Langensalza district

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The district of Langensalza was a district in the Prussian province of Saxony from 1816 to 1945 and in the state of Thuringia in the SBZ and GDR from 1945 to 1950 . The district seat was in the city of Langensalza . In 1939 the district comprised three cities and 38 municipalities.

Administrative history

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Langensalza district was established in the Erfurt administrative district of the province of Saxony on October 1, 1816 . The district office was in Langensalza. The district consisted of the former electoral office of Langensalza without the exclave of fences . In the same month, the communities Bothenheilingen and Bruchstedt transferred from the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen to Prussia and the Langensalza district. Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . In 1869 the desert brands Lingula, Sebeda and Hornbach moved from the Langensalza district to the Mühlhausen i. Th.

On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Langensalza district in line with developments in the rest of Prussia, in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939, the Langensalza district was given the designation Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation . After the dissolution of the Province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district continued to belong to the State of Prussia, but was now subordinate to the administration of the Reich Governor for Thuringia in Weimar - in alignment with the Reich Defense Districts . In the spring of 1945 the district was first occupied by the American armed forces and then part of the state of Thuringia in the Soviet occupation zone .

As part of the first district reform in the GDR , the district was dissolved in 1950 and divided into three neighboring districts:

In 1952 there was an extensive administrative reform in the GDR , during which, among other things, the states of the GDR lost their importance and new districts were established. A new district of Langensalza was formed from communities in the districts of Erfurt, Gotha and Mühlhausen , which was assigned to the district of Erfurt . After the reunification of the two German states, the district became the district of Langensalza in 1990 in the re-established state of Thuringia , which was almost completely absorbed into the new Unstrut-Hainich district during the district reform of 1994 . Some communities fell to the Wartburg district and the district of Gotha .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 24,784
1843 31,312
1871 34,764
1890 37,267
1900 37,636
1910 38,930
1925 39,632
1933 40,337
1939 40,073
1946 57,977

District administrators

Local constitution

The Langensalza district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

cities and communes

As of 1939

In 1939 the district of Langensalza comprised three cities and 38 municipalities:

Name changes

  • 1925 Tennstedt → Bad Tennstedt

literature

  • Eduard Graf: Local history of the Langensalza district 1886. (Reprint) . Rockstuhl, Langensalza 1886, ISBN 3-936030-27-8 , p. 64 .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Langensalza  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Langensalza district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. ^ Thirteenth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from September 26, 1946
  3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Erfurt, p. 355 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 297 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  6. ↑ 1946 census