District of Saarbrücken

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 6 ° 51'  E
Basic data (as of 1973)
Existing period:	1816-1973
State :	Saarland
Administrative headquarters :	Saarbrücken
Area :	334.14 km 2
Residents:	263,700 (Dec. 31, 1972)
Population density :	789 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	SB, Völklingen : VK
Circle key :	10 0 34
Circle structure:	41 municipalities
District Administrator :	Walter Henn

The district of Saarbrücken was a district in Saarland .

geography

Neighboring areas

In 1973 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the west on the districts of Saarlouis , Ottweiler and Sankt Ingbert . In the south it bordered the independent city of Saarbrücken and the French department of Moselle .

history

According to the regulations of the Congress of Vienna , the county of Saarbrücken was dissolved in 1815 and assigned to the Prussian Rhine province and here to the administrative district of Trier . In 1816, the district of Saarbrücken was formed almost congruently from the county. In 1909, the district town of Saarbrücken , which had become a major city, was detached from the district as an urban district.

After the First World War , the Saarbrücken district came to the Saar area on October 1, 1920 . The district existed until the regional reform of the Saarland , which came into force on January 1, 1974, and was then almost completely transferred to the Saarbrücken city association . The community Rentrisch came to the city of St. Ingbert in the Saarpfalz district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	23,583
1847	41,121
1871	87,744
1885	118,803
1900	203,896
1910	170.336
1939	215.016
1960	256,000
1970	264,500
1972	263,700

politics

District administrators

• 1816–1836 Wilhelm Heinrich Dern00
• 1837–1848 Friedrich Hesse00
• 1848–1855 Franz Karl races00
• 1855–1872 Franz von Gaertner00
• 1871–1873 Adolf Ulrich (substitute)00
• 1873–1883 Ludwig von Geldern00
• 1883–1885 Hugo Samuel von Richthofen00
• 1885–1888 Maximilian von Voss00
• 1888–1891 Eduard zur Nedden00
• 1891–1899 Alfred Georg Bake00
• 1899–1903 Carl von Fidler00
• 1903–1909 Richard Bötticher00
• 1909–1916 Walther von Miquel00
• 1916–1919 Carl von Halfern00
• 1920 Günther van Endert (substitute)0000000
• 1920–1937 Friedrich Vogeler00
• 1937–1945 Friedrich Kurth00
• 1945–1950 Peter Michely00
• 1950–1956 Peter Walter00
• 1956–1961 Karl Barth00
• 1962–1967 Leonhard Lorscheider00
• 1967–1973 Walter Henn00

coat of arms

The district administrators occasionally introduced a coat of arms (never officially awarded) for the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken from the 18th century. This coat of arms shows the golden Nassau lion in the middle shield and further (rotating clockwise, starting at the top right): The silver lion of the Counts of Saarbrücken- Commercy , the black double-headed eagle of the Counts of Saar Werden , the black bar in the golden field of the Counts of Moers - Saar Werden, the golden St. Andrew's cross in a green field with gold crosses of the Lords of Merenberg , the black lions on a gold field of the Lords of Homburg, the red bar in gold of the Lahr rule and the two red lions of the first Counts of Saarbrücken.

Communities

On December 31, 1973, the Saarbrücken district comprised five cities and 46 other municipalities:

Altenkessel Auersmacher Bischmisheim Bliesransbach Brebach-Fechingen Buebingen Village Dudweiler , city Eiweiler Emmersweiler Fischbach Friedrichsthal , city Gersweiler Gottelborn

Great thrushes Güdingen Heusweiler Wood Karlsbrunn Klarenthal Kleinblittersdorf Köllerbach Kutzhof Lauterbach Ludweiler-Warndt Nassweiler Niedersalbach Obersalbach-Kurhof

Püttlingen , city Quiver Rentrisch Riegelsberg Rilchingen-Hanweiler Saint Nicholas Sheep bridge Scheidt Sitterswald Sulzbach / Saar , city Völklingen , city Electoral arbitration Walpershofen

During its existence, the following municipalities also belonged to the district:

• Berschweiler , to Heusweiler on October 1st, 1936
• Bietschied , on October 1, 1936 in Heusweiler
• Brebach , on January 1, 1959 in Brebach-Fechingen
• Burbach , to Malstatt-Burbach in 1874
• Dilsburg , to Heusweiler on October 1, 1936
• Engelfangen , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Etzenhofen , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Fechingen , on January 1, 1959 in Brebach-Fechingen
• Fürstenhausen , on April 1, 1937 in Völklingen
• Geislautern , on April 1, 1937 in Völklingen
• Guchenbach , on April 1, 1939 in Riegelsberg
• Hellenhausen , in Eiweiler on October 1, 1936
• Herchenbach , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Hilschbach , on April 1, 1939 in Riegelsberg
• Hirtel , in Heusweiler on October 1, 1936
• Kirschhof , on October 1, 1936 in Eiweiler
• Kölln , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Krughütte , to Klarenthal in the 1920s
• Kurhof , on October 1, 1936 in Salbach
• Lumm Various , on October 1, 1936 at Kutzhof
• Malstatt , in 1874 in Malstatt-Burbach
• Malstatt-Burbach , City, on April 1, 1909 in Saarbrücken
• Neuweiler , 1876 in Sulzbach / Saar
• Numborn , on October 1, 1936 at Kutzhof
• Obersalbach , on October 1, 1936 in Salbach
• Rittenhofen , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Rittershof , in Heusweiler on October 1, 1936
• Rußhütte , in Malstatt-Burbach, 1874
• Saarbrücken , became a district on April 1, 1909
• Salbach , on January 1, 1958
• Sankt Arnual , 1897 in Saarbrücken
• Sankt Johann ad Saar , Stadt, on April 1, 1909 in Saarbrücken
• Sellerbach , on April 1, 1933 in Köllerbach
• Überhofen , on April 1, 1939 in Riegelsberg
• Wehrden , on April 1, 1937 in Völklingen

License Plate

On January 1, 1957, the district was assigned the distinctive symbol SB on the occasion of the accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany . It is still issued in the Saarbrücken regional association to this day.

On January 1, 1968, the distinguishing sign VK became valid. It was only issued in the medium- sized town of Völklingen . This distinguishing mark is also issued to this day in the medium-sized town of Völklingen, now part of the Saarbrücken regional association.

literature

• Saarbrücken district administration (ed.): Border as fate, 150 years of Saarbrücken district, Saarbrücken 1966.

Web links

• official website of the "Saarland Biographies"
• District of Saarbrücken administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 17, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 807 .
2. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
3. ^ Description of the administrative district of Trier. 1849, p. 297 , accessed November 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. saarbruecken.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1974
8. ^ Lehne / Kohler: Wappen des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 1981, p. 28.