Weißenfels district

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Basic data
District of the GDR Hall
County seat Weissenfels
surface 223 km² (1989)
Residents 63,838 (1989)
Population density 286 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate K and V (1953–1990)
KX and VX (1974–1990)
Bezirk Cottbus Bezirk Dresden Bezirk Erfurt Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) Bezirk Gera Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt Bezirk Leipzig Bezirk Magdeburg Bezirk Neubrandenburg Berlin Bezirk Potsdam Bezirk Rostock Bezirk Schwerin Bezirk Suhl Kreis Artern Kreis Aschersleben Kreis Bernburg Kreis Bitterfeld Dessau Kreis Eisleben Kreis Gräfenhainichen Halle (Saale) und Halle Neustadt (ab 1967 eigener Stadtkreis) Kreis Hettstedt Kreis Hohenmölsen Kreis Köthen Kreis Naumburg Kreis Nebra Kreis Quedlinburg Kreis Querfurt Kreis Roßlau Saalkreis (Bezirk Halle) Kreis Sangerhausen Kreis Weißenfels Kreis Wittenberg Kreis Zeitz Kreis MerseburgDDR-Bezirk-Halle-Kreis-Weissenfels.png
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The Weißenfels district in the Halle district
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The Weißenfels district was a district in the Halle district of the GDR . From 1990 it existed as the district of Weißenfels in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . His area is now in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt. The seat of the district administration was in Weißenfels .

geography

The Weißenfels district was on both sides of the Saale, southwest of Leipzig . It bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Merseburg , Leipzig-Land , Hohenmölsen , Naumburg and Nebra .

history

A district of Weißenfels had existed in the Prussian province of Saxony since 1815, and since 1945 it had belonged to the state of Saxony-Anhalt and thus to the GDR since 1949. On July 25, 1952, there was a comprehensive district reform in the GDR , in which, among other things, the states were dissolved and replaced by districts . The Weißenfels district gave parts of its territory to the new Hohenmölsen , Naumburg and Leipzig-Land districts . From the remaining part of the district, the Weißenfels district was formed, which was assigned to the newly formed Halle district .

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Weißenfels 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 October 1990. On July 1, 2007, it was disbanded. His area was incorporated into the new Burgenland district.

Population development

Weißenfels district
year 1960 1971 1981 1989
Residents 82,591 79.134 67,345 63,838

cities and communes

In 1956 the following towns and communities belonged to the Weißenfels district:

economy

Important companies in the district were among others:

  • VEB Brewery Weissenfels
  • VEB Kombinat shoes Weißenfels
  • VEB chain and nail works Weißenfels
  • VEB Vorrichtungsbau Weißenfels
  • VEB Tacton Weißenfels drum factory
  • VEB WiWeNa Weißenfels small furniture
  • VEB Techn. Building Equipment Hall, BT Elektroanlagenbau Weißenfels

traffic

The district was connected to the GDR's motorway network through the north-south Berlin Ring – Hirschberg motorway. The F 87 in the direction of Naumburg and Leipzig , the F 91 in the direction of Zeitz and Halle and the F 176 in the direction of Sömmerda and Borna also served national road traffic .

The district was crossed by the Halle – Weißenfels – Erfurt railway line . In addition, the branch lines Weißenfels-Zeitz , Großkorbetha-Deuben and Leipzig-Lützen-Pörsten served rail traffic .

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs KX and VX from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was VX 00-01 to VX 99-99 .

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

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. ↑ StBA Area: changes from 01.01. until December 31, 2007
  5. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952
  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. 520 .