Brandenburg district reform 1993
During the district reform in Brandenburg on December 6, 1993, the number of Brandenburg districts was reduced from 38 to 14. The independent cities of Brandenburg an der Havel , Cottbus , Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam were expanded to include surrounding communities and retained their status, while Eisenhüttenstadt was incorporated into the new Oder-Spree district and Schwedt / Oder into the new Uckermark district. The number of independent cities thus fell from six to four.
Overview of the old counties
| District / urban district | Area in km² | Residents | Ew / km² | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angermünde | 915 | 34,000 | 37 | ANG |
| Bad Freienwalde | 588 | 37,000 | 63 | FRW |
| Bad Liebenwerda | 600 | 53,000 | 88 | LIB |
| Beeskow | 941 | 37,000 | 39 | BSK |
| Belzig | 913 | 33,000 | 36 | BEL |
| Bernau | 758 | 73,000 | 96 | BER |
| Brandenburg (district) | 882 | 36,000 | 41 | BRB |
| Brandenburg (city) | 167 | 94,000 | 563 | BRB |
| Calau | 618 | 56,000 | 91 | CA |
| Cottbus (district) | 727 | 43,000 | 59 | CB |
| Cottbus (city) | 48 | 128,000 | 2667 | CB |
| Eberswalde | 714 | 82,000 | 115 | EW |
| Eisenhüttenstadt (district) | 537 | 20,000 | 37 | EH |
| Eisenhüttenstadt (city) | 54 | 53,000 | 981 | EH |
| Finsterwalde | 645 | 56,000 | 87 | FI |
| Forest | 307 | 38,000 | 124 | FOR |
| Frankfurt (city) | 148 | 87,000 | 588 | FF |
| Fürstenwalde | 924 | 105,000 | 114 | FW |
| Gransee | 945 | 43,000 | 46 | GRS |
| Guben | 381 | 43,000 | 113 | GUB |
| Herzberg | 667 | 36,000 | 54 | HZ |
| Jueterbog | 766 | 36,000 | 47 | JB |
| King Wusterhausen | 726 | 87,000 | 120 | KW |
| Kyritz | 809 | 34,000 | 42 | KY |
| Luebben | 806 | 32,000 | 40 | LN |
| Luckau | 703 | 29,000 | 41 | LC |
| Luckenwalde | 588 | 44,000 | 75 | LUK |
| Nauen | 894 | 77,000 | 86 | NAU |
| Neuruppin | 1,264 | 65,000 | 51 | NP |
| Oranienburg | 857 | 130,000 | 152 | OR |
| Pearl Mountain | 1,066 | 74,000 | 69 | BY |
| Potsdam (district) | 738 | 99,000 | 134 | P |
| Potsdam (city) | 101 | 142,000 | 1406 | P |
| Prenzlau | 795 | 43,000 | 54 | PZ |
| Pritzwalk | 762 | 32,000 | 42 | PK |
| Rathenow | 818 | 63,000 | 77 | RN |
| Schwedt (city) | 76 | 52,000 | 684 | SDT |
| Seelow | 842 | 39,000 | 46 | LAKE |
| Senftenberg | 598 | 115,000 | 192 | SFB |
| Spremberg | 349 | 43,000 | 123 | SPB |
| Strausberg | 689 | 90,000 | 131 | SRB |
| Templin | 996 | 35,000 | 35 | TP |
| Wittstock | 574 | 24,000 | 42 | WK |
| Zossen | 766 | 75,000 | 98 | ZS |
New counties
The reorganization of the districts was determined by the law for the reorganization of the districts and independent cities in the state of Brandenburg, which was announced on December 24, 1992. The names and county towns were determined by fourteen separate laws that were promulgated on April 22, 1993.
