Weissenburg district in Bavaria
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ N , 10 ° 58 ′ E |
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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 | ||
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 |
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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
- after the Second World War: Ludwig Thumshirn (used by the Americans)
- Fritz Staudinger –1959:
- 1959–1973: Georg Hofmann , CSU
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.
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
- Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Franconia . Series I, Issue 8. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1960, DNB 452071089 ( digitized version ).
- Erich Strassner: rural and urban district of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Historical place names book of Bavaria. Part: Middle Franconia. Vol. 2, ISSN 0440-9744 ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1966 (At the same time: Erlangen, Univ., Diss.).
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. 591 f .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ 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. 729 f .
- ^ 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: Middle Franconia
- ^ 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