Rotenburg (Fulda) district

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Coat of arms of the Rotenburg district
Rotenburg (Fulda) district
Map of Germany, position of the district of Rotenburg highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1821-1972
State : Hesse
Administrative region : kassel
Administrative headquarters : Rotenburg on the Fulda
Area : 544.79 km 2
Residents: 58,000 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 106 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : ROF
Circle key : 06 2 41
Circle structure: 26 municipalities

The district of Rotenburg with its seat in Rotenburg an der Fulda was a district in Hesse until 1972 . Most of its former territory is now part of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district .

geography

Beginning in 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the east to the Eisenach district in the Erfurt district of the GDR and to the Hessian districts of Hersfeld , Fritzlar-Homberg , Melsungen and Eschwege .

history

The Rotenburg district was formed in the Electorate of Hesse in 1821 . His predecessors were the offices of Rotenburg and Sontra . In 1823 Ellingshausen , Grebenhagen , Mühlbach , Raboldshausen , Saasen and Salzberg became the Homberg district . On January 1, 1837, Diemerode and Heyerode came from the Eschwege district to the Rotenburg district. At the same time, Meckbach and Mecklar moved from the Rotenburg district to the Hersfeld district.

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia as a result of the German War in 1866, the district belonged to the administrative district of Kassel in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . Ellingerode came to the city of Rotenburg in 1928 as a former manor district. In 1929 manor districts were further dissolved, as a result of which new communities were founded and incorporated within the Rotenburg district. Since 1946 the district was part of the German state of Hesse . Before the start of the Hessian regional reform , the district comprised 68 communities, including the three cities of Bebra , Rotenburg an der Fulda and Sontra .

Through a series of community mergers in the course of 1971, which also created the new communities Ludwigseck and Wildeck , the number of communities decreased to 26 by July 1972. As part of the Hessian district reform , the district was dissolved on August 1, 1972:

The official name during the Prussian period was the Rotenburg district in Hessen-Nassau . After the Second World War , the official name was the Rotenburg district . To distinguish it from the district of Rotenburg in Hanover in what is now Lower Saxony , the names of the district of Rotenburg (Fulda) or the district of Rotenburg / Fulda were used .

Population development

district

Residents! 1871 1890 1900 1910 1925 1939 1950 1960 1970 1971
Rotenburg district 30.302 29,991 30,315 33,670 37,784 41,863 62,449 55,500 57,921 58,000

Big communities

Municipalities of the district of Rotenburg with more than 1000 inhabitants:

local community 1871 1939 1961 1970
Bebra 1679 4829 7549 8065
Bosserode 497 1108 1128
Breitenbach 507 1220 1312
Cornberg 1331 1228
Hönebach 581 1089 1063
Lispenhausen 606 1302 2140 2232
Nentershausen 836 1288 1824 1894
Obersuhl 1431 2643 3240 3074
Ronshausen 937 1927 2311 2450
Rotenburg on the Fulda 3275 4197 7738 8973
Sontra 1633 4165 5247 5765
Weiterode 786 1971 2308 2279

politics

District administrators

1849–1851 Friedrich von Urff (1805–1873)
1851–1855 Karl August Friedrich Groß
1855–1879 Ludwig Schantz (1805–1880)
1879–1892 Carl Ferdinand Ernst von Altenbockum (1842–1910)
1892–1898 Werner von Trott zu Solz (1849–1898)
1898–1921 Richard Tuercke (1862–1930)
1921–1924 Carl Burchard
1924 Karl Josef Schlitt (1883–1960) ( substitute )-9999
1924–1934 Walter von Dombois
1934–1945 Horst Hermann von Kruse

coat of arms

In June 1950 the Hessian State Ministry granted the district the right to use a coat of arms.

Communities

The following municipalities and manor districts belonged to the Rotenburg district in the course of its existence (today's affiliation in brackets):

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the ROF distinctive sign when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued until July 31, 1972. It has been available in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district since August 1, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Rotenburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Reuling : Administrative division 1821–1955. (PDF) In: Historical Atlas of Hesse. Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS), p. 176 , accessed on March 19, 2016 .
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. In: territorial.de. February 13, 2010, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg. Historical local dictionary. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ↑ a b c 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. 407 .
  5. ^ The communities and manor districts of the province of Hessen-Nassau and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape X , 1873, ZDB -ID 1467505-5 , p. 119 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rotenburg_kh.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  8. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Hessen-Nassau and their population in 1871, Rotenburg district
  9. ↑ Granting the right to use a district coat of arms to the Rotenburg district, Reg.-Bez. Kassel from June 1, 1950 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1950 No. 23 , p. 212 , item 423 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.0 MB ]).