten, Marl and Waltrop were dissolved by the Ruhr Area Act .

City rights and outsourcing

While Recklinghausen, Dorsten and Haltern, which was only added to the district in 1929, had already enjoyed city rights since the 13th century, other places in the district only became cities through industrialization around the turn of the century until the middle of the 20th century. In particular, the towns near the Emsch in the south, such as Osterfeld, Bottrop, Buer, Herten and Recklinghausen, at least quadrupled their population within 60 years, while north of the Lippe the population remained more or less constant (see above, mayor's offices ).

The granting of city rights and district freedom has a not insignificant effect on the Recklinghausen district:

  • In 1901 Recklinghausen becomes a district. The district of Recklinghausen is now called the district of Recklinghausen .
  • In 1911 Buer received city rights and in 1912 the district freedom. In 1928 Buer and Horst are merged with Gelsenkirchen .
  • In 1919 Bottrop and Gladbeck received city rights and in 1921 they became a district; only in 1976 does Gladbeck return to the Recklinghausen district.
  • In 1921 Osterfeld was granted city rights and in 1922 became a district; 1929 merger with Oberhausen (and Sterkrade )
  • In 1926 the town of Castrop-Rauxel , then still the district of Dortmund , was formed and in 1928 it became a district; Not until 1975 did Castrop-Rauxel join the Recklinghausen district.
  • In 1936, the municipalities of Herten and Marl, which were significantly expanded in 1926 to include parts of the municipality of Recklinghausen-Land, were granted city rights.
  • In 1936 Datteln received city rights
  • In 1939 Waltrop was granted city rights
  • In 1939 Westerholt received city rights; 1975 union with Herten
  • In 1953 the municipality of Oer-Erkenschwick, formed in 1926, was granted city rights

Territorial reforms in 1926 ff and 1975/76

As early as 1926 and in the following years, the layout of the municipalities of the district was adapted to the growth of the mining industrial workers' settlements , most recently as part of the regional reform that came into force on January 1, 1975. Since Gladbeck was incorporated on July 1, 1976, the division of the district into ten cities has remained unchanged:

  • Castrop-Rauxel (education 1926, independent 1928, 1975 to the district)
    • Office Castrop (without Giesenberg-Sodingen , today City of Herne)
    • Henrichenburg since 1975, previously Amt Waltrop
  • Dates
    • Dates
    • since 1975 Ahsen and Horneburg
  • Dorsten
    • old town Dorsten and Feldmark
    • since 1929 Hardt (formerly Gahlen , Dinslaken district )
    • since 1943 Hervest and Holsterhausen
    • since 1975 Östrich (formerly Gahlen, Dinslaken district)
    • since 1975 Lembeck, Rhade and Wulfen (with interpreters) and the east of Altschermbeck ( Emmelkamp peasantry ), while the main part of Altschermbeck (zu Schermbeck ) as well as alder (zu Raesfeld ) and Reken , small marginal parts of Lembeck, were excluded
    • Altendorf-Ulfkotte since 1975
  • Gladbeck (1921 to 1974 independent city, initially united with Bottrop and Kirchhellen in 1975 (" Glabotki "), after the merger was judicially declared null and void on July 1, 1976, it was incorporated into the Recklinghausen district)
  • Haltern (1929 to the district)
    • City of Haltern (1929 to the district; formerly the district of Coesfeld)
    • since 1975 parish Haltern ( Sythen , Holtwick , the desert Overrath (today a wooded peninsula in the Haltern reservoir ) as well as mountain keepers between Haltern and Lippramsdorf; since 1929 in the district; now without Sythener End , which came to (Haus-) Dülmen and thus again after Coesfeld was circled) as well as Hullern and Lippramsdorf, formerly Amt Haltern, until 1929 Kreis Coesfeld
    • since 1975 the northeast half of Hamm (formerly Amt Marl)
    • since 1975 Flaesheim (formerly Amt Datteln)
  • Herten
    • Parish of Herten
    • since 1926 farmers' associations Disteln, Ebbelich, Langenbochum (larger part) and Scherlebeck (all formerly the municipality of Recklinghausen-Land)
    • since 1975 former town of Westerholt and Bertlich colony (with Transvaal), formerly the municipality of Polsum
  • Marl together with old farmers Drewer (including the younger colony Brassert), Frentrop and Lippe
    • since 1926 parts of the Recklinghausen-Land community (Lenkerbeck farmers and Löntrop farmers with Hüls and Korthausen) as well as the now more densely populated western half of the Sinsen farmers, formerly the parish of Oer
    • since 1975 the now more densely populated western half (formerly Herne and Sickingmühle) of Hamm and Polsum (without the Bertlich colony)
  • Oer-Erkenschwick (education 1926)
    • In addition to the farmers' communities Sinsen (only eastern half) and Siepen as well as Klein- and Groß-Erkenschwick (formerly the municipality of Recklinghausen-Land)
    • Rapen from the Dates office
  • Recklinghausen (1901 to 1974 independent)
    • old town of Recklinghausen with Hillen, Hillerheide and Bruch
    • since 1926 Suderwich as well as from the municipality-Land Recklinghausen Hochlarmark, Stuckenbusch, Hochlar, Bockholt, Speckhorn (with Beising and Börste), Essel, Röllinghausen, Berghausen
  • Waltrop

