Hildburghausen district

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Basic data
District of the GDR Suhl
County seat Hildburghausen
surface 696.70 km² (1989)
Residents 58,608 (Dec. 31, 1989)
Population density 84 inhabitants / km² (1989)
Territorial structure 77 municipalities (December 31, 1989)
License Plate O (1953–1990)
OD, OE, OF (1974–1990)
HBN (1991–1994)
District Hildburghausen.PNG
The Hildburghausen district in the Suhl district

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

geography

Neighboring areas

The Hildburghausen district bordered clockwise in the north, starting with the Suhl-Land , Ilmenau , Neuhaus , Sonneberg districts and the Coburg , Staffelstein , Ebern , Hofheim districts in Lower Franconia and Königshofen im Grabfeld (until 1972) and Coburg , Haßberge until 1973 Haßberg-Kreis and Rhön-Grabfeld, until 1973 Bad Neustadt an der Saale (from 1972).

history

The district emerged on July 25, 1952 from the old district of Hildburghausen . The circle layout was only slightly changed at that time, so that the circle still had the almost identical layout that it had already received in Saxony-Meiningen in the 19th century .

Politically, the district belonged to the GDR district of Suhl until 1990 and to Thuringia from 1990 . In addition to the district town of Hildburghausen, there were four other cities ( Eisfeld , Themar , Ummerstadt and Heldburg ) in the district.

Large parts of the district lay in the border area between the two German states . That is why three villages located directly on the border were cleared and demolished during the GDR era: Billmuthausen , Erlebach and Leitenhausen .

The Hildburghausen district was largely dominated by agriculture. By GDR standards, it had few industries and was therefore, and also due to its border location, an area of ​​emigration with declining population. The landscape of the district was shaped by the Werra Valley in the middle, the Thuringian Forest in the north and the Grabfeld in the south.

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Hildburghausen district. At the beginning of 1991, the Hildburghausen district received the HBN vehicle registration number . On July 1, 1994, as part of the Thuringian district reform, it was expanded to include some parts of the districts of Suhl ( Schleusingen and the surrounding area) and Meiningen ( Römhild and surrounding area). Hildburghausen remained the seat of today's district of Hildburghausen .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs OD , OE and OF from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was ON 50-01 to ON 75-00 .

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Official key numbers and population data of the municipalities and administrative districts in the Federal Republic of Germany, edition 1990 - p. 548 u. 551
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ Norbert Moczarski et al .: Thuringian State Archives Meiningen. Department of the Regional Economic Archive South Thuringia in Suhl . A brief inventory overview. Ed .: Thuringian State Archives Meiningen. 1st edition. Druckhaus Offizin Hildburghausen, 1994, Development of traditional industrial areas in South Thuringia until 1990, p. 16-24 .
  5. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  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. 302 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 553 .

Web links

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