District of Worbis

This article deals with the district of Worbis from 1816 to 1945. For the successor districts of the same name, see the district of Worbis (1945–1952) and the district of Worbis .

The district of Worbis around 1900 in eastern Eichsfeld

The district of Worbis was a district that existed in Prussia from 1816 to 1945. In 1939 it included the city of Worbis and another 48 communities.

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the new became the 1 April 1816 Circle Untereichsfeld in the administrative district of Erfurt in the province Saxony furnished. Its name was later changed to Worbis district . The district office first moved from Großbodungen to Haynrode , then finally to remain in Worbis.

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Worbis district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1932, the rural community Epschenrode - an area exclusion - was reclassified from the district of Worbis to the district of Grafschaft Hohenstein . On January 1, 1939, the district of Worbis was given the name Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation . After the dissolution of the Province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district continued to belong to the State of Prussia, but was now subordinate to the administration of the Reich Governor for Thuringia in Weimar - in alignment with the Reich Defense Districts . In April 1945, the district was initially occupied by the American forces. The Soviet occupation forces followed on July 6, 1945. On August 8, 1945, the district was merged with the district of Heiligenstadt to form the district of Eichsfeld , based in Heiligenstadt.

Local constitution

The district of Worbis was divided into a city, into rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

In addition to the city of Worbis, the administration for the district of Worbis was divided into the following administrative districts or local police districts:

Beuren Bockelnhagen Bodenstein Latitude

Gernrode Gerode Gerterode Large floors

Haynrode Leinefelde Reifenstein Rudigershagen

Teistungenburg Baffles

Local courts existed in Worbis and Großbodungen.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	29,337
1843	41,190
1871	39,883
1890	41,375
1900	40.204
1910	44,775
1925	48,120
1933	48.276
1939	46,978

District administrators

• 1828 0000000Reiche (to Großbodungen)
• 1834–1845 00Karl von Bültzingslöwen
• 1845–1848 00Carl Hugo von Hagen
• 1848–1888 Albrecht Bernhard Frantz00
• 1888–1912 00Gustav Wilhelm Benno Frantz
• 1912–1936 Burghard Bock von Wülfingen00
• 1936–1945 00Lothar von Perfall

cities and communes

As of 1939

In 1939, the district of Worbis comprised a town and another 48 communities:

Berlingerode Bernterode Beuren Effects Bischofferode Bockelnhagen Soil clearing Böseckendorf Brehme Breitenbach Width wood Latitude Deuna

Ecklingerode Ferna Gernrode Gerterode Large floors Hauroden Hausen Haynrode Holungen Dog hare Hüpstedt Jützenbach Kallmerode

Kaltohmfeld Kirchohmfeld Kirchworbis Kleinbartloff Kraja Leinefelde Neuendorf Neustadt Lower Orschel Rudigershagen Silkerode Steinbach Keyings

Performance Vollenborn Wallrode Baffles Weißenborn-Lüderode Wingerode Wintzingerode Worbis , city Clearing fences ferrule

Communities dissolved or left before 1939

• Epschenrode , in 1932 to the County of Hohenstein
• Weißenborn and Lüderode , merged to Weißenborn-Lüderode in 1928

literature

• Friedrich Polack: The district of Worbis in the hundred years of Prussian rule from 1802 to 1902. Verlag Müller Worbis 1902
• Walter Rassow: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Worbis district. Heiligenstadt 1994, 320 pages, numerous black-and-white images, 1 map, ISBN 3-929413-15-9

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Worbis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Worbis district on the website of www.territorial.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Second ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from August 8, 1945
2. ^ Municipal directory on the website territorial.de
3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Erfurt, p. 357 ( digitized version [accessed January 5, 2017]).
4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 320 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
5. ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized [accessed July 5, 2016]).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Worbis district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: for the year 1928. Published by Decker's Secret Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei Berlin, page 342