Compared to the borders of 1816, the district lost the now independent areas of the city of Oberhausen (Osterfeld), Bottrop (Bottrop and Kirchhellen) and Gelsenkirchen (Buer plus Horst, but without Westerholt and Gladbeck). In 1975, in the area of ​​Herrlichkeit Lembeck, alder went to Raesfeld (Borken district) and Altschermbeck to Schermbeck (Wesel district). Added to this were the town of Haltern and the former Haltern office north of the Lippe in 1929 and Castrop-Rauxel south of the Emscher in 1975 (excluding the traditional Henrichenburg).

Population development

Please note: The jump in the number of inhabitants between 1970 and 1980 is mainly due to the encirclement of the formerly independent cities of Recklinghausen, Castrop-Rauxel and Gladbeck.

year Residents source
1819 039,170
1832 041,946
1858 049,289
1871 052,897
1880 064,699
1890 093,593
1900 188,690
1910 320,882
1925 186.712
1939 191.099
1950 245.743
1960 315,000
1970 353.100
1980 629.190
1990 651,588
2000 657,592
2010 628.817
2019 614.137

Denominations

According to the 2011 census , 28.5% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 42.2% predominantly Roman Catholic and 29.3% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and above all that of Catholics has fallen since then and with almost 51% the people who do not belong to a legally or corporately constituted religious community are a majority of the population.

The number of people leaving the church in the Recklinghausen district dean's office rose to an all-time high in 2019: 1748 Catholics left the church, 569 more than in the previous year. The current number of Catholics at the end of 2019 was 197,556 (32.2%) Catholics out of a total of 614,317 inhabitants, 3811 fewer than a year earlier. In 2018, 201,367 inhabitants (32.7% of the total population) belonged to the Catholic Church and 100,149 inhabitants (16.4%) to the Evangelical Church. The number of members decreased compared to the previous year 2017 by 2,977 among Catholics and by 1,919 among Evangelicals. The number of people leaving the church rose from 1,064 in 2017 to 1,179 in 2018, and in the Protestant church from 652 to 714 in the same years.

politics

Flag (banner) and coat of arms

Banner of the Recklinghausen district

Section 1 of the main statutes of the Recklinghausen district stipulates:

“The banner of the Recklinghausen district is (from heraldic right to heraldic left) black - white - green . It bears the coat of arms of the Recklinghausen district in the middle of the flag track.
The coat of arms consists of a silver nettle leaf on a green shield and a black, isosceles cross with a golden key in the middle. "

The nettle leaf stands for the glory of Lembeck , an office of the Prince Diocese of Münster , which was north of the Lippe near Dorsten . The black cross is the symbol of the Cologne bishops, who owned a large part of the area, Vest Recklinghausen . The key in the cross symbolizes Saint Peter , the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

The coat of arms was approved on June 30, 1952.

