Oberwesterwaldkreis

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E
Basic data (as of 1974)
Existing period:	1867-1974
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region :	Koblenz
Administrative headquarters :	Westerburg
Area :	568.77 km 2
Residents:	79,085 (Jun 30, 1972)
Population density :	139 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WEB
Circle key :	07 1 39
Circle structure:	115 parishes

In blue the Oberwesterwaldkreis from 1886 to 1932 within today's Westerwaldkreis

In blue the Oberwesterwaldkreis from 1932 to 1974 within today's Westerwaldkreis

The Oberwesterwaldkreis was a district in Rhineland-Palatinate until 1974 . Its county seat was Westerburg .

geography

Beginning in 1969, the district bordered clockwise in the northwest with the district Altenkirchen (Westerwald) (in Rhineland-Palatinate), the district Siegen (in North Rhine-Westphalia ), the Dillkreis , the Oberlahnkreis and the district Limburg (all in Hesse ) as well as the Unterwesterwaldkreis and the Neuwied district (both in turn in Rhineland-Palatinate).

history

The Oberwesterwaldkreis was established in 1867 after the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia as a result of the German War . The province of Hessen-Nassau was divided into the two administrative districts of Kassel for the Electorate of Hesse and Wiesbaden for the Duchy of Nassau. The administrative districts were again divided into districts . The Oberwesterwaldkreis had its seat in Bad Marienberg until 1932 . In 1886 the former Nassau office of Rennerod left the Oberwesterwaldkreis and became part of the new Westerburg district .

During the Prussian territorial reform of October 1, 1932, the three existing Westerwald districts were merged into two districts. The northern part of the dissolved Westerburg district was merged with the Oberwesterwaldkreis to form a new district, which was initially temporarily called the Westerburg district and, from 1933, the Oberwesterwaldkreis . Westerburg became a district town.

In 1944 the province of Hessen-Nassau was split up, with the Oberwesterwaldkreis being incorporated into the province of Nassau . After the Second World War , the district became part of the French occupation zone . This was later divided into several countries , whereby the Oberwesterwaldkreis came to Rhineland-Palatinate . The responsible administrative district was Montabaur until 1968 and then the administrative district Koblenz .

The regional reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate , which began in 1969, reduced the number of municipalities in the district from originally 151 to 115. On November 7, 1970, the municipality of Berod near Hachenburg moved from the Oberwesterwaldkreis to the Altenkirchen district. At the same time, the municipality of Duringia moved from the Oberwesterwaldkreis to the Unterwesterwaldkreis and was incorporated into Wölferlingen . On January 29, 1971, the communities of Niedersayn and Sainerholz also moved to the Unterwesterwaldkreis.

The Oberwesterwaldkreis merged with the Unterwesterwaldkreis on March 16, 1974 to form the Westerwald district . This was already renamed the Westerwaldkreis on August 1, 1974 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1871	34,906
1900	24,380
1910	27,343
1925	31,457
1939	56,969
1950	62,417
1960	64,900
1970	77,300
1972	79,085

Personalities

District administrators

• 1867-1884 Theodor Wißmann00
• 1884–1888 Eduard zur Nedden00
• 1888–1896 Friedrich Schlosser00
• 1896–1905 Robert Büchting00
• 1905–1908 Arthur von Lucke00
• 1908–1918 Heinrich Thon00
• 1918–1928 Werner Ulrici00
• December 1928 to March 1929 00Theodor
• March 1929 to May 16, 1931 Wilhelm von Nathusius00
• February 16, 1931 to 1932 Ernst Beckmann00
• 1932 to September 8, 1933 Hermann Schüling00
• September 8, 1933 to June 26, 1940 Karl Lorch00
• September 1941 to 1945 Hans Hauer00
• 1945–1956 00Franz Schneider
• 1956–1974 00Heinrich Lingens

Representative of the district in the Nassau municipal parliament

From 1866 until the administrative reform of 1885/86, two representatives of the district were represented in the Nassau municipal parliament. Direct voting was then introduced. The members elected by the district council were:

• Heinrich Bierbrauer (1868–1879)
• August Grimm (1868-1885)
• Friedrich Bayer (1873)
• Ferdinand Weber (1880)
• Wilhelm Baldus (1881–1886 (then directly elected until 1888))
• Matthias Schürg (1885)

Communities

The district last comprised three cities and 112 local parishes:

Ailertchen Alpenrod Arnshöfen Aster Atzel poison Bad Marienberg , city Bellingen Berod near Wallmerod Berzhahn Bilkheim Boelsberg Borod Brandscheid Board houses Dreifelden Dreisbach Elbingen-Moravia Elsoff Enspel Ettinghausen Ewighausen Fehl-Ritzhausen Gehlert Gemünden Giesenhausen Girkenroth Large soaps Peep home Hachenburg , city

