Altenburg district

Basic data (as of 1990)
Existing period:	1952-1990
District :	Leipzig
Administrative headquarters :	Altenburg
Area :	345 km²
Residents:	101,749 (Dec. 31, 1989)
Population density:	295 inhabitants per km²
License plate :	S and U (1953–1990) SA, SB (1974–1990)
Basic territorial key :	1301
Circle structure:	35
Location of the district in the GDR

Basic data (as of 1994)
Existing period:	1990-1994
State :	Thuringia
Administrative headquarters :	Altenburg
Area :	345.1 km 2
Residents:	97,847 (Dec 31, 1990)
Population density :	284 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	ABG
Circle key :	16 0 11
Circle structure:	28 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Lindenaustraße 9 04600 Altenburg
District Administrator :	Christian Gumprecht ( CDU )

The Altenburg district was a district in the Leipzig district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the Altenburg district in the state of Thuringia . His area is now in the Altenburger Land district in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Altenburg .

geography

location

Located on the southern edge of the Leipzig lowland bay, the Altenburg district extends between the districts of Halle ( Zeitz district ) in the northwest and Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Glauchau district ) in the southeast. The district town of Altenburg was about the same distance from the four major cities of Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Zwickau and Gera.

Neighboring areas

The Altenburg district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Borna , Geithain , Rochlitz , Glauchau , Schmölln and Zeitz districts .

Natural space

The former district area is in the Saxon hill country. Only the northern part belongs to the Leipzig lowland bay , which in the Pleiße valley reaches almost to Altenburg to the south. Accordingly, the land sinks from an average of 260 m in the south to around 160 m in the north. To the west of the Pleiße and in the area around Altenburg you can find fertile loess loam. Here, small river valleys cut 25 to 50 m deep, all of which are oriented towards the Pleiße. To the east of the Pleiße, the mixed forest of the Leina forest extends on flat, sandy meltwater deposits from the Ice Age . The forests of the Lehma and Wilchwitz forests are located in the same location in the north . The nature reserve Haselbacher Teiche lies between Altenburg and Borna in the broad lowlands of the Pleiße . To the north of Altenburg, the Pleiße reservoir Windischleuba was created as flood protection and was expanded to become a local recreation area.

history

After the Free State of Thuringia was founded on May 1, 1920, a new administrative structure was also set up on October 1, 1922. This is how the Altenburg district was formed. The Altenburg district was incorporated into the Altenburg district on July 1, 1950. At the beginning of 1945, the Altenburg district still comprised 174 communities. Only after the end of the war, on July 1, 1950, were 87 communities incorporated. The community of Mumsdorf as an exclave was ceded to the Zeitz district on July 1, 1950.

The law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the states in the German Democratic Republic of July 23, 1952 resulted in an extensive district reform in the five remaining states of the GDR . On July 25, 1952, the federal states were dissolved and 14 districts were established. Here traditional circles were dissolved or divided into smaller circles, whereby there were also changes of area beyond the borders of the former five countries. The Altenburg district was reduced in size by splitting off the Schmölln district . It was assigned to the Leipzig district , the city of Altenburg became the seat of the district.

The following 31 municipalities were given to the Schmölln district :

Altkirchen , Bornshain , Dobitschen , Dobra , drugs , Göldschen , Göllnitz , Gößnitz (town), Großmecka , Großstöbnitz , Köthel , Lumpzig , Mehna , Pfarrsdorf , Podelwitz , Ponitz , Prehna , Röthenitz , Schloßig , Schmölln (town), Selka , Taupadel , Thonhausen , Trebula , Untschen , Weißbach , Wildenbörten , Zehma , Zschöpperitz , Zumroda and Zürchau .