District administrators

District council

Election of the Recklinghausen district assembly in 2014
in percent
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
40.5%
33.8%
8.8%
5.3%
4.4%
3.9%
2.6%
0.7%
UBP
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 3.3  % p.p.
-0.9  % p
-0.1  % p
-1.2  % p
+1.7  % p
-3.5  % p
+ 2.6  % p
-1.9  % p
UBP
Otherwise.
Allocation of seats in the
Recklinghausen district council
(as of August 2017)
       
A total of 71 seats

See also the results of the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1975: Recklinghausen district

Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (status August 2017):

SPD CDU GREEN THE LEFT UBP FDP Non-attached total
30th 25th 5 4th 3 3 1 71
PIRATES 1

Partner and sponsorships

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Recklinghausen district was assigned the distinguishing sign RE when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the sub-circles were given special identification numbers:

area Letters numbers
City of Recklinghausen A to Z 1 to 999
AA to ZZ 1 to 99
S, T 1000 to 9999
AA
Cities of Herten, Marl and Oer-Erkenschwick AA to ZZ 100 to 999
V 1000 to 9999
City of Castrop-Rauxel A to J
CA
City of Gladbeck K to P
HA
Cities of Datteln and Waltrop R, W, X
THERE
City of Dorsten U, Y, Z
EA

The approval offices in Datteln and Dorsten were added later.

Since November 13, 2012, the distinctive signs CAS (Castrop-Rauxel) and GLA (Gladbeck) have been available due to the license plate liberalization .

economy

In the 2016 future atlas , the Recklinghausen district was ranked 330th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with “future risks”. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 349 out of 401.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Kreis Recklinghausen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ Official population figures ( Memento from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the LDS NRW
  3. ^ A b Westfalenlexikon 1832–1835, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Westphalian State Office for Archives Maintenance (1978); Figures taken from: wiki-de.genealogy.net
  4. ^ Hic Leones , Historisch-Geographische Enzyklopädie der Welt (1880–1898); Figures taken from: wiki-de.genealogy.net and districts added up; Numbers with an asterisk come from other Wikipedia articles and reference the 1895 census
  5. ↑ Introduction of the revised town order in Dorsten
  6. ^ Introduction of the revised town order in Recklinghausen
  7. ↑ Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  8. ^ A b c d e f Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815–1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .
  9. ↑ a b Official Gazette of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the Altschermbeck and Lembeck offices
  10. ↑ a b Official Gazette of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the offices of Bottrop and Kirchhellen
  11. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the Buer office
  12. ↑ a b Official Gazette of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the offices of Datteln and Waltrop
  13. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the Marl Office
  14. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1844: Formation of the Recklinghausen office
  15. ^ Official journal of the Münster government 1857: Formation of the Herten office
  16. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1857: Separation of the administration of the offices Datteln and Waltrop
  17. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1858: Separation of the administration of the offices of Bottrop and Kirchhellen
  18. ^ Institute for Urban History Gelsenkirchen: Findbuch Amt Horst, page III ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ^ Official Journal of the Münster government 1891: Formation of the Osterfeld office
  20. ↑ a b c Timeline Herrlichkeit Lembeck ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Lions Club Dorsten-Hanse
  21. ↑ Chronicle of the fire brigade Oer-Erkenschwick (PDF)
  22. ^ 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. 316 f .
  23. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821 ( digitized version ).
  24. ^ Statistical news about the government district of Munster , 1858, p. 15, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  25. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia Westphalia 1887 p. 127
  26. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. recklinghausen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  27. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  28. ↑ a b c d e State database of North Rhine-Westphalia
  29. ^ Recklinghausen Religion District , 2011 census
  30. ↑ 197,556 Catholics in the district
  31. ↑ More resignations, fewer members - why the churches are losing importance. In: 24vest.de. July 19, 2019, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Main statutes of the Recklinghausen district (PDF; 21 kB)
  33. ↑ a b parliamentary groups (Recklinghausen district) , accessed on August 14, 2017
  34. ^ Recklinghausen district, Specialist Service 58, figures, data, facts in the Recklinghausen district ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis-re.de
  35. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prognos.com
  36. ↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .