Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '  N , 6 ° 7'  E
Basic data (as of 1971)
Existing period:	1932-1971
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Aachen
Regional association :	Rhineland
Administrative headquarters :	Geilenkirchen
Area :	398.96 km 2
Residents:	139,000 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density :	348 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	GK
Circle key :	05 4 37
Circle structure:	30 parishes
District Administrator :	Anton Nordhausen ( CDU )
Location of the district Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg was a district in the former administrative district of Aachen . With this he belonged first to the Rhine Province and from 1946 to North Rhine-Westphalia . Since January 1, 1972, his area has been in the district of Heinsberg and the city ​​region of Aachen . The administrative seat of the Selfkantkreis was in Geilenkirchen.

geography

Neighboring areas

The Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the counties Erkelenz , Jülich and Aachen . The Dutch province of Limburg joined in the west .

Selfkant

With the exception of the time under Dutch administration, the district area included the Selfkant , the westernmost area of ​​Germany.

history

Position of the self-edge circle

On 1 October 1932, the parties were Geilenkirchen and most of the Heinsberg district to district Geilenkirchen Heinsberg together. In the period that followed, the administrative structure changed several times:

• On January 1, 1935, the Setterich community moved from the Jülich district to the Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg district.
• The communities Frelenberg , Scherpenseel and Übach were merged in 1935 to form the community Übach-Palenberg .
• Schümmerquartier was renamed Schümm in 1936 .
• On April 23, 1949, seven Selfkants municipalities ( Havert , Hillensberg , Höngen , Millen , Süsterseel , Tüddern and Wehr ; also the Gangelter district of Mindergangelt ) were spun off from the district and placed under the Dutch administration.
• In 1951, the district was named Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg to officially document that the Dutch occupation of Selfkant would not be accepted as permanent since World War II .
• Beggendorf was incorporated into Baesweiler in 1952 .
• The communities Breberen and Schümm were merged on January 1, 1963 to form the community Breberen-Schümm .
• On August 1, 1963, the municipalities of Selfkants, which had ceded to the Netherlands in 1949, were reintegrated into the district.
• The municipality of Übach-Palenberg received city rights in 1967.

The Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg now belonged to 46 communities:

Office	Municipalities (as of 1968)
free of charge	Geilenkirchen , Heinsberg , Übach-Palenberg , Teveren
Baesweiler	Baesweiler , Oidtweiler
Fallow	Brachelen , Lindern , Randerath
Gangelt	Breberen-Schümm , Gangelt , Schierwaldenrath
Heinsberg country	Schafhausen , interruption
Immendorf-Würm	Beeck , Immendorf , Puffendorf , Setterich , Süggerath , Würm
Karken	Karken , Kempen , Kirchhoven
Oberbruch Dremmen	Dremmen , Horst , Oberbruch , Porselen
Selfkant	Havert , Hillensberg , Höngen , Millen , Süsterseel , Tüddern , Wehr
Waldenrath	Aphoven , Birgden , Waldenrath
Forest damp	Braunsrath , Haaren , Saeffelen , Waldfeucht
Wassenberg	Birgelen , Effeld , Ophoven , Orsbeck , Wassenberg

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform, the four municipalities of the Office Oberbruch-Dremmen were initially merged on January 1, 1969 to form the new municipality of Oberbruch-Dremmen . On July 1, 1969, the law on the reorganization of communities in the Selfkant district of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg came into force:

• Breberen-Schümm, Schierwaldenrath and Birgden were incorporated into the community of Gangelt.
• Havert, Hillensberg, Höngen, Millen, Saeffelen, Süsterseel, Tüddern and Wehr were merged to form the new municipality of Selfkant .
• Aphoven, Schafhausen and Unterbruch were incorporated into the city of Heinsberg.
• The offices of Gangelt, Heinsberg-Land, Selfkant and Waldenrath were dissolved.

On January 1, 1972, further municipalities were amalgamated by the Aachen Act and the district dissolved:

• Baesweiler, Oidtweiler, Puffendorf and Setterich were merged into a new municipality of Baesweiler.
• Geilenkirchen, Teveren, Lindern, Beeck, Immendorf, Süggerath and Würm were merged into a new city of Geilenkirchen.
• Heinsberg, Karken, Kempen, Kirchhoven, Oberbruch-Dremmen, Randerath and Waldenrath were merged into a new town of Heinsberg.
• Brachelen became part of the city of Hückelhoven .
• Braunsrath, Haaren and Waldfeucht were merged to form a new municipality of Waldfeucht.
• Birgelen, Effeld, Ophoven, Orsbeck and Wassenberg were merged into a new municipality of Wassenberg.
• The Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg and all its offices were dissolved.
• With the exception of the municipality of Baesweiler, which became part of the Aachen district , the entire district became part of the new Heinsberg district .

Population development

year	Residents
1933	91,099
1939	92,845
1950	96,688
1960	119,000
1971	139,000

politics

Results of the district elections from 1946

The list only shows parties and constituencies that received at least two percent of the votes in the respective election.

The district election results of 1946 and 1948 for the Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg district are also listed here.

Share of votes of the parties in percent:

year	CDU	SPD	UWG	FDP	DZP	KPD
1946	77.1	16.5				3.7
1948	62.8	21.0		1.6	2.2	4.8
11952 1	58.8	21.7		5.7		2.6
21956 2	56.3	24.5		5.9	3.4
1961	58.5	22.6	11.1	7.7
1964	55.5	27.0	11.2	6.3
1969	61.0	29.1	06.2	3.7

Footnotes:
¹ 1952: additional: FWV: 9.7 percent
² 1956: additional: FVP: 8.8 percent

District administrators

• 1932–1945: Alexander Czéh (from 1919 to 1932 district administrator of the Geilenkirchen district)
• 1945–1946: Paul Wonschik
• 1946–1948: Josef Rademacher
• 1948–1954: Peter Pilates
• 1954–1969: Franz Braun
• 1969–1971: Anton Nordhausen

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows the Jülich lion in the first quarter, which, like the parrot shown below , was taken from the coat of arms of the city of Geilenkirchen. The silver lion in the left half of the shield is the common figure of the town of Heinsberg. The right to use their own coat of arms was granted to the Selfkantkreis by a certificate from the state government dated March 1, 1950.

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, when the vehicle registration number was introduced, the GK was assigned to the then district . It was issued until December 31, 1971. It has been available in the Heinsberg district since September 2, 2013 due to the license plate liberalization .

Web links

Commons : Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Territorial.de: District of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. geilenkirchen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Portal Rhenish History: District of Heinsberg ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. 
4. ↑ co-administered by the city of Geilenkirchen
5. ↑ Law on the amalgamation of the municipalities of the Oberbruch-Dremmen office
6. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973. digizeitschriften.de
7. ↑ The respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
8. ↑ Heraldry of the World: Selfkantkreis.