Karlsruhe (district)
The district is a district of Karlsruhe in Baden- Württemberg. It belongs to the region of the Middle Upper Rhine in the district of Karlsruhe and cross-border regions Pamina.
- 3.1 District
- 3.2 Kreistag
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 3.4 partnerships
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 District facilities
- 5.1 Cities and Towns before the district reform
Geography
The district of Karlsruhe bordered to the north by the Rhein- Neckar district, on the east by the district of Heilbronn, on the southeast by the Enz and the south by the district of Calw and to the district of Rastatt. To the west of the Rhine forms except for one small exception, the natural border with the state of Rhineland- Palatinate. The adjacent counties are there Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis and Germersheim, and the independent city of Speyer. The urban district of Karlsruhe pushes like a wedge into the circulatory area and divides it almost completely into a larger northern part of the city Bruchsal and Bretten, and a smaller southern section around the city of Ettlingen, only by about 60 meters long border (48 ° 57 ' 13 " N, 8 ° 32 ' 17 " O48.9536918.537953 ) are connected between the municipalities Pfinztal and Karlovy Vary.
The district of Karlsruhe has a share in the Upper Rhine Plain, on the Kraichgau and at the foothills of the Black Forest. The district area is largely in the Black Forest Nature Park Central / North.
History
The district of Karlsruhe goes back to the old Oberamt Karlsruhe, which was built soon after the founding of the city of Karlsruhe in 1717, but was later responsible for some communities except Karlsruhe. 1809 Oberamt Karlsruhe was divided into a land office in Karlsruhe and a municipal office in Karlsruhe in 1865 but reunited to the district office in Karlsruhe. 1938, the county Karlsruhe was transferred to the district of Karlsruhe and created the city of Karlsruhe district simultaneously. Since then, Karlsruhe no longer belongs to the district, but always remained the seat of the district administration. In the district reform on 1 January 1973 the district of Karlsruhe was to the entire district of Bruchsal, and by a total of 10 places in the counties Sinsheim (6 places ), Vaihingen (1 site with subsite ), Pforzheim (1 site) and Rastatt (1 place ) enlarged to its present size. At the same time, the county was in 1972 from a total of 7 locations on the urban district of Karlsruhe. It covers after the municipal reform still 32 municipalities, including 9 cities and 5 hereof, in turn, large district towns ( Bretten, Bruchsal, Ettlingen, Rheinstetten and Stutensee ). Largest city is Bruchsal, smallest municipality is Zaisenhausen. In Bruchsal is a branch office of the District Office.
Population Development
The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates by the State Statistical Office of Baden- Württemberg ( only primary residences ).
Policy
The district is administered by the county council and the district administration.
District
The District 's legal representative and a representative of the district as well as Chairman of the County Council and its committees. He directs the district office and is an official of the circle. His area of responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He shall convene meetings, directs this and implements the decisions taken there. In the bodies he has no voting rights. His deputy is the first state officials.
The upper office men or district administrators of the District Office / District Office / district Karlsruhe since 1810:
Council
The district council is elected by the voters in the district for five years. This body elects the District for a term of eight years. The district council elections in 2009 gave the following result:
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the district of Karlsruhe shows in geviertem Shield: 1 in gold, a red oblique beams, 2 in blue, a continuous, polished silver cross, 3 schräggerautet of silver and blue, 4 in gold three diagonally left lying black stag antlers above the other (Coat of Arms Awards August 31 1973)
The four parts symbolize the coat of arms symbols of the four former dominions, which the district area divided until 1803: the Margrave of Baden ( oblique bars), the Bishopric of Speyer (cross), the Palatinate (diamonds) and the Duchy of Württemberg ( deer antler ).
Before the district reform in the former district of Karlsruhe had a different coat of arms. It was split in Front blade in yellow a red oblique beams, back in blue on a lowered silver wave beams a silver atom symbol. The coat of arms was the district of Karlsruhe awarded on January 25, 1961 by the Ministry of Economy Baden -Württemberg.
