Arnsberg (region)
- Germany Land Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg
The Arnsberg is one of five administrative districts in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia.
- 2.1 emergence
- 2.2 Further Development
- 2.3 Population development
- 3.1 constituency boundaries 1818
- 3.2 Change of the delimitation of constituencies on January 1, 1819
- 3.3 Change of the delimitation of constituencies on January 1, 1832
- 3.4 Formation of urban and rural districts
- 3.5 Municipal Reform in the 1920s
- 3.6 List of city and rural districts on January 1, 1939
- 3.7 Development of the circles after 1945
- 3.8 Development of the Closed Free Cities since 1945
- 3.9 Current status
Geography
The Arnsberg Region is located in the south-east of North Rhine -Westphalia. He covers his northwestern area of the five cities of Bochum, Dortmund, Hagen, Hamm and Herne a significant portion of the densely populated Ruhr. In contrast, the eastern and southern regions, on a rather weaker population density and smaller-scale colonization.
Landscape includes both the highlands southern Westphalia and the southern areas of the Westphalian Bay including the central portion of the lip and the lowlands Hellweg Börden to the governmental district.
Neighboring districts and neighboring countries
The county is bordered on the north by the administrative districts of Münster and Detmold, on the east by the state of Hesse, on the south by the state of Rhineland -Palatinate and to the west by the administrative districts of Cologne and Dusseldorf.
History
Formation
The history of the governmental district goes back to the Prussian " Regulation on the improved means of provincial authorities " of 30 April 1815. At that time Prussia's administration after the Congress of Vienna was reorganized and initially divided into ten provinces, which belong to two or more administrative regions, they should be divided into several circles. One of the newly formed provinces was the province of Westphalia. The division of the province of Westphalia and the formation of the administrative districts of Münster, Minden and Arnsberg has been with notice of 25 July 1816. The administrative headquarters Hamm, in the time vornapoleonischen seat Märkischen War and Domain Chamber, and since 1226 the capital of the county of Mark, was abandoned and moved the new authority due to the choice of the upper President Ludwig von Vincke to Arnsberg. The originally planned location Hamm in 1815 was instead the seat of royal Westphalia Higher Regional Court, today Oberlandesgericht Hamm. Attributable to one of the will of the government, the Catholic population of the former Duchy of Westphalia (Sauerland) stronger binding to the Protestant Prussian state, and develop economically stronger on the other hand, the target region.
Like the other district governments in the province of Westphalia, as well as the new government in Arnsberg formally took with the August 1, 1816 their activities on.
Further development
One of the central challenges of the provincial government in Arnsberg was the state's support of the industrialization process, especially in the eastern Ruhr area in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this context, a new division of the circles and the creation of urban districts during the German Empire and then again in the late 1920s was necessary in the urban areas. Through the municipal reforms of 1960er/1970er years it came to the union of various smaller units to larger circles.
The seat of the county government in the city of Arnsberg was always controversial. At the latest with the rise of the Ruhr area to the central industrial landscape increased efforts to transfer the provincial government back to the Ruhr or the formation of a new government district Ruhr.
The district governments were fundamentally questioned in North Rhine -Westphalia only under the government Rüttgers. In the coalition agreement between the CDU and FDP, the dissolution of the district governments agreed. This project was to be implemented, however, only from 2012. Among these plans is later, the government moved away under Jürgen Rüttgers after protests from its own ranks again. In the coalition agreement, the red-green government under Hannelore Kraft and Sylvia Löhrmann the receipt of all government districts expressly agreed.
Population Development
The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants of the district of Arnsberg to the respective territorial status. The figures are up to 1970 census results, from 1975 to official updates by the State Statistical Office. Figures for 1975, 1980 and 1985 are estimated values , the numbers from 1987 extrapolations based on the results of the census of 1987. Figures are for 1837 on the " civilian population ", 1861 " Local Present population " on the, from 1925 to the resident population and from 1987 on the "population at the main place of residence ".
