Remaining district of Merzig-Wadern
The remaining district of Merzig-Wadern (officially: "District of Merzig-Wadern (rest)") was that part of the district of Merzig that remained with the German Reich after the separation of the Saar area in 1920 due to the provisions of the Peace Treaty of Versailles . The separate “remaining district” remaining in the Trier administrative district of the Prussian Rhine Province had its seat in Wadern .
The places and communities in the rest of the district are located directly on the Black Forest high forest .
history
After the Saar was reintegrated into the German Reich on March 1, 1935, the old territorial conditions were not restored. The Saarland , that was the official name of the area, came under direct Reich administration; so the main group and the rest of the group remained administratively separate.
On May 1, 1945, by order of the French military government, the nine municipalities of the mayor's office in Nonnweiler were reclassified from the district of Trier to the remainder of the district, now known as the district of Wadern .
On July 18, 1946, the Wadern district was spun off from the French occupation zone or the province of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau and transferred to Saarland , which was separated on February 16, 1946 .
On October 1, 1946, the nine municipalities of the local mayor's office in Nonnweiler were reclassified from the Wadern district to the St. Wendel district . At the same time, the remainder of the Wadern district was merged with the Merzig district to form a new Merzig-Wadern district with the district town of Merzig . In addition, the communities of Büschdorf , Nohn , Tünsdorf and Wehingen-Bethingen were reclassified from the Saarburg district to the Merzig-Wadern district.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1925 | 25,283 |
| 1933 | 26,353 |
| 1939 | 25,442 |
District administrators
- 1920–1945 Friedrich von Spee
- 1945–1946 Jost Haas
Communities
The municipalities of the remaining Merzig-Wadern district (as of 1939):
Before 1939 there were two parishes in the remaining district:
- Obermorscholz and Untermorscholz merged on October 1, 1937 to form the municipality of Morscholz .
- Oberthailen and Unterthailen were merged to form the municipality of Thailen in the 1930s .
The following nine municipalities of the mayor's office in Nonnweiler belonged to the district from May 1945 to October 1946:
Web links
- Literature on the remaining district of Merzig-Wadern in the Saarland Bibliography
- Historical evidence
- History of the city of Wadern
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia, Volume 13: Rheinprovinz, 1930, p. 80
- ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, footnote on page 942
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Saar Regional Council of August 9, 1946: Order No. 8 of the Commandant en Chef Français en Allemagne, regarding the connection of municipalities to the administration of the Saar area of July 18, 1946 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Saar Regional Council of October 10, 1946: Order on the administrative organization of the Saar area of October 1, 1946 (PDF; 598 kB)
- ↑ Official Journal of the Administrative Commission of the Saarland , year 1946, No. 55, p. 237: "Supplement to the order on the administrative organization of the Saar area" of November 8, 1946 ( Saarland University )
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. wadern.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).