Stadtsteinach district

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 11 ° 30 ′  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Stadtsteinach
Area :	228.18 km 2
Residents:	20,195 (May 27, 1970)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	SAN
Circle key :	09 4 45
Circle structure:	34 municipalities
District Administrator :	Hans Köstner ( CSU )
Location of the Stadtsteinach district in Bavaria

The district of Stadtsteinach belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia . Before the beginning of the Bavarian territorial reform in the early 1970s, 34 municipalities belonged to the district.

geography

Important places

The most populous places were Stadtsteinach , Marktleugast , Grafengehaig , Presseck and Kupferberg .

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered in the northwest, starting clockwise, with the districts of Kronach , Naila , Münchberg and Kulmbach as well as with the independent city of Kulmbach .

history

District Office

The district office Stadtsteinach followed in 1862 the area court of the older order Stadtsteinach .

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Stadtsteinach district office ceded municipalities to the Kronach district office on January 1, 1880.

district

On January 1, 1939, the uniform imperial designation Landkreis was introduced. This is how the district office became the Stadtsteinach district.

On July 1, 1972, the Stadtsteinach district was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Bavaria and most of it was added to the Kulmbach district. The Seibelsdorf market fell to the district of Kronach and merged there with the communities of Unterrodach , Oberrodach , Großvichtach and Zeyern to form the Marktrodach market .

From the municipalities of the old district Stadtsteinach, the municipality of Gössersdorf moved from the district of Kulmbach to the district of Kronach on July 1, 1976, where it became a district of Weißenbrunn . The market Enchenreuth and the community of Gösmes moved from the district of Kulmbach to the district of Hof on January 1, 1977 and became districts of the city of Helmbrechts .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1864	19,148
1885	19,105
1900	17,329
1910	16,896
1925	16,756
1939	16,234
1950	22,767
1960	20,400
1971	20,200

District officials and district administrators

• 1909–1913: Eduard Nortz

...

• 1952–1957: Karl Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg ( CSU )
• 1957–1972: Hans Köstner ( CSU )

Communities

Until the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform, 34 municipalities belonged to the district:

Enchenreuth , market Eppenreuth Gosmes Goessersdorf Grafengehaig , market Green glass Guttenberg Heinersreuth Hohenberg Horbach Köstenberg Kupferberg , city

Ludwigschorgast , market Marienweiher Marktleugast , market Neuensorg Presseck , market Rappetenreuth Reichenbach Rugendorf Schlackenreuth Schlockenau Disappearance Seibelsdorf , market

Stadtsteinach , city Traindorf Triebenreuth Untereinach Vogtendorf Walnut green Wartenfels , market Weidmes Wildenstein Zaubach

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing symbol SAN when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until April 30, 1973. Since July 10, 2013 it has been available again in the districts of Kronach and Kulmbach as part of the license plate liberalization , and since August 4, 2014 also in the district of Hof.

literature

• Erich Freiherr von Guttenberg , Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Stadtsteinach (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia I, 3). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1953, DNB  451738985 ( digitized version ).
• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : District Stadtsteinach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 20 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB  453135242 .

Web links

• Administrative history of the district until 1945
• Register of municipalities with number of inhabitants, status 1900
• Statistical data up to 1960

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. 574 .
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. ^ 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. 698 .
5. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
6. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population figures of the district offices 1864 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population figures of the district offices 1885 ( digitized ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Upper Franconia
9. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925
10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1940
11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1952
12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1961
13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973