Zschopau district

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Basic data
State : Saxony
District (GDR)
Administrative region :		 Karl-Marx-Stadt
Chemnitz
Administrative headquarters : Zschopau
Surface: 214.15 km²
Residents : 55,461 (October 3, 1990)
Population density : 258 inhabitants per km²
License plate : T, X (1953–1990)
TX (1974–1990)
ZP (1991–1994)
Circle key : 14 0 57
Circle structure: 22 municipalities , 4 cities
District Administrator : Siegfried Trommer
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The district of Zschopau in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district

The Zschopau district was a district in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district of the GDR . From 1990 to 1994 it existed as the district of Zschopau in the Free State of Saxony . Today his area is in the Erzgebirge district . The seat of the district administration was in Zschopau .

geography

location

The Zschopau district was located in the east of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, southeast of the district capital .
The circle was at the transition from the lower to the middle layers of the Ore Mountains . The landscape of the area was shaped by the Zschopau valley and its side valleys. The highest elevation was the Greifensteine ​​near Ehrenfriedersdorf with 731  m above sea level. NN , lowest point the Zschopautal near Witzschdorf with 307  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring areas

The district of Zschopau bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Karl-Marx-Stadt-Land (until 1953 and from 1990 Chemnitz-Land), Flöha , Marienberg , Annaberg and Stollberg .

history

The district of Zschopau was created in the course of the district reforms in the GDR on July 25, 1952 from parts of the districts of Flöha , Annaberg and Marienberg .

The following communities formed the district of Zschopau:

  • from the district of Annaberg (6):
Ehrenfriedersdorf, Gelenau, Herold, Jahnsbach, Neundorf and Thum
  • from the district of Flöha (7)
Börnichen i. Erzgeb., Gornau, Hohndorf, Krumhermersdorf, Schlößchen i. Erzgeb., Weißbach and Zschopau
  • from Marienberg district (12)
Drebach, Falkenbach, Gehringswalde, Grießbach, Großolbersdorf, Hilmersdorf, Hopfgarten, Scharfenstein, Schönbrunn, Streckewalde, Venusberg and Wolkenstein.

Before it was dissolved, the following municipal area reforms and reclassifications took place across the district boundaries:

  • December 4th 1952 Reclassification from Neundorf to the district of Annaberg
  • December 4th 1952 reclassification from Waldkirchen / Erzgeb. and Witzschdorf from the Flöha district to the Zschopau district
  • January 1, 1994 Merger of Dittersdorf (Lkr. Chemnitz), Schlößchen / Erzgeb. and Weißbach zu Amtsberg
  • January 1st, 1994 incorporation of Hohndorf in Großolbersdorf
  • March 1st, 1994 Witzschdorf and Dittmannsdorf (district Flöha) are incorporated in Gornau / Erzgeb.
  • March 1, 1994 Reclassification of the Cameroon settlement from Amtsberg (Dittersdorf district) to Kemtau (Chemnitz district)

The district of Zschopau existed until the first Saxon district reform , from May 17, 1990 as the district of Zschopau. With effect from August 1, 1994, the territory was added to the district of Annaberg and the Middle Ore Mountains .

politics

District Administrator

Until 1990 the office corresponded to that of the chairman of the council of the district .

economy

The Zschopau valley and especially the city of Zschopau had been an industrially highly developed area since the beginning of the 19th century. After the Second World War, the economy recovered fairly quickly, despite the extensive reparations payments to the Soviet Union . The largest employers were the Motorradwerke Zschopau with over 3500 employees and the DKK refrigerator factory in Scharfenstein with a branch in Niederschmiedeberg . Otherwise, the textile industry in particular shaped the region with large factories in Gornau , Gelenau / Erzgeb. , Venusberg and Zschopau, as well as a number of suppliers to the above Works. The paper mill in Wilischthal should also be mentioned . As a result of the high job density , the district had a larger number of commuters . Large areas of the district were used for agriculture by the agricultural production cooperatives of the individual towns. Another branch of the economy was tourism with a large number of FDGB holiday homes.

traffic

The district of Zschopau was accessed from the road side by the highway 174, today's federal highway 174 . On the rail side, the Zschopautalbahn from Flöha to Weipert was used for passenger and freight traffic. The narrow-gauge railways Schönfeld-Wiesa-Meinersdorf , Wilischthal-Thum and Wolkenstein-Jöhstadt existed in the side valleys of the Zschopau until the 1970s . Larger freight yards existed in Zschopau , Wilischthal and Wolkenstein .

Population data

Population overview of all 26 municipalities in the district that came to the re-established state of Saxony in 1990.

AGS local community Residents Area (ha)
October 3, 1990 December 31, 1990
14057010 Börnichen / Erzgeb. 977 971 1 540
14057020 Drebach 2 622 2 571 1 725
14057030 Ehrenfriedersdorf , city 6 263 6 170 1 583
14057040 Falkenbach 483 477 517
14057050 Gehringswalde 829 804 626
14057060 Gelenau / Erzgeb. 5,783 5 759 2 111
14057070 Gornau / Erzgeb. 2 015 1 947 559
14057080 Grießbach 887 886 475
14057090 Grossolbersdorf 2,454 2 433 1 418
14057100 Herald 1 443 1 433 325
14057110 Hilmersdorf 924 935 722
14057120 Hohndorf 596 595 252
14057130 Hopfgarten 325 329 591
14057140 Jahnsbach 1 610 1 605 481
14057150 Krumhermersdorf 1 788 1 753 1 066
14057160 Scharfenstein 1,325 1 249 419
14057170 Schlößchen / Erzgeb. 608 596 182
14057180 Schönbrunn 640 630 713
14057190 Streckewalde 368 358 258
14057200 Thum , city 3,498 3,468 1 083
14057210 Venusberg 1 717 1 701 655
14057220 Waldkirchen / Erzgeb. 1 193 1 191 897
14057230 Weissbach 1 621 1 622 963
14057240 Witzschdorf 746 748 555
14057250 Selva, city 1 879 1 873 473
14057260 Zschopau , city 12 867 12 799 1 226
14057000 Zschopau district 55 461 54 903 21 415

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs beginning with the pair of letters TX from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was XZ 50-01 to XZ 52-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark ZP . It was issued until July 31, 1994. It has been available in the Erzgebirgskreis since November 9, 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  3. ↑ Saxony regional register
  4. ↑ 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 .
  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. 526 .