The following 55 communities remained in the old district of Altenburg :

Altenburg (city), Altpoderschau , Bocka , Burkersdorf b. Lehndorf , Ehrenberg , Ehrenhain , Engert village , Flemmingen , Fockendorf , Frohnsdorf , Gerstenberg , Göhren , Göpfersdorf , Großröda , Haselbach , Klausa , Kosma , Kotte Ritz , Kraasa , Kriebitzsch , Langenleuba-Niederhain , Lehma , Lehndorf , Lödla , Lohma-Zschernichen , Lucka ( City), Meuselwitz (city), Mockern , Mockzig , Molbitz , Monstab , Naundorf , Neuenmörbitz , Neupoderschau , Niederwiera , Nobitz , Oberarnsdorf , Oberleupten , Paditz , Posa , Prößdorf , Rositz , Serbitz , Starkenberg , Steinbach , Tegkwitz , Thräna , Treben , Waltersdorf , Wilchwitz , Windischleuba , Wintersdorf , Wolperndorf , Zechau and Zetzscha .

The communities Gähsnitz and Ziegelheim (with the districts Uhlmannsdorf and Niederarnsdorf ) from the district of Glauchau were also added, so that the new district of Altenburg now comprised 57 communities.

As a result of reclassifications across district boundaries and changes to the municipal area, the number of municipalities fell from initially 57 to 28 during the Thuringian district reform in 1994 :

• December 4, 1952 Reclassification of Falkenhain , Mumsdorf and Zipsendorf (with the district Brossen ) from the Zeitz district to the Altenburg district
• December 4, 1952 Steinbach was reclassified from the Altenburg district to the Geithain district
• December 4th 1952 Reclassification of Thräna from the Altenburg district to the Borna district
• January 1, 1957 Reclassification of Ruppersdorf with the OT Bosengröba from the Borna district to the Altenburg district
• January 1, 1957 Incorporation of Ruppersdorf into Wintersdorf
• January 1, 1957, Köthel was reclassified from the Altenburg district to the Glauchau district
• 1st January 1957 reclassification of Niederwiera with OT Röhrsdorf from the Altenburg district to the Glauchau district
• January 1, 1957 Merger of Altpoderschau and Neupoderschau to Poderschau (dissolved again in 1973)
• January 1, 1957 Reclassification of Naundorf from the Schmölln district to the Altenburg district
• 1st January 1957 incorporation of Kraasa in Naundorf
• January 1st, 1957 Gähsnitz is incorporated into Ziegelheim
• January 1, 1960 Kotteritz incorporated into Nobitz
• August 1st, 1963 Oberarnsdorf is incorporated into Ehrenhain
• May 1, 1965 Incorporation of Serbitz in Treben
• June 1, 1965 Incorporation of Mockzig in Ehrenberg
• June 1, 1965 Incorporation of Neuenmörbitz into Langenleuba-Niederhain
• June 15, 1965 Beiern was reclassified from the Flemmingen community to Langenleuba-Niederhain
• January 1, 1973 Lohma-Zschernichen is incorporated into Langenleuba-Niederhain
• January 1, 1973 incorporation of Burkersdorf b. Lehndorf in Lehndorf
• January 1, 1973 Incorporation of Klausa and Oberleupten in Nobitz
• January 1, 1973 incorporation of Molbitz into Rositz
• January 1, 1973 incorporation of Bocka in Windischleuba
• January 1, 1973 incorporation of Waltersdorf into Wintersdorf
• January 1, 1973 incorporation of Engertsdorf in Ziegelheim
• January 1, 1973 Dissolution of the Poderschau community into the two OT Altpoderschau and Neupoderschau
• January 1, 1973 reclassification from Neupoderschau to the city of Meuselwitz
• January 1, 1973 reclassification from Altpoderschau to Kriebitzsch
• January 1, 1973 Merger of Flemmingen and Wolperndorf zu Jückelberg .

Jückelberg had been part of Wolperndorf since July 1, 1950; in the course of the merger with Flemmingen, Jückelberg became the main town of the municipality.

