Ludwigslust district
The Ludwigslust district was a district in the south of the Schwerin district in the GDR . From May 17, 1990, it continued as the Ludwigslust district . Today his area belongs to the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The seat of the district administration was in Ludwigslust .
geography
location
The north of the district is shaped by the Lewitz , an extensive flat valley. To the west of Ludwigslust, in the Griesen area, vast forests spread out on sandy soils and dunes. The south of the district is also very wooded, interrupted by settlement islands on the lower Elde , the Löcknitz and Rögnitz , which are partially canalised ( Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße , Ludwigsluster Canal ). The southern border of the district - at the same time border to the Federal Republic with extensive barriers - formed the Elbe . The Steinberg near Malliß (70 m above sea level ) was considered the highest point in the Ludwigslust district .
Area and population
The area of the district was 1160 km². That corresponded to 13.4% of the area of the Schwerin district.
The population was around 61,100 in 1985. That was 10.3% of the residents of the district. The population density was 53 inhabitants per km².
Neighboring areas
The Ludwigslust district bordered in the north on the Schwerin-Land district , in the east on the Parchim and Perleberg districts , in the south until 1965 on the Seehausen district and from 1965 on the Osterburg district in the Magdeburg district and the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony and in the west to the Hagenow district .
history
The Mecklenburg district of Ludwigslust was created when the federal states were dissolved on July 25, 1952 from the Ludwigslust district, which had existed since 1933, and the western tip of the Westprignitz district of Brandenburg and belonged to the newly formed Schwerin district. The district came to the newly founded state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on October 3, 1990 within the accession area to the Federal Republic of Germany . On August 1, 1992, the municipalities of today's Lenzen-Elbtalaue office moved from the Ludwigslust district (referred to as the district since May 17, 1990) to the Perleberg district in Brandenburg , before moving to the new district on December 6, 1993 as part of the Brandenburg district reform Prignitz rose. On June 12, 1994, the old Ludwigslust district was dissolved and together with the Hagenow district and the southwest and southern parts of the Schwerin district became the new, larger Ludwigslust district .
Economy and Infrastructure
The processing of agricultural products was the focus of the economy in the district (meat processing and spirits production in Ludwigslust, confectionery, cheese and beer production in Grabow, leather production in Neustadt-Glewe, wood and paper industry in Malliß and Neu Kaliß). Fish farming played a major role in the Lewitz and pasture farming in the floodplains. The industrial companies in the district included the mechanical engineering company (BAMA) in Ludwigslust, the telecommunications and hydraulic works in Neustadt-Glewe, a plant for electronic components in Dömitz and the hydraulic works in Grabow. Lignite was mined around Malliss until 1960 - the community still has hammer and mallet in its coat of arms.
Several important road connections crossed in Ludwigslust: the F 5 - the transit road Berlin - Hamburg , the F 191 from Parchim to Dömitz and the F 106 (Ludwigslust-Schwerin). The 195 trunk road ran along the Elbe . Parallel to the trunk roads, the railway lines ran in a star shape to and from Ludwigslust. At the end of 1982 the Berlin-Hamburg motorway built through the north of the Ludwigslust district and the connection to Schwerin in 1986 were opened to traffic. There was no border crossing to Lower Saxony; the bridges over the Elbe near Dömitz, which had been destroyed since 1945, were not rebuilt during the GDR era.
Storage facility in Neu Kaliss
Dunes near Dömitz
cities and communes
During the turning point in 1990, four municipalities in the district were able to establish their independence:
- Brenz (spin-off of the former Blievenstorf districts of Old and New Brenz)
- Bresegard (outsourced from the municipality of Eldena)
- Parental leave (outsourced from the Grebs community)
- Krinitz with the district of Görnitz (outsourced from the municipality of Gorlosen)
On October 3, 1990, the Ludwigslust district had 49 municipalities, five of which were cities:
License Plate
Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the letter pairs BG and BH from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last series of plates used for motorcycles were BS 51-66 to BS 78-35 .
At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign LWL .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
- ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 301 .
- ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 550 .