Detmold administrative district
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| Administrative headquarters : | Detmold |
| Surface: | 6,525.29 km² |
| Residents: | 2,055,724 (December 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 315 inhabitants per km² |
| District structure: | 69 municipalities in 6 districts and 1 urban district |
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| District President : | Judith Pirscher ( FDP ) |
| Address of the regional council: | Leopoldstrasse 15 32756 Detmold |
| Website: | www.brdt.nrw.de |
| Location of the Detmold administrative district in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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The administrative district of Detmold is one of five administrative districts in North Rhine-Westphalia . Spatially, it corresponds to the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region . Government districts assume a middle position in the administrative hierarchy and thus stand as a middle instance (state funds authority) between the ministerial level and the lower state authorities as well as the municipalities . The administrative district was formed after Lippe joined the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in January 1947 and was initially briefly called the administrative district of Minden-Lippe .
In comparison with the GDP per capita in the EU expressed in purchasing power parity , the Detmold administrative district achieved an index of 118 (EU-28 = 100) (2015).
location
The administrative district of Detmold is located in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia and thus at the transition area between the German low mountain range and the North German lowlands. With 6,500 km², the administrative district covers around a fifth of the area of North Rhine-Westphalia. The administrative district borders in the north and east on the federal state Lower Saxony , in the south on the federal state Hesse ( administrative district Kassel ) and in the west on the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative districts Arnsberg and Münster .
administration
Circle structure
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The administrative district consists of six districts with a total of 69 municipalities belonging to the district and one urban district :
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District President
The current district president has been Judith Pirscher , FDP , since December 2, 2019 .
Seat
The district government of Detmold has its seat in Detmold . Further office buildings are located in Bielefeld and Minden .
history
Formation of the district
The administrative district of Detmold has two main historical roots:
- The East Westphalian part (almost 80% of the district area) goes on the earlier to the Prussian province of Westphalia belonging Regierungsbezirk Minden back. This went up in 1946 with the entire former province together with the northern Rhineland in the newly founded state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- The area, which today roughly encompasses the Lippe district, formed the state of Lippe until 1947 - like Prussia, a separate German federal state - and today it forms the third part of North Rhine-Westphalia. The country was a principality until 1918 , then a free state and therefore has a different historical-political tradition than East Westphalia .
In the course of the merger of North Rhine-Westphalia with Lippe on January 21, 1947, the amalgamation of the previous areas of the administrative district of Minden with the area of the state of Lippe and the relocation of the seat of government from Minden to Detmold were agreed in the Lippe punctuation and took place on April 1. On June 2, 1947, the initially existing district name "Minden-Lippe" was changed to "Detmold".
A major reason was that there was a possibility that Lippe would integrate into the state of Lower Saxony and the administrative district seat was an offer from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to change Lippe's mind.
The municipalities of the administrative district belong to the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe with administrative headquarters in Münster. In the Lippe part of the country, due to the Lippe punctuation, the Landesverband Lippe exists as a municipal association that also administers the assets of the former state of Lippe.
Administrative structure 1947–1968 / 74
The district division in the former administrative district of Minden goes back to the year 1816 with various changes, in Lippe to the 1930s. When the administrative district of Detmold was formed, the area comprised two urban districts, the establishment of which dates back to 1878 (Bielefeld) and 1911 (Herford), accordingly two districts and ten other districts, to which the name "district" was extended in 1953:
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From April 1, 1947 to September 30, 1949, the two former Lippe exclaves Cappel and Lipperode were still part of the Detmold district and were thus part of the administrative district, but were reclassified to the Lippstadt district on October 1, 1949 .
Territorial reform 1969–1975
The regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia led to the number of districts being halved in the Detmold district by amalgamating two districts, with some communities being incorporated into other districts. In the course of the reform there were also area exchanges and border corrections with the administrative districts of Arnsberg and Münster as well as the state of Lower Saxony . A concomitant phenomenon was the replacement of the designation district by district on October 1, 1969 . The reform in the administrative district essentially took place in three steps:
- 1969: Law to reorganize the district of Herford and the independent city of Herford
- The previously independent city of Herford will be incorporated into the Herford district.
- 1973: Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Bielefeld ( Bielefeld Law ):
- Most of the Bielefeld district is incorporated into the independent city of Bielefeld.
- The districts of Detmold and Lemgo merge to form the new district of Lippe.
- The districts of Halle (Westphalia) and Wiedenbrück unite to form the new district of Gütersloh.
- The districts of Lübbecke and Minden merge to form the new district of Minden-Lübbecke.
- 1975: Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the Sauerland / Paderborn area ( Sauerland / Paderborn law ):
- The Büren and Paderborn districts merge to form the new Paderborn district.
- The districts of Höxter and Warburg merge to form the new district of Höxter.
This was the valid until today, o. A. Administrative borders reached. For the sake of clarity, the processes are not shown in detail; see the links to the individual circles and laws.
In addition to the reorganization of the districts, the administrative structure at the municipal level was also restructured during this period. The twelve (rural) districts were divided into 648 districts until 1968. Their number was reduced to 69 by 1975 through amalgamations and incorporations. The offices (administrative communities of the municipalities) that existed before the reform were completely eliminated.
Development of the external borders
The external borders of the Detmold administrative district have changed several times since it was founded on April 1, 1947, due to reclassifications of communities or parts of communities - mainly as part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform from 1968 to 1975 - as well as border corrections.
