District of Saalfeld

This article deals with the former Saalfeld district between 1869 and 1952. For the Saalfeld district ( Gera district ) from 1952 to 1990 and the Saalfeld district ( Thuringia ) from 1990 to 1994 see Saalfeld district

Basic data
Inventory period	1869-1952
Administrative headquarters	Saalfeld
Residents	80,773 (1939)
Communities	116 (1939)
The district of Saalfeld in Saxony-Meiningen
Location of the Saalfeld district in Thuringia in 1922

The district of Saalfeld was a district in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from 1869 to 1952 and then in the state of Thuringia . The district seat was in Saalfeld . Today, the district is largely part of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district and the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

history

When the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen was reorganized in 1869, the administrative offices of Camburg and Saalfeld formed the district of Saalfeld as one of four districts. The other three counties were Hildburghausen , Sonneberg and Meiningen . The Saalfeld district included the exclaves Camburg , Milda , Mosen , Rödelwitz , Großkochberg and Kranichfeld . On January 1st, 1913 there was an exchange of territory with the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach :

• The district of Saalfeld received the Weimar-Eisenacher parts of the communities Kranichfeld and Stedten and the community of Köstitz .
• The district of Saalfeld gave its part to the community of Hohenfelden , the community of Lichtenhain b. Jena and the Mosen exclave to Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.

In 1918 the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen became a Free State and in 1920 it was incorporated into the new Free State of Thuringia. In Thuringia, a comprehensive regional reform took place in 1922, which led to the new delimitation of the Saalfeld district. The district transferred a large number of communities to the districts of Arnstadt , Jena-Roda , Rudolstadt , Sonneberg and Weimar as well as to the Camburg district department . At the same time, a number of new communities joined the Saalfeld district:

• from the disbanded District Office Rudolstadt the town of Leutenberg and the communities of Arnsbach , Breternitz , Bucha , Burglemnitz , Döhlen , Dorfilm , Eichicht , Eyba , Fischersdorf , Gleima , Heberndorf , Hirzbach , Hockeroda , Kleingeschwenda , Knobelsdorf , Könitz , Laasen , Landsendorf , Munschwitz - St. Jakob , Preßwitz , Reschwitz , Roda , Rosenthal , Schweinbach , Steinsdorf , Tauschwitz , Unterloquitz , Unterwirbach , Volkmannsdorf , Wallendorf , Weischwitz , the Schwarzburg part of the community of Weitisberga , Wickersdorf , Wittmannsgereuth , Witzendorf , Wöhlsdorf and Zopten .
• from the disbanded administrative district Neustadt an der Orla the communities Daumitsch , Döbritz , Grobengereuth , Keila , Kleindembach , Kolba , Langendembach , Laskau , Nimritz , Oberoppurg , Oppurg , Rehmen and Solkwitz
• the municipalities of Geiersthal and Lichte from the dissolved Königsee District Office
• from the disbanded District Office Roda the communities Langenorla , Saalthal and Schweinitz
• from the dissolved Schleiz District Office, the Russian part of the community of Weitisberga

In October 1945, most of the dissolved Prussian district of Ziegenrück was incorporated into the district of Saalfeld.

During the first major territorial reform in the GDR on July 1, 1950, several territorial changes took place:

• The communities of Naundorf , Oberpreilipp , Schloßkulm , Unterpreilipp and Unterwirbach moved from the Saalfeld district to the Rudolstadt district .
• The communities Heberndorf , Keila , Liebengrün , Liebschütz , Paska and Ziegenrück moved from the district of Saalfeld to the district of Schleiz .
• The communities Hasenthal and Spechtsbrunn moved from the Saalfeld district to the Sonneberg district .

During the territorial reform of 1952 in the GDR , the state of Thuringia was dissolved and a new district structure was created:

• The city of Lehesten and the communities of Gleima , Schmiedebach and Weitisberga moved from the Saalfeld district to the new Lobenstein district .
• The communities Gebersdorf , Buchbach , Creunitz , Gösselsdorf , Graefenthal , Großneundorf , Lichte , Lichtenhain , Lippelsdorf , Piesau , Reichmannsdorf , Schmiedefeld and Sommersdorf moved from the district of Saalfeld to the new district of Neuhaus am Rennweg .
• The town of Pößneck and the communities of Daumitsch , Döbritz , Friedebach , Grobengereuth , Herschdorf b. Volksberg , Kolba , Langenorla , Laskau , Lausnitz , Nimritz , Oberoppurg , Oppurg , Rehmen , Schweinitz and Solkwitz moved from the Saalfeld district to the new Pößneck district .
• The municipality of Birkenheide moved from the Saalfeld district to the Rudolstadt district .
• The core area of ​​the district continued as the Saalfeld district .
• The districts of Lobenstein, Pößneck, Rudolstadt and Saalfeld were assigned to the new district of Gera , while the district of Neuhaus am Rennweg became part of the new district of Suhl .

coat of arms

Blazon : "Three green conifers in silver, a silver wavy bar in the base of the shield."

