Simmern district

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Coat of arms of the district of Simmern
Simmern district
Map of Germany, position of the Simmern district highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period: 1816-1969
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Koblenz
Administrative headquarters : Simmern / Hunsrück
Area : 571.45 km 2
Residents: 43,166 (Jun 30, 1968)
Population density : 76 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SIM
Circle key : 07 1 40
Circle structure: 102 municipalities
In Reckershausen there is still a reference to the old district of Simmern after almost 40 years

The district of Simmern was an administrative unit created in 1816 under the original name of the District of Simmern by the Kingdom of Prussia and located in Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1816 to 1945 it was administratively part of the Prussian administrative district of Koblenz in the Rhine Province formed in 1822 and from 1946 to 1969 the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The designation "Landkreis Simmern" was formally introduced on January 1, 1939, regardless of which the other designation was in use before and after the reference date. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform that began in the mid-1960s , the district of Simmern was dissolved in 1969. The towns of Simmern and Kirchberg , which belong to the district, as well as 100 local parishes were assigned to the newly formed Rhine-Hunsrück district .

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Sankt Goar , Kreuznach , Bernkastel , Zell (Mosel) and Cochem .

history

Emergence

After the Kingdom of Prussia was awarded the Rhineland at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and thus also parts of the area on the left bank of the Rhine, which was under French sovereignty from 1794 to 1814, six administrative districts were established in the two Rhenish provinces on April 22, 1816. The three districts of Aachen, Trier and Koblenz were merged to form the Lower Rhine Province and Koblenz was designated as the seat of the Upper President. On May 14, 1816, the division of the district into 16 districts was published in the official gazette of the royal government in Coblenz , one of which was Simmern . The new authority was to come into operation on May 20, 1816. The unification of the two Rhine provinces under one head president (1822) did not change anything for the Simmern district .

In terms of ownership prior to 1794, the district consisted of the greater part of the principality of Simmern , part of the front and rear counties of Sponheim and the imperial knighthood of Gemünd. During the French administration from 1798 to 1814, the area was mainly divided between the cantons of Simmern , Kastellaun and Kirchberg in the Simmern arrondissement of the Rhine-Moselle department .

The Simmern district included three towns ( Simmern , Kirchberg and Castellaun ), a patch ( Gemünden ), 100 villages, seven hamlets and 14 farms . The Prussian statistics from 1828 counted 17 Catholic churches, 17 chapels, 33 Protestant churches, 9 simultaneous churches,  5 synagogues and 234 public buildings, as well as 47 Catholic, 68 Protestant and 2 Jewish elementary schools and 1 community  school . Peace courts were in Simmern, Kirchberg and Castellaun.

Administratively, the district was divided into six mayorships :

  • Mayor's office Simmern with 1 town (Simmern), 20 villages, 3 hamlets, 5 farms and 33 mills; In 1828 there were 7394 residents here.
  • Mayor's office in Kirchberg with 1 town (Kirchberg), 18 villages, 1 farm and 29 mills; In 1828 5882 inhabitants lived here.
  • Mayor's office Castellaun with 1 town (Castellaun), 25 villages, 1 hamlet, 2 farms and 25 mills; In 1828 7,085 inhabitants lived here.
  • Mayor's office Gemünden with 1 spot, 12 villages and 19 mills, which in 1828 had a total of 3518 inhabitants.
  • Mayor's office Rheinbellen with 10 villages, 1 hamlet and 7 mills, which in 1828 had a total of 4,210 inhabitants.
  • Mayor's office Ohlweiler with 15 villages, 2 hamlets, 6 farms and 9 mills; In 1828 4345 inhabitants lived here.

The mayor's offices existed until 1927 and were then renamed to offices; the name "District Simmern" existed until 1939, then "District Simmern".

Administrative reform

After the Second World War, the district of Simmern became part of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 . As part of the territorial and administrative reform that began in the mid-1960s, the district of Simmern was dissolved under the last district administrator, Rudolf Rumetsch, on the basis of the Third State Act on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate of November 12, 1968 with effect from June 7, 1969 from this, together with parts of the also dissolved districts of Sankt Goar, Zell (Mosel) and Bernkastel, the Rhein-Hunsrück district was newly formed.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 27,563
1838 35,734
1871 35,621
1885 35,601
1900 35,240
1910 36,156
1925 36,970
1939 36,363
1950 40,882
1960 40,300
1968 43,166

District administrators

1816–1839 Christian Ludwig Schmidt00
1840–1844 Eduard von Moeller00
1844-1852 Alexander von Arnim00
1852 Heinrich Joseph Kampers (substitute)-000000
1852–1854 Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen00
1854–1867 Johann Friedrich Arnold Engelbert Hardt00
1867–1872 Otto Back00
1872–1875 Walther Jentzsch00
1875-1894 Alexander Wenderhold00
1894–1905 Gustav Adolf von Beckerath00
1905–1914 Paul Brandt00
1914–1921 Otto Böhme00
1921–1931 Wilhelm Josten00
1931–1936 Justus Weihe00
1936 Friedrich von Balluseck (acting)-000000
1937–1938 Walter Tietje (acting)00
1938–1940 Konrad Noell00
1940–1945 Friedrich Wagner00
1945–1959 00?
1959–1968 Rudolf Rumetsch00

cities and communes

In 1969 there were two towns in the Simmern district:

and 100 local churches:

During the existence of the district, several municipalities lost their independence:

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing symbol SIM when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued in the Rhein-Hunsrück district to this day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Oppenhoff: The Prussians came 175 years ago. In: 1991 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
  2. ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , 1830, p. 600.
  3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 153 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  4. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
  5. ^ The Rhine Province under Prussia, Willemsen, 1842
  6. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. simmern.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 286-287 .