History The district in its present form was established on July NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 by merging the former districts of PERSON@1 , LOCATION@1 and Wittlage , and most of the old district of LOCATION@2 .

The district was established in NUMBER@2 by merging four old districts -LRB- LOCATION@2 , PERSON@1 , LOCATION@1 , Wittlage -RRB- .
