Oschatz district

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Basic data
District : Leipzig
Administrative headquarters : Oschatz
Area : 458 km²
Residents: 51,045 (1989)
Population density: 111 inhabitants per km²
License plate : S and U (1953–1990)
SW (1974–1990)
OZ (1991–1994)
Location of the district in the GDR
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The district of Oschatz was a district in the Leipzig district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Oschatz in the Free State of Saxony . His area is now in the district of North Saxony in Saxony. The seat of the district administration was in Oschatz .

geography

location

The district was in the transition area from the North German lowlands to the central Saxon hill country .

Most important places

The most important places in the district in addition to the district town of Oschatz were the cities of Dahlen and Mügeln and the communities Ablaß , Cavertitz , Liebschütz , Naundorf , Schmannewitz , Sornzig and Wermsdorf .

Neighboring areas

The district of Oschatz bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Torgau , Bad Liebenwerda , Riesa , Döbeln , Grimma and Wurzen .

Natural space and landscape

Almost the entire northern part of the district belonged to the Dahlener Heide landscape protection area . To the south, there is the loess- covered Oschatzer maintenance area. This hilly country, divided by small valleys, was free of forests. It rose to a height of 213 m south of Mügeln. The Collmberg (312 m) near Oschatz was the highest elevation in north-west Saxony. The Wermsdorfer Wald nature reserve joined to the west .

history

1874 was in the Kingdom of Saxony the Amtshauptmannschaft Oschatz been established that in 1939 the district Oschatz has been renamed. The district of Oschatz belonged to the state of Saxony after 1945 and thus to the GDR since 1949.

The law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the states of the German Democratic Republic of July 23, 1952 resulted in an extensive district reform in the GDR and the five remaining states. On July 25, 1952, the federal states were dissolved and 14 districts were established. Here traditional circles were dissolved or divided into smaller circles. The district of Oschatz was assigned to the district of Leipzig , the city of Oschatz became the seat of the district .

The district of Oschatz gave up 26 of its 88 communities:

Auerschütz, Börtewitz, Gallschütz, Jahna, Kiebitz, Neusornzig, Jahna, Pulsitz, Schrebitz, Strocken and Gävertitz;
Bloßwitz, Canitz, Gohlis, Großrügeln, Jacobsthal, Kreinitz, Lorenzkirch, Mautitz, Oppitzsch, Plotitz, Seerhausen, Stauchitz, Strehla and Unterreußen;
  • and the municipality of Canitz (1910 to 1949 Canitz-Wusewitz) to the newly created Wurzen district .

From the main part of the district with the 62 remaining municipalities:

Indulgence, Altmügeln, Baderitz, Berntitz, Borna, Bucha, Calbitz, Casabra, Cavertitz, Clanzschwitz b. Strehla, Collm, Crellenhain, Dahlen, Ganzig, Gaunitz, Glossen, Grauschwitz, Gröppendorf, Großböhla, Hof, Hohenwussen, Kemmlitz, Kleinragewitz, Klingenhain, Kreina, Laas, Lampersdorf, Lampertswalde, Leckwitz, Leuben, Liebschütz, Limbach, Liptitz, Lonnewitz, Luppa, Mahlis, Malkwitz, Merkwitz, Mügeln, Naundorf, Nebitzschen, Niedergoseln, Ochsensaal, Olganitz, Oschatz, Querbitzsch, Raitzen, Reppen, Schlagwitz, Schmannewitz, Schmorkau, Schöna, Schönnewitz, Schweta, Sörnewitz, Terpitz, Thalheimad, Treptitz, . Mügeln, Weilerswalde, Wermsdorf and Zaußwitz.
Börln, Bortewitz and Frauwalde
Paußnitz, Schirmeitz and Wohlau

the new district of Oschatz (68 communities) was formed.

As a result of reclassifications across district boundaries and changes in the municipal area, the number of municipalities fell to 13 by the time the district was dissolved at the end of July 1994:

  • December 4, 1952 Paußnitz is reclassified from the Oschatz district to the Riesa district
  • April 1, 1953 Zevertitz was reorganized from the Döbeln district to the Oschatz district

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Oschatz district. On the occasion of the reunification of the circle was the ländereinführungsgesetz the re-established land Saxony awarded. The external structure was retained until the first district reform in Saxony. During this district reform , the district was opened on August 1, 1994 in the Torgau-Oschatz district .

