Headquarters Dippoldiswalde

Headquarters Dippoldiswalde

Basic data
District Headquarters	Dresden
Administrative headquarters	Dippoldiswalde
surface	644 km² (1939)
population	61,875 (1939)
Population density	96 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Location of the Dippoldiswalde administration in 1905

The Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde was an administrative district in the Kingdom of Saxony . The administrative area also existed in the subsequent Free State, Gau or Land Saxony until 1952 and was called Dippoldiswalde district from 1939 to 1952 . Today, its area is largely part of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony.

history

The Amtshauptmannschaft , founded in 1874, emerged from the judicial districts of Altenberg (Erzgebirge) , Dippoldiswalde , Frauenstein and Lauenstein . It had its administrative seat in Dippoldiswalde Castle.

Amtshauptmannschaft was changed in 1939 to the uniform imperial designation Landkreis .

In 1952 the Dippoldiswalde district was reorganized as part of the GDR district reform . The legal successor was the smaller district of Dippoldiswalde . Parts of the area went to the districts of Freital and Brand-Erbisdorf . The area around Breitenau was assigned to the Pirna district .

Office governors and district administrators

• 1874–1877 Hans Alexander von Bosse
• 1877–1891 Emil von Kessinger
• 1891–1894 Haubold von Einsiedel
• 1894–1898 Georg Uhlemann
• 1898–1903 Karl Joseph Maximilian Lossow
• 1903–1909 Wilhelm Maximilian Mehnert
• 1909–1914 Carlo Johann Baptist Alfred Sala
• 1914–1932 Holm Edler von der Planitz
• 1933–1945 Leo Freiherr von Milititz

geography

location

The main office of Dippoldiswalde was in the eastern Ore Mountains and its foothills and thus in the south of the higher-level Dresden district main office . The administrative district was bounded in the north by the Dresden administration , in the east by the Pirna administration , in the south by the Kingdom of Bohemia (Austria-Hungary) and from 1918 by the ČSR and in the west by the Freiberg administration .

Administrative division

The administrative area included the cities of Altenberg, Bärenstein , Dippoldiswalde, Frauenstein, Geising , Glashütte (Saxony) and Lauenstein as well as 111 villages. In 1910 it covered about 652 km², in which around 58,300 inhabitants lived.

The adjacent areas can be found in the administrative structure of the Kingdom of Saxony .

structure

It was the most sparsely populated and least urbanized administrative authority in Saxony. It was also at the bottom of all Saxon authorities in terms of the proportion of employed people in the total population.

literature

• Thomas Klein : Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945. Row B: Central Germany. Tape. 14: Saxony. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1982, ISBN 3-87969-129-0 , pp. 314-315.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (Ed.): Statistics in Saxony . 175 years of official statistics in Saxony (Festschrift). No. 1 , 2006, ISSN  0949-4480 , p. 69–98 ( Online [PDF; 6.3 MB ; accessed on December 23, 2012]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )