Siegkreis

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Coat of arms of the Siegkreis
Siegkreis
Map of Germany, position of the Siegkreis highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 7 ° 12'  E

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period: 1816-1969
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Siegburg
Area : 826.94 km 2
Residents: 293,260 (1969)
Population density : 355 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SU
Circle key : 05 3 37
Circle structure: 45 parishes
District Administrator : Willi Lindlar ( CDU )
Offices and municipalities free from office in the Siegkreis (1968)
At first the administrative seat of the district of Siegburg was housed in the former Michaelsberg abbey.
The Heymershof was the first seat of the district administration in the enlarged district of Siegburg
The demolished District Office Siegburg stood on the site of the current district building

The Siegkreis (until 1825 Kreis Siegburg ) was a district in the administrative district of Cologne in the Prussian Rhine Province , which was established in 1816. It essentially comprised the part of today's Rhein-Sieg district on the right bank of the Rhine .

Neighboring areas

The victory circle bordered early 1969 clockwise to the north starting at the Rheinisch-Bergisch and the Oberbergischer Kreis (both in North Rhine-Westphalia), the counties Altenkirchen (Westerwald) and Neuwied (both in Rhineland-Palatinate ) and at the district Bonn on the independent city of Bonn and the district of Cologne (all in turn in North Rhine-Westphalia).

history

By a royal ordinance of April 20, 1816, effective April 22, 1816, districts were formed in the administrative district of Cologne, which were led by a district administrator. This position initially had to be filled by a local manor owner .

The mayor's offices at that time belonged to the district

The first district administration seat was in Michaelsberg Abbey .

In 1820 the Uckerath district was dissolved and the area added to the Siegburg district. There were also the mayor's offices

District administrator was the previous district administrator of the Uckerath district, Franz Joseph Scheven. In 1825 the district became the Siegkreis by changing its name . By the district order of July 13, 1827, district councils were appointed in addition to the district administrators, to which the landed gentry and representatives of the municipalities belonged. The resolutions of these district assemblies had to be approved by the government until 1873, in the Siegkreis even until 1887, so they only had an advisory function. The administrative seat of the enlarged Siegkreis was from the merger until 1838 that of the district of Uckerath, the Heymershof in Hennef . Allner Castle was the administrative seat from 1842 to 1848 . With the introduction of the municipal code for the Rhine Province in 1845, most of the mayor's offices in the district were divided into several municipalities . Since then, the circle has been structured as follows:

Administrative division 1846
Mayorry Communities
Eitorf Eitorf , Merten
Hennef Blankenberg , Geistingen
Herchen Herchen
Koenigswinter Aegidienberg , Honnef , Ittenbach , Königswinter
Lauthausen Altenbödingen , Braschoß , Happerschoß , Lauthausen
Lohmar Altenrath , Breidt , Halberg , Inger , Lohmar , Scheiderhöhe
Menden Buisdorf , Hangelar , Holzlar , Meindorf , Niedermenden , Niederpleis , Obermenden , Siegburg-Mülldorf
Much Much
Neunkirchen Neunkirchen , Seelscheid
Niederkassel Lülsdorf , Mondorf , Niederkassel , Rheidt , Stockem , Uckendorf
Oberkassel Heisterbacherrott , Niederdollendorf , Oberdollendorf , Oberkassel
Oberpleis Oberpleis , Stieldorf
Ruppichteroth Ruppichteroth , Winterscheid
Siegburg Siegburg , Troisdorf , Wolsdorf
Sieglar Bergheim-Müllekoven , Eschmar , Kriegsdorf , Sieglar , Spich
Uckerath Uckerath
Voting Voting

Siegburg received the Rhenish Town Council in 1857 . Troisdorf and Wolsdorf thus left the Siegburg mayor's office and since then they have formed the Siegburg-Land mayor's office . In 1862, Honnef received the Rhenish Town Code and left the mayor of Königswinter. In 1889, Königswinter was also given the Rhenish Town Code. Since then, Aegidienberg and Ittenbach have formed the mayor's office in Königswinter .

