Pirna district

Basic data (as of 1990)
Existing period:	1952-1990
District :	Dresden
Administrative headquarters :	Pirna
Area :	520.97 km²
Residents:	106,876 (Oct 3, 1990)
Population density:	205 inhabitants per km²
Basic territorial key :	1213
Circle structure:	6 cities,? Communities
Address of the district administration:	Pirna
Location of the district in the GDR

The Pirna district was a district in the Dresden district of the GDR . His area is now in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . The seat of the district administration was in Pirna .

geography

location

Located in the south of the Dresden district, the Pirna district comprised most of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . The district borders on the ČSSR to the south . In the northwest it reached the city limits of Dresden .

Neighboring areas

The Pirna district bordered clockwise in the west, beginning with the districts of Dippoldiswalde , Freital , Dresden , Dresden-Land and Sebnitz . In the south it bordered on Czechoslovakia .

Natural space

The Elbe flowed through the district from southeast to northwest. The Elbe Sandstone Mountains , also known as " Saxon Switzerland ", an attractive hiking and recreation area stretched on both sides of the river to the town of Pirna . The highest point was the Zschirnstein in the south with 561 m. The extensive plateaus at heights between 300 and 600  m above sea level. M. (often arable land and pastures) were covered by wooded valleys of rivers draining north, e.g. B. Müglitz and Seidewitz , broken. One of the highest full forms is the Oelsener Höhe landmark (644 m). The Gottleuba reservoir, which is important for the production of drinking water in Pirnas, was also located in the Pirna district.

On numerous nature trails, such as the " Flößersteig " in the Kirnitzschtal and the tree nature trail at the Königstein Fortress , the special features of the flora and fauna were pointed out. The most famous excursion destinations were the Lichtenhain waterfall and the Kuhstallhöhle (a 11 m high and 17 m wide rock gate) in the Kirnitzschtal as well as the Schrammsteine east of Bad Schandau and the Bastei , which towered over the Elbe by 200 m near the health resort Rathen. In the west, the Gottleuba valley formed the border with the Lower Eastern Ore Mountains, which stood out from Saxon Switzerland with its comparatively gentle mountain forms and extensive agricultural areas . To the west and south of Bad Gottleuba, retention basins were created in the valleys of numerous mountain streams . You should provide flood protection during the often heavy rains. At Dohna and Heidenau, the Lower Eastern Ore Mountains fell to form the Dresden Elbe valley. At Pirna the Elbe emerged from the Elbe Sandstone Mountains into the wide, densely populated valley landscape.

Cultural space

In the district Pirna there are the Weesenstein castle , the castle Kuckuckstein in Liebstadt, the baroque garden and the Koenigstein fortress . With the health resorts of Stadt Wehlen, Rathen, Bad Schandau and Gohrisch in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , an important tourist region in the GDR was located here.

From 1983 to 1990 numerous mayors of the Pirna district came together to form a “mayor's choir”, which sang with considerable quality and even appeared on GDR television in Gerd Ponesky's program “Alles singt”.

Economy and Transport

The location on the Elbe has been decisive for economic development for centuries. The river has been used for shipping since the 10th century. Important transshipment points were Königstein and Schandau. The Elbe has remained an important transport route to this day. The ships of the " White Fleet " were used for tourist traffic . Freight shipping had grown to a significant extent for transit traffic to Czechoslovakia. In the Elbe Valley, the road and rail routes ran from Dresden to Prague; Schmilka (district of Bad Schandau) was the border crossing to Czechoslovakia. The F 172 connected Dresden with Bad Schandau. On the rail side, the Müglitztalbahn from Heidenau to Altenberg (Erzgebirge) and the internationally important Dresden-Bodenbacher railway were used for passenger and freight traffic. The once important timber rafting company (especially in the Kirnitzschtal) was discontinued in the 1920s, and the previously numerous sandstone quarries have now almost all been closed. Tourism was of great economic importance. The towns of Pirna, Heidenau and Dohna formed the industrial center of the district on the edge of the “Upper Elbe Valley” conurbation. Important companies in the city of Pirna were the VEB Kunstseidenwerk "Siegfried Rädel", companies for the production of pulp, furniture, glass, building materials, vehicle electrics ( VEB Fahrzeugelektrik Pirna ) and flow machines ( aircraft construction / flow machine works ). Printing machines, machines for the cocoa and chocolate industry and electric motors were built in Heidenau, and paper and cardboard, tires ( Pneumant ), shoes and building materials were also produced here . In Dohna there were companies in the chemical industry, at Königstein the SDAG Wismut operated uranium mining. The Margon mineral fountain in Burkhardswalde is also known to this day .

history

The circle Pirna walked out of the renamed "County Pirna" on 1 January 1939, founded in 1874 Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna forth. With the district reform of the GDR on July 25, 1952 , the districts were formed and the districts were reorganized. The previous district of Pirna gave up about a third of its communities in the north, most of them to three newly created districts. The district was assigned to the newly formed district of Dresden , the seat of the district became Pirna. The following municipalities were given in detail:

• 4 communities in the district of Bischofswerda :

Bühlau, Lauterbach, Schmiedefeld and Seligstadt.

