Administrative district of Aachen

Government building at the city theater

The administrative district of Aachen was a central authority of the Prussian Rhine province . It was built in 1816 and continued to function as the government agency of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia after the Second World War . The administrative district of Aachen was dissolved on August 1, 1972 and almost completely added to the administrative district of Cologne .

history

The administrative district of Aachen was established on January 10, 1816 in the course of the Prussian reforms due to the "Ordinance due to improved establishment of the provincial authorities" of April 30, 1815 in the northern province of Jülich-Cleve-Berg . After the Second Peace of Paris , which resulted in a reorganization of the Rhine provinces, he was assigned to the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine in the same month . The government in Aachen began its work on April 22, 1816.

With a royal decree of February 24, 1822, the administrative district of Aachen became one of five administrative districts of the Rhine province with the provincial capital Cologne.

Aachen, which had initially been added to the Cologne administrative district, played an important role in the negotiations on administrative reform in Prussia. For example, in 1842 it sent a petition to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , which concerned the right to elect mayors and city councilors.

In 1820 the administrative district of Aachen is described with an area of ​​74 square miles, on which 312,566 people live. It bordered in the north on the government district Cleve , in the east on the government districts Düsseldorf , Cöln and Coblenz , in the south on the government district Trier and in the west on the Kingdom of the Netherlands .

The topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Aachen from 1820 contains the following list:

circle	Area in square miles	Public and private buildings	Total population	including Catholics	Protestants	Jews
City district of Aachen	0.12	2,896	32,015	31,287	614	114
District of Aachen	5.09	8,760	44,879	43,126	1,638	115
District of Düren	9.39	10,931	38,347	37,371	587	389
Erkelenz district	5.76	6.339	29,917	28,316	1,523	78
Eupen district	3.38	2,791	17,292	16,950	342	-
District of Geilenkirchen	3.38	5,310	21,140	20,526	485	129
Gemünd district	15.03	8,143	29,424	27,939	1,345	140
District of Heinsberg	4.54	5,618	28,274	27,434	638	202
Jülich district	5.56	8,276	30,526	29,297	737	492
Malmedy district	14.89	2,672	13,158	13,155	3	-
Montjoie County	6.79	2,957	17,312	16,147	1,165	-
St. Vith district	-	2,446	10,282	10,261	21st	-
to hum	73.93	67,139	312,566	301,809	9,098	1,659

The Blankenheim district established in 1816 was dissolved again in 1818 and merged with the Gemünd district. In 1821 the St. Vith district became part of the Malmedy district. In 1829 the Gemünd district was renamed Schleiden District . In 1920 the districts of Malmedy and Eupen fell under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty to Belgium. In 1932 the district of Geilenkirchen merged with the district of Heinsberg and was called "Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg" since 1949. There were also numerous restructurings within the districts.

During the territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Aachen administrative district was dissolved with effect from August 1, 1972 by the Aachen Act and its territory (except for a small part of the Heinsberg district) was assigned to the Cologne administrative district. The communities of the Schleiden district, which were incorporated into the Euskirchen district, came to the administrative district of Cologne on January 1, 1972.

The following overview is taken from the publication Population and Employment 1850–1970, historical statistics from 1999.

circle	Key no. (until 1972)	Area in km²	Resident on May 27, 1970 (VZ)	Number of municipalities on June 6, 1961 (FZ)
Independent city of Aachen	05 4 11	58.72	173.475	1
District of Aachen	05 4 31	337.14	275,425	19th
District of Düren	05 4 32	542.16	159,313	83
Erkelenz district	05 4 33	321.14	96,659	22nd
Jülich district	05 4 34	326.96	77,060	46
Monschau district	05 4 35	290.32	32,136	19th
Schleiden district	05 4 36	822.56	64,718	71
Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg	05 4 37	398.96	137.604	41
Administrative district	05 4 00	3,097.97	1,016,390	302

The cross-border cooperation Euregio Meuse-Rhine , formed from 1976 on, includes the entire area of ​​the former administrative district of Aachen. Since 1981, the parts of the former government district in the Aachen region that are now part of Germany have been coordinating within the Euregio .

As of autumn 2009, the independent city of Aachen and the cities and communities of the previous district of Aachen will be part of the new city ​​region of Aachen .

The regional presidents

• 1816–1834: August von Reiman
• 1834–1837: Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
• 1837–1844: Christoph von Cuny
• 1844–1848: Busso von Wedell
• 1848–1866: Friedrich von Kühlwetter
• 1866–1872: Moritz von Bardeleben
• 1872–1878: Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger
• 1878–1892: Otto von Hoffmann
• 1892–1907: Julian von Hartmann
• 1907–1917: Max von Sandt
• 1917–1922: Adolf von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels
• 1922–1928: Wilhelm Rombach
• 1928–1933: Georg Stieler
• 1933–1936: Eggert Reeder
• 1936–1945: Franz Vogelsang
• 1945–1950: Ludwig Philipp Lude
• 1950–1955: Heinrich Brand
• 1955–1967: Hubert Schmitt-Degenhardt
• 1968–1972: Josef Effertz

See also

• List of mayor's offices in the administrative district of Aachen

literature

• Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Aachen . JA Mayer, Aachen 1820
• Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach : The administrative district of Aachen. A guide for teachers, travelers and friends of local history . Heinrich Benrath, Aachen 1850 ( digitized version )
• Joseph Hansen : The Rhine Province 1815–1915 . Two volumes, Bonn 1917
• District President in Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of government and administrative district of Aachen. Contributions to their history . Philipp CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1967

Web links

• Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Prussian province of Rhineland. Administrative structure of the Rhine Province. Administrative district of Aachen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
• Marie Luise Carl: On the history of the administrative district of Aachen

References and comments

1. ^ Karl-Wilhelm Nellessen: Environmental protection as a communal task: Nature conservation and landscape management in the Aachen district , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, p. 107 ( excerpt from Google Books )
2. ^ Ordinance due to improved arrangements of the provincial authorities of April 30, 1815
3. ↑ 150 years of government and administrative district Aachen. Contributions to their history . Aachen 1967
4. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the administrative district of Aachen . Aachen 1820
5. ^ 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. 341 .
6. ^ Population and employment - a historical statistic for the independent cities and districts and their predecessors in the area of ​​North Rhine-Westphalia. State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on October 5, 2012 . 
7. ↑ History of the Aachen region ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.