Wolfhagen district

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E
Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period:	1821-1972
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	kassel
Administrative headquarters :	Wolfhagen
Area :	414.98 km 2
Residents:	40,800 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WHERE
Circle key :	06 2 44
Circle structure:	7 municipalities

Historical map (1905)

The Wolfhagen district was a district in Hesse until 1972 . Most of its former area is now part of the Kassel district . The district seat was in Wolfhagen .

Neighboring areas

At the beginning of 1972, the district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Warburg district (in North Rhine-Westphalia ) and the Hofgeismar , Kassel , Fritzlar-Homberg and Waldeck districts (all in Hesse).

history

The Wolfhagen district was founded in 1821 in the Electorate of Hesse . After its annexation by Prussia as a result of the German War in 1866, it belonged to the Kassel administrative district of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . In 1896 the community of Großenhof moved from the Kassel district to the Wolfhagen district and became part of the Martinhagen community .

Since 1946 the district was part of the German state of Hesse .

On December 31, 1971, the municipality of Martinhagen left the district and was incorporated into the municipality of Hoof in the Kassel district.

As part of the Hessian district reform , most of the district was merged on August 1, 1972 with the neighboring districts of Kassel and Hofgeismar to form a new district of Kassel . The city of Volkmarsen became part of what was then the district of Waldeck .

Population development

district

year	Residents	source
1871	24,272
1890	23,958
1900	23,957
1910	24,659
1925	25,732
1939	27,084
1950	41,728
1960	36,600
1970	41,186
1971	40,800

Communities

Population development in municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants:

local community	1871	1939	1961	1970
Balhorn	953		1263	1332
Breuna	924	1052	1286	1424
Dörnberg	867	1095	1608	1874
Ehlen	665	1030	1397	1686
Merxhausen	434	1125
Naumburg	1432	1455	2259	2375
Oberelsungen	671			1072
sand	951	1373
Volkmarsen	2468	2702	3829	4202
Singing contests	753		1133	1217
Wolfhagen	2869	3481	5893	6747
Zierenberg	1601	1736	2545	3251

politics

District administrators

• 1821–1832 Carl Michael Heuser (as district administrator, later district administrator in Witzenhausen)
• 1832–1836 Christian Emil Plitt (until 1834 as district councilor, later district administrator in Ziegenhain)
• 1836–1849 Wilhelm Gideon Schwarzenberg (previously Land Receptor in Rinteln, then District Administrator for the Schaumburg district)
• 1849–1850 Georg Daube (first administrative officer)
• 1850–1851 Georg Sebastian Kremer (as first administrative officer)
• 1851–1864 Carl Wilhelm Bickell (previously District Secretary in Marburg and District Administrator in Witzenhausen)
• 1864–1865 Friedrich Bartolomäus (as district secretary and deputy district administrator)
• 1865–1868 Thomas Boch (previously district administrator in Gelnhausen, later in Witzenhausen)
• 1868 Friedrich Bartolomäus (as district secretary)
• 1868–1869 August Wagner (as provisional district administrator)
• 1869–1879 Christian Ludwig Weber (previously district administrator in Hanau, then in Fritzlar)
• 1879–1883 Theodor von Becherer (until 1880 as provisional district administrator, previously provisional chancellor at the German consulate in Moscow and bailiff in Montabaur and Vöhl)
• 1883–1919 Ludwig von Buttlar (until 1885 as provisional district administrator)
• 1919–1933 Adolf von Uslar (later provisional district administrator in Witzenhausen)
• 1933–1945 Fritz Elze (previously district president in Gumbinnen, then department head and head of the Gestapo in Kassel, later senior government councilor in Kassel)
• 1945–1948 Gustav Röhl (previously mayor in Niederelsungen, later chairman of the municipal council in Niederelsungen)
• 1948 Helmut vom Hof
• 1948–1949 Franz Rauscher (first district deputy, previously mayor of Wolfhagen)
• 1949 Heinrich Grebe (as first district deputy)
• 1949–1955 Hermann Rühmekorf (previously senior government councilor in Braunschweig and ministerial advisor in Berlin)
• 1955–1973 Alexander von Mielecki (previously a councilor in Kassel)

coat of arms

In November 1951, the Wolfhagen district was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

Communities

Status 1966

Until the first municipal mergers in 1967, the Wolfhagen district consisted of 36 municipalities, four of which had town charter:

Altendorf Senior citizens Altenstädt Balhorn Breuna Bründersen Burghasungen Dörnberg Ehlen

Ehringen Elves Elberberg Escheberg Heimarshausen Hohenborn Ippinghausen Istha Laar

Leckringhausen Martinhagen Merxhausen Naumburg , city Niederelsungen Niederlistingen Emergency fields Oberelsungen Oberlistingen

Oelshausen Vineyard sand Viesebeck Volkmarsen , city Few hashings Singing contests Wolfhagen , city Zierenberg , city

As of July 31, 1972

On January 1, 1967, the new municipality of Emstal was created through the merger of the municipalities of Merxhausen and Sand and the new municipality of Elbenberg through the merger of the municipalities of Elben and Elberberg. On December 31, 1971, the new community Habichtswald was created through the merger of the communities Dörnberg and Ehlen. After a series of other parish mergers, there were still seven parishes in the Wolfhagen district at the time of its dissolution on July 31, 1972:

• Breuna
• Emstal
• Habichtswald
• Naumburg , city
• Volkmarsen , city
• Wolfhagen , city
• Zierenberg , city

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign WOH when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It was issued until July 31, 1972. Since January 2, 2013, it has been available in the Kassel district due to license plate liberalization .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 434 .
3. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Hesse-Nassau province and their population in 1871
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. wolfhagen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
6. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
7. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Hesse-Nassau province and their population in 1871
8. ^ Eckhart G. Franz, Georg Rösch: The district administrators in 150 years in the Gelnhausen district: Thomas Boch. In: 150 Years of the Gelnhausen District - Heimat-Jahrbuch des Gelnhausen District - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart 1971. Gelnhausen 1970, p. 38
9. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the Wolfhagen district, Kassel district on November 15, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 49 , p. 739 , item 1164 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).