Population development

Oschatz district
year 1960 1971 1981 1989
Residents 57.064 55,342 52,457 51,045

economy

In the agricultural district of Oschatz there was industry only in the district town and in Mügeln. The industry that arose in Oschatz at the end of the 19th century produced scales, children's clothing, slippers, felt goods, stoves and gas appliances, building materials and sugar. VEB Glasseidenwerk mainly produced kaolin , clay and quartz sand from local raw materials . This only plant of its kind in the GDR was built in 1959. Southwest of Mügeln, the largest kaolin deposit in the GDR was mined near Kemlitz. The VEB ceramic and brick works in Mügeln manufactured stove tiles and bricks. In addition, chemical products, machines and artist paints were produced in Mügeln. Agriculture mainly produces potatoes, rye and forage crops on the sandy soils in the Dahlen area. Wheat and sugar beets are grown in the loess area of Oschatzer Pflege and Mügelner Ländchen. Fruit growing to the southwest of Mügeln had increased significantly since 1950. Forestry was also important. About a fifth of the district area was taken up by the Reudnitz, Wermsdorf and Hubertusburg forests.

Important companies in the district were among others:

  • VEB Waagenfabrik Oschatz
  • VEB Elektrobau Oschatz
  • VEB children's clothing factory Oschatz
  • VEB artificial stone and concrete works Oschatz
  • VEB Löwenbrauerei Dahlen
  • VEB Maschinenfabrik Mügeln
  • VEB chemical plant Mügeln

traffic

The district of Oschatz was connected to the supra-regional transport network through the main railway line Leipzig – Oschatz – Dresden and the F 6 running parallel to it . The A 14 Leipzig – Dresden motorway runs along the southern edge of the district .

Population data of cities and municipalities

Population overview of all 30 communities in the district that came to the re-established state of Saxony in 1990.

AGS local community Residents Area (ha)
10/03/1990 December 31, 1990
14043010 Indulgence 1,025 1,018 1,163
14043030 Borln 984 968 1,573
14043040 Borna 1,578 1,566 1,790
14043060 Bucha 405 398 653
14043090 Cavertitz 635 634 1.101
14043100 Collm 507 510 809
14043110 Dahlen, city 3,305 3,291 1,874
14043120 Whole 389 388 900
14043130 Gaunitz 551 546 1,333
14043140 Glosses 538 535 834
14043170 Großböhla 546 555 960
14043180 court 1,370 1,361 1,636
14043190 Hohenwussen 415 405 810
14043200 Kemmlitz 230 226 217
14043210 Lasa 980 978 1,800
14043230 Lampertswalde 631 635 897
14043260 Limbach 391 385 648
14043270 Liptitz 398 403 539
14043290 Luppa 2,198 2,177 3,244
14043300 Mahlis 743 736 836
14043330 Mügeln, city 4,622 4,586 920
14043340 Naundorf 1.108 1,097 1,243
14043360 Niedergoseln (from 1992 Schweta ) 1,025 1,020 1,386
14043390 Oschatz, city 19.001 18,909 4,881
14043430 Umbrella seat 509 506 1,383
14043440 Schmannewitz 770 773 2,760
14043480 Soernewitz 671 655 2,637
14043490 Angry 1,200 1,199 975
14043520 Wellerswalde 569 563 1,019
14043530 Wermsdorf 3,015 3,010 5,017
14043000 District of Oschatz 50,309 50,033 45,837

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the pair of letters SW from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was ST 00-01 to ST 07-60 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign OZ . It was issued until July 31, 1994. Due to the license plate liberalization , it has been available in the northern Saxony district since November 9, 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c various (ed.): Diercke Lexicon Germany - German Democratic Republic and Berlin (East), p. 202 . Georg Westermann Verlag GmbH, Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-07-508861-7 .
  2. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the states in the GDR of July 23, 1952. Online at www.verfassungen.de.
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  5. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Saxony regional register
  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. 303 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 528 .