Ballenstedt district
| Basic data | |
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| Inventory period | 1863-1950 |
| Administrative headquarters | Ballenstedt |
| surface | 332 km² (1939) |
| Residents | 33,842 (1939) |
| Population density | 102 inhabitants / km² (1939) |
| Communities | 19 (1939) |
| General map of Anhalt | |
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The district of Ballenstedt was a district in Anhalt from 1863 to 1945 and a district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ or GDR from 1945 to 1950 . The area of the former district is now part of the Harz district .
geography
The district of Ballenstedt was located in the northern eastern Harz and bordered on the Prussian districts of Quedlinburg , Mansfelder Gebirgskreis and Sangerhausen and, to the west, on the Braunschweig district of Blankenburg . The district, which was itself an exclave of the Anhalt heartland, included the two exclaves Großalsleben and Tilkerode .
history
In the Duchy of Anhalt , the Ballenstedt district was formed in 1863 from the Ballenstedt region, the so-called Upper Duchy. After the Duchy of Anhalt became the Free State of Anhalt in 1918 , the district was called the Ballenstedt District from 1933 .
On April 1, 1942, the district gave the Tilkerode exclave to the Mansfeld Mountains . After 1945, the district initially belonged to the newly formed province of Saxony-Anhalt , which in 1947 became the state of Saxony-Anhalt . In 1946 the district ceded the exclave Großalsleben with Kleinalsleben and Alikendorf to the district of Oschersleben . During a district reform of the GDR, the Ballenstedt district was dissolved in 1950 and incorporated into the Quedlinburg district. This went on in 2007 in the newly formed district of Harz.
Population development
| Residents | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 | 1946 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballenstedt district | 28,857 | 30,294 | 31,179 | 32,254 | 33,842 | 43,964 |
cities and communes
The district of Ballenstedt comprised (as of 1939) six cities, thirteen other municipalities and four community-free manor districts:
| local community | Residents |
|---|---|
| Alikendorf | 432 |
| Badeborn | 1,464 |
| Ballenstedt , city | 6,729 |
| Ballenstedt, manor district | 135 |
| Frose | 2,523 |
| Gernrode , city | 4,457 |
| Gernrode, manor district | 24 |
| Großalsleben , city | 1,380 |
| Güntersberge , city | 1,025 |
| Güntersberge, manor district | 7th |
| Harzgerode , city | 4,441 |
| Harzgerode-Neudorf, manor district | 0 |
| Hoym , town | 3,875 |
| Small life | 297 |
| Lindenberg | 106 |
| Neudorf | 703 |
| Opperode | 535 |
| Radisleben | 598 |
| Reinstedt | 1,343 |
| Rieder | 2,365 |
| Squint | 494 |
| Siptenfelde | 721 |
| Tilkerode | 220 |
coat of arms
The district carried the coat of arms of the former county of Ballenstedt temporarily and without certification.
Blazon : "Divided nine times by black and gold."
The county coat of arms was then approved for the first time on December 18, 1935 by the Anhalt State Ministry with the consent of the Reich Governor of Braunschweig-Anhalt.
Blazon : “Square, covered with a heart shield; Field 1: in silver a red gold-armored eagle at the gap, field 2: black over gold divided nine times, covered with a green diamond-shaped wreath, field 3: black over gold divided nine times, field 4: in silver a saint dressed in red, with gold nimbles golden shoes, holding a golden book in both hands; the heart shield shows in silver a striding black bear on a red, black grooved crenellated wall with an open gate. "
In fields 1 and 2 the coat of arms of the Anhalt Princely House is shown, in field 3 the coat of arms of the county of Ballenstedt, in field 4 Saint Cyriacus , the patron saint of the imperial monastery of Gernrode . The heart shield shows the coat of arms of the Free State of Anhalt.
The coat of arms was designed by the Berlin heraldist Gustav Adolf Closs .
literature
- Kurt Müller : History of the Ballenstedt district. Kulturverein Wilhelm von Kügelgen Ballenstedt eV (Ed.). Supplemented and edited by Karl-Heinz Börner and Christoph Schröter. Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-937648-09-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ballenstedt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ HGIS Germany: Anhalt (1863-1914). (PDF; 33 kB) Retrieved June 22, 2009 .
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Website of the city of Oschersleben ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 1946 census
