Area changes in North Rhine-Westphalia

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The overview of the area changes in North Rhine-Westphalia contains in the subsequent lists all administrative area changes that were mainly carried out between 1966 and 1976. The area of ​​the area changes recorded in the lists corresponds to the respective extent of North Rhine-Westphalia at the time of the area change.

Changes

Circles

Until September 30, 1969, the official name for this administrative unit was rural district .

date (Land) districts
change
(Land) counties
number
July 1, 1965 57
1st August 1969 - 1 56
January 1, 1972 - 4th 52
1st January 1973 - 4th 48
1st January 1975 - 17th 31

The number of districts has not changed after the completion of the regional reform.

One district cities

date independent cities
change

number of independent cities
July 1, 1965 38
July 1, 1966 - 1 37
1st January 1969 - 2nd 35
January 1, 1970 - 1 34
1st January 1975 - 11 23
6th December 1975 + 1 24
July 1, 1976 - 1 23

The number of independent cities has not changed after the completion of the regional reform. However, with its incorporation into the city ​​region of the same name , the city of Aachen is no longer fully independent.

Offices

On April 1, 1967, there were 290 offices in North Rhine-Westphalia. When the first reorganization program was completed, there were 149 on January 1, 1970. After the reforms were completed, on January 1, 1975, there were no more offices. North Rhine-Westphalia also does not know administrative communities with other names.

Communities

The number of communities in North Rhine-Westphalia was on the following dates:

date number
June 30, 1965 2362
June 30, 1966 2355
June 30, 1967 2334
June 30, 1968 2277
June 30, 1969 2049
June 30, 1970 1276
June 30, 1971 1277
June 30, 1972 1139
June 30, 1973 0984
June 30, 1974 0984
June 30, 1975 0393
June 30, 1976 0395
June 30, 1977 0396

On April 1, 1967, there were still 1,842 official parishes in North Rhine-Westphalia. When the first reorganization program was completed on January 1, 1970, there were still 864. After the reforms were completed, on January 1, 1975, there were no more municipalities belonging to the government.

On April 1, 1967, there were 455 municipalities in the North Rhine-Westphalian districts. At the end of the first reorganization program there were 378 on January 1, 1970. After the reforms were completed, on June 30, 1977 (reference date), all 373 municipalities belonging to the district were vacant.

The number of municipalities has not changed after the completion of the regional reform.

list

This list takes into account the dates of changes in districts and municipalities during the first and second reorganization programs.

date Activities)
01/01/1966 Formation of the new Bergkamen community , Unna district
07/01/1966 First reorganization of the district of Siegen , encircling the city of Siegen
01/01/1967 Formation of the new community Methler , Unna district
01/01/1968 Reorganization of the district of Unna and formation of the new town of Sendenhorst , district of Beckum
07/01/1968 Formation of the new towns Heimbach , Schleiden district , and Telgte , Münster district
08/01/1968 Formation of the new Rhede municipality , Borken district
01/01/1969 Second reorganization of the district of Siegen , reorganization of the districts of Altena , Herford and Lemgo ,
encirclement of the cities of Herford and Lüdenscheid ,
renaming of the district of Altena to the district of Lüdenscheid ,
formation of the new communities Freckenhorst , Nörvenich and Oberbruch-Dremmen
07/01/1969 Focus: restructuring of the districts of Euskirchen , Geldern , Kleve , Oberberg , Olpe and Soest
08/01/1969 Restructuring of the Bonn area
01/01/1970 Focus: reorganization of the Detmold , Ennepe-Ruhr , Höxter , Kempen-Krefeld and Wiedenbrück districts ,
encircling the city of Viersen
December 18, 1970 Cancellation of the reorganization measure forest farmer
01/01/1972 Restructuring of the Aachen area
08/04/1972 Cancellation of the Heimbach / Nideggen restructuring measure
01/01/1973 Restructuring of the Bielefeld area
01/01/1975 Restructuring of the Ruhr area , Lower Rhine , Münster / Hamm , Düsseldorf , Cologne and Sauerland / Paderborn areas
December 06, 1975 Cancellation of the Bottrop restructuring measure
07/01/1976 Reorganization corrections in the cities of Bottrop , Monheim and Wesseling

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