Langensalza district

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Basic data
District of the GDR Erfurt
County seat Bad Langensalza
surface 507 km² (1989)
Residents 45,962 (1989)
Population density Population / km² (1989)
License Plate F and L (1953–1990)
LP (1974–1990)
LSZ (1991–1995)
Langensalza in German Democratic Republic.svg
The Langensalza district in the Erfurt district

The Langensalza district was a district in the Erfurt district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Langensalza in Thuringia . Today its area is predominantly in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Bad Langensalza .

geography

location

The Langensalza district was in the middle of the Thuringian Basin and is traversed by the Unstrut .

Neighboring areas

The district of Langensalza bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Mühlhausen , Sondershausen , Sömmerda , Erfurt-Land , Gotha and Eisenach .

history

On July 25, 1952, there was an extensive administrative reform in the GDR , during which, among other things, the states of the GDR lost their importance and new districts were established. The new district of Langensalza with its seat in Langensalza (since 1956: Bad Langensalza ) was formed from the municipalities of the former districts of Erfurt , Gotha and Mühlhausen . The district was assigned to the newly formed district of Erfurt .

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Bad Langensalza district. On the occasion of the reunification of the two German states, the district was awarded to the re-established state of Thuringia in October 1990 . During the district reform in Thuringia on July 1, 1994, it was almost completely absorbed into the new Unstrut-Hainich district . The communities Burgtonna and Gräfentonna came to the district of Gotha and the communities of Behringen , Craula , Reichenbach , Tüngeda and Wolfsbehringen to the Wartburg district .

District administrators

Population development

Langensalza district
year 1960 1971 1981 1989
Residents 51,266 50.286 46,740 45,962

cities and communes

After the administrative reform of 1952, the Langensalza district included the following towns and communities:

economy

Important companies were among others:

  • VEB leather and shoe factory Bad Langensalza
  • VEB Cottana, Bad Langensalza plant
  • VEB Food Combine Bad Langensalza
  • Sektkellerei Bad Langensalza (VEB United Thuringian Wine Cellars)
  • VEB printing house "Thomas Müntzer" Bad Langensalza
  • VEB Travertine Works Bad Langensalza
  • VEB Leichtmetallgusswerk Bad Langensalza
  • VEB motor vehicle repairs Bad Langensalza

traffic

For national road traffic, the district area was opened up by the F 84 from Eisenach via Langensalza to Sondershausen , the F 176 from Langensalza to Naumburg and the F 247 from Mühlhausen via Langensalza to Gotha .

The routes Kühnhausen – Bad Langensalza , Gotha – Bad Langensalza – Leinefelde and Döllstedt – Bad Tennstedt – Straussfurt were used for rail traffic .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the pair of letters LP from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was LR 38-16 to LR 45-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign LSZ . It was issued until January 31, 1995. It has been available again in the Unstrut-Hainich district since November 29, 2012 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  4. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 504 .