The oblique red bar is the former Baden coat of arms, indicating that the area to the heartland of Baden belongs. The wave bar symbolizes the Rhine, the western boundary of the district and the atomic symbol should indicate the existing in the community Leopoldshafen Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe. The colors blue and silver ( white) were the arms of the Electoral Palatinate Wittelsbach taken as some communes of the district formerly belonged to Electoral Palatinate.
See also: List of coats of arms in the district of Karlsruhe
Partnerships
- County of Gwent in Wales ( UK ) since 1978. ( 1996 Gwent County was divided by an administrative reform. The partnership has since performed with the districts of Monmouthshire and Torfaen on.)
- Döbeln in Saxony since 1990
- Sha'ar Hanegev region in Israel since 1992
Economy
Traffic
By the district including the B 3 (Basel -Heidelberg ), leads the Federal Highway 5 (Basel -Frankfurt ) and the Federal Highway 8 ( Saarbrücken Stuttgart ), several federal highways, the B 292 (from Bad Schönborn- long bridges), the B 35 ( Germersheim -Illingen ) and B 36 ( Lahr -Mannheim ), and highways. An important railway node is Bruchsal. The district area is well served by the network of Stadtbahn Karlsruhe, as well as the S- Bahn Rhein -Neckar. Several lines lead from Karlsruhe in almost all directions up to Heilbronn, Baden- Baden, Bad Herrenalb or Kraichtal. The network will be further expanded. Public transport is provided by the Karlsruhe Transport Association.
County facilities
The district of Karlsruhe is Schulträger following Vocational Schools: Vocational School, home economics school and commercial school for Bretten, Balthasar -Neumann- School I (Business School ) Bruchsal and Balthasar- Neumann -Schule II (Business School ) Bruchsal, Handelslehranstalt Bruchsal ( Commercial School ), Käthe Kollwitz School ( house cost- socio-educational school) Bruchsal, Albert Einstein School ( Industrial School ) Ettlingen, Bertha -von- Suttner- school (House Economical - social educational, agricultural and biotechnological school) Ettlingen and Wilhelm Röpke School ( Commercial School ) Ettlingen furthermore, the following special schools: Eduard- Spranger - school for the mentally handicapped with Schulkindergarten Bretten, Karl- Berberich - School for mentally handicapped with Schulkindergarten Bruchsal, Garden school for mentally handicapped with Schulkindergarten Ettlingen, Hardt Forest School for Mentally Handicapped Karlsruhe- Neureut, Ludwig Guttmann School for the Physically disabled Carlsbad Langensteinbach and Astrid Lindgren school for children with speech defects with Schulkindergarten forest.
The district of Karlsruhe is also the carrier of the two hospitals prince - Stirum Clinic Bruchsal and Bretten Rechenberg clinic and a waste management operation.
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Cities
Agreed administrative communities and local government associations
Communities
Cities and Towns before the district reform
Before the district reform on 1 January 1973 and the municipal reform were part of the ( old ) district of Karlsruhe since 1938 a total of 58 municipalities, including the cities of Bretten and Ettlingen, which was Ettlingen since 1966 large district.
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 old district of Karlsruhe made several municipalities on 1 January 1971. At this time, combined with Rinklingen Bretten, Sulzbach with paint and Jöhlingen and Wössingen to the municipality Walzbachtal. In the following years the number of municipalities decreased steadily. On January 1, 1973, the old district of Karlsruhe went on in the new enlarged district of Karlsruhe.
Largest parish of the old district of Karlsruhe was the large district town of Ettlingen, smallest municipality was Sprantal.
The old district of Karlsruhe included last an area of 582 km ² and had at the 1970 census, a total of 201 629 inhabitants.
Population development of the old district of Karlsruhe until 1970. All population figures are census results.
The communities of the old district of Karlsruhe before the municipal reform. Up on those who are in the urban district of Karlsruhe communities all municipalities belong still to the district of Karlsruhe:
Others
The district of Karlsruhe has the most churches with a double name in Baden- Württemberg.