Nordhausen district

This article deals with the Nordhausen district in the Erfurt district (1952–1990). For the district of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia before 1952 and since 1990 see district of Nordhausen .

Basic data
District of the GDR	Erfurt
County seat	Nordhausen
Area :	714 km² (1989)
Residents :	108,457 (1989)
Population density :	152 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License plate :	L and F (1953–1990) LT and LU (1974–1990)
The Nordhausen district in the Erfurt district

The Nordhausen district was a district in the Erfurt district of the GDR . From 1990 it existed as the district of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia . Its area is congruent with today's Nordhausen district in Thuringia. The seat of the district administration was in Nordhausen .

geography

The circle lay between the Harz in the north and the ridges of the Dün , the Hainleite and the Windleite in the south. It bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the (rural) districts of Wernigerode , Sangerhausen , Sondershausen , Worbis , Osterode am Harz and Blankenburg (from 1972: Goslar ).

history

After the previously independent city of Nordhausen had already been incorporated into what was then the Nordhausen district on July 1, 1950, a comprehensive district reform in the GDR took place on July 25, 1952 . While some communities from the district of Nordhausen were reclassified into the districts of Wernigerode and Worbis , the district of Nordhausen was formed from the largest part of the district together with some communities from the old district of Sangerhausen . The district was assigned to the newly formed district of Erfurt.

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Nordhausen district. On the occasion of the reunification of the two German states, the district was assigned to the new state of Thuringia in October 1990 .

Population development

Nordhausen district
year	1960	1971	1977	1981	1989
Residents	113.257	116.158	112,600	111,346	108,457

Communities

After the administrative reform of 1952, the Nordhausen district included the following communities:

Appenrode Outdoor life Bielen Bleicherode , city Branderode Buchholz Wretched Ellrich , city Etzelsrode Friedrichsthal Gebra / Hainleite Goersbach Großlohra Major changes Gudersleben Gunzerode Oats

grove Hainrode Hamma Harzungen Herring , city Talk Herrmannsacker Hesserode Hohnstein Forest Holbach Ilfeld Immenrode Kehmstedt Small floors Kleinfurra Minor changes Klettenberg

Kraja Leimbach Liebenrode Limlingerode Lipprechteode Mackenrode Mauderode Neustadt / Harz Lower Saxony Nohra Nordhausen , city Upper ax throwing Petersdorf Pützlingen Rehungen Rodishain Rudigsdorf

Arbitrations Sollstedt Steigerthal Stone bridges Stempeda Sülzhayn Sundhausen Trebra Urbach Uthleben Wernrode Werther Windehausen Wipperdorf Woffleben Wolkramshausen Wülfingerode

District administrators or chairmen of the district council

• 1953–1960: Paul Wojtkowski
• 1960–1964: Herbert Sasama
• 1965–1969: Gerhard Didszius
• 1970–1981: Heinz Nitschke
• 1982–1990: Klaus Hummitzsch

1. Secretaries of the SED district leadership

• 1954–1956: Erich Heyl
• 1956–1960: Gerhard Schinkel
• 1964–1968: Heinz Scheinpflug
• 1982–1985: Arthur Swatek

economy

The most important branch of industry in the district was potash mining . The manufacturing industry in the district was of great importance in the GDR for the production of telephones, tractors, truck engines, excavators, spirits and cigarettes. Important establishments were

• VEB Kalibetrieb Südharz with the Sollstedt and Bleicherode potash works
• VEB Nordbrand Nordhausen
• VEB Schwermaschinenbau NOBAS Nordhausen
• VEB Schachtbau Nordhausen
• VEB IFA Motorenwerke Nordhausen
• VEB Hydrogeology
• VEB tractor factory Nordhausen
• VEB Tobacco Nordhausen
• VEB Fernmeldewerk Nordhausen
• VEB Rolandbräu Nordhausen
• VEB brickworks Nordhausen
• VEB Betonwerke Heringen with branches in Roßla , Arnstadt and Rudolstadt
• VEB Kältetechnik Niedersachswerfen
• VEB Eisengießerei Ellrich.

traffic

Due to its peripheral location, the district was not connected to the motorway network in the GDR. The F 81 to Magdeburg , the F 80 to Halle (Saale) and the F 4 to Erfurt served national road traffic .

Important railway lines were the Halle-Kassel Railway in the direction of Halle (Saale) and the line to Erfurt. Cross- border freight traffic took place on the southern Harz route from Nordhausen to Northeim in Lower Saxony . The southern terminus of the Harz narrow-gauge railways was also in Nordhausen .

education

The highest educational institutions in the district were the Institute for Teacher Education (IfL) " AS Makarenko ", the Medical School (MeFa) of the Maxim Zetkin Hospital and the Technical School for Agriculture, later also called the Engineering School for Agricultural Engineering .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs LT and LU from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was FA 30-01 to FA 37-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign NDH .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 . 
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. ↑ 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 state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
5. ↑ Klaus Hummitzsch - NordhausenWiki
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. 302 .
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. 505 .