District Office Ohrdruf

Basic data
Inventory period	1858-1922
Administrative headquarters	Ohrdruf
surface	413 km² (1910)
Residents	44,964 (1910)
Population density	109 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	36 (1908)
Saxony-Gotha with its district offices

Seal mark HS Landrathsamt Ohrdruf

The district office of Ohrdruf was an administrative district in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and in the Free State of Saxe-Gotha from 1858 to 1922 . Its former area now belongs to the districts of Gotha and Schmalkalden-Meiningen as well as to the Ilm district in Thuringia .

history

The Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire was divided into independent cities and district offices in 1858. In addition to the three independent cities of Gotha , Ohrdruf and Waltershausen , the three district offices of Ohrdruf, Gotha and Waltershausen were formed in the Gotha part of the country, the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha . In addition to the immediate vicinity of Ohrdruf, the district office of Ohrdruf also included the Traßdorf exclave with Kettmannshausen and Neuroda .

In 1918, the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha became the Free State of Saxony-Gotha , which in turn became part of the new state of Thuringia on May 1, 1920 . The town of Zella St. Blasii and Mehlis left the district office in 1919 and merged to form the independent town of Zella-Mehlis . During a comprehensive regional reform on October 1, 1922, the district office of Ohrdruf was dissolved:

• The communities Arlesberg , Dörrberg , Elgersburg , Frankenhain , Gehlberg , Gera , Gossel , Graefenroda , Kettmannshausen , Liebenstein , Manebach , Neuroda , Rippersroda and Traßdorf came to the new district of Arnstadt .
• All other communities came to the new district of Gotha .

Population development

year	1900	1910
Residents	37,897	44,964

Cities and municipalities with more than 2,000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Graefenroda	2,796
Mehlis	6,625
Tambach	3,008
Wolfis	2,045
Zella-Sankt Blasii	5,690

Communities

Arlesberg Crawinkel Dietharz Dörrberg Elgersburg Emleben Frankenhain Gehlberg Georgenthal

Gera Gossel Graefenhain Graefenroda Heerda 1 Manor Hohenkirchen Kettmannshausen Love stone

Manebach Mehlis Nauendorf Neuroda Oberhof Petriroda Rippersroda Schönau in front of the forest Schwabhausen

Black Forest Stutzhaus Tambach Tambuchshof 1 Traßdorf Wechmar Wipperoda Wolfis Zella St. Blasii , city

¹The municipalities Heerda and Tambuchshof were in 1908 during the construction of the training area Ohrdruf dissolved

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .