District of Sonthofen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 31 ' N , 10 ° 17' E |
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Basic data (as of 1972) | ||
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Swabia | |
Administrative headquarters : | Sonthofen | |
Area : | 977.47 km 2 | |
Residents: | 73,943 (May 27, 1970) | |
Population density : | 76 inhabitants per km 2 | |
License plate : | SF | |
Circle key : | 09 7 48 | |
Circle structure: | 33 municipalities | |
Location of the district of Sonthofen in Bavaria | ||
The district of Sonthofen belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . Before the start of the regional reform in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1970s, the district comprised 33 municipalities. The former district area is now part of the Oberallgäu district .
geography
Important places
The most populous places were Sonthofen , Immenstadt , Oberstdorf and Blaichach .
Neighboring areas
Starting in 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest on the districts of Lindau (Lake Constance) , Kempten (Allgäu) and Füssen . In the south the district bordered on Austria ; in the south-east on Tyrol and in the south-west on Vorarlberg .
history
District Office
The Sonthofen district office was formed in 1862 through the merger of the older district courts Immenstadt and Sonthofen .
On April 1, 1927, the Sonthofen District Office ceded the communities of Moosbach and Petersthal to the Kempten District Office .
district
On January 1, 1939, the uniform imperial designation Landkreis was introduced. This is how the district office became the district of Sonthofen.
After the annexation of Austria , from October 15, 1938 to 8/9. May and September 19, 1945, the previously Austrian communities Jungholz and Mittelberg to the district office and district of Sonthofen.
On July 1, 1970, the Stiefenhofen community was reclassified from the Sonthofen district to the Lindau district (Lake Constance).
On July 1, 1972, the district of Sonthofen was merged with most of the district of Kempten (Allgäu) to form the new district of Oberallgäu as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1864 | 28,860 | |
1885 | 30,275 | |
1900 | 33,466 | |
1910 | 36,679 | |
1925 | 40,939 | |
1939 | 51,995 | |
1950 | 67,088 | |
1960 | 67,300 | |
1971 | 75,900 |
Communities
The municipalities of the district of Sonthofen before the municipal reform. The churches that still exist today are in bold .
former parish | today's parish | today's district |
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Aach in Allgäu | Oberstaufen | District of Oberallgäu |
Akams | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Old towns | Sonthofen | District of Oberallgäu |
Balderschwang | Balderschwang | District of Oberallgäu |
Blaichach | Blaichach | District of Oberallgäu |
Bolsterlang | Bolsterlang | District of Oberallgäu |
Bühl a.Alpsee | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Burgberg i.Allgäu | Burgberg i.Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Diepolz | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Eckarts | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Fishing in Allgäu | Fishing in Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Gunzesried | Blaichach | District of Oberallgäu |
Hindelang , market | Bad Hindelang | District of Oberallgäu |
Immenstadt i. Allgäu , city | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Missen-Wilhams | Missen-Wilhams | District of Oberallgäu |
Niedersonthofen | Waltenhofen | District of Oberallgäu |
Obermaiselstein | Obermaiselstein | District of Oberallgäu |
Oberstaufen , market | Oberstaufen | District of Oberallgäu |
Oberstdorf , market | Oberstdorf | District of Oberallgäu |
Often swing | Often swing | District of Oberallgäu |
Ottacker | Sulzberg | District of Oberallgäu |
Rauhenzell | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Rettenberg | Rettenberg | District of Oberallgäu |
Schöllang | Oberstdorf | District of Oberallgäu |
Sonthofen , city | Sonthofen | District of Oberallgäu |
Stein i.Allgäu | Immenstadt i. Allgäu | District of Oberallgäu |
Stiefenhofen | Stiefenhofen | District of Lindau (Lake Constance) |
Thalkirchdorf | Oberstaufen | District of Oberallgäu |
Tiefenbach near Oberstdorf | Oberstdorf | District of Oberallgäu |
Subjugation | Bad Hindelang | District of Oberallgäu |
Lower maize stone | Rettenberg | District of Oberallgäu |
Vorderburg | Rettenberg | District of Oberallgäu |
Wertach , market | Wertach | District of Oberallgäu |
The municipalities of Missen and Wilhams were merged on January 1, 1959 to form the municipality of Missen-Wilhams .
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing symbol SF when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It was issued in the district until August 3, 1974. From August 5, 1974 to February 10, 1979 it was issued in the entire Oberallgäu district .
literature
- Richard Dertsch : District of Sonthofen (= historical place names book of Bavaria. Swabia. Vol. 7). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1974.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 534 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 571 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
- ^ 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. 786 .
- ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
- ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sonthofen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 7, 2010)