BergstraÃŸe (district)

The Circle Mountain Road is a district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse. Neighboring districts are the districts Groß-Gerau and darmstadt the castle, in the east of the Odenwald and in the south of Baden-Württemberg Rhein- Neckar-Kreis and the urban district of Mannheim in the north. To the west of the Rhine forms the natural border to Rhineland- Palatinate. Here is bordered circle briefly at the Alzey-Worms district, to the county-level city of Worms and the Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis. He is part of two metropolitan areas: the Rhine-Main and Rhine- Neckar.

3.1 Kreistag
3.2 District Administrators
3.3 Coat of Arms

4.1 Economics
4.2 traffic

Geography

A part of the circle lies in the Odenwald, the other is located in the Upper Rhine Valley and partly belongs to the Hessian Ried. The two cities Hirschhorn and Neckarsteinach in the Neckar valley and the district Michelbuch have no direct connection to the rest of the district and form an exclave.

The name derives from the mountain road, a tourist route that leads from Darmstadt to the south to Wiesloch in Baden- Württemberg. The northern part of the route passes through the circle mountain road.

History

The area of the circle mountain road mostly belonged to Electoral Mainz, in part, to the Palatinate, Hesse- Darmstadt, the and the County of Erbach -Schönberg before 1800. After the Empire in 1803 it came to Hesse -Darmstadt, later Grand Duchy of Hesse in the province Starkenburgring. The administrative units were initially the offices Bensheim, Fürth, Gernsheim, Heppenheim, Hirschhorn, Kürnbach, Lampertheim, lime rock, Lorsch, Pfungstadt, Schoenberg, Seeheim, forest -Michel Bach, Wimpfen and forcing mountain. 1821 District districts were used instead of the offices now. These were the forerunners of the circles. In the area of present-day county mountain road the district districts Bensheim, Heppenheim, velvet Linde Rock, and Wimpfen were formed with Office Kürnbach an exclave in Baden. Here some places to adjacent district districts were issued. After it announced on August 20, 1832 reorganization, it should in future be in South Starkenburgring only circles, no longer district districts, namely the circle and the circle Bensheim lime rock. Heppenheim was intended for inclusion in the circle Bensheim, his district district should fall to the circle Bensheim. Even before the entry into force of the regulation on October 15, 1832 but this was revised to the effect that the circle Heppenheim formed instead of the circle lime rock of the circle Bensheim as the second circle, the town of Heppenheim was thus not incorporated into the circle Bensheim. The District District Wimpfen remained an independent county. On 31 July 1848, the two circles Bensheim and Heppenheim had been united to the administrative district of Heppenheim. The District District Wimpfen came to the governmental district of Erbach. However, this administrative reform lasted only four years, because on May 12, 1852, the merger was canceled. It was again the circle lime rock and the new circle Wimpfen, which were in 1874 but finally dissolved and the circles were Bensheim and Heppenheim slammed.

After the 1936 off release of provincial and district councils in the People's State of Hesse nunmehrigen (from 1918) and in 1937 carried out repeal of the three provinces Stark Castle, Upper Hesse and Rhine Hessen, the year 1938 a review of the district boundaries. On November 1, 1938, radical local government reform was carried out in Hesse. In each of the three Hessian provinces Starkenburgring, Rheinhessen and Oberhessen each a circle was disbanded. In Starkenburgring the circle Bensheim was affected. This was for the most part the circle Heppenheim slammed, who also became the legal successor of the circle Bensheim. Lampert Home, Biblis, Buerstadt and Hofheim were submitted to the county Worms in the province of Rheinhessen. The new administrative entity was renamed County mountain road.

Until 1945, the day Baden-Württemberg Bad Wimpfen was an exclave of the county mountain road. After 1945, the right of the Rhine of the county and the city of Worms Worms were incorporated into the county mountain road. In the municipal reform in Hesse in 1972 the county mountain road was again changed slightly: the community Laudenau went to a local referendum on the Odenwald district and was the district of Reichel (Odenwald ).

Population figures

The development of the number of inhabitants in the district of Bensheim, Heppenheim district and county mountain road:

Policy

Council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Since the district council elections in 2001 ruled a majority coalition of CDU, FDP and FWG, which replaced the earlier ruling grand coalition. 2011, this coalition lost the majority and was replaced by a coalition of CDU and Greens. By crossing a deputy from the left to the pirates have the pirates since January 2012 on faction strength, while the Left lost the faction status.

District administrators

The choice of time of the district councils is regulated by the Hessian in local elections and is six years. The next district election shall be held in March 2015.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 27, 1954 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon: " The quartered shield shows in the first blue box, a silver crenellated tower on a silver mountain; in the second silver field, a red five-petalled flower with golden slugs; the 3rd silver field, the red nail Lorsch pointed cross and the 4th blue field the Hessian lion. "

The silver tower battlements, the castle is strong, one of the formerly most important fortifications in the region ( now a ruin ). The red five-petalled flower represents the diversity of flowers in the spring. The nail pointed cross is the emblem of the monastery of Lorsch.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

The mountain road is a tourist region. In the very mild climate but also tobacco, asparagus and wine are grown. Major attractions are the rocks in the sea Lauter, the Carolingian king hall of the former monastery of Lorsch (since 1991 a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the strong castle near Heppenheim, the Auerbach castle and the State Fürstenlager in Bensheim -Auerbach.

At the mountain road are international companies such as BASF (formerly Ciba, Lampert home ), IXYS Semiconductor ( Lampert home ), HB's Iglo ( Heppenheim ), SAP SI ( Bensheim ), Sirona ( Bensheim ), Suzuki ( Bensheim ) and Tyco Electronics ( Bensheim ) settled.

Traffic

By the district the federal highways lead 5 (Heidelberg -Darmstadt ), 6 ( Kaiserslautern -Heilbronn ), 67 (Mannheim -Darmstadt ) and 659 In addition, the circuit area of several federal highways and county roads will be developed, including the B 3 (Heidelberg -Darmstadt ), the B 37, B 38 ( Saukopf tunnel ), B 44, B 47 and B 460

Public transport in the county is organized jointly with the other counties of the Rhine- Neckar triangle in the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN). For trips out of the county out in the adjoining counties in Hessen and the tariffs of the Rhine -Main Transport Association ( RMV) apply.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities

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