• 2 municipalities in the Dresden-Land district :

Eschdorf and Fischbach.

• the municipality of Borthen to the Freital district
• 39 municipalities in the district of Sebnitz :

Altendorf, Berthelsdorf, Cunnersdorf b. Hohnstein, Dittersbach, Dobra, Dürrröhrsdorf, Ehrenberg, Elbersdorf, Goßdorf, Heeselicht, Helmsdorf b. Pirna, Hinterhermsdorf, Hohburkersdorf, Hohnstein, Krumhermsdorf, Langburkersdorf, Langenwolmsdorf, Lichtenhain, Lohmen, Lohsdorf, Mittelndorf, Neudörfel, Neustadt, Ottendorf b.Sebnitz, Polenz, Porschendorf, Rathewalde, Rennersdorf, Rückersdorf, Rugiswalde, Saupolsdorf, Stolpennitz, Stolnitz , Ulbersdorf, Uttewalde, Waitzdorf, Wilschdorf and Zeschnig.

The "old district" Pirna kept 72 of its 118 communities:

Bad Schandau, Bahra, Berggießhübel, Bielatal, Birkwitz, Bonnewitz, Borna, Burkhardswalde, Cotta b. Pirna, Cunnersdorf b. Königstein, Daube, Doberzeit, Dohma, Dohna, Dorf Wehlen, Ebenheit, Falkenhain, Friedrichswalde, Gersdorf, Goes, Gohrisch, Göppersdorf, Gorknitz, Gottleuba, Graupa, Großröhrsdorf, Heidenau, Hellendorf, hostels, Kleingießhübel, Kleinhennersdorf, Königitzstein, Köttewersdorf , Krietzschwitz, cribs, Langenhennersdorf, Leupoldishain, Liebethal, Liebstadt, Markersbach, Maxen, Meusegast, Mühlbach, Naundorf, Nenntmannsdorf, Niederseidewitz, Obervogelgesang, Oelsen, Ottendorf b. Pirna, Papstdorf, Pfaffendorf, Pirna, Porschdorf, Pratzschwitz, Prossen, Rathen, Rathmannsdorf, Reinhardtsdorf, Röhrsdorf, Rosenthal, Schmilka, Schmorsdorf, Schöna, Seitenhain, Stadt Wehlen, Struppen, Thürmsdorf, Waltersdorf / Sächs. Switzerland, Weesenstein and Weißig, Wünschendorf.

Supplemented by 5 communities from the Dippoldiswalde district :

Berthelsdorf, Börnersdorf, Breitenau, Döbra and Waltersdorf

The new district of Pirna was formed . The number of communities fell from 72 to 30 when the district was dissolved at the end of July 1994:

date	TGS (1969)	local community	modification	TGS (1969)	receiving community
4th December 1952		stave	Reclassification	1215xx	Daube, district of Sebnitz
		Dober time	Reclassification	1215xx	Doberzeit, Sebnitz district
1st January 1969	official introduction of the TGS
January 1, 1970	121329	Hellendorf	Merger too	121376	Bahratal
	121342	Markersbach
	121334	Köttewitz	Merger too	121334	Köttewitz cancer
	121335	cancer
	121347	Nentmannsdorf	Merger too	121347	Nentmannsdorf-Niederseidewitz
	121348	Niederseidewitz
April 1, 1970	121319	Friedrichswalde	Merger too	121319	Friedrichswalde-Ottendorf
	121351	Ottendorf
June 1, 1971	121301	Bahra	Inclusion in	121338	Langenhennersdorf
	121340	Liebethal	Inclusion in	121354	Pirna
January 1, 1972	121307	Bonnewitz	Inclusion in	121326	Graupa
	121306	Bornersdorf	Merger too	121306	Börnersdorf-Breitenau
	121309	Breitenau
1st January 1973	121308	Borna	Merger too	121308	Borna-Gersdorf
	121320	Gersdorf
	121317	Flatness	Inclusion in	121369	Struppen
	121364	Schmilka	Inclusion in	121363	Bad Schandau
	121365	Schmorsdorf	Inclusion in	121343	Maxen
	121330	Hostels	Inclusion in	121341	Liebstadt
	121367	Side grove
	121374	Whitish	Inclusion in	121370	Thürmsdorf
	121331	Kleingießhübel	Merger too	121360	Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna
	121360	Reinhardtsdorf
	121366	Nice
May 1st 1973	121303	Berthelsdorf	Inclusion in	121341	Liebstadt
	121305	Birkwitz	Merger too	121305	Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz
	121356	Pratzschwitz
1st January 1974	121318	Falcon Grove	Inclusion in	121343	Maxen
April 1, 1974	121332	Kleinhennersdorf	Inclusion in	121352	Papal Village
	121336	Krietzschwitz	Inclusion in	121354	Pirna
	121349	Obervogelgesang
	121371	Waltersdorf / Sächs. Schw.	Inclusion in	121355	Porschdorf
July 1, 1990	121352	Kleinhennersdorf	Outsourcing in	121332	Kleinhennersdorf

