Rotenburg district (Wümme) (1885–1977)
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ' N , 9 ° 24' E |
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Basic data (as of 1977) | ||
Existing period: | 1885-1977 | |
State : | Lower Saxony | |
Administrative region : | Stade | |
Administrative headquarters : | Rotenburg (Wümme) | |
Area : | 850.74 km 2 | |
Residents: | 60,600 (Jun 30, 1977) | |
Population density : | 71 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | ROW | |
Circle key : | 03 4 34 | |
Circle structure: | 21 municipalities |
The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) - until 1938 district of Rotenburg (Hann.) , Until 1969 district of Rotenburg in Hanover - was a district in Lower Saxony until 1977 and was located in the south of today's district of the same name . The county seat was the eponymous city of Rotenburg (Wümme) . For the local population, the old district of Rotenburg still plays a major role in everyday life, as many organizations, companies, schools, clubs, newspapers and similar institutions orient themselves in their catchment area to the former district boundaries.
Neighboring areas
At the beginning of 1977 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Bremervörde , Harburg , Soltau , Fallingbostel and Verden .
history
Location of the district of Rotenburg (Hann.) In the province of Hanover (1905) |
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In the Middle Ages, the region around Rotenburg belonged to the spiritual territory of Verden , which after the Thirty Years' War , which was devastating for the region, initially became part of the Swedish area of Bremen-Verden within the Holy Roman Empire . After a brief Danish occupation in 1718/19, the region came to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (also called Kurhannover ). During the Napoleonic Wars, the French Empire annexed the areas between the Weser and Elbe. After the Congress of Vienna and the establishment of the Kingdom of Hanover as the successor to the former Electorate of Hanover, Landdrosteien and offices were created to administer the region. In the south of the Landdrostei Stade there were the offices of Rotenburg and Ottersberg , which extended over parts of the historical territory of Verden . After the Ottersberg Office was dissolved, its eastern parts fell to the neighboring Rotenburg Office. In 1866 the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia after the lost German War . The administrative structures were initially retained.
On April 1, 1885, as part of the formation of districts in the province of Hanover from 1884 from the Rotenburg office and the community Fintel from the Soltau office, the Rotenburg district was formed and allocated to the Stade administrative region. The community of Lauenbrück , which is now part of the Fintel community , moved from the neighboring Harburg district to the Rotenburg district in 1932 . After the Second World War, Hanover became an independent state again after the dissolution of Prussia, before it united with smaller neighboring states to form Lower Saxony, to which the district of Rotenburg also belonged. During this time, the district took on the sponsorship of the Angerburg district in East Prussia . Until June 18, 1969, the district of Rotenburg in Hanover was called .
The law on the reorganization of the communities in the Rotenburg area resulted in an extensive community reform on March 1, 1974, which reduced the number of communities in the district from 64 to 21. With the incorporation of the municipality of Kettenburg from the Fallingbostel district into the city of Visselhövede , the district experienced a small increase in area.
On August 1, 1977, as part of the Lower Saxony district reform, the district was merged with the Bremervörde district , which had already been expanded to include the former Zeven district in 1932 , to form the new, larger district of Rotenburg (Wümme) .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1890 | 19,642 | |
1900 | 21,128 | |
1910 | 25,425 | |
1925 | 29,171 | |
1939 | 33,821 | |
1950 | 59,909 | |
1960 | 52,300 | |
1970 | 56,300 | |
1977 | 60,600 |
District administrators
- 1885–1887 Theodor Lueder
- 1887–1901 Franz Heidmann
- 1901–1916 Friedrich von Mettenheim (1864–1932)
- 1916–1920 Heinrich von Müller
- 1920–1940 Armin von Lossow
- 1940–1945 Ernst Drewes (1903–1991)
Communities
The following list contains all municipalities that belonged to the Rotenburg (Wümme) district until 1977, as well as all incorporations:
Until it was dissolved in the 1920s, the Rotenburg district also had the two manor districts of Trochel and Veerse.
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign ROH when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . On October 15, 1970 it was replaced by the new distinctive sign ROW . This is still issued today in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district. The last license plate with the identifier ROH was withdrawn on May 12, 1995. Since then, the distinctive sign has not been listed in Appendix 1 of the Road Traffic Licensing Regulations (StVZO) as expiring.
Web links
- District of Rotenburg (Hann.) Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of April 22, 2014.
- The municipalities of the district of Rotenburg with their population from 1910
- The municipalities of the Rotenburg district with their population figures from 1925, 1933 and 1939
Individual evidence
- ^ District regulation for the province of Hanover (1885)
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the communities in the Rotenburg area of July 3, 1973
- ^ 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. 240 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rotenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1978
- ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2014 .
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia: Province of Hanover Verlag des Prussian State Statistical Office, 1930