Justification of the coat of arms: The district coat of arms was officially approved on March 13, 1948 and used until 1952. The conifers stand for the various forest-rich parts of the circle, the wavy band for the hall as a connecting element. The representation of the first publication, and only this one, was surrounded by eight medallions with symbols of the regional economy: forestry, mining, agriculture, printing, leather production, textile and porcelain industry and mechanical engineering.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910	1925	1939	1946
District of Saalfeld	58,486	65,603	71,223	73,664	80,773	124.045

Population of communities with more than 2,000 inhabitants (as of 1939):

local community	Residents
Graefenthal	2,626
Poessneck	16,045
Probstzella	2,054
Saalfeld	21,980

Communities

As of 1939

In 1939 the district of Saalfeld comprised five cities and 111 other municipalities:

Arnsbach Arnsgereuth Aue on the mountain Bernsdorf Beulwitz Birch heather Birkigt Bock and pond Burner green Breternitz Bucha Buchbach Burglemnitz Creunitz Toast Dumbitsch Dobritz Döhlen Village film Dorfkulm Eichicht Eyba Fischersdorf Friedebach Gebersdorf Geiersthal Gleima Gorndorf Gösselsdorf

Graefenthal , city Grobengereuth Großgeschwenda Grossneundorf Hasenthal Heberndorf Herschdorf b. People Mountain Herschdorf b. Poessneck Hirzbach Stool soda Hohenwarte Huts Jehmichen Keila Kleindembach Kleingeschwenda b. Arnsgereuth Kleingeschwenda b. People Mountain Kleinneundorf Knobelsdorf Köditz Kolba Koenigsthal Koenitz Laasen Landsendorf Langendembach Langenorla Long damage Laskau

Lausnitz Lehesten , city Volksberg , city Light Lichtenhain Light fir Limbach Lippelsdorf Lositz Marktgölitz Munschwitz - St. Jakob Naundorf Nimritz Oberloquitz Obernitz Oberoppurg Oberpreilipp Oberwellenborn Oppurg Piesau Pippelsdorf Pößneck , city Probstzella Rehmen Reichenbach b. Rudolstadt Reichenbach b. Unterloquitz Reichmannsdorf Remschütz Reschwitz

Roda Rosenthal Saalfeld , city Schaderthal Schlaga Schlosskulm Schmiedebach Blacksmith field Schweinbach Schweinitz Solkwitz Sommersdorf Spechtsbrunn Steinsdorf Taubenbach Swap joke Unterloquitz Lower price lip Unterwellenborn Unterwirbach Volkmannsdorf Wallendorf Weischwitz Weitisberga Wickersdorf Wittmannsgereuth Witzendorf Wöhlsdorf Pigtails

Municipalities that were eliminated or dissolved before 1939

During the Thuringian district reform of 1922, the Saalfeld district gave a large number of its communities to neighboring administrative districts:

• The communities Achelstädt , Gügleben and Osthausen became part of the new district of Arnstadt .
• The municipalities Aue , Boblas , Camburg , Casekirchen , Cauer joke , Crauschwitz , Crölpa-Löbschütz , Dobrichau , Döbritschen , Eckolstädt , Freiroda , Graitschen at the height , Heiligenkreuz , Janisroda , Kaatschen , small Gestewitz , small Prießnitz , Köckenitzsch , Leislau , Molau , Münchengosserstädt , envy contactor , Posewitz , Prießnitz , Rodameuschel , Schieben , Schinditz , Schleuskau , Schmiedehausen , Seidewitz , Seiselitz , Sieglitz , Stöben , Thierschneck , Tultewitz , Tümpling , Utenbach , Weichau , Wichmar , Wonnitz , Würchhausen and Zöthen formed the new Camburg district .
• The communities Catharinau , Großkochberg , Rödelwitz , Weißbach and Weißen came to the new district of Rudolstadt .
• The community of Hohenofen came to the district of Sonneberg
• The communities of Milda and Vierzehnheiligen came to the new district of Jena-Roda .
• The communities of Barchfeld an der Ilm , Kranichfeld , Riechheim , Stedten , Treppendorf and Untersteusulza came to the new district of Weimar .

Several communities were incorporated during the existence of the district:

• Köstitz , 1919 to the city of Pößneck
• Garnsdorf , 1922 to the city of Saalfeld
• Graba , 1922 to the city of Saalfeld
• Meernach , 1923 to Graefenthal
• Preßwitz , in 1938 at Hohenwarte
• Saalthal , 1938 to Bucha
• Schlettwein , 1923 to the city of Pößneck
• Röblitz , 1923 to Unterwellenborn

District directors / district administrators

• 1922–1924: Max Gross
• 1924–1933: Johannes Rasch
• 1933–1942: Hans Ludwig
• from 1942: Otto Schäfer (substitute)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. saalfeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District Saalfeld
3. ^ Third ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia
4. ↑ 1. Ordinance on the implementation of the law amending the district and municipal boundaries in the state of Thuringia of April 26, 1950
5. ^ Correction of the 1st regulation
6. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
7. ↑ 1946 census