Jerichow Circle

Sandau Görzke Loburg Moan Castle Genthin Jerichow

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

The Jerichowsche Kreis 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 in 1701 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

In 1784, without the towns and without the military, the Jerichow district had 32,359 inhabitants. It was divided into two districts, each with its own district administrator, namely in

• the 1st district (1784: 9400 inhabitants) with
  • the two immediate cities of Burg and Loburg ,
  • the two media cities of Görzke and Möckern ,
  • the royal office of Loburg,
  • the baronial office (von der Hagen) Möckern as well
  • 74 official, clerical, noble and other dominions; such as

• the 2nd district (1784: 22,959 inhabitants) with
  • the Immediatstadt Sandau ,
  • the two media cities Genthin and Jerichow ,
  • the five royal offices of Altenplathow , Jerichow, Sandau, Derben and Ferchland as well
  • 151 villages and towns.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1816, both districts were transferred to the new districts of Jerichow I and Jerichow II district , with the former Ziesarsche district also becoming the Jerichow I district. The Amt of Gommern , which was handed over to the Kingdom of Westphalia by Kursachsen in 1806 , was conquered by Prussia in 1813 and also became part of the Jerichow I.

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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.