Dessau-Koethen district

Basic data
Inventory period	1863-1950
Administrative headquarters	Koethen
Residents	81,840 (1939)
Communities	123 (1950)
coat of arms

The Dessau-Köthen district existed from 1932 to 1950 in the Free State of Anhalt or in the State of Saxony-Anhalt . Its former area now largely belongs to the city of Dessau-Roßlau and the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld .

history

The district of Dessau-Köthen was formed on January 1, 1932 through the merger of the districts of Dessau and Köthen . The city of Dessau was initially designated as the administrative seat. On April 15, 1933, the city of Dessau, excluding the rural communities of Dellnau , Jonitz , Naundorf bei Dessau , Pötnitz and Scholitz , which were incorporated in 1930, was spun off and raised to a separate urban district. At the same time, Dellnau, Pötnitz and Scholitz were merged to form the community of Mildensee . On May 1, 1933, the district administration was transferred to Köthen under District Administrator Emil Evers . On January 20, 1934, due to the regulation of the Fuhne, there was an exchange of territory between Cattau and Löbejün from the Saalkreis . On August 21, 1934, the city of Köthen was spun off from the district and became a separate urban district. On April 1, 1935, the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 was introduced; consequently the rural parishes were renamed parishes. On April 1, 1942, the previously Prussian communities of Goltewitz , Möst bei Schierau , Pösigk , Priorau , Repau and Schierau from the Prussian district of Bitterfeld and the community of Löbnitz an der Linde from the Saalkreis were incorporated. In return, the municipality of Wadendorf was assigned to the district of Bitterfeld.

On November 1, 1945, the two communities Mildensee and Waldersee left the district and were incorporated into the independent city of Dessau.

The district had been part of the GDR since October 7, 1949. On July 1, 1950, it was dissolved as part of the first district reform in the GDR:

• The cities of Jeßnitz and Raguhn as well as the communities Bobbau , Kleinmöhlau and Siebenhausen came to the district of Bitterfeld.
• The Kochstedt community was incorporated into Dessau
• All other cities and communities in the district were merged with the Köthen district and the city of Aken a./E. as well as the communities Chörau and Micheln of the district Calbe united to the new district Köthen . This was fundamentally redefined during the district reform of 1952.

Population development

year	Protestant	Catholics	Other Christians	Jews	total
1933	61.001	1.936	0	60	67,129
1939	73.259	5,049	312	42	81,840
1946	104,812

District administrators

• 1933–1943 Emil Evers (1897–1945)

cities and communes

As of 1950

At the time of its dissolution, the Dessau-Köthen district comprised six cities and 117 other municipalities:

Arensdorf Baasdorf Biendorf Bob building Bobbe Brandhorst Cattau Cörmigk Cosa Cösitz Cruchchers Thieving Diesdorf Dohndorf Drosa Edderitz Elsdorf Elsnigk Fernsdorf Fraßdorf Frenz Friedrichsdorf Gerlebogk Credulous Gnetsch Gohrau Goltewitz Görzig Griesen Grobzig , town Grand bather

Großpaschleben Großwülknitz Hinsdorf Hohnsdorf Hohsdorf Horstdorf Hoyersdorf Ilbersdorf Jeßnitz , city Cocoa Small bathers Kleinmöhlau Kleinpaschleben Kleinweißandt Kleinwülknitz Small autumn Kleutsch Kochstedt Koernitz Lausigk Lennewitz Libbesdorf Libehna Lingenau Löbnitz an der Linde Locherau Maasdorf brand Meilendorf Merzien Mölz

Mosigkau Möst near Schierau Naundorf in front of the heather Niesau Oranienbaum , city Easter castle Pfaffendorf Pfitzdorf Pfriemsdorf Piethen Pißdorf Plömnitz Porst Pösigk Preusslitz Priorau Prosigk Source village Radegast , city Raguhn , city Rehsen Reinsdorf Repau Reppichau Retzau Repulsive Riesdorf Huge Rohndorf Rosefeld Scheuder

Schierau Schönitz Schortewitz Sibbesdorf Siebenhausen Sollnitz Storkau Thurau Thurland Tornau in front of the heath Trebbichau on the Fuhne Trebbichau near Wulfen Trinum Vockerode Wehlau Weißandt-Gölzau Wenndorf Werdershausen Wiendorf Wohlsdorf Wörbzig Wörlitz , city Wulfen Würflau Zabitz Zehbitz Zehmigkau Zehmitz Zehringen Ziebigk

Cities and municipalities that were eliminated or dissolved before 1950

• Breesen , on April 1, 1937 in Reupzig
• Dessau , since April 15, 1933 urban district
• Gölzau and Großweißandt , merged on April 1, 1937 to form Weißandt-Gölzau
• Jonitz , on April 1, 1935 at Waldersee
• Kleckewitz , to Raguhn on July 1, 1936
• Kleinleipzig , on July 1, 1936 in Thurland
• Köthen , since August 21, 1934 urban district
• Mildensee , on November 1, 1945 in Dessau
• Naundorf near Dessau , on April 1, 1935 at Waldersee
• Priesdorf , on April 1, 1937 in Cösitz
• Roßdorf , on July 1, 1936 in Jeßnitz
• Wadendorf , on April 1, 1942, to the Bitterfeld district
• Waldersee , on November 1, 1945 in Dessau
• Zeundorf , on April 1, 1937 at Schortewitz

coat of arms

Blazon : “Quartered, covered with a heart shield; Field 1: in silver a gold-armored red eagle at the gap, field 2: divided nine times black over gold, covered with a green diamond, field 3: quartered in gold and red, field 4: in black a natural partridge on a green trimmed mountain. The heart shield shows in silver a striding black bear on a red, black grooved crenellated wall with an open gate. "

As early as 1934, the district received approval to use a coat of arms. This showed the Anhalt family coat of arms, occupied with the Fatasiewappen Eike von Repgows and was changed three years later. The in the above. The district received blazon-related coats of arms in August 1937. Fields 1 and 2 show the coat of arms of the Anhalt Princely House, field 3 the coat of arms of the County of Waldersee , field 4 the coat of arms of Eikes von Repgows (note: his coat of arms has not survived and was given to him centuries later sealed), the author of the Sachsenspiegel , whose supposed birthplace is Reppichau . The heart shield shows the coat of arms of the Free State of Anhalt from 1924.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Dessau-Köthen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} GenWiki: Dessau-Köthen district
3. ↑ 1946 census
4. ^ Herbert Papendieck: "The coats of arms of the districts and independent cities of the State of Saxony-Anhalt" Published by the State Main Archives Magdeburg 1996 on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt, design: Jörg Mantzsch , ISBN 3-932090-04-7