Rockenhausen district

Basic data (as of 1969)
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	Palatinate
Administrative headquarters :	Rockenhausen
Area :	438.15 km 2
Residents:	42,195 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	ROK
Circle key :	07 5 41
Circle structure:	66 parishes

The district of Rockenhausen was a district in Bavaria and from 1946 in Rhineland-Palatinate , which was dissolved in the course of the local regional reform in 1969.

geography

Beginning in 1969, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Kreuznach , Alzey , Kirchheimbolanden , Kaiserslautern and Kusel .

history

On December 1, 1900, the new Rockenhausen District Office was formed from 65 communities from the Bavarian district offices of Kirchheimbolanden and Kaiserslautern. On January 1, 1939, this district office was renamed the Rockenhausen district . After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

As part of the regional reform of Rhineland-Palatinate, the district was dissolved on June 7, 1969. Most of it was combined with most of the Kirchheimbolanden district to form the new Donnersbergkreis . The communities Altenbamberg , Callbach , Duchroth , Ebernburg , Feilbingert , Hallgarten , Hochstätten , Lettweiler , Oberhausen an der Nahe , Odernheim am Glan and Rehborn came to the district of Bad Kreuznach and the community of Neuhemsbach to the district of Kaiserslautern.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1900	38,614
1910	38,429
1925	37,395
1939	35,479
1950	39,039
1960	41,000
1968	42,195

District administrators

Josef Grün SPD, from 1945 to 1946
Franz Meister SPD, from 1947 to 1950
Friedrich Müller
Gustav Müller SPD

cities and communes

At the time of its dissolution, the Rockenhausen district consisted of two cities and 64 other municipalities:

Parish 1969	today's parish	today's district	1961 residents
Alsenbrück-Langmeil	Winnweiler	Donnersbergkreis	743
Alsenz	Alsenz	Donnersbergkreis	1,869
Altenbamberg	Altenbamberg	Bad Kreuznach district	617
Bayerfeld-Steckweiler	Bayerfeld-Steckweiler	Donnersbergkreis	570
Bi-difference	Bi-difference	Donnersbergkreis
Borrstadt	Borrstadt	Donnersbergkreis	953
Breunigweiler	Breunigweiler	Donnersbergkreis	287
Callbach	Callbach	Bad Kreuznach district	540
Cölln	Mannweiler-Cölln	Donnersbergkreis	198
Dielkirchen	Dielkirchen	Donnersbergkreis	579
Dörnbach	Rockenhausen	Donnersbergkreis	581
Dried mussel	Dried mussel	Donnersbergkreis	221
Duchroth ¹	Duchroth	Bad Kreuznach district	671
Ebernburg	Bad Kreuznach	Bad Kreuznach district	1,430
Falkenstein	Falkenstein	Donnersbergkreis	275
Feilbingert	Feilbingert	Bad Kreuznach district	1,295
Finkenbach-Gersweiler	Finkenbach-Gersweiler	Donnersbergkreis	569
Gaugrehweiler	Gaugrehweiler	Donnersbergkreis	614
Gehrweiler	Gehrweiler	Donnersbergkreis	391
Gerbach	Gerbach	Donnersbergkreis	633
Gonbach	Gonbach	Donnersbergkreis	255
Gundersweiler	Gundersweiler	Donnersbergkreis	539
Hallgarten (Palatinate)	Hallgarten (Palatinate)	Bad Kreuznach district	670
High places	High places	Bad Kreuznach district	705
Hochstein	Winnweiler	Donnersbergkreis	491
Höringen	Höringen	Donnersbergkreis	492
Imsbach	Imsbach	Donnersbergkreis	919
Imsweiler	Imsweiler	Donnersbergkreis	721
Lime Kiln (Palatinate)	Lime Kiln (Palatinate)	Donnersbergkreis	283
Katzenbach	Katzenbach	Donnersbergkreis	490
Lettweiler	Lettweiler	Bad Kreuznach district	339
Wage field	Wage field	Donnersbergkreis	644
Mannweiler	Mannweiler-Cölln	Donnersbergkreis	312
Marienthal	Rockenhausen	Donnersbergkreis	309
Münchweiler on the Alsenz	Münchweiler on the Alsenz	Donnersbergkreis	1,047
Munsterappel	Munsterappel	Donnersbergkreis	591
Neuhemsbach	Neuhemsbach	District of Kaiserslautern	563
Niederhausen an der Appel	Niederhausen an der Appel	Donnersbergkreis	352
Niedermoschel	Niedermoschel	Donnersbergkreis	583
Oberhausen an der Appel	Oberhausen an der Appel	Donnersbergkreis	241
Oberhausen an der Nahe ¹	Oberhausen on the Nahe	Bad Kreuznach district	395
Obermoschel , city	Obermoschel , city	Donnersbergkreis	1,268
Oberndorf	Oberndorf	Donnersbergkreis	254
Odernheim am Glan	Odernheim am Glan	Bad Kreuznach district	1,983
Potzbach	Winnweiler	Donnersbergkreis	268
Ransweiler	Ransweiler	Donnersbergkreis	377
Rehborn	Rehborn	Bad Kreuznach district	811
Rockenhausen , city	Rockenhausen , city	Donnersbergkreis	3,172
Ruppertsecken	Ruppertsecken	Donnersbergkreis	375
Sankt Alban (Palatinate)	Sankt Alban (Palatinate)	Donnersbergkreis	342
Schiersfeld	Schiersfeld	Donnersbergkreis	372
Schönborn	Schönborn	Donnersbergkreis	192
Schweisweiler	Schweisweiler	Donnersbergkreis	428
Sembach	Sembach	District of Kaiserslautern	760
Sippersfeld	Sippersfeld	Donnersbergkreis	918
Sitters	Sitters	Donnersbergkreis	147
Stahlberg	Stahlberg	Donnersbergkreis	265
Steinbach am Donnersberg	Steinbach am Donnersberg	Donnersbergkreis	692
Stone pits	Dielkirchen	Donnersbergkreis	99
Teschenmoschel	Teschenmoschel	Donnersbergkreis	192
Unkenbach	Unkenbach	Donnersbergkreis	299
Waldgrehweiler	Waldgrehweiler	Donnersbergkreis	353
Wartenberg-Rohrbach	Wartenberg-Rohrbach	Donnersbergkreis	286
Winnweiler	Winnweiler	Donnersbergkreis	1,972
Winterborn	Winterborn	Donnersbergkreis	233
Wurzweiler	Wurzweiler	Donnersbergkreis	249

¹Duchroth and Oberhausen an der Nahe were united to the municipality of Duchroth-Oberhausen until January 1, 1965 .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign ROK when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until June 6, 1969. It has been available in the Donnersbergkreis since July 15, 2013 due to the license plate liberalization .

Individual evidence

↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Details on the formation of the Rockenhausen district office
^ Territorial changes in Germany : Landkreis Rockenhausen
^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 150 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rockenhausen.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Details on the formation of the Rockenhausen district office

[2] Territorial changes in Germany : Landkreis Rockenhausen

[3] Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292

[4] Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947

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

[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. rockenhausen.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).