Wolsdorf was incorporated into the city of Siegburg in 1899. At the same time, the mayor's office in Siegburg-Land was abolished, while the municipality of Troisdorf was elevated to the status of a mayor's office in Troisdorf . Eschmar and Kriegsdorf were incorporated into the municipality of Sieglar in 1918 and Bergheim-Müllekoven and Spich in 1927. As in the entire Rhine Province, the district's mayorships were transferred to offices in 1927 . In 1932 the Dattenfeld office with the two communities Dattenfeld and Rosbach from the dissolved Waldbröl district was added to the Siegkreis. The communities Geistingen and Blankenberg were merged in 1934 to form the community of Hennef. All offices that consisted of only one municipality were revoked in 1934. Merten was incorporated into the municipality of Eitorf in 1935; at the same time, Niedermenden and Obermenden were merged to form the municipality of Menden . In 1945 the district was occupied by Allied forces and became part of the British zone of occupation .

Troisdorf received town charter in 1952. The Dattenfeld office was dissolved in 1955; Dattenfeld and Rosbach were since then municipalities free of office. Altenbödingen and Happerschoss became part of the Lauthausen community in 1956; at the same time Braschoss was incorporated into the city of Siegburg. The city of Honnef has been called Bad Honnef since 1960 . Before the regional reform of 1969, the Siegkreis was finally structured as follows:

Administrative division 1968
Office Communities
free of charge Bad Honnef (city), Dattenfeld , Eitorf , Hennef , Herchen , Königswinter (city), Lauthausen , Much , Rosbach , Siegburg (city), Sieglar , Troisdorf (city), Uckerath , Wahlscheid
Königswinter-Land Aegidienberg , Ittenbach
Lohmar Altenrath , Breidt , Halberg , Inger , Lohmar , Scheiderhöhe
Menden Buisdorf , Hangelar , Holzlar , Meindorf , Menden , Niederpleis , Siegburg-Mülldorf
Neunkirchen Neunkirchen , Seelscheid
Niederkassel Lülsdorf , Mondorf , Niederkassel , Rheidt , Stockem , Uckendorf
Oberkassel Heisterbacherrott , Niederdollendorf , Oberdollendorf , Oberkassel
Oberpleis Oberpleis , Stieldorf
Ruppichteroth Ruppichteroth , Winterscheid

On August 1, 1969, the Bonn / Siegkreis area was fundamentally restructured by the Bonn Act :

  • The Siegkreis was expanded to include parts of the Bonn district and renamed the Rhein-Sieg district . Siegburg remained the district town of the Rhein-Sieg district.
  • All offices were dissolved.
  • Aegidienberg was incorporated into the city of Bad Honnef.
  • Holzlar and Oberkassel were incorporated into the independent city of Bonn.
  • Lauthausen and Uckerath were incorporated into the community of Hennef.
  • Heisterbacherrott, Ittenbach, Niederdollendorf, Oberdollendorf, Oberpleis and Stieldorf were incorporated into the city of Königswinter.
  • The communities of Breidt, Halberg, Inger, Lohmar, Scheiderhöhe and Wahlscheid were merged to form the enlarged community of Lohmar.
  • Neunkirchen and Seelscheid were merged to form the municipality of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid .
  • Lülsdorf, Mondorf, Niederkassel, Rheidt, Stockem and Uckendorf were merged to form the enlarged community of Niederkassel.
  • Ruppichteroth and Winterscheid were merged to form the enlarged municipality of Ruppichteroth.
  • The new Sankt Augustin community was formed from Buisdorf, Hangelar, Meindorf, Menden, Niederpleis and Siegburg-Mülldorf .
  • Altenrath and Sieglar were incorporated into the city of Troisdorf.
  • Dattenfeld, Herchen and Rosbach were merged to form the municipality of Windeck .

