Apolda district

Basic data
District :	Erfurt
Administrative headquarters :	Apolda
Area :	243 km²
Residents:	47,100 (Oct 3, 1990)
Population density:	194 inhabitants per km²
License plate :	L and F (1953–1990) LA (1974–1990) APD (1991–1995)
Postcodes :	53xx
Circle structure:	47 municipalities (1956)
Location of the district in the GDR

The Apolda district was a district in the Erfurt district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Apolda in the state of Thuringia . His area is now in the Weimarer Land district in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Apolda .

geography

location

The district was in the northeastern part of the state of Thuringia and bordered in the north on the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The district was crossed in a north-easterly direction by the Ilm Valley and its adjacent Ilmauen. As a result, the district area was delimited into the lower, northern part and the southern part belonging to the Ilm-Saale-Platte . The hilly country was mainly characterized by agricultural use.

The highest point was 350 meters above sea level in Kleinromstedt.
The lowest point was 120 meters above sea level in Großheringen.

Neighboring areas

The Apolda district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Naumburg , Jena-Land , Weimar-Land and Sömmerda districts .

history

Apolda had been an independent urban district since 1922, but was reintegrated into the Weimar district in 1950. On July 25, 1952, this was divided and Apolda was the district town of the (smaller) eastern part of the old district in the newly formed Erfurt district.

On May 17, 1990 the district was renamed the Apolda district. On October 3, 1990, with the restoration of Germany's unity, the territory that had previously belonged to the Erfurt district was taken over to the state of Thuringia with initially unchanged district boundaries. On July 1, 1994, the Apolda district and the Weimar district in the west were united to form the new Weimarer Land district . Apolda remained the county seat.

Population development

year	Residents
1955	58,300
1960	53,967
1975	50,919
1990	47,100

politics

District council

The highest organ of the Apolda district was the district council, which usually held its deliberations in the Volkshaus “An der Klause” (today: town hall). In addition to their work in the plenum, the elected members of the district council were active in various committees that were assigned to the individual subject areas of the council. A member of the district council was able to use all public transport in the district free of charge. He also received a modest monthly allowance. One of the most important tools and a form of democratic participation was the right to hold parliamentary office hours in which complaints and inquiries from citizens were received and processed.

Council of the district

The council of the Apolda district initially had its seat on the property at Bahnhofstrasse 44 in Apolda. The front building was demolished in 1966 due to dilapidation, but the side and courtyard building was still used by the council. Previously, two more barracks for the administrative staff had been built on the upper property. In addition, the district council was in office in Villa Bahnhofstrasse 42 and Brandesstrasse 7.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was described by the district office of Apolda as follows:

“In the quartered coat of arms shield, the red-armored, black lion of the county of Weimar-Orlamünde, surrounded by six red hearts, is used at the top left. It is an indication that there is a piece of that old county in the area of the Apolda district.

The second field shows the order cross for the order commandery Liebstedt, a silver Latin cross on a black background. The three silver posts on a black background in the third field are the coat of arms of the Kapellendorfer rule. The red apple on a golden background symbolizes the apple of the Vitzthums family of Apolda. "

St. Vitus Church in Auerstedt	Church of Liebstedt
Marienkirche zu Mattstedt	Church of Niedertrebra
Church of Nirmsdorf	Seierturm zu Zottelstedt
Church of Obertrebra	Church to Darnstedt

Transport and infrastructure

Transport links

Today's federal motorway 4 Dresden - Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt) - Apolda - Erfurt - Eisenach - Frankfurt am Main with the Apolda junction (No. 50) crossed the district in the south. The district town of Apolda is located on the federal road 87 ( Ilmenau - Naumburg ), which was built in 1804 and is now the trunk road 87, which touched the city in the north and ran through the district in a south-west-northeast direction. The federal highway 7 , then trunk road 7, runs almost parallel to the federal highway 4 and thus crosses the district from west to east.

The Leipzig / Halle airport is about 110 kilometers from the county town of Apolda, the Erfurt airport about 40 kilometers.

The railway line of the Thuringian Railway runs in the same direction as the federal road 87 through the district. The train stations on the route are Apolda and Oßmannstedt.

Communities

The towns of Apolda and Bad Sulza as well as the 47 rural communities belonged to the district of Apolda : (day of foundation)

Bad Sulza administrative community (April 1, 1992)

Administrative Community Ilmtal-Weinstrasse (February 16, 1992)

Administrative Community Kleinromstedt (March 1, 1991)

Administrative Community Wormstedt (March 1, 1991)

The municipality Rohrbach was ausgemeindet on December 10, 1952 and assigned to the district of Weimar-Land. The municipality of Kaatschen-Weichau was created in 1956 from the amalgamation of the municipalities of Kaatschen and Weichau .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs beginning with the pair of letters LA from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was LX 20-01 to LX 40-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign APD . It was issued until January 31, 1995. It has been available in the Weimarer Land district since November 29, 2012 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .

↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990

↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 302 .

↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 505 .

literature

Julius Constantin Kronfeld: History and description of the factory and trading town of Apolda and its immediate surroundings. Apolda 1871.
Landratsamt Apolda: Sights in Apolda and its surroundings , 1993.

Web links

Commons : Kreis Apolda - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. apolda.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[Metzler-Poeschel-1] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .

[2] Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990

[3] Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 302 .

[4] Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 505 .