District of Koethen

This article deals with the Köthen district in the Halle district of the GDR. For the historical district of Köthen in Anhalt and the district of Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, see the district of Köthen .

Basic data
District of the GDR	Hall
County seat	Koethen
surface	480 km² (1989)
Residents	77,898 (1989)
Population density	162 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	K and V (1953–1990) KN and VN (1974–1990)
last chairman of the council of the district	Eckhard-Bodo Elze
The Köthen district in the Halle district (clickable map)

The Köthen district was a district in the Halle district of the GDR . From 1990 it existed as the district of Köthen in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Today his area belongs to the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt. The seat of the district administration was in Koethen .

geography

The Köthen district was located west of Dessau and bordered with its northern part on the Elbe . It bordered clockwise to the north, beginning with the districts of Schönebeck , Zerbst , Roßlau , Dessau , Bitterfeld , Saalkreis and Bernburg .

history

A district of Köthen existed in Anhalt from 1863 to 1932 . This went up in 1932 in the Dessau-Köthen district , which had belonged to the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 1945 and thus to the GDR since 1949. On July 1, 1950, the district of Dessau-Köthen and the previously independent city of Köthen were again formed into a district of Köthen. On July 25, 1952, there was a comprehensive district reform in the GDR , in which, among other things, the states were dissolved and replaced by districts .

The district of Köthen gave parts of the area to the new districts of Graefenhainichen , Bernburg and Bitterfeld . From the remaining part of the district, together with some communities in the Schönebeck district, the Köthen district was formed, which was assigned to the newly formed Halle district .

At the time of political change, after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, a round table was established in the Köthen district, which Eckhard-Bodo Elze entrusted with the task of chairing the Köthen district council until a new district assembly was established. On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Koethen district. On the occasion of the reunification of the two German states, the district of Köthen was added to the re-established state of Saxony-Anhalt in October 1990 . During the second district reform in Saxony-Anhalt , it went on July 1, 2007 in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district.

Population development

District of Koethen
year	1960	1971	1981	1989
Residents	96.505	90,462	82,000	77,898

cities and communes

After the administrative reform of 1952, the Köthen district included the following cities and communities:

Aken (Elbe) , city Arensdorf Baasdorf Bobbe Chörau Cösitz Cosa Thieving Diesdorf Dohndorf Dornbock Drosa Edderitz Elsdorf Elsnigk Fraßdorf

Frenz Credulous Gnetsch Görzig Grobzig , town Grand bather Großpaschleben Hinsdorf Small bathers Kleinpaschleben Small autumn Koethen , city Lausigk Libbesdorf Libehna Löbnitz an der Linde

Maasdorf Meilendorf Merzien Micheln Mölz Easter castle Piethen Porst Prosigk Source village Radegast , city Reppichau Repulsive Riesdorf Rosefeld Scheuder

Schortewitz Storkau Trebbichau on the Fuhne Trinum Weißandt-Gölzau Wieskau Wörbzig Wulfen Wülknitz Würflau Zabitz Zehbitz Zehmitz

economy

Important companies in the district were among others:

• VEB Orbitaplast Weißandt-Gölzau
• VEB Magnesitwerk Aken
• VEB injection device factory Aken
• VEB Betonwerke Gröbzig
• VEB spinning nozzle factory Gröbzig
• VEB Polygraphischer Maschinenbau Koethen
• VEB Lacke und Farben Koethen
• VEB Vorwärmer- und Kesselbau Köthen
• VEB conveyor systems and crane construction Koethen

traffic

The district was connected to the GDR motorway network through the north-south Berlin Ring – Hirschberg motorway, which ran east of the district . The F 183 in the direction of Bitterfeld , the F 185 in the direction of Aschersleben and Dessau and the F 187a in the direction of Zerbst also served national road traffic .

The Köthen district was opened up by the Magdeburg – Köthen – Leipzig , Aschersleben – Köthen – Dessau and Köthen – Aken railway lines.

License Plate

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

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark KÖT .

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 the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt 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 f .
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. 520 .