Administrative region of the Palatinate

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Administrative region of the Palatinate
Inventory period 1946-1968
Affiliation Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative headquarters Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Number of municipalities 625
surface 5,447.89 km²
Residents 1,305,377 (June 30, 1968)
Population density 240 inhabitants / km²

The administrative district of Palatinate was one of five administrative districts into which the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate was divided in 1946 . The others were the administrative districts of Rheinhessen (seat in Mainz ) and Montabaur, also newly established in 1946, as well as the administrative districts of Koblenz and Trier established by Prussia in 1816 .

Former administrative division

The administrative district Palatinate included the Palatinate region , which until 1946 belonged to Bavaria as the Rhine district and came under French occupation after the Second World War . The area became part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in August 1946 .

It was divided into the independent cities of Frankenthal (Pfalz) , Kaiserslautern , Landau in der Pfalz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Pirmasens , Speyer and Zweibrücken as well as the district of Bergzabern , the district of Frankenthal (Pfalz) , the district of Germersheim , the District of Kaiserslautern , the district of Kirchheimbolanden , the district of Kusel , the district of Landau in der Pfalz , the district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , the district of Südwestpfalz , the district of Rockenhausen , the district of Speyer and the district of Zweibrücken .

The administrative seat, which had been in Speyer since 1816 during the time of the Bavarian district of Palatinate and which had changed several times during the Second World War by merging with the Nazi authorities of the Westmark (Gau) , had been in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse since 1945 .

history

Administration building on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in Neustadt, from 1954 the seat of the administrative district

Until the end of the First World War , the district offices of Homburg and Sankt Ingbert also belonged to the Palatinate. However, these were assigned to the Saar area in 1919 and were therefore under a League of Nations mandate. They remained, since 1939 referred to as districts , even after the Second World War in Saarland and were united in 1974 as part of the Saarland district reform to form the Saar-Pfalz-Kreis (now Saarpfalz-Kreis) . In addition, through the "Ordinance No. 93 of the French High Command in Germany regarding the reorganization of the administration of the Rhine Palatinate and the Saar area" of June 6, 1947, further communities in the Ostertal east of Sankt Wendel were reclassified into the Saarland.

On October 1, 1968, the administrative district of Palatinate was combined with the administrative district of Rheinhessen to form the new administrative district of Rheinhessen-Pfalz with the administrative headquarters in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

In the Rhineland-Palatinate district reform , which was carried out between 1969 and 1974, the districts were merged into larger administrative units. For the administrative structure after the district reform see under administrative region Rheinhessen-Pfalz . The end of the remaining three administrative districts in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate came at the end of 1999.

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politics

When the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded after the Second World War, the Palatinate's right to self-government was enshrined in the state constitution under pressure from the French occupying power , which the people adopted on May 18, 1947. On November 22, 1949, the district ordinance came into force, which was based on the Bavarian district ordinance of 1927. In its version from 1949, the district order granted all five Rhineland-Palatinate government districts that existed at the time the opportunity to form district associations. This option was only drawn by the then administrative district of the Palatinate and implemented with the district association of the Palatinate . Thus, to this day in Rhineland-Palatinate, only the residents of the Palatinate vote their own district assembly (29 MPs), which takes place every five years together with the local elections (most recently in 2014 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance No. 93 of June 6, 1947
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 146 (PDF; 2.8 MB).