• September 7, 1973 Paditz incorporated into Ehrenberg
• January 1st, 1974 Posa is incorporated in Starkenberg
• August 1st, 1977 incorporation of Zechau into Kriebitzsch
• May 6, 1993 incorporation of Wilchwitz into Nobitz
• July 14th, 1993 incorporation of Ehrenberg into the city of Altenburg
• October 16, 1993 incorporation of Mumsdorf into the city of Meuselwitz
• February 11, 1994 Zetzscha is incorporated into the city of Altenburg
• March 8, 1994 Incorporation of Prößdorf into the city of Lucka
• March 8, 1994 Incorporation of Falkenhain into the city of Meuselwitz
• March 8, 1994 Incorporation of Ehrenhain in Nobitz

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Altenburg district. In the citizen survey on the reintroduction of the states, 54% were in favor of belonging to Saxony , but the district council voted 38 to 25 in secret for Thuringia . For reunification of the circle was the ländereinführungsgesetz awarded to the re-established state of Thuringia. During the Thuringian district reform on July 1, 1994, he formed the district of Altenburger Land with the Schmölln district . "

politics

District Administrator

The only district administrator was Christian Gumprecht (CDU) from 1990 to 1994 and then until 2000 in the Altenburger Land district.

Culture and sights

• Altenburg city center with various sights (e.g. town hall and red lace )
• Altenburg residential palace with playing card museum
• Lindenau Museum Altenburg
• Natural History Museum Altenburg
• Area natural monument Paditzer Schanzen near Paditz / Stünzhain
• Ehrenberg Castle
• Renaissance manor house Oberzetzscha
• Lenin Park with Orangery Meuselwitz
• Windischleuba moated castle
• Market with Wettiner Fountain and Lucka Pankratius Church
• Baroque Treben Castle
• Viaducts on the Altenburg – Langenleuba-Oberhain railway line
• Pilgrimage church with Kreutzbach organ and Ziegelheim parsonage

economy

Around a third of the district area was arable land of high to medium soil quality on which grain and forage crops were grown. Cattle was also raised in the district. Fruit and vegetable growing was widespread north of Altenburg in the Pleißetal. Only about 10% of the district area was used for forestry. Another 10% came from the opencast lignite mines near Meuselwitz, Rositz and Haselbach. Meuselwitz is the cradle of central German open- cast lignite mining , as lignite was dug here for house-burning as early as 1671. The Rositz oil processing plant was the largest paraffin producer in the GDR. The textile industry, cigar and playing card production and sewing machine production were located in Altenburg, and beer and liqueur were also produced. Another industrial center was the city of Meuselwitz (machine, porcelain and textile industry).

Important industrial companies

• VEB sewing machine works Altenburg
• VEB Waggonbau Altenburg
• VEB tool factory Altenburg
• VEB Armaturenwerke Altenburg
• AREWA VEB car repair plant Altenburg
• VEB Altenburger Kotteritz wool spinning mill
• VEB fashion house Altenburg
• VEB hat and quilt factory Altenburg
• VEB "Bella" shoe factory Altenburg
• VEB printing house Maxim Gorki Altenburg
• VEB Altenburger playing card factory
• VEB Beverage Combine Leipzig, Altenburger Brewery division
• VEB Altenburger liqueur factory
• VEB Altenburger Mustard
• VEB Energiekombinat Leipzig, Altenburg branch
• VEB high frequency workshops Meuselwitz
• VEB Armaturenguß Meuselwitz
• VEB machine factory John Schehr Meuselwitz
• VEB leather glove factory Lucka
• VEB Vereinigte Wellpappenbetriebe Leipzig, Lucka branch
• VEB Glasveredelung Lucka
• VEB hard casting works Lucka
• VEB Petroleum Processing Combine Otto Grotewohl Böhlen, Rositz tar processing plant
• VEB sugar factory Delitzsch, Rositz branch
• VEB Braunkohlenkombinat Regis, Phönix / Rositz plant
• Verkehrskombinat Leipzig, VEB body repair Frankenhain, Ehrenhain plant
• VEB Glaswerk Haselbach

traffic

The city of Altenburg lies at the intersection of three trunk roads ( F 7 , F 93 , F 180 ) and three railway lines: the main line Leipzig – Gutenfürst and the branch lines Zeitz – Altenburg and Altenburg – Narsdorf .

