District of Zweibrücken

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District of Zweibrücken
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1818-1972
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region : Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Zweibrücken
Area : 247.81 km 2
Residents: 32,200 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 130 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : ZW
Circle key : 07 3 41
Circle structure: 35 municipalities

The district of Zweibrücken was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

At the beginning of 1969 the district bordered in a clockwise direction in the west, starting with the district of Homburg (in Saarland ) and the independent city of Zweibrücken , the districts of Kusel , Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens and the independent city of Pirmasens . To the south it bordered the French arrondissement of Sarreguemines in the Moselle department .

history

District Commissioner Zweibrücken

In 1818, after the territorial changes of the Congress of Vienna, the Land Commissioner Zweibrücken was formed. It belonged to the Palatinate (Bavaria) .

District Office Zweibrücken

In 1862 the District Office of Zweibrücken was formed from the Land Commissioner . In 1902 the districts of St. Ingbert and Blieskastel were separated and the district office of Sankt Ingbert was formed from them.

On March 1, 1920, the city of Zweibrücken left the district office and became a city ​​directly within the district .

On July 1, 1920, the District Office was redefined as a result of the Versailles Treaty and the separation of the Saar area from the German Reich:

On April 1, 1938, the community Bruchhof-Sanddorf left the district of Zweibrücken and was incorporated into the Saarland city of Homburg .

In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district .

District of Zweibrücken

After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

On April 23, 1949, the Kirrberg community was reclassified from the Zweibrücken district to the Homburg district.

As part of the regional reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate , the municipalities of Höhmühlbach and Wallhalben moved from the Pirmasens district to the Zweibrücken district on June 7, 1969. On April 22, 1972 the district of Zweibrücken was dissolved:

The district office building stood on the Landauer Strasse - Bleicherstrasse traffic triangle until it was destroyed in the war in 1945. Later the district office was in almost the same place, but moved to the side of the street, at Landauer Straße 18-20. The former district administration building has since served as the seat of the Zweibrücken-Land association.

Population development

year Residents source
1864 56,116
1885 65,149
1900 78,410
1910 47,519
1925 35,741
1939 27.092
1950 26,582
1960 29,400
1971 32,300

District administrators

The last district administrator in the district was Richard Kling from June 1948 to spring 1972 .

cities and communes

At the time of its dissolution, the district of Zweibrücken belonged to a city and 34 other municipalities:

The following municipalities lost their independence before 1972:

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign ZW when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is issued in the independent city of Zweibrücken to this day. Since February 2, 2015, it has also been approved for citizens in the Südwestpfalz district.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 600 .
  2. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  3. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  4. ↑ Incorporation of the Kirrberg community into Saarland, p. 377 (PDF; 132 kB)
  5. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 166 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  6. ^ 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. 442 .
  7. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. zweibruecken.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973