GroÃŸ-Gerau (district)

The Gross-Gerau district is a district in southern Hesse. Neighboring districts are the district-free city of Wiesbaden, the Main- Taunus-Kreis and the district-free city of Frankfurt am Main, in the east the circles Offenbach and Darmstadt- Dieburg, in the south of the county mountain road and west of the Rhine forms the natural border to the north. Links of the Rhine are the Rhineland-Palatinate counties Alzey- Worms and Mainz -Bingen and the independent city of Mainz.

2.1 Grand Duchy of Hesse
2.2 People's State of Hesse
2.3 State of Hesse

4.1 Kreistag
4.2 Kreisausschuss
4.3 District
4.4 Coat of Arms

Geography

The district is located in the upper Rhine Valley. The Main forms the northern, the western border of the Rhine. A large part of the circle lies in the Hessian Ried.

The highest point of the circle with 145 m of the upper mountain forest, an abandoned landfill in Mörfelden. The lowest point is 82 m the mouth of the Main River into the Rhine.

Land use

The district covers a total area of 45305 hectares, of which attributable to:

The agricultural area reached as usage with 46.5 percent above average in Hesse share. The forest area, however, is widely distributed below average and also very unevenly with 24.7. The forests are concentrated in the north-east of the circle in the area north of Gross-Gerau and east by Rüsselsheim. The proportion of water surface is remarkable 5.1 percent and reached more than 23 square kilometers, twice the area of the Edersees. Owed to this abundance of water surfaces the border rivers of the circle. From the Rhine include 38 river kilometers from the Main and 22 river kilometers respectively to the current center to the district; join the waters of the Altrheinarme on Europe Reserve Kühkopf - Knoblochsaue and Ginsheim and a series of flooded gravel extraction areas.

History

Today the district was very early to Hesse -Darmstadt, later Grand Duchy of Hesse. It was divided into the offices Dornsberg, Rüsselsheim and Kelsterbach. 1821 was the District Administrator District Dornsberg within the province Starkenburgring. Since 1832, the name of this administrative district Groß -Gerau who has hardly changed its borders throughout history and also the district reform of the early 1970s has survived virtually unchanged.

Grand Duchy of Hesse

Together with the circles Bensheim, Darmstadt, Dieburg, Erbach, Heppenheim and Offenbach, as well as now with the circles lime rock, Neustadt and Wimpfen, the Gross-Gerau district was formed from 1832, the province Stark castle, which in turn along with the provinces of Upper Hesse and Rhine Hesse, the Grand Duchy Hesse showed.

After the proclamation of the Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse on December 17, 1820 was followed on July 14, 1821 a comprehensive administrative reform. Instead of the District Offices districts now were used. These were the forerunners of the circles.

After another, announced on August 20, 1832 restructuring of the county was created wholesale Gerau from the District Administrator District Dornsberg and parts of the district districts Offenbach and Langen. On 31 July 1848, the two circles large -Gerau and Darmstadt as well as parts of the Offenbach district had been united to the Region of Darmstadt. However, this administrative reform lasted only four years, because on May 12, 1852, the merger was canceled.

With the reform in 1874 made the Prussian model in the Grand Duchy of Hesse circle Constitution, there was also a new constituency boundaries. The then created division of the Grand Duchy in seven provincial Starkenburgring forming circles ( Bensheim, Darmstadt, Dieburg, Erbach, wholesale Gerau, Heppenheim, Offenbach) had more than six decades of existence.

People's State of Hesse

After the November Revolution of 1918, the Grand Duchy was converted into a democratic republic, the People's State of Hesse. This name was retained even after the abolition of democracy by the Nazi takeover in 1933.

After the 1936 off release of provincial and district councils in nunmehrigen People's State of Hesse and the 1937 repeal of the carried out 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. The new administrative entity was renamed County mountain road. The Gross-Gerau district was renamed County Gerau. A few months later, however, the cities of Darmstadt, Giessen, Mainz, Offenbach and Worms were made independent as urban districts.