Administrative divisions
Constituency boundaries 1818
In 1818, the government district was divided:
Change of constituency boundaries on January 1, 1819
On January 1, 1819 there was a new constituency boundaries:
Change of constituency boundaries on January 1, 1832
On April 1, 1826 were small boundary changes between individual circles into force. On January 1, 1832 there was a new constituency boundaries:
Formation of urban and rural districts
Later in the 19th century led industrialization and the concomitant urbanization changes. In particular, larger cities was spun off as a city circles of a few former circles. From the ruins of new counties were formed partially.
Formation of the cities
Formation of new circuits
Municipal reform in the 1920s
The government district belonging to the proportion of the Ruhr area was reorganized into three time steps. The first reforms took effect on April 1, 1926 into effect. The other reforms occurred in accordance with the "Law for the local reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian Ruhr " on April 1, 1928 to August 1, 1929 in force. In 1922 the county lost Schwelm communities in the Rhineland town of Barmen. Due to the inclusion of wood Wickedes in the county Hamm, was 1930, Unna to the new county seat of that circle, the changed name in the district of Unna.
The most decisive intervention in the administrative structure, however questioned the resolution of several counties / districts and their integration into existing and two new urban districts Castrop -Rauxel and Lünen and in the new Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis dar.
August 5, 1922
- Enlargement of the city circle Barmen to municipalities of the Schwelm
April 1, 1926
- Resolution of the district of Gelsenkirchen and distribution to the urban districts Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Wanne- Eickel (main part) and Wattenscheid
- Enlargement of the urban district of Bochum to municipalities in the counties of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen
- Enlargement of the urban district of Gelsenkirchen to communities of the county Gelsenkirchen
- Enlargement of the city circle Herne to communities of the counties of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen
- Enlargement of the city circle pan - Eickelmann to municipalities in the counties of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen
- Enlargement of the city circle Wattenscheid to communities of the county Gelsenkirchen
- Enlargement of the district Dortmund to communities of the county Bochum
April 1, 1928
- Resolution of the district Dortmund and distribution to the urban districts Castrop -Rauxel, Dortmund (main part ), Herne and Lünen
- Resolution of the city circle Hoerde and inclusion in the urban district of Dortmund
- Resolution of the urban district of Gelsenkirchen and integration in the urban district of Gelsenkirchen- Buer, at the same time changes in the administrative district of Münster
- Neoplasm of city circle Castrop- Rauxel communities of the county Dortmund
- Neoplasm of city circle Lünen from communities of the county Dortmund
- Enlargement of the urban district around the city of Dortmund circle Hoerde and around communities of the county Dortmund
- Enlargement of the city circle Herne to communities of the county Dortmund
August 1, 1929
- Resolution of the district and division Bochum Bochum circles of the city (main part ), Dortmund, Herne and Witten
- Resolution of the county Hagen and dividing on Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis (main part) and the urban districts Hagen and Witten
- Resolution of the circle Hattingen and dividing on Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis (main part) and the urban district of Bochum
- Resolution of the county Hoerde and distribution to the counties and the city of Iserlohn Hamm and Dortmund circles (main part) and Witten
- Resolution of the circle Schwelm and inclusion in the Ennepe -Ruhr-Kreis
- Neoplasm of Ennepe -Ruhr area from the circle Schwelm and from communities of the county Hagen and in the group Hattingen
- Enlargement of the urban district of Bochum to Bochum communities of the county and the county Hattingen
- Enlargement of the city circle Dortmund to communities of the county Bochum
- Enlargement of the city circle Hagen to communities of the county Hagen
- Enlargement of the city circle Herne to communities of the county Bochum
- Enlargement of the city circle Witten to communities of the counties Bochum and Hagen
- Enlargement of the district Hamm to communities of the county Hoerde
- Enlargement of the district Iserlohn to communities of the county Hoerde
October 17, 1930
- Renaming of the district of Hamm in the district of Unna
April 1, 1939
- Enlargement of the city circle Hamm around the municipality Mark of the district Unna.
List of city and rural districts on January 1, 1939
Urban districts
Counties
Development of the circles after 1945
Development of the Closed Free Cities since 1945
Current status
The county consists of seven districts with a total of 78 municipalities belonging and five independent cities. (Population figures as at 31 December 2008)