Jessen district

Basic data
District of the GDR	cottbus
County seat	Jessen
surface	621 km² (1989)
Residents	33,308 (1989)
Population density	54 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	Z (1953–1990) ZL (1974–1990) JE (1991–1994)
The Jessen district in the Cottbus district

The Jessen district was a district in the Cottbus district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the Jessen district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Today his area belongs to the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt. The seat of the district administration was in Jessen (Elster) .

geography

location

The Jessen district lay on the east bank of the central Elbe on both sides of the Black Elster . A large part of the Annaburg Heath was located in the district area .

Neighboring areas

The district of Jessen bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Jüterbog ( Potsdam district ), Herzberg ( Cottbus district ), Torgau ( Leipzig district ) and Wittenberg ( Halle district ).

history

On July 25, 1952, there was a comprehensive district reform in the GDR , in which the states were dissolved and replaced by districts . The new Jessen district was formed from parts of the former districts of Herzberg , Torgau and Wittenberg , and was assigned to the newly formed district of Cottbus . The district seat was in the city of Jessen .

To the district of Jessen belonged 5 cities and 50 communities:

Annaburg , city Arnsdorf Axia Battin Bethau Bush Kuhn Village Dixförda Düßnitz Elster (Elbe) Gadegast Go Gentha Gerbisbach Glücksburg

Gorsdorf Grabo Large corga Gross Naundorf Hemsendorf Hohndorf Wooden village Jessen (Elster) , city Kleindröben Kleinkorga Dumplings Klossa Kremitz Labrun

Lebien Leipa Linda (Magpie) Lindwerder Listerfehrda Praise Mellnitz Meuselko Mönchenhöfe Morxdorf Mill Naundorf near Seyda Neuerstadt Plossig

Premsendorf Prettin , city Purzien Wheel Reicho Ruhlsdorf Schadewalde Schöneicho Schützberg Schweinitz , city Seyda , city Steinsdorf Zemnick

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Jessen district. After reunification in 1990 , the Jessen district came to the state of Saxony-Anhalt. In the course of the first district reform in Saxony-Anhalt , the district of Jessen was dissolved on July 1, 1994 and incorporated into the district of Wittenberg .

Holzdorf Airfield

The airport Holzdorf the NVA was put into service the 1,982th It is practically completely in the Herzberg district , only the Holzdorf -Ost housing estate is in the Jessen district. After reunification , the airfield and the district of Holzdorf-Ost were in the state of Brandenburg , while Holzdorf was in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . The majority of the residents of Holzdorf-Ost refused to take part in the elections that had anything to do with the state of Brandenburg. A state treaty between the two countries then led to an exchange of territory: Holzdorf-Ost became part of Saxony-Anhalt.

Population development

Jessen district
year	1960	1971	1981	1989
Residents	34,956	33,925	32,247	33,308

politics

District administrators from 1990

• 1990–1991 Ernst Meyer
• 1991–1992 Klaus Wolfslast
• 1992–1994 Joachim Kunze

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on December 23, 1992 and registered in the Magdeburg State Archives under the coat of arms roll number 25/1992.

Blazon : “Quartered; covered with a heart shield. Field 1: black divided over silver, covered with two red diagonally crossed swords; Field 2: divided nine times by black over gold, covered diagonally on the right with a green diamond wreath; Field 3: in gold a diagonal bar in three rows in red and silver; Field 4: in silver three (2: 1) red sea leaves. The heart shield shows a silver beaver in green. "

economy

Important companies in the district were among others

• VEB Beverages Jessen
• VEB Eisen- und Blechwarenfabrik Jessen
• VEB Steingutwerk Annaburg
• VEB vehicle plant Annaburg
• VEB concrete works Schweinitz
• VEB Waschmittelwerk Schladitz

traffic

The F 187 , coming from Lutherstadt Wittenberg via Jessen and Schweinitz, served national road traffic .

The district area was integrated into the GDR railway network by the Roßlau – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Falkenberg / Elster (Elster (Elbe), Jessen (Elster), Annaburg) and Jüterbog – Riesa (Linda (Elster) and Holzdorf (Elster) railway stations) railway lines . Passenger traffic on the Annaburg – Prettin railway was stopped in 1961.

License Plate

After 1952, the vehicles registered in the district were given license plates beginning with the letter Z (as in the entire GDR district of Cottbus). Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the pair of letters ZL from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was ZP 98-01 to ZP 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign JE . It was valid until June 30, 1994. It has been available in the Wittenberg district since November 27, 2012 due to license plate liberalization .

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. ^ Directory of the municipalities and districts of the German Democratic Republic, Staatsverlag, Berlin 1968, p. 31
4. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
5. ^ Wittenberg district, cities and municipalities. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved January 17, 2010 . 
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. 303 .
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. 494 .