Population data of cities and municipalities

Population overview of all 35 municipalities in the district that came to the re-established state of Thuringia in 1990.

TGS	AGS	local community	Residents		Area (ha)
			10/03/1990	December 31, 1990
130101	16011010	Altenburg, city	49,463	48,926	1,975
130104	16011040	Ehrenberg	1,169	1,160	1,410
130105	16011050	Grove of Honor	1,287	1,281	851
130107	16011070	Falcon Grove	596	588	463
130109	16011090	Fockendorf	955	953	883
130110	16011100	Frohnsdorf	360	350	437
130111	16011110	Gerstenberg	601	606	313
130112	16011120	Goehren	543	550	859
130113	16011130	Goepfersdorf	223	223	592
130114	16011140	Großröda	333	333	267
130115	16011150	Haselbach	1,151	1,144	274
130117	16011170	Kosma	387	380	634
130118	16011180	Kriebitzsch	1,638	1,632	1,330
130119	16011190	Langenleuba-Niederhain	2,350	2,324	3,969
130120	16011200	Lehma	430	425	1,595
130121	16011210	Lehndorf	1,039	1,021	941
130122	16011220	Lödla	705	700	430
130124	16011240	Lucka, town	6,082	6,060	1,015
130125	16011250	Meuselwitz, city	10,343	10.301	1,838
130126	16011260	Mockern	578	574	422
130128	16011280	Monstab	533	528	566
130129	16011290	Mumsdorf	861	860	311
130130	16011300	Naundorf	595	600	1,088
130131	16011310	Nobitz	2,265	2,239	1,403
130136	16011360	Proessdorf	370	366	286
130137	16011370	Rositz	3,898	3,877	1,266
130138	16011380	Starkenberg	1,383	1,387	805
130139	16011390	Tegkwitz	350	346	473
130140	16011400	Treben	1,191	1,179	648
130142	16011420	Wilchwitz	586	578	535
130143	16011430	Windischleuba	1,817	1,815	2.138
130144	16011440	Winter village	2,566	2,556	1,491
130145	16011450	Jückelberg	362	359	796
130147	16011470	Zetzscha	516	519	473
130148	16011480	Brick home	1.106	1.107	1,733
130100	16011000	Country circular Altenburg	98,632	97,847	34,510

Interesting

Due to the ongoing housing shortage since the end of the war, the district's first private home was completed in 1973 in Altenburg, following the regulation on building a home in 1971. In 1980 the 500th was also completed in Altenburg.

Due to the unrest in autumn 1989, the district council decided on October 11, 1989 to increase the effectiveness of driving school training and to improve nature conservation work. There were no driving schools in today's sense, the VEB Kraftverkehr, which had existed since 1952, employed several driving instructors. It was not unusual that one had to wait two years before training could begin, especially since VEB Kraftverkehr was the only civil training facility for the Altenburg and Schmölln districts. So it is not surprising that with this large number of people, in exceptional cases, the driver's license was issued after the first driving lesson. On October 25th, around 2500 people moved from the Brethren Church in Altenburg through the city center. On October 28th, the Urban Development and Architecture Committee of the Altenburg City Administration met due to the poor structural condition of the old town and developed a funding program for redevelopment.

On November 25, 1991, the foundation stone was laid for the district's first industrial park in Nobitz, today's Marktkauf-Center.

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the letter pairs SA and SB from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was SU 80-01 to SU 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign ABG .

Web links

Commons : Kreis Altenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Diercke Lexicon Germany - German Democratic Republic and Berlin (East) . Georg Westermann Verlag GmbH, Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-07-508861-7 , p. 34 .
2. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and the German administered areas
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Altenburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the states in the GDR of July 23, 1952. Online on verfassungen.de.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
6. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
7. ^ Hanno Müller: How the Altenburger Land came to Thuringia after reunification. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 17, 2010.
8. ^ Thuringian State Office for Statistics - information service
9. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 302 .
10. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 528 .