District of Wiesbaden

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hessen-Nassau
Administrative district	Wiesbaden
County seat	Wiesbaden
Inventory period	1886-1928
surface	210.9 km²
Residents	70,319 (1925)
Population density	334 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	27 (1886) 24 (1928)

The district of Wiesbaden was from 1886 to 1928 a district in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau with its seat in Wiesbaden .

geography

The district comprised the southern Taunus foreland roughly between the Walluf in the west and the Schwarzbach in the east.

Seal mark of the Royal District Office Wiesbaden

history

The district of Wiesbaden was formed on April 1, 1886 as part of a regional reform in the province of Hessen-Nassau from the municipalities of the offices of Wiesbaden and Hochheim with the exception of the municipalities of Langenhain , Lorsbach and Marxheim . By then, the district had formed the western part of the Mainkreis, which was founded in 1867 .

The cities and communities bordering Wiesbaden took part in the rapid population growth of this city, combined with increasing industrialization, especially along the Rhine. As a result, Biebrich , Schierstein and Sonnenberg were incorporated into Wiesbaden on October 1, 1926 and were lost to the district.

On April 1, 1928, the district was dissolved. Bierstadt , Dotzheim , Erbenheim , Frauenstein , Heßloch , Igstadt , Kloppenheim , Rambach and Georgenborn were incorporated into Wiesbaden. The city of Hochheim am Main as well as all other communities in the district became part of the newly founded Main-Taunus district .

Population development

year	Residents
1890	41,631
1900	53,108
1910	68,330
1925	70,319

District administrators

• 1867–1869: Paul of Jordan
• 1869–1879: Friedrich Raht
• 1879–1894: Guido von Matuschka-Greiffenclau
• 1903–1907: Günther von Hertzberg
• 1907–1918: Friedrich von Heimburg
• 1918–1928: Karl Josef Schlitt

Communities

Initially 27 and 1928 still 24 communities belonged to the district of Wiesbaden:

Auringen Biebrich , from 1891 city, 1926 to Wiesbaden Beer City Breckenheim Delkenheim Diedenbergen Dotzheim Eddersheim Erbenheim Flörsheim am Main Frauenstein Georgenborn Hessloch Hochheim am Main , city

Igstadt Kloppenheim Massenheim Medenbach Naurod North city Rambach Schierstein , 1926 in Wiesbaden Sonnenberg , 1926 in Wiesbaden Wallau Weilbach Wicker Wild Saxons

Web links

• District of Wiesbaden on GenWiki
• District of Wiesbaden administrative history and district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b Register of} municipalities in Germany 1900: District of Wiesbaden
2. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Wiesbaden. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ District order for the province of Hessen-Nassau 1886 (digitized version)