Wernigerode district

Basic data
District of the GDR	Magdeburg
County seat	Wernigerode
surface	772 km² (1989)
Residents	103,072 (1989)
Population density	134 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	H and M (1953–1990) HX and MX (1974–1990) WR (1991–1994)
The district of Wernigerode in the district of Magdeburg

The county Wernigerode was the southernmost district of the GDR - district Magdeburg . From 1990 it existed as the district of Wernigerode in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Today his area belongs to the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt. The seat of the district administration was in Wernigerode .

geography

The district of Wernigerode bordered in a clockwise direction in the north on the (rural) districts of Halberstadt , Quedlinburg , Nordhausen and Goslar .

history

During the district reform on July 1, 1950 , the district of Wernigerode was formed from the part of the district of Blankenburg that belonged to the GDR (excluding the communities of Allrode and Timmenrode ) and several communities of the district of Wernigerode .

On May 17, 1990, the district was renamed the Wernigerode district. On the occasion of the German reunification , the district was awarded to the state of Saxony-Anhalt. On July 1, 2007 it went on in the new Harz district .

cities and communes

In 1957, the following towns and communities belonged to the Wernigerode district:

Abbenrode Altenbrak Benneckenstein Gasoline electrode Blankenburg , city Bornecke Cattenstedt Darlingerode Derenburg , city

Drübeck Elbingerode , city misery Hasselfelde , city Heimburg Heudeber Hüttenrode Ilsenburg Koenigshütte

Langeln Minsleben Reddeber Rübeland Schierke Schmatzfeld Silstedt Concern Stapelburg

Stairs fir Trautenstein Treseburg Veckenstedt Aquatic life Wernigerode , city Wienrode

License Plate

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 January 01 to December 31, 2010
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 .
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. 534 .