On May 17, 1990, the Pirna district was renamed the Pirna district in Saxony. It existed until October 2, 1990.

politics

District Administrator

Until 1990 this function corresponded to the chairman of the council of the district .

Population data of cities and municipalities

Population overview of all 52 municipalities in the district that came to the re-established state of Saxony in 1990.

AGS	local community	Residents		Area (ha)
		3rd October 1990	December 31, 1990
14044020	Berggießhübel , health resort, city	1 794	1,787	1 265
14044040	Bielatal	990	996	745
14044050	Birkwitz-Pratzschwitz	871	860	664
14044060	Börnersdorf-Breitenau	552	542	1 911
14044080	Borna - Gersdorf	749	752	1,080
14044100	Burkhardswalde	532	535	652
14044110	Cotta	767	766	1 230
14044120	Cunnersdorf near Koenigstein	569	569	1,694
14044130	Dobra	236	236	587
14044140	Dohma	635	638	465
14044150	Dohna , city	3 034	2,988	385
14044160	Village of Wehlen	701	702	778
14044190	Friedrichswalde-Ottendorf	600	596	907
14044210	Goeppersdorf	252	250	918
14044220	Goes	289	285	261
14044230	Gohrisch , health resort	828	816	451
14044240	Gorknitz	520	509	1,000
14044250	Bad Gottleuba , health resort, city	2 205	2 209	1 851
14044260	Graupa	2,734	2,743	982
14044270	Großröhrsdorf	338	333	1 147
14044280	Heidenau, city	20 315	19 980	1 107
14044320	Kleinhennersdorf	281	280	459
14044330	Koenigstein / Saxon. Schw., City	3 001	2,989	1 378
14044340	Köttewitz - cancer	417	417	318
14044370	Cribs	817	817	245
14044380	Langenhennersdorf	1 049	1 050	1 031
14044390	Leupoldishain	284	271	843
14044410	Liebstadt , city	879	869	1 556
14044430	Maxen	746	747	1 212
14044440	Meusegast	136	135	373
14044450	Mühlbach	518	516	197
14044460	Naundorf	375	369	348
14044470	Nentmannsdorf - Niederseidewitz	425	428	742
14044500	Oils	233	228	770
14044520	Papal Village	573	576	872
14044530	Pfaffendorf	340	333	470
14044540	Pirna , city	42 481	41 798	3 653
14044550	Porschdorf	910	901	932
14044570	Prossen	681	678	161
14044580	Rathen , health resort	572	573	358
14044590	Rathmannsdorf	1 284	1 286	437
14044600	Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna	1 919	1,899	3 175
14044610	Röhrsdorf	234	233	275
14044620	Rosenthal	965	944	3 901
14044630	Bad Schandau , city	3 397	3 387	3 339
14044680	City of Wehlen , city	1 210	1 201	303
14044690	Struppen	1 396	1 389	1 193
14044700	Thürmsdorf	588	582	526
14044720	Waltersdorf b. Liebstadt	163	161	451
14044730	Weesenstein	264	265	39
14044750	Wish village	333	332	412
14044760	Bahratal	894	891	2,047
14044000	Pirna district	106 876	105 637	52 097

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs RT , RU and YT from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was YT 00-01 to YT 60-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark PIR .

Codes

Postcodes 1960–1993: 8300–8349
Postcodes from 1993: 0179 * –0184 *

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Diercke Lexicon Germany - German Democratic Republic and Berlin (East), p. 208 . Georg Westermann Verlag GmbH, Braunschweig 1986, ISBN 3-07-508861-7 .
2. ^ Homeland GDR. Adventures. Considerations. Findings. Documents, including Gabriele Parakeninks: "The Mayor's Choir in the Pirna District", Ed. Horst Jäkel, GNN-Verlag Schkeuditz 2015, p. 200, ISBN 978-3-89819-416-7
3. ↑ 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. ↑ Saxony regional register
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 f .
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. 502 .