Barnim district
The district of Barnim with the district town of Eberswalde was formed from:
- the previous district of Bernau
- the previous district of Eberswalde without the municipality of Bölkendorf
- the communities of Hohensaaten and Tiefensee from the previous Bad Freienwalde district
District of Dahme-Spreewald
The district of Dahme-Spreewald with the district town of Lübben was formed from:
- the previous district of Königs Wusterhausen
- the previous district of Lübben
- the previous Luckau district without the Dahme office
- the Lieberose Office of the Beeskow district
- the municipality of Telz in the district of Zossen
- the municipality of Wernsdorf in the Fürstenwalde district
Elbe-Elster district
The district of Elbe-Elster with the district town of Herzberg (Elster) was formed from:
- the previous district of Bad Liebenwerda
- the previous Finsterwalde district
- the previous district of Herzberg without the community of Schöna-Kolpien
Havelland district
The Havelland district with the district town of Rathenow was formed from:
- the previous district of Nauen
- the previous district of Rathenow
District of Märkisch-Oderland
The district of Märkisch-Oderland with the district town of Seelow was formed from:
- the previous district of Bad Freienwalde without the communities of Tiefensee and Hohensaaten
- the previous district of Seelow
- the previous district of Strausberg
- the community of Rüdersdorf from the previous district of Fürstenwalde
Oberhavel district
The district of Oberhavel with the district town of Oranienburg was formed from:
- the previous Gransee district without the community of Keller
- the previous district of Oranienburg
Oberspreewald-Lausitz district
The Oberspreewald-Lausitz district with the district town of Senftenberg was formed from:
- the previous district of Calau
- the previous district of Senftenberg
Oder-Spree district
The Oder-Spree district with the district town of Beeskow was formed from:
- the previous district of Beeskow (without the Lieberose office)
- the previous district of Eisenhüttenstadt
- the previous district of Fürstenwalde without the communities of Rüdersdorf and Wernsdorf
- the previous independent city of Eisenhüttenstadt
Ostprignitz-Ruppin district
The district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin with the district town of Neuruppin was formed from:
- the previous Kyritz district without the Gumtow office
- the previous district of Neuruppin
- the previous district of Wittstock
- the communities of Blumenthal , Grabow and Rosenwinkel in the Pritzwalk district
- the municipality of Keller in the Gransee district
Potsdam-Mittelmark district
The district of Potsdam-Mittelmark with the district town of Bad Belzig was formed from:
- the previous district of Belzig
- the previous district of Brandenburg
- the previous district of Potsdam
- the Treuenbrietzen Office
District of Prignitz
The district of Prignitz with the district town of Perleberg was formed from:
- the previous district of Perleberg
- the previous district of Pritzwalk without the communities of Blumenthal, Grabow and Rosenwinkel
- the office of Gumtow of the district of Kyritz
Spree-Neisse district
The district of Spree-Neisse with the district town of Forst was formed from:
- the previous district of Cottbus
- the previous district of Forst
- the previous district of Guben
- the previous district of Spremberg
Teltow-Fläming district
The district of Teltow-Fläming with the district town of Luckenwalde was formed from:
- the previous district of Jüterbog without the Treuenbrietzen office
- the Luckenwalde district without the Treuenbrietzen office
- the previous district of Zossen without the municipality of Telz
- the Dahme department of the Luckau district
Uckermark district
The district of Uckermark with the district town of Prenzlau was formed from:
- the previous district of Angermünde
- the previous district of Prenzlau
- the previous district of Templin
- the previous independent city of Schwedt
- the municipality of Bölkendorf in the district of Eberswalde
literature
- Werner Jann (Hrsg.): Berlin-Brandenburg-Chance of the renewal of state administrations (= series of publications of the Municipal Science Institute of the University of Potsdam, Vol. 2), Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-08985-5 .
- Christiane Büchner / Jochen Franzke: Organizational change at the district level. Mission statement, implementation and interim assessment six years after the Brandenburg district reform . In: Thomas Edeling / Werner Jann / Dieter Wagner (eds.): Reorganisationsstrategien in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung (= series of publications on Interdisciplinary Organizational and Administrative Research , Vol. 5), Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 229–243, ISBN 978- 3-8100-2609-5 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Law for the reorganization of the districts and independent cities in the state of Brandenburg (KNGBbg)
- Commentary on the district reform and establishment of the Oberhavel district by the deputy district administrator a. D. Michael Ney
- Christiane Büchner / Jochen Franzke: District reform in Brandenburg - A balance sheet after 8 years (PDF, 189 kB)