Darmstadt (region)
- Germany land Hessen Region of Darmstadt
The Region of Darmstadt is one of the three administrative districts of Hesse. It lies in the south of the country and forms the Planning Region Southern Hesse. More than half of the Hessian population lives here.
Administrative divisions
The Region of Darmstadt is legally dependent unincorporated. The authority of the government district, the Darmstadt Regional Council, is the general state administration authority of the State of Hesse in middle school ( § 1 para 1 Intermediate Act). The county is divided into 10 districts, 4 county-level cities and 3 special cities ( cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, where tasks of the circle on their part to perception were transferred by municipal authorities ):
Counties
Independent Cities
Special cities
History
The Region of Darmstadt was in formation of United - Hesse built in 1945 as one of three administrative districts (next to Kassel and Wiesbaden ), namely from the located in the American occupation zone rechtsrheinischen parts of the People's State of Hesse. It consisted of two spatially separated parts, between the city of Frankfurt am Main was the administrative district of Wiesbaden. The southern part of the former province Starkenburgring, included the cities of Darmstadt and Offenbach am Main as well as the counties of mountain road, Darmstadt, Dieburg, Erbach, wholesale Gerau and Offenbach. The northern part of the former province of Upper Hesse included the county-level city of Gießen and the districts Alsfeld, Büdingen, Friedberg, Giessen and Lauterbach.
In 1968, the district Wiesbaden was dissolved and its territory assigned to the Region of Darmstadt. The regional council in Darmstadt was thus also for the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Hanau and Wiesbaden as well as for counties Biedenkopf, Dillkreis ( Dillenburg ), Gelnhausen, Hanau, Limburg, Main-Taunus -Kreis ( Frankfurt-Hoechst ), Oberlahnkreis ( Weilburg ), Upper Taunus Kreis ( Bad Homburg ), Rheingaukreis ( Rüdesheim am Rhein), Schlüchtern, Untertaunus circuit ( Bad Schwalbach ), Usingen and responsible Wetzlar ( six county-level cities and 24 counties ).
In the district reform, which was completed in Hesse essentially 1972-1977 ( with a repeated change in the Central Hesse 1979, see Lahn, Gießen, Wetzlar ), the districts were merged into larger administrative units, as well as the cities of Hanau and Giessen in the surrounding integrated counties.
After final completion of the district reform in 1979 included the Region of Darmstadt nor the cities of Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach and Wiesbaden as well as the counties of mountain road, darmstadt the castle, casting, wholesale Gerau, Hochtaunuskreis, Lahn -Dill, Limburg -Weilburg, Odenwald, Offenbach, Main- Kinzig-Kreis, Main -Taunus, Rheingau -Taunus, Vogelsberg and Wetterau ( four county-level cities and 14 counties ).
On January 1, 1981, the Region of Giessen was built. Thus, there were three administrative districts in Hesse again. To him, the counties casting, Lahn -Dill, Limburg -Weilburg, and Vogelsberg and Marburg -Biedenkopf have been assigned. Since then, comprises the Region of Darmstadt nor the above four independent cities and ten counties.
Historical Sources
The historical documents of the Regional Council are in the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt kept ( constituent H 1). The portfolio, which includes files from various subject areas, is largely already been developed and researched on the Internet.
Authority
The managing authority of the governmental district is the Darmstadt Regional Council. It has its headquarters in the prestigious and rich in governmental and administrative tradition college building in the middle of the city at Luis course. Since the office was far from sufficient to accommodate the Authority, a number of properties, among others, of the then known as Mengler twelve -story office tower in the Rhine Street were rented in Darmstadt, 40 Also, the representative building in the Rhine road 62 was evidenced by some departments with. To summarize locations that the college building adjacent office building of the former post office in the Central Technical Wilhelminenstraße was taken as 3 Wilhelminenhaus in the 1990s. In addition, the Regional Council and branches in other cities of southern Hesse, namely in Hasselroth, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Eltville (former wine-growing office) and Biebesheim.
The tasks are very diverse, ranging from regulatory law on the municipal supervision to occupational safety and environmental protection. The regional council functions as a branch of the South Hesse Regional Assembly, which decides the Regional Plan. Regional councilors are 99 elected representatives of the local authorities.