Wooden circle

The wooden circle was a territory in the northern part of the historic ore monastery of Magdeburg . With the Archbishopric in 1680, the district became part of the Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg , and together with it it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701 and existed until 1806.

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Towns of the wood circle around 1790 in the Duchy of Magdeburg (blue), background: map of today's Saxony-Anhalt (gray): wood circle I, wood circle II and wood circle III.

In 1784 the Holzkreis had 75,741 inhabitants without the cities and without the military. Since 1716 he was divided into three districts, each with its own district administrator, namely in

• the 1st district (1784: 31,089 inhabitants) with
  • the six immediate cities of Aken , Calbe , Egeln , Groß Salze (in today's Bad Salzelmen von Schönebeck district ), Magdeburg (roughly corresponds to today's Altstadt district) and Staßfurt ,
  • the five media cities of Frohse (now part of Schönebeck), Hadmersleben , Schönebeck, Sudenburg (now part of Magdeburg) and Wanzleben ,
  • the eleven royal offices of Aken , Athensleben , Brumby (today part of Staßfurt), Calbe , Egeln , Gottesgnaden , Möllenvogtei in Magdeburg, Rosenburg , Schönebeck , Staßfurt and Wanzleben as well
  • 95 large and small villages and towns;

• the 2nd district (1784: 24,090 inhabitants) with
  • the two media cities Neustadt (now part of Magdeburg) and Seehausen ,
  • the five royal offices of Ampfurth , Dreileben , Schermcke , Sommerschenburg and Ummendorf as well
  • 71 villages and other localities; and

• the 3rd district (1784: 20,562 inhabitants) with
  • the two immediate cities of Neuhaldensleben and Oebisfelde ,
  • the media city Wolmirstedt ,
  • the three royal offices of Alvensleben (now part of Bebertal ), Hillersleben and Wolmirstedt as well
  • 85 ecclesiastical, aristocratic, official and other localities.

In 1806 Napoleon Bonaparte assigned the area west of the Elbe to the Kingdom of Westphalia of his brother Jérôme , whereby the wooden circle was dissolved. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the area became Prussian again, but now the districts of Calbe a./S. , Wanzleben , Haldensleben and Wolmirstedt . The exclave around Oebisfelde came with the western part of the Altmark to the district of Gardelegen .

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• Hanns Gringmuth: The organization of the authorities in the Duchy of Magdeburg - its development and integration into the Brandenburg-Prussian state. Dissertation at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 1934.
• Johann Ludwig von Heineccius: Detailed topographical description of the Duchy of Magdeburg and the County of Mansfeld, Magdeburgische Antheils. Decker, Berlin 1785.
• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt , Johann Friedrich Stiebritz: Pagus Neletici Et Nudzici, or diplomatic-historical description of the Saal-Creyses, and all cities, castles, offices, manors, noble families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages etc. , volume 1, 1772, p. 684 ff. Online