Among other things, Margit Ksoll-Marcon conceived and initiated various exhibitions on the history of the Bavarian Constitutions during her professional career. The aim was always to permanently anchor the Constitution as the basis of our community in the historical consciousness of the population. For many years, a further focus of their work was cross-border cooperation with Czech archives, making it an invaluable contribution to the confrontation with the alternating common history of the people in the Czech Republic and Bavaria and thus to international understanding. Margit Ksoll-Marcon has acquired great merits to preserve and share the constitutional history of the Free State. Press release of the Bayerische Landtag: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/current/certificate/constitutionalmedaille/hirung-der-verfassungsorden-2022/ To the funerals: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/fileadmin/Internet_Documents/press/W%C3%BCrdungen_Ordenstr%C3%A4ger_2022.pdf Constitutional Orders: https://www.bayern.landtag.de/current/labelling/constitutionalmedaille/ Posted on 5.12.2022

With a systematic, top-ranking territorial reform at all three administrative levels – governmental districts, counties and municipalities – the Free State of Bavaria was given the first. July 1972 a new internal order. From 1967 the preparations were carried out, and in 1972 the new division of the circle was effective, until 1978 the communes were merged, and in 1983 the last corrections were completed. The number of municipalities fell from 7073 in 1970 to 2052 in May 1978, from 143 counties were 71, from 48 countless cities remained 25. The Ministry of Interior under Minister of State Dr. Bruno Merk (CSU) saw in the reform the decisive prerequisite for modern and citizen-oriented administration. Especially in the dissolved counties and municipalities there were some violent discussions and resistances. In order to commemorate the reform, a small exhibition was conceived by the Bavarian Main State Archive and the State Archive Augsburg. The preparatory work and plans, as well as the example of the government district of Schwaben, will focus on concrete implementation and protests. The last section is dedicated to the memory of territorial reform. The county of Schwaben halved in the course of territorial reform the number of counties of twenty formerly, of ten countless cities remained four; the rest were found with the status of a large district. The number of Swedish municipalities decreased from 1039 in 1970 to 340 after the reform, some of which were combin