Population development

In 1900 the Siegkreis had an area of ​​766.13 km². In 1932 the Dattenfeld office was added to the Siegkreis from the dissolved Waldbröl district. In 1969 the district had an area of ​​826.94 km³ and 45 municipalities.

year Residents Catholics Protestant and. Christ. Jews
1828 063,648 056,924 06.181 - 543
1852 072,340
1880 089,663
1890 091,850 080,490 10,602 697
1900 107,343 093,577 12,981
1910 119,802 103,967 14,993
1925 137.080 117,414 18,361 033 641
1933 148,696 124.285 23,138 027 568
1939 153.141 126,723 23,678 249 342
1950 201,839
1960 230,100
1969 [0]293,260

By 1955, around 40,000 refugees and displaced persons from the eastern German regions had settled in the Siegkreis. At that time, they made up 19% of the population in the district.

politics

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1933 to 1945 the Siegkreis was part of the Cologne-Aachen Gau . In the Reichstag elections on March 5, 1933, 88.2 percent of the electorate took part.

Political party be right
total 87,448
center 40.170
NSDAP 25,908
SPD 08,276
KPD 07,468
DNVP 04,521
DVP 00.610
other 00.495

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.

Share of votes of the parties in percent

year CDU SPD FDP DZP BHE KPD
1946 42.8 17.0 08.2 27.5 4.3
1948 30.1 25.2 11.3 28.1 4.2
1952 32.8 23.5 13.8 21.2 6.8
1956 41.6 30.1 009.99 12.1 6.2
1961 53.5 28.6 09.9 03.6 4.4
1964 51.4 34.4 010.04 03.6

District administrators

The following district administrators were in office in the Siegkreis:

  • Eberhard von Hymmen, first district administrator

  • District Administrator Hans Wisdom

Upper District Directors

  • 1946–1959 Josef Clarenz
  • 1959–1969 Paul Kieras (CDU, from August 1, 1969 senior district director of the Rhein-Sieg district)

Infrastructure

From 1832 to 1852 the Prussian Optical Telegraph ran through the Siegkreis from Cologne to Koblenz with stops in Troisdorf and Söven .

License Plate

Initially, the license plate SB (after the district town of Siegburg) was intended for the Siegkreis . When it became known that Saarland would join the Federal Republic of Germany on January 1, 1957 ( Saar Agreement ), the assignment was changed at short notice in favor of the larger Saarbrücken (see extension of the vehicle registration system to Saarland ). On July 1, 1956, the Siegkreis was assigned the distinguishing number SU when the vehicle registration number was introduced. It is still issued in the Rhein-Sieg district to this day.

education

  • Drama School Siegburg  (vocational school for performing stage arts) in Siegburg
  • Vocational college of the Rhein-Sieg district in Siegburg
  • Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg in Siegburg
  • Engelbert Humperdinck Music School in Siegburg

literature

  • Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the Siegkreis. Edmund Renard commissioned the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province. L. Schwann publishing house, Düsseldorf 1907.
  • Sources for the history of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, vol. 14: The medical topography of Dr. Anton Lohmann (The Siegkreis around 1825), Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 1997.
  • Karl Künster, S. Schneider: The victory circle. Bonn 1959 (The German districts. The districts in North Rhine-Westphalia, Series A North Rhine, Volume 4).
  • The records of the former Siegkreis are in the archive of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis and in the Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland department.

Web links

Commons : Siegkreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Luhmer: From the mayor's office in Menden to the community of Sankt Augustin. In: Contributions to the city's history , published by the Sankt Augustin city archive. Issue 20, 1994, ISSN  0936-3483 , p. 7.
  2. ^ A b Wilhelm Butte: Provinzial-Blätter for the Prussian countries on the Rhine and in Westphalen, first volume, 1817, p. 70 ( digital edition ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Statistical review for the Rhein-Sieg district, published by the State Statistical Office of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1972
  4. ↑ Municipal Code for the Rhine Province 1845, § 1.
  5. ↑ Official Gazette for the Cologne District 1862, p. 261
  6. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Portal Rheinische Geschichte ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  7. ^ City of Siegburg: History of the city districts
  8. ^ City of Troisdorf: City history
  9. ↑ Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Troisdorf: History until 1932  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.geschichtsverein-troisdorf.de  
  10. ^ Theodor Rutt: Land on Sieg and Rhine. History - culture - economy. Scientific archive, Urkunde-Bild-Chronic GmbH, Bonn 1960.
  11. ↑ Source: respective issue of the State Statistical Office (LDS NRW), Mauerstr. 51, Düsseldorf, with the election results at the district level.
  12. ^ Landesarchiv NRW Rheinland, District Office Siegkreis