District of Blankenburg (Lower Saxony)

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Coat of arms of the district of Blankenburg
District of Blankenburg (Lower Saxony)
Map of Germany, position of the district of Blankenburg highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1945–1972
State : Lower Saxony
Administrative region : Braunschweig
Administrative headquarters : Braunlage
Area : 131.05 km 2
Residents: 14,700 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 112 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : BRL
Circle key : 03 7 31
Circle structure: 6 municipalities

The district of Blankenburg was a district in the Free State of Braunschweig between 1945 and 1946 and a district in Lower Saxony until 1972. Today his area belongs to the districts of Goslar and Göttingen . Until 1950 the district was also known as the remaining district of Blankenburg . Today it is incorrectly called the district of Braunlage because of the district town and, above all, because of the license plate number .

geography

The district of Blankenburg in Lower Saxony

location

The district was located on the extreme southeastern edge of Lower Saxony and bordered in the east and south over more than half of the district boundary with the Iron Curtain . The district of Blankenburg was thus located directly in the economically disadvantaged border area . The majority of the district was in the Harz Mountains , only the communities of Walkenried and Neuhof were in the southern Harz foreland and could only be reached from the west without crossing the Harz Mountains. The district was thus extremely peripheral.

Historically, the district of Blankenburg with Braunlage and Hohegeiß comprised parts of the former Hasselfelde office on the one hand and the former ducal office Walkenried with the remaining communities. The Wurmberg , the highest mountain in Lower Saxony, belonged to the district area.

Neighboring areas

In 1972 the district bordered clockwise in the northeast, beginning with the districts of Wernigerode and Nordhausen (both in the GDR ) and with the districts of Osterode am Harz and Zellerfeld (both in Lower Saxony).

structure

The district of Blankenburg is divided into the following communities:

history

Memorial for the former district of Blankenburg near the local history museum in Braunlage

When Germany was divided into zones of occupation after the Second World War , the state of Braunschweig and thus the entire district of Blankenburg were initially assigned to the British zone of occupation in accordance with the London Protocol of 1944 . Since the larger eastern part of the district was only connected to the rest of the British Zone by the then Reichsstraße 242 and the narrow-gauge railway Walkenried-Braunlage / Tanne , the demarcation was corrected in July 1945 and the district was divided at its narrowest point west of Sorge .

The smaller western part of the county remained in the British occupation zone. It belonged there as the district of Blankenburg until November 1946 to the Free State of Braunschweig and since then to the newly founded state of Lower Saxony. Braunlage was designated the new district town, but the name of the district was not changed. In Lower Saxony, the district of Blankenburg belonged to the administrative district of Braunschweig .

The larger eastern part of the old district of Blankenburg with the eponymous district town of Blankenburg fell into the Soviet occupation zone and was incorporated into the new state of Saxony-Anhalt . The district had belonged to the GDR since 1949 and continued until the district reform of 1950 .

The Lower Saxony district of Blankenburg was dissolved on July 1, 1972. Braunlage and Hohegeiß came to the Goslar district , while Neuhof , Walkenried , Wieda and Zorge came to the Osterode am Harz district . At the same time Neuhof was incorporated into Bad Sachsa .

Population development

year Residents source
1946 17,809
1950 17,215
1960 14,200
1970 14,200
1971 14,700

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign BRL when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is derived from the former district town of Braunlage and was issued until October 11, 1972. It has been available in the Goslar district since November 15, 2012 due to the license plate liberalization .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 266 .
  2. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. blankenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  4. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Blankenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files