Westerburg district

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Basic data
Inventory period 1886-1932
Prussian Province Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district Wiesbaden
Administrative headquarters Westerburg
surface 317 km²
Residents 32,114 (1925)
Population density 101 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities 82
Location of the Westerburg district
Nassau Oberwesterwaldkreis.png

The Westerburg district was a district in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1886 to 1932 . Today his area belongs to the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The district seat was in Westerburg .

history

The area of ​​the Westerburg district originally belonged to the Duchy of Nassau . After its annexation by Prussia as a result of the German War , the area of ​​the later district initially belonged to the Unterwesterwaldkreis and the Oberwesterwaldkreis in the Wiesbaden administrative district of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . In 1886 the Westerburg district was formed from the former offices of Rennerod and Wallmerod .

During the Prussian territorial reform of October 1, 1932, the three existing Westerwald districts were merged into two districts. The communities Girod , Goldhausen, Görgeshausen , Großholbach , Heilberscheid , Hundsangen , Kleinholbach , Nentershausen , Niedererbach , Nomborn , Obererbach , Oberhausen, Pütschbach , Ruppach , Steinefrenz and Weroth moved from the Westerburg district to the Unterwesterwaldkreis. The rest of the district was merged with the Oberwesterwaldkreis to form a new district, which was initially temporarily known as the Westerburg district and, from 1933, the Oberwesterwaldkreis .

Since 1946, the Upper and Lower Westerwald districts belonged to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and in 1974 they were combined to form today's Westerwaldkreis .

Population development

Residents 1900 1910 1925
Westerburg district 28,119 28,869 32.114

Population of the municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1925):

Dog chants 1101
Rennerod 1658
Westerburg 1758

District administrators

Communities

The district comprised the following municipalities:

Individual evidence

  1. a b Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
  2. ^ History of Simmern / Westerwald. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 ; Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
  3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of rural districts of August 1, 1932, § 90
  4. Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. oberwesterwald.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).