District of Sonthofen

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District of Sonthofen
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Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 17'  E

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
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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
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
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

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 534 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 571 .
  5. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
  9. ↑ a b www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  10. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
  13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
  14. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  15. ^ 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).
  16. ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on July 7, 2010)