Land Hessen

At the foundation of today's state of Hesse end of 1945 in the American occupation zone, the circle cuts the predecessor states ( the People's government and the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau ) remained unchanged. However, the city of Mainz and the municipality of Guntersblum by running in the fairway of the Rhine frontier zone was divided. While the left bank of the core areas of both communities were eliminated in the French zone from the Hessian State Association, were the right bank districts of Mainz and the right bank Kühkopf who remained in Hesse, remap at the county level. In this way, the previous Mainz Districts Ginsheim with Gustav Castle and Bishop were home (again) independent municipalities in the district of Groß-Gerau, and the Kühkopf was for the most part in the district of stock incorporated city on the Rhine. A smaller portion, which was opposite to the north of the district of Erfelden was integrated in it.

In the municipal reform in Hesse Hessian most counties with neighboring districts were merged into larger units in the 1970s. As one of the few exceptions to the Gross-Gerau district remained unaffected, in contrast to its northern neighbor, the Main-Taunus -Kreis, there was not even to major changes of the external borders in the district of Groß-Gerau. At the north-eastern border of the county gave an important area of the city of Frankfurt, namely the area of the airport Frankfurt am Main. Its southern half (on which there are the start and runways, the terminal building was also previously on the Frankfurt area ) previously belonged to the municipality of Walldorf.

The local government reform was limited in the district to the municipal level. Here, the number of municipalities was reduced to 14 through mergers that could take over some previously perceived by the district administration tasks themselves according to their magnitude.

In 1975, the city became a member of the new Kelsterbach Umlandverband Frankfurt, where some regional and local responsibilities have been transferred within the city area of Frankfurt. The Umlandverband was replaced in 2001 by the Planning Ballungsraum Frankfurt / Rhein- Main, of which the entire suburban dominated northern part of the county.

Population figures

The development of the number of inhabitants in the district of Groß-Gerau, from 1998 as of December 31:

Policy

Council

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

In the district council SPD, FDP and FWG formed a coalition and thus constituted a majority of 37 seats. This coalition broke up, however, and there was a red-green coalition.

Kreisausschuss

The district committee (currently) 10 members and is the administrative authority of the district. The Chairman is the full-time District Administrator Thomas Will (SPD ), and his deputy is the first full-time county councilor Walter Astheimer ( Green ), and another circle Councillor to be elected before the upcoming municipal election; the other eight district councilors (3 SPD, CDU 2, each one GREE, FWG, FDP ) are volunteers.

District

The reigning from 1992 to 2010 District Enno Siehr was re-elected on 8 February 1998, 59.2 %, and on 8 February 2004, 56.0% respectively in the first ballot.

After 18 years in office Siehr 2010 went into retirement. In the district election on February 7, 2010 were Thomas Will (SPD ), Ursula force ( CDU) and Gerd Meyer School (The Left ) against each other. Thomas Will could the election with approximately 59 % of the votes in the first ballot to decide for themselves.

Coat of arms

Split: Front nine times shared by red and silver, behind two black bars in silver; in the plate center placed a blue escutcheon with three ( 2-1 questions ) silver diamonds. (Coat - approval: January 25, 1967)

The red and silver stripes were removed from the Hessian coat of arms, the black bars represent the County of Isenburg to which the Office Kelsterbach belonged to 1600, and the heart shield symbolizes the dynasty of Dornsberg and their Katzenelsohn Boger successor, who reigned over the region before 1479 was Hesse.

The individual coat of arms in the county area are to be found in the list of the coat of arms in the district of Gross -Gerau.

Traffic

And 60 ( Rüsselsheim - Bingen ) by the circular area the federal highways 67 - (- Darmstadt mönchhof triangle Mannheim) perform as well as a few kilometers of the A 3 ( Frankfurter Kreuz - Wiesbaden junction ), the A5 (Exit Langen / Mörfelden ) and the A 671 ( Mainspitz triangle - Wiesbaden). In addition, several federal, state and county roads open up the district area, including the B 42 (and their old route, now L 3482 ), B 44 and B 486 Furthermore, the Frankfurt immediately adjoining the district airport carries on Main for international connectivity of the circle when.

Cities and Towns

The youngest city of the circle is Ginsheim, which was lodged on April 29, 2013 to the city.

(Population at 31 December 2012)

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