As of October 1, 1949, the former Lippian exclaves Cappel and Lipperode (Detmold district ) were reclassified into the Lippstadt district (Arnsberg district) (area waste: 1.90 and 5.77 km²). Between 1953 and 1956 there were three minor border changes: on October 1, 1953 between the municipality of Nordrheda-Ems (district of Wiedenbrück) and the parish of Oelde ( district of Beckum , administrative district of Münster) (exchange: 6.38 for 7.36 ha) , on October 1, 1954 between the communities of Dackmar ( Warendorf district, Münster district) and Peckeloh (Halle (Westphalia) district) (exchange: 2.73 against 2.16 ha) and on April 1, 1956 between the communities of Steinhausen ( Büren district) and Geseke (Lippstadt district, Arnsberg district) (exchange: 14.3 versus 15.6 ha).
On January 1, 1970, the municipality of Lette and part of the municipality of Clarholz (district of Wiedenbrück) were incorporated into the city of Oelde (district of Beckum, administrative district of Münster) (area loss: 14.50 km²); In return, the Benteler community (Beckum district) was incorporated into the newly formed Langenberg community (Wiedenbrück district) and part of the Oelde parish was incorporated into the newly formed Herzebrock community (area access: 16.89 km²). On October 1, 1971, the common border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia was corrected; Affected in the administrative district were the municipality of Frille (district of Minden-Lübbecke), the districts of Silixen and Rott of the municipality of Extertal (district of Lemgo), the village of Sabbenhausen of the city of Lügde (district of Detmold), the localities of Stahle and Lüchtringen of the city of Höxter and the village of Würgassen the city of Beverungen (Höxter district).
On January 1, 1973, the town of Harsewinkel and the communities of Greffen and Marienfeld ( Warendorf district ) were merged to form the newly formed town of Harsewinkel on the basis of the Bielefeld Act and incorporated into the newly formed Gütersloh district (area access: 100.04 km²). On January 1, 1975, there were several reclassifications based on the Sauerland / Paderborn Law and the Münster / Hamm Law : The communities of Essentho , Oesdorf , Westheim and parts of the communities Dalheim , Fürstenberg and Meerhof (Büren district) were newly formed City of Marsberg ( Hochsauerlandkreis ) incorporated (area disposal: 53.59 km²) and the communities Garfeln , Hörste , Rebbeke (district of Büren) as well as smaller areas of the communities of Langenberg and Rietberg (district of Gütersloh) were incorporated into the city of Lippstadt ( district of Soest ) (area disposal : 23.21 km² and 0.52 km²).
District President
- 1947–1952: Heinrich Drake , SPD
- 1952–1964: Gustav Galle , CDU
- 1964–1978: Ernst Graumann , independent
- 1978–1979: Interim President: Vice President Hanns Winter , independent
- 1979–1995: Walter Stich , CDU
- 1995–2001: Christa Vennegerts , Alliance 90 / The Greens
- 2001–2005: Andreas Wiebe , Alliance 90 / The Greens
- 2005–2019: Marianne Thomann-Stahl , FDP
- 2019–: Judith Pirscher , FDP
Population development
The following overview shows the population of the Detmold administrative district according to the respective territorial status. The figures are census results up to 1970 and 1987 and from 1975 official updates by the State Statistical Office . The figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 are estimated values, the figures from 1987 onwards based on the results of the 1987 census. The figures relate to the resident population from 1946 and to the population at the place of the main residence from 1985 .
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| Bielefeld | 333.786 | |||
| Paderborn | 150,580 | |||
| Gutersloh | 100.194 | |||
| Minden | 81,682 | |||
| Detmold | 74,388 | |||
| Herford | 66,608 | |||
| Bad Salzuflen | 54,127 | |||
| Bad Oeynhausen | 48,702 | |||
| Rheda-Wiedenbrück | 48.505 | |||
| Frets | 45,521 | |||
| Lemgo | 40,696 | |||
| Wages | 39,697 | |||
| Porta Westfalica | 35,671 | |||
| location | 35,047 | |||
| Delbruck | 31,949 | |||
| Rietberg | 30,986 | |||
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Regional council
The regional council is formed after each local election based on the local election results (city council or local council election) of the districts of the districts of Gütersloh, Herford, Höxter, Lippe, Minden-Lübbecke and Paderborn as well as the independent city of Bielefeld.
Currently there is the following distribution of seats in the regional council by parliamentary group (as of September 2014):
| CDU | SPD | GREEN | Non-attached | total |
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| 8th | 7th | 2 | 3 | 20th |
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FW 1 DIE LINKE 1 FDP 1 |
literature
- Ernst Siemer: 175 years old - district government in East Westphalia 1816–1991. A documentation . Published by the District President in Detmold, Detmold 1991, ISBN 3-926505-04-4 .
- Ernst Siemer (arr.): Collapse and new order, from Minden to Detmold . A documentation. Detmold 1987
- Erich Sandow: From the history of the Detmold government . In: Government of Detmold. Past and present (Festschrift for the inauguration of the new government building on July 7, 1961) Detmold, 1961; Special issue 50a, of the Official Gazette for the Detmold administrative district of December 15, 1961
- L. Bliesternig: The administrative district of Minden. Local studies for school and home . Minden 1880
- Karl Kneebusch : Guide through the administrative district of Minden . Dortmund [1890]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Ernst Siemer: 175 years old. District government in East Westphalia, 1816–1991. Detmold 1991, p. 229
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ' N , 8 ° 53' E