Bruchsal (district)

The district of Bruchsal was a district in Baden- Württemberg, which was dissolved in the course of district reform on 1 January 1973.

3.1 District
3.2 Coat of Arms

4.1 traffic

Geography

The district of Bruchsal was in the north- west of Baden -Württemberg. Its neighboring districts were clockwise starting in the north of Mannheim, Heidelberg, Sinsheim and Karlsruhe. To the west of the Rhine formed the border to Rhineland -Palatinate with the local counties Germersheim and Speyer.

Geographically he had share in the Kraichgau the east and on the Upper Rhine Plain in the west. The county seat was about in the southern center of the county.

History

The area of the district of Bruchsal belonged since 1806, has been raised as to the Grand Duchy of Baden, to the offices Bretten, Bruchsal, Gochscheim, gondola Home, Odenheim and Phillipsburg. The Office Odenheim was in 1807, 1810 and Gochscheim Gondelsheim dissolved in 1826. 1864, the district offices and Philipsburg Bruchsal were combined, so that it thus only the district office Bretten and Bruchsal was the district office, both of which belonged to the country's commissioner district Karlsruhe. As part of the Baden administrative reorganization of the Office Bretten was dissolved in 1936. The northern part came to the district office Bruchsal, the southern part of the county Karlsruhe. Like all the Baden district offices received the district office Bruchsal in 1939 due to the " Law on the county self-government " is the term district Bruchsal.

After the formation of the State of Baden -Württemberg 1952, the district was part of the government district of North Baden. Due to the local government reform in 1970, the county area changed in five cases. On September 1, 1971, the municipality Landshausen was previously allocated to the district of Sinsheim, the district of Bruchsal, because they became part of the newly formed city Kraichtal the same day. On January 1, 1972, the municipalities Eichelbergstrasse and Tiefenbach, both also district Sinsheim, integrated into the community and the community Östringen Neudorf were combined with the municipality to municipality ditch Graben-Neudorf. Eichelbergstrasse and Tiefenbach belonged then to the district of Bruchsal, while Neudorf now belonged to the district of Karlsruhe. On March 1, 1972, the municipality Neibsheim was incorporated into the town of Bretten and thus also belonged to the district of Karlsruhe.

With effect from January 1, 1973, the district of Bruchsal was eventually dissolved and its municipalities assigned to the district of Karlsruhe, so the legal successor of the district of Bruchsal was.

Population Development

All population figures are census results.

Policy

District

The upper office men or district administrators the district office or the district of Bruchsal 1807-1972:

Coat of arms

Blazon: Split of blue and gold, in front a continuous, polished silver cross, behind a red Bundschuh. The coat of arms was the district of Bruchsal awarded on 13 February 1964.

The " Speyer Cross " stands for the former Bishopric of Speyer, to which most of the county territory belonged until 1806. The Bundschuh is the symbol of the peasant uprising of 1502, which began in lower and Obergrombach. One of the former peasant leader was Joss Fritz from Untergrombach.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

By the district from north to south, the Federal Highway 5 Heidelberg -Karlsruhe and approximately parallel B 3 Other federal roads in the West are the B 36, B 35 in the south and in the north the B 292

Cities and Towns

For Bruchsal district belonged from 1938 first 5 cities and 33 municipalities, including the municipality until 1930 from the district of Oberhausen newly formed Waghaeusel.

On March 7, 1968, the parliament of Baden -Württemberg has paved the way for a church reform. The Act to Strengthen the administrative force smaller municipalities, it was possible that smaller communities could voluntarily unite to form larger communities. The first in the district of Bruchsal made the communities Ubstadt and reservoirs which were united with effect from 1 April 1970 on the community Ubstadt -Weiher. In the following years the number of municipalities decreased steadily until the district of Bruchsal was merged in 1973 in the district of Karlsruhe.

Largest parish of the county was the county town of Bruchsal, smallest municipality was Neuenbürg.

The villages of the district of Bruchsal before the municipal reform. All communities are now part of the district of Karlsruhe:

Former district in Baden- Württemberg
Policy ( the district of Karlsruhe )
Bruchsal
Dissolved in 1972

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