Härtlingen Hahn near Marienberg Hahn at Wallmerod Half Hardt Hatters Heimborn Hellenhahn-Schellenberg Hergenroth Herschbach (Oberwesterwald) Hay concert Höchstenbach Heck court Homberg Hüblingen Irmtraut Kaden Kirburg Koelbingen Kroppach Cow farms Kundert Langenbach near Kirburg Langenhahn Lautzenbrücken Love divorce Limbach Linden trees

Lochum Luckenbach Marzhausen Merkelbach Meudt Mörlen Mörsbach Molsberg Mudenbach Mündersbach Müschenbach Neunkhausen Neunkirchen Neustadt / Westerwald Niederahr Niederroßbach Nest Nister-Möhrendorf Nisterau Nesting valley Norken Oberahr Oberrod Oberroßbach Pottum deer Rennerod Rossbach Rotenhain

Rothenbach salt Salzburg Seck Stahlhofen Steinebach on the Wied Stein-Neukirch Stein-Wingert Stockhausen-Illfurth Stockum puffs Arguing houses Imprecise Voting rod Waigandshain Forest mills Wallmerod Willow cock Welkenbach Weltersburg Westerburg , city Western ear Wied Willingen Willmenrod Winkelbach Win Zehnhausen near Rennerod Zehnhausen near Wallmerod

In 1969 and 1971 the following municipalities lost their independence:

Old town , on June 7, 1969 in Hachenburg Bach , on June 7, 1969 in Nisterau Büdingen , on June 7, 1969 in Nistertal Dahlen , to Meudt on June 7, 1969 Düringen , on November 7, 1970 in Wölferlingen Ehringhausen , to Meudt on January 1, 1969 Eichenstruth , on June 7, 1969 in Bad Marienberg Eisen , to Meudt on June 7, 1969 Elbingen , on June 7, 1969 in Elbingen-Moravia Emmerichenhain , on June 7, 1969 in Rennerod Erbach , on June 7, 1969 in Nistertal Gershasen , on June 7, 1969 in Westerburg Hinterkirchen , on June 7, 1969 at Langenhahn Hintermühlen , to Langenhahn on April 1, 1969 Höhn-Urdorf , on April 1, 1969 in Höhn Hölzenhausen , on June 7, 1969 at Langenhahn Korb , on June 7, 1969 in Unnau Langenbach , on June 7, 1969 in Bad Marienberg Löhnfeld , on June 7, 1969 to Liebenscheid Moravia , on June 7th, 1969 in Elbingen-Moravia Mittelhattert , to Hattert on June 7, 1969

Mittelhofen , to Elsoff on June 7, 1969 Neuhochstein , on April 1, 1969 in Höhn Niederhattert , to Hattert on June 7, 1969 Niedermörsbach , on June 7, 1969 in Mörsbach Oberhattert , to Hattert on June 7th, 1969 Obermörsbach , on June 7, 1969 in Mörsbach Obersayn , on May 1, 1969 in Rothenbach Oellingen , on April 1, 1969 to Höhn Pfuhl , on June 7, 1969 in Nisterau Püschen , on June 7, 1969 to Stockum-Püschen Sainerholz , on March 20, 1971 in Ötzingen Sainscheid , on June 7, 1969 in Westerburg Schmidthahn , on June 7, 1969 in Steinebach Schönberg , on April 1, 1969 at Höhn Rod rod , on June 7, 1969 in Unnau Stockum , on June 7, 1969 to Stockum-Püschen Todtenberg , on June 7, 1969 in Rotenhain Weissenberg , on June 7, 1969 to Liebenscheid Wengenroth , on June 7, 1969 in Westerburg Zinhain , on June 7, 1969 in Bad Marienberg

The municipality of Rotenhain was called Rotzenhahn until 1937 and the municipality of Neuhochstein was called Kackenberg until 1927 .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive symbol WEB when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is derived from the former district town of Westerburg and was issued until March 15, 1974.

Web links

• Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Oberwesterwaldkreis district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
• Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945: Oberwesterwaldkreis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of rural districts of August 1, 1932, § 90
2. ↑ ^{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. oberwesterwald.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ 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 (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.  
4. ↑ 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. 159 (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.  
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. 167 (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. 426 ff .
7. ^ The communities and manor districts of the province of Hessen-Nassau and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape X , 1873, ZDB -ID 1467505-5 ( digital copy ).
8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Rolf Jehke's private website: Territorial changes in Germany and German administrative areas - Oberwesterwaldkreis , accessed on February 8, 2016.
10. ↑ History of the "Old Landratsvilla". Hotel Bender, Westerburg, 2011, accessed on March 31, 2020 .