Rotenburg (Fulda) district
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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ' N , 9 ° 44' E |
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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 town of Sontra, into which the municipalities of Berneburg , Blankenbach , Breitau , Diemerode , Heyerode , Krauthausen , Lindenau , Ulfen , Weißenborn and Wölfterode were incorporated as early as 1971 , became part of the Eschwege district , which is now part of the Werra-Meißner district .
- The municipality of Rengshausen , into which the municipalities of Hausen , Lichtenhagen , Nausis and Nenterode had already been integrated in 1971 , became part of the newly founded Schwalm-Eder district .
- All other communities became part of the new district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg, at the same time there were further community mergers, in which, among other things, the new community of Alheim was created.
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 |
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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 |
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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 )
- 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):
- Asmushausen (Bebra)
- Atzelrode (Rotenburg)
- Bauhaus (Nentershausen), re-established in 1929
- Baumbach ( Alheim )
- Bebra
- Beenhausen (Ludwigsau), 1971 to Ludwigseck , 1972 to Ludwigsau
- Bellers-Gunkelrode (Nentershausen), manor district, part of Bauhaus in 1929
- Berneburg (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Blankenbach (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Blankenheim (Bebra)
- Bosserode (Wildeck)
- Boxerode (Bebra), manor district, 1929 zu Solz
- Braach (Rotenburg)
- Braunhausen (Bebra)
- Breitau (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Breitenbach (Bebra)
- Cornberg , re-established in 1954, previously as an estate district of Rockensüß in 1928
- Dankerode (Rotenburg)
- Dens (Nentershausen)
- Diemerode (Sontra), 1836 to the Rotenburg district, 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Ellingerode (Rotenburg), manor district, part of Rotenburg in 1928
- Ellingshausen (Knüllwald), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Erdpenhausen (Alheim)
- Erkshausen (Rotenburg)
- Ersrode (Ludwigsau), 1971 to Ludwigseck, 1972 to Ludwigsau
- Gerterode (Ludwigsau)
- Gilfershausen (Bebra)
- Grebenhagen (Schwarzenborn), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Guttels (Rotenburg), manor district, in Rotenburg in 1928
- Hainrode (Ludwigsau), 1971 to Ludwigseck, 1972 to Ludwigsau
- Hausen (Knüllwald), 1972 to the Schwalm-Eder district
- Hergershausen (Alheim)
- Heyerode (Sontra), in 1836 to the Rotenburg district, 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Hönebach (Wildeck)
- Hornel (Sontra), 1938 to Sontra, 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Iba (Bebra)
- Imshausen (Bebra)
- Königswald (Cornberg)
- Krauthausen (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Licherode (Alheim)
- Lichtenhagen (Knüllwald), 1972 to the Schwalm-Eder district
- Liebenz (Wildeck), manor district until 1929
- Lindenau (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Lispenhausen (Rotenburg)
- Lüdersdorf (Bebra)
- Ludwigseck (Ludwigsau), new formation 1971, 1972 to Ludwigsau
- Powerless (Ronshausen)
- Meckbach (Ludwigsau), 1836 to the district of Hersfeld
- Mecklar (Ludwigsau), 1836 to the Hersfeld district
- Metzlar (Sontra), manor district, 1929 to Sontra
- Mönchhosbach (Nentershausen)
- Mühlbach (Neuenstein), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Mündershausen (Rotenburg)
- Nausis (Knüllwald), 1972 to the Schwalm-Eder district
- Nenterode (Knüllwald), 1972 to the Schwalm-Eder district
- Nentershausen
- Niederellenbach (Alheim)
- Niedergude (Alheim)
- Niederthalhausen (Ludwigsau)
- Oberellenbach (Alheim)
- Obergude (Alheim)
- Obersuhl (Wildeck)
- Oberthalhausen (Ludwigsau), 1971 to Ludwigseck, 1972 to Ludwigsau
- Raboldshausen (Neuenstein), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Raßdorf (Wildeck)
- Rautenhausen (Bebra)
- Rengshausen (Knüllwald), 1972 to the Schwalm-Eder district
- Richelsdorf (Wildeck)
- Rockensüß (Cornberg)
- Ronshausen
- Rotenburg on the Fulda
- Saasen (Neuenstein), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Salzberg (Neuenstein), 1823 to the Homberg district
- Schwarzenhasel (Rotenburg)
- Seifertshausen (Rotenburg)
- Solz (Bebra)
- Sontra , 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Sterkelshausen (Alheim)
- Sweet (Nentershausen)
- Ulfen (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Weißenborn (Sontra), 1972 to the Eschwege district
- Weißenhasel (Nentershausen)
- Weiterode (Bebra)
- Wildeck , new formation 1971
- Wölfterode (Sontra), from 1972 in the district of Eschwege
- Wüstefeld (Rotenburg), manor district, to Atzelrode in 1928
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Reuling : Administrative division 1821–1955. (PDF) In: Historical Atlas of Hesse. Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS), p. 176 , accessed on March 19, 2016 .
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. In: territorial.de. February 13, 2010, accessed September 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg. Historical local dictionary. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Hessen-Nassau and their population in 1871, Rotenburg district
- ↑ 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 ]).