Gera-Land district

Basic data
District of the GDR	Gera
County seat	Gera
surface	470 km² (1989)
Residents	57,418 (1989)
Population density	122 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	N (1953–1990) NB, NC, ND, NE, NV, NW (1974–1990) G (1991–1994)
The district of Gera-Land in the district of Gera

The Gera-Land district was a district in the Gera district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Gera in Thuringia . Today his area is mainly in the district of Greiz in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Gera .

geography

Neighboring areas

The Gera-Land district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the Zeitz , Schmölln , Werdau , Greiz , Zeulenroda , Pößneck , Stadtroda and Eisenberg districts .

It completely enclosed the urban district of Gera .

history

The district Gera received some communities of the dissolved on July 1, 1950 the district Stadtroda . In return, the municipality of Wittchendorf was given to the district of Greiz . Some communities were also incorporated into the independent city of Gera.

The Gera district was established on July 25, 1952 from most of the municipalities in the Gera district, but some were also given to the Schmölln , Zeulenroda , Pößneck and Werdau districts . He was assigned to the Gera district .

On December 4, 1952, some communities in the Schmölln district came back to the Gera-Land district as well as the Schwarzbach communities in the Pößneck district and Forstwolfersdorf in the Zeulenroda district. On July 1, 1958, some communities in the Werdau district came to Gera-Land. The Friedmannsdorf community from the Greiz district came to the Gera-Land district on June 1, 1968.

On May 6, 1990, the districts of Paitzdorf and Mennsdorf were spun off from the community of Rückersdorf and the new community of Paitzdorf was founded.

On May 17, 1990, the Gera-Land district was renamed the Gera district. With the re-establishment of the federal states on the territory of the GDR in 1990, the districts were dissolved. The district of Gera was assigned to the state of Thuringia (from 1994 Free State of Thuringia).

With the district reform, which came into force on July 1, 1994, the district of Gera was dissolved. The communities Aga , Cretzschwitz , Falka , Hain , Hermsdorf , Roben , Röpsen , Söllmnitz , Thränitz , Trebnitz and Weißig as well as the district Naulitz of the city of Ronneburg were incorporated into the city of Gera. The remaining communities in the district came to the district of Greiz . First there was a discussion according to which the north-eastern communities of the Gera district, above all Ronneburg, wanted to move to the Altenburger Land district .

cities and communes

As of December 31, 1990

Cities Bad Köstritz Münchenbernsdorf Ronneburg Weida

Communities Aga Bethenhausen Bocka Brahmenau Braunichswalde Burkersdorf (April 9, 1994 to Harth ) Caaschwitz Cretzschwitz Crimla End contactor Falka Forstwolfersdorf (April 9, 1994 in Pöllnitz ) Friedmannsdorf Frießnitz (April 9, 1994 to Harth) Gurgling Gleina (January 1, 1994 in Bad Köstritz) Großebersdorf (April 9, 1994 in Pöllnitz) Grossenstein grove Hartmannsdorf

Hermsdorf Hilbersdorf Hirschfeld Hohenölsen Dog heads Crouch Köfeln (April 9, 1994 to Harth) Basket feet Power village Lederhose Linda Linden cross Mosen Neundorf (April 9, 1994 in Pöllnitz) Niederndorf Niederpöllnitz (April 9, 1994 in Pöllnitz) Paitzdorf Pölzig Reichardtsdorf (January 1, 1994 in Bad Köstritz) Reichstädt

Robes Rohna (April 9, 1994 in Pöllnitz) Röpsen Rückersdorf Rudersdorf Saara Schömberg Schwaara Schwarzbach Seelingstädt Söllmnitz Steinsdorf Teichwitz Thränitz Pottery Trebnitz Whitish Wolfsgefärth (December 1, 1991 in Zedlitz) Wish village / Elster Zedlitz

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs NB , NC , ND , NE , NV and NW from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was NZ 05-01 to NZ 30-00 .

In early 1991, the county and the county-level city of Gera received the distinguishing sign G . It was issued in the county until June 30, 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 . 
2. ↑ 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. ↑ Change of municipalities in the FRG on the website of the Federal Statistical Office
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. 514 .

Web links

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