District of Delitzsch (Province of Saxony)

This article deals with the district of Delitzsch in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt from 1816 to 1952. For the district of Delitzsch in the GDR district of Leipzig (1952–1990) and the district of Delitzsch in Saxony (1990–1994) see Delitzsch district .

Seal mark Amt-Zwochau Kreis-Delitzsch

The district of Delitzsch was a district that existed in the Prussian province of Saxony , the SBZ and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the GDR between 1816 and 1952. It bordered in the west on the Saalkreis , in the north on the Bitterfeld district , in the east on the Torgau district and in the south on the Saxon authorities - from January 1, 1939 "districts" - Leipzig and Grimma . The district town was Delitzsch .

Administrative history

Prussia

During the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , on October 1, 1816, the old Saxon offices of Delitzsch and Eilenburg , three exclaves of the Bitterfeld office , a place partly belonging to the offices of Leipzig and Schkeuditz , one exclave each of the offices of Schkeuditz and Leipzig as well as the five villages of the Stiftmeißnischen office Wurzen, which have become Prussian, set up the Delitzsch district in the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony . The district office was in Delitzsch.

In 1900 the Delitzsch district included three towns, 155 rural communities and 40 manor districts. In 1945 - unchanged - the three cities of Delitzsch , Eilenburg and Landsberg as well as 137 other communities belonged to the district.

On September 30, 1929, in the Delitzsch district, in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, after ten years of conflict, all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1937, the Ennewitz community moved from the Merseburg district to the Delitzsch district and was incorporated into the Glesien community . After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Halle-Merseburg for almost a year . In April 1945 the district was occupied by Allied forces. The US-Americans, who had initially moved in, withdrew behind the agreed zone boundary in June / July 1945 and handed the district over to the Red Army.

SBZ / GDR

After the dissolution of Prussia in 1947, the Delitzsch district became part of the new state of Saxony-Anhalt . On August 31, 1950, a first regional reform took place in the GDR:

• The city of Landsberg and the surrounding communities Bageritz , Benndorf , Dölbau , Gollma , Gütz , Klepzig , Kockwitz , Lohnsdorf , Naundorf b. Reideburg , Queis , Reinsdorf , Reussen , Sietzsch , Wiedersdorf , Wiesenena and Zwebendorf moved to the Saalkreis .
• The municipality of Döbern moved to the district of Bitterfeld .

As part of the GDR district reform of 1952 , the Delitzsch area was fundamentally restructured:

• The eastern part of the Delitzsch district merged with parts of the Bitterfeld and Torgau districts in the new Eilenburg district .
• The remaining communities formed together with the community Wiesenena, which had moved to the Saalkreis in 1950, a new, smaller district of Delitzsch .
• The districts of Delitzsch and Eilenburg were assigned to the new district of Leipzig .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	34,514
1843	47,800
1871	57,460
1890	62,612
1900	69,485
1910	76,398
1925	82.085
1933	85,370
1939	88,364
1946	118,858

District administrators

• 1816–1841 Friedrich von Pfannenberg (1787–1841)
• 1841–1855 Arthur von Pfannenberg
• 1855–1893 Wilhelm von Rauchhaupt (1828–1894)
• 1893–1916 Friedrich von Busse (1859–?)
• 1916–1920 Joachim Arthur Wilhelm von Manteuffel
• 1920–1925 Gustav Raute (1859–1946)
• 1925–1926 Josef Brisch (1889–1952) ( acting )
• 1926–1945 Ernst Meister

Local constitution

The district of Delitzsch was divided into cities, into rural communities and - until their complete dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. After the introduction of the district order for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony on March 19, 1881, 35 administrative districts were set up to bundle administrative tasks in the countryside , comprising between two and more than twelve municipalities.

With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . The division into administrative districts remained the same.

