Meiningen district

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Basic data (as of 1994)
Existing period: 1952-1994
District : Suhl
Administrative headquarters : Meiningen
Area : 705.13 km²
Residents: 69,084 (Dec. 31, 1989)
Population density: 98 inhabitants per km²
License plate : O (1953-1990)
OJ, OK, OL (1974-1990)
MGN (1991-1995)
Circle structure: 61 municipalities (December 31, 1989)
Location of the district in the GDR
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The Meiningen district was a district in the Suhl district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Meiningen in the state of Thuringia . Today his area is in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Meiningen .

geography

location

The district of Meiningen was in the extreme southwest of the GDR on the inner-German border . The landscape of the border district at that time was shaped by the Werra Valley , the Rhön and the Grabfeld . The highest point is the Ellenbogen mountain in the Hohen Rhön near Frankenheim at 814 meters above sea level.

Bigger places

Other cities besides the district town of Meiningen were Wasungen and Römhild . Larger places with more than a thousand inhabitants were also Frankenheim, Haina , Jüchsen , Kaltensundheim , Kaltenwestheim , Milz , Ober Maßfeld-Grimmenthal , Untermaßfeld and Walldorf .

Neighboring areas

The district of Meiningen bordered in a clockwise direction in the northwest with the districts of Bad Salzungen , Schmalkalden , Suhl-Land , Hildburghausen and the Bavarian districts of Königshofen im Grabfeld , Mellrichstadt (until 1972) and Rhön-Grabfeld (until 1973 Bad Neustadt an der Saale) (from 1972) and the Hessian district of Fulda .

history

In the 19th century, the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen was divided into four districts and the district of Meiningen was created with the district town of Meiningen, which was also the state capital. The district of Meiningen emerged from this district during the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR , after the Bad Salzungen district was spun off in 1950 . 72,900 people lived in an area of ​​705 square kilometers in 1955 and 71,168 in 1975 (both on December 31).

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed Meiningen District. On October 3, 1990, the district came to the state of Thuringia. The district was assigned the MGN vehicle sign . With the district reform, which was implemented in the Free State of Thuringia on July 1, 1994, the districts of Meiningen, Schmalkalden and parts of the district of Suhl were combined to form the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen . Meiningen remained a district town.

economy

Economically, agriculture and forestry dominated the district. Larger industrial companies, cultural and administrative institutions existed almost exclusively in the district town. Mechanical engineering and rail vehicle construction ( RAW Meiningen ), microelectronics ( Robotron Meiningen ), toy production (toy electronics in Meiningen and Kaltensundheim), the tube factory in Wasungen (Tubex), the construction industry (Meiningen and Walldorf / Werra) were of great importance. , food production (beverages combine Meiningen, meat combine Meiningen, fish processing), the energy industry ( energy combine ) and various consumer goods production (men's underwear factory Welton Meiningen , Ruhla -Uhren, kitchen furniture factory RÖME Römhild-Meiningen).

traffic

The district could be reached in traffic via the highways F 19 , F 89 , F 280 and F 285 . With the opening of the Meiningen-Eußenhausen border crossing point in 1973, there was a connection to Bavaria ( Federal Republic of Germany ) in small border traffic via the F 19 and B 19 . Meiningen was an important rail hub and had express train connections to Erfurt, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle (Saale), Dresden, Görlitz and Stralsund. Among them was the city ​​express to Berlin.

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs OJ , OK and OL from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was OZ 80-01 to OZ 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign MGN . It was issued until January 31, 1995. It has been available in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district since November 29, 2012 (see license plate liberalization ).

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  • Statistical yearbook of the GDR, 1956 and 1976
  • District archive Meiningen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  2. ↑ 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. ^ Norbert Moczarski et al: Thüringisches Staatsarchiv 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 .
  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. 302 .
  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. 554 .

Web links

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