Marienberg district

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 13 ° 9'  E
Basic data (as of 1994)
Existing period:	1952-1994
State :	Saxony
Administrative region :	Chemnitz
Administrative headquarters :	Marienberg
Area :	433.87 km 2
Residents:	62,051 (Oct 3, 1990)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	MAB
Circle key :	14 0 39
Circle structure:	35 municipalities
District Administrator :	Albrecht Kohlsdorf ( CDU )
Location of the district of Marienberg in Saxony

The Marienberg district was a district in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Marienberg in the Free State of Saxony . His area is now in the Erzgebirge in Saxony. The seat of the district administration was in Marienberg .

geography

location

The Marienberg district was located in the central Ore Mountains of Saxony and thus in the southern part of the former district. With around 60,000 inhabitants, it was the average size of a GDR district.

Neighboring areas

The district of Marienberg bordered in a clockwise direction in the southwest on the districts of Annaberg , Zschopau , Flöha and Brand-Erbisdorf . In the east and south it bordered on Czechoslovakia .

history

The circle Marienberg walked out of the existing since 1878 Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg out that from 1939 as a result rich unified control district was called Marie Berg. With the district reform of the GDR , which came into force on July 25, 1952, the northern part of the Marienberg district was added to the newly formed Zschopau district. After the end of the war, the district structure was adopted. In 1952, the five existing states in the GDR were dissolved by law and divided into 14 districts. The territorially subordinate districts were also downsized, some were newly created, others dissolved. On July 25th, the Marienberg district gave 12 of its 40 parishes to the newly created Zschopau district. To the 29 remaining communities in the district, Sprung, Blumenau, Forchheim, Großrückerswalde, Hallbach, Haselbach, Kühnhaide, Lauta, Lauterbach, Lengefeld, Lippersdorf, Marienberg, Mauersberg, Neuhausen, Niederlauterstein, Niedersaida, Niederschmiedeberg, Pfaffroda, Pobershau, Pockau, Reifland, , Rittersberg, Rothenthal, Rübenau, Seiffen, Sorgau, Wernsdorf and Wünschendorf the following 8 communities came from the old Freiberg district: Deutscheinsiedel, Deutschneudorf, Dittmannsdorf, Dörnthal, Heidersdorf, Olbernhau, statutes and Zöblitz.

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Marienberg district. It existed until the Saxon district reform in 1994. With effect from August 1, 1994, the district without Neuhausen became part of the newly formed Middle Ore Mountains District . The city of Marienberg kept the seat of the district office .

As a result of changes in municipal area and reclassifications into neighboring districts, the number of municipalities fell from an initial 37 to 21 between 1952 and its dissolution in 1994.

• May 1, 1974 - incorporation of Haselbach into Dörnthal
• May 1, 1974 - incorporation of Sorgau after jumping off

• January 1, 1994 - Incorporation of Blumenau and Rothenthal into the city of Olbernhau
• January 1, 1994 - incorporation of Dittmannsdorf b. Sayda to Pfaffroda b. Sayda
• January 1, 1994 - Merger of Kühnhaide, Reitzenhain, Rübenau and statutes to Hirtstein
• January 1, 1994 - Lauta incorporated into the city of Marienberg
• January 1, 1994 - Neuhausen merged with the municipality of Cämmerswalde from the district of Brand-Erbisdorf to form the new municipality of Neuhausen in the district of Brand-Erbisdorf
• January 1, 1994 - Incorporation of Niedersaida into Großhartmannsdorf ( Brand-Erbisdorf district )
• January 1, 1994 - Mauersberg and Niederschmiedeberg incorporated into Großrückerswalde
• January 1, 1994 - Incorporation of Rittersberg to Pobershau
• March 1, 1994 - Forchheim and Wernsdorf were incorporated into Pockau / Flöhatal

politics

District Administrator

The district administrator was appointed chairman of the district council until 1990 .

• May 31, 1990 to July 31, 1994: Albrecht Kohlsdorf ( CDU )

economy

The district's economic production developed primarily in the GDR. In Marienberg the VEB Federnwerk Marienberg , in Olbernhau the VEB Blechwalzwerk Olbernhau , in Lengefeld the VEB NARVA Leuchtenbau Lengefeld and in Pockau a part of the VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden was newly founded or set up. The supplier plant for the automotive industry in Marienberg - Federnwerk Marienberg GmbH - has survived to this day .

Large areas of the district were farmed by the agricultural production cooperatives of the individual towns.

traffic

The Marienberg district was accessed on the road side by three trunk roads , today's federal highways 101 , 171 and 174 . On the rail side, the Reitzenhain – Flöha line and its branch line Pockau-Lengefeld – Neuhausen were used for passenger and freight traffic.

Population data

Population overview of all 35 municipalities in the district that came to the re-established state of Saxony in 1990.

AGS	local community	Residents		Area (ha)
		March 10, 1990	December 31, 1990
14039010	Jump	1,165	1,162	1,528
14039020	Blumenau	694	690	459
14039030	German hermit	494	495	363
14039040	Deutschneudorf	1.007	999	440
14039050	Dittmannsdorf b. Sayda	271	264	580
14039060	Dörnthal	1,255	1,251	2,054
14039070	Forchheim	841	843	1,262
14039080	Großrückerswalde	2,429	2,491	1,708
14039090	Hallbach	687	684	794
14039110	Heidersdorf	1,061	1,053	949
14039120	Kühnhaide	736	732	228
14039130	Lauta	397	399	349
14039140	Lauterbach	1,341	1,333	1,217
14039150	Lengefeld , city	3,325	3.214	2,374
14039160	Lippersdorf	857	860	1,099
14039170	Marienberg , city	11,406	11,322	6,695
14039180	Mauersberg	799	785	590
14039190	Neuhausen / Erzgeb.	2,581	2,575	3,358
14039200	Niederlauterstein	573	574	305
14039210	Lower Saida	327	329	364
14039220	Niedermiedeberg	437	431	114
14039230	Olbernhau , city	11,703	11,657	6,664
14039240	Pfaffroda b. Sayda	1,201	1,198	2,085
14039250	Pobershau	1,718	1,713	486
14039260	Pockau / Flöhatal	3,541	3,535	1,897
14039270	Frostland	550	546	561
14039280	Reitzenhain	659	653	176
14039290	Rittersberg	253	249	54
14039300	Rothenthal	649	650	72
14039310	Rübenau	1,223	1,225	812
14039320	statute	741	737	661
14039330	Seiffen / Erzgeb. , Health resort	3,256	3,267	1,237
14039350	Wernsdorf	637	636	446
14039360	Wish village	746	743	721
14039370	Zöblitz , city	2,491	2,478	686
14039000	Marienberg district	62,051	61,773	4,388

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs TO and XO from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was XT 70-01 to XT 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign MAB . It was issued until December 31, 1994. It has been available in the Erzgebirgskreis since November 9, 2012 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
2. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
3. ↑ Saxony regional register
4. ↑ 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 .
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. 525 .