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the Delitzsch district comprised three cities and 137 other municipalities:

Badrina Bageritz Battaune Beer village Behlitz Benndorf Beuden Tucks Bötzen Boyda Brinnis Brodau Brodenaundorf Bunitz Delitzsch , city Döbern Doebernitz Doberschütz Doberstau Dölbau Eilenburg , city Freiroda Gallen Gerbisdorf Gertitz Glesien Gollma Gollmenz Gordemitz Goritz Gostemitz Gotha Grave protection Grebehna Groitzsch

Grand Lissa Groß Wölkau Gruna Gütz Hainichen Hayna High-rise Hohenprießnitz Hohenroda Jesewitz Kattersnaundorf Kertitz Little Lissa Klein Wölkau Klepzig Kletzen Klitschmar Kockwitz Kollau Kölsa Kospa Kisses Krensitz Kreuma Krippehna Krostitz Kupsal Kyhna Landsberg (Bz. Halle) , city Lukewarm Lousy Lehelitz Lemsel Liemehna Lindenhayn

Löbnitz Lohnsdorf Loosen Luckowehna Mocherwitz Mölbitz Mortitz Mutschlena Naundorf b. Eilenburg Naundorf b. Reideburg Lower Glaucha Low floor Upper Glaucha Ochelmitz Paschwitz Paupitzsch Pehritzsch Peterwitz Pohritzsch Possdorf Press priest Literally Pröttitz Queis Cross ring Rabutz Rackwitz Radefeld Reibitz Reinsdorf Reuss Rödgen b. Delitzsch Rödgen b. Eilenburg Roitzschjora

Sausedlitz Schenkenberg Schladitz b. Kommlitz Schnaditz Seelhausen The same Serbitz Sietzsch Brittle Sprotta Steubeln Deep lake Wannewitz Wedelwitz Whimsy Weltewitz Werbelin Advertise Werlitzsch Wiedemar Wiedersdorf Wiesenena Wöllmen Wöllnau Wölp Wolteritz Zaasch Zschepen Zschepplin Zschernitz Zschettgau Zschölkau Zschortau Zwebendorf Zwochau

Communities dissolved before 1945

• Droyanzig , in 1936 in Zwebendorf
• Emsdorf , 1936 to Sietzsch
• Flemsdorf , to Zwochau in 1936
• Gördenitz , to Pohritzsch in 1934
• Groß Krostitz and Klein Krostitz , merged to form the Krostitz community in the 1920s
• Groß Kyhna and Klein Kyhna , merged in 1936 to form Kyhna parish
• Güntheritz , 1939 to Güntersmark
• Hinterstadt , in 1856 at Eilenburg
• Hohenleina , 1939 on Krostitz
• Kömmlitz , 1936 to Schladitz
• Leipziger Steinweg , 1856 to Eilenburg
• Nockwitz , in Glesien in the 1920s
• Mensdorf , in 1936 to Mörtitz
• Roitzschgen , 1936 to Gütz
• Sand , in 1856 at Eilenburg
• Schladitz b Zwochau , 1936 to Zwochau
• Scholitz , 1936 on Badrina
• Schwätz , 1936 on Gollma
• Schweiditz , to Glesien in the 1920s
• Siedersdorf , in 1936 to Lohnsdorf
• Stennewitz , 1936 to Naundorf b. Reideburg
• Valley , 1856 to Eilenburg
• Torgauer Vorstadt , in 1856 at Eilenburg
• Wölls-Petersdorf , to Gütz in 1936
• Zscheppelende , 1856 in Eilenburg

Place names

In 1937 the initial C was replaced by K in some places :

• Cletzen → Kletzen
• Collau → Kollau
• Cospa → Kospa
• Cossen → Kossen
• Crensitz → Krensitz
• Creuma → Kreuma
• Cupsal → Cupsal

Web links

• District Delitzsch administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of April 14, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 333
2. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 345 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
3. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, Neustadt-Magdeburg, p. 191 ( digitized version [accessed June 6, 2016]).
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
5. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Delitzsch. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 1946 census
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1856, p. 140