Salzwedel district

This article deals with the Salzwedel district in the GDR district of Magdeburg (1952–1990) and the Salzwedel district of the same area in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (1990–1994). For the Prussian district of Salzwedel (1816–1952) see district of Salzwedel .

Basic data
District of the GDR	Magdeburg
County seat	Salzwedel
surface	878 km² (1989)
Residents	45,385 (1989)
Population density	52 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	H and M (1953–1990) HN and HH (1974–1990) SAW (1991–1994)
The Salzwedel district in the Magdeburg district

The Salzwedel district was a district in the Magdeburg district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Salzwedel in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . His area is now in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt. The seat of the district administration was in Salzwedel .

geography

location

The Salzwedel district was in the northern Altmark on the inner-German border . The most important body of water was the Jeetze .

Neighboring areas

The district of Salzwedel bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the (rural) districts of Lüchow-Dannenberg , Seehausen (until 1965), Osterburg , Kalbe (Milde) (until 1987) and Gardelegen (from 1988), Klötze , Gifhorn and Uelzen .

history

On July 25, 1952, there was an extensive administrative reform in the GDR , during which, among other things, the states of the GDR lost their importance and new districts were established. The then district of Salzwedel gave municipalities to the districts of Kalbe (Milde) and Klötze . The new Salzwedel district with its seat in Salzwedel was formed from the remaining district area . The district was assigned to the newly formed Magdeburg district.

On January 1, 1988, the Salzwedel district was enlarged to include parts of the disbanded Kalbe (Milde) district.

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Salzwedel district. On the occasion of the reunification of the two German states, the district was awarded to the re-established state of Saxony-Anhalt in 1990. During the first district reform in Saxony-Anhalt , which came into force on July 1, 1994, it was absorbed in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel.

Population development

Salzwedel district
year	1960	1971	1981	1989
Residents	46,998	42,856	41,476	45,385

cities and communes

After the administrative reform of 1952, the Salzwedel district included the following towns and communities:

Abbendorf Altensaltzwedel Andorf Barnebeck Benkendorf Bierstedt Bandage Bonese Bornsen Brietz Cheine Chüttlitz There Dambeck Diesdorf Dolsleben Ellenberg Eversdorf

Fahrendorf Fleetmark Gerstedt Gieseritz Gischau Grabenstedt Great Chüden Heidberg Henningen Hilmsen Holzhausen Jeebel Kaulitz Kerkau Klein Gartz Koenigstedt Kortenbeck Krinau

Kunrau Kuhfelde Lagendorf Langenapel Liesten Lindhorst Mahlsdorf Mechau Mehmke Neuekrug Osterwolle Peckensen Pretzier Püggen Rademin Riebau Crack Ritzleben

Saalfeld Salzwedel , city Schadeberg Schernikau Schmölau Seebenau Siedenlangenbeck Stappenbeck Steinitz Tylsen Valfitz Vissum Waddekath Wallstawe Wieblitz Wiershorst Wistedt Wüllmersen

On January 1, 1988, the Salzwedel district was expanded to include ten municipalities from the dissolved Kalbe (Milde) district:

Badel Brunau Jeetze Jeggelife Kahrstedt

lie Pack bush Vienau Winter field Counters

District administrators

• 1990–1994: Egon Sommerfeld (CDU)

economy

Important companies were among others:

• VEB Bergschloss-Brauerei Salzwedel
• VEB Ogema Salzwedel
• VEB natural gas production "Karl-Marx" Salzwedel

traffic

The B 71 from Salzwedel to Magdeburg and the B 190 from Salzwedel to Seehausen were used for national road traffic.

The routes Salzwedel – Stendal , Salzwedel – Oebisfelde , Salzwedel – Geestgottberg – Wittenberge , Salzwedel – Diesdorf and Salzwedel – Badel served rail traffic .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were given three-letter distinctive signs from around 1974 to the end of 1990, those with the letter pair HN and, after the dissolution of the Kalbe (Milde) district, the distinctive signs granted to this circle with the letter pair HH from the beginning of 1988 to the end of 1990 assigned. The last number plate series used for motorcycles was HY 00-01 to HY 20-00 .

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{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 , pp. 357-364 .
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 the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952
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. 302 .
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. 534 .