The district of Nürtingen was a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

(''Landkreis'') in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, which was dissolved in the course of the district reform on January 1, 1973.

Geography

Location

The district Nürtingen was in the middle of

History

The territory of the district Nürtingen belonged already before 1800 mainly to

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Württ ...

. Therefore, it existed before 1800, the Oberamt Nürtingen and Oberamt Kirchheim. In 1934 the Oberamt offices were renamed to counties and according to the law on the country classification of April 24, 1938, the district Kirchheim was united on October 1, 1938 with the district Nürtingen. For county seat Nürtingen was determined. In 1945, the county Nürtingen came to the newly formed country

Württemberg-Baden Württemberg-Baden was a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was created in 1945 by the United States occupation forces, after the previous states of Baden and Württemberg had been split up between the US and French occupation zones. ...

, which opened in 1952 in the state

. With effect from January 1, 1973 the district Nürtingen was dissolved. Its communities went almost entirely to the new district of Esslingen. The municipality Grafenberg however came to the district of Reutlingen.

Towns and municipalities

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Landkreis Nürtingen Former districts of Baden-Württemberg 1972 disestablishments in West Germany