Weissenburg district in Bavaria

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Weissenburg district in Bavaria
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′  N , 10 ° 58 ′  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
Administrative headquarters : Weißenburg i.Bay.
Area : 482.89 km 2
Residents: 38,739 (May 27, 1970)
Population density : 80 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : WUG
Circle key : 09 5 47
Circle structure: 66 parishes
District Administrator : Georg Hofmann ( CSU )
Location of the district of Weißenburg i.Bay. in Bavaria
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The district of Weißenburg in Bavaria , officially the district of Weißenburg i.Bay. , belonged to the Bavarian administrative district Middle Franconia . Before the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform in the early 1970s, the district comprised 66 communities.

geography

Important places

The largest places were Treuchtlingen , Pappenheim , Pleinfeld and Ellingen .

Neighboring areas

Beginning in 1972, the district bordered clockwise to the north on the districts of Schwabach , Hilpoltstein , Eichstätt , Donauwörth and Gunzenhausen .

In the middle of this former district, the independent city of Weißenburg in Bavaria was an enclave.

history

District Office

The Weißenburg district office was formed in 1862 through the merger of the older regional courts Ellingen , Pappenheim and Weißenburg (including the city of Weißenburg). On July 16, 1863, the city of Weißenburg resigned from the district office.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Weißenburg district office in Bavaria received municipalities from the Neumarkt district office in Upper Palatinate on January 1, 1880 .

district

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . So the district office of Weißenburg in Bavaria became from the district office.

On April 1, 1940, the independent city of Weißenburg in Bavaria was incorporated into the district. However, this was reversed on April 1, 1949.

1 July 1972 the district of Weissenburg in Bayern were in the course of administrative reform in Bavaria until then independent city of White Castle and most of the also defunct district Gunzenhausen slammed shut. The community of Mühlstetten moved from the district of Weißenburg to the district of Roth . On May 1, 1973, the new district was given its current name: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

Population development

year Residents source
1864 23,351
1885 27,310
1900 27,588
1910 28,541
1925 28,885
1939 36,712
1950 39,432
1960 36,000
1971 38,400

politics

District administrators

Communities

Places in italics are still independent communities today. In the case of places that are no longer independent today, it is noted which congregation they belong to today. Most of the communities in the former district now belong to the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, otherwise it is also noted.

Cities

  1. Ellingen
  2. Pappenheim
  3. Treuchtlingen

Markets

  1. Nennslingen
  2. Pleinfeld
  3. Stopfenheim (City of Ellingen )

Other communities

  1. Alesheim
  2. Allmannsdorf ( Pleinfeld Market )
  3. Bechthal ( Raitenbuch municipality )
  4. Mountains
  5. Bieswang (City of Pappenheim )
  6. Bubenheim (City of Treuchtlingen )
  7. Büttelbronn (municipality of Langenaltheim )
  8. Burgsalach
  9. Dettenheim (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  10. Dietfurt (City of Treuchtlingen )
  11. Dorsbrunn ( Pleinfeld Market )
  12. Emetzheim (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  13. Eßlingen (municipality of Solnhofen )
  14. Ettenstatt
  15. Fiegenstall (municipality of Höttingen )
  16. Geislohe (City of Pappenheim )
  17. Gersdorf (community of Nennslingen )
  18. Geyern (municipality of Bergen )
  19. Göhren (City of Pappenheim )
  20. Graben (City of Treuchtlingen )
  21. Grönhart (City of Treuchtlingen )
  22. Gundelsheim an der Altmühl (municipality of Theilenhofen )
  23. Haag near Treuchtlingen (City of Treuchtlingen )
  24. Haardt (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  25. Holzingen (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  26. Höttingen
  27. Hundesdorf (municipality of Ettenstatt )
  28. Indernbuch (municipality of Burgsalach )
  29. Kaltenbuch (municipality of Bergen )
  30. Kattenhochstatt (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  31. Langenaltheim
  32. Mannholz ( Pleinfeld Market )
  33. Massenbach (City of Ellingen )
  34. Mischelbach ( Pleinfeld Market )
  35. Mühlstetten (municipality of Röttenbach , district of Roth )
  36. Neudorf (City of Pappenheim )
  37. Oberhochstatt (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  38. Ochsenhart (City of Pappenheim )
  39. Osterdorf (City of Pappenheim )
  40. Pfraunfeld (municipality of Burgsalach )
  41. Raitenbuch
  42. Ramsberg ( Pleinfeld Market )
  43. Rehlingen (municipality of Langenaltheim )
  44. Reuth am Wald ( Raitenbuch municipality )
  45. Reuth under Neuhaus (municipality of Ettenstatt )
  46. Rothenstein (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  47. Sankt Veit ( Pleinfeld Market )
  48. Schambach (City of Treuchtlingen )
  49. Solnhofen
  50. Forehead (market Pleinfeld )
  51. Störzelbach (municipality of Alesheim )
  52. Suffersheim (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  53. Thalmannsfeld (municipality of Bergen )
  54. Trommetsheim (municipality of Alesheim )
  55. Übermatzhofen (City of Pappenheim )
  56. Wachenhofen (municipality of Alesheim )
  57. Walting ( Pleinfeld Market )
  58. Weiboldshausen (municipality of Höttingen )
  59. Weimersheim (City of Weißenburg in Bavaria )
  60. Rooms (City of Pappenheim )

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign WUG when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is continuously issued in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district to this day.

literature

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. 591 f .
  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. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  5. ^ 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. 729 f .
  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: Middle 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