Gardelegen district
The district of Gardelegen , until 1939 district of Gardelegen , was from 1816 to 1945 a district in the Prussian province of Saxony and from 1945 to 1952 in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ or GDR .
Administrative history
Kingdom of Prussia
As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Gardelegen district was established in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the province of Saxony on July 1, 1816 . The district office was in Gardelegen, but from 1844 to 1850 in Isenschnibbe . On January 1, 1819, the village of Wernstedt was reclassified from the Salzwedel district to the Gardelegen district.
North German Confederation / German Empire
Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and since January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Gardelegen district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which almost all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1932, the exclaves Hehlingen and Heßlingen were reclassified from the Gardelegen district to the Gifhorn district in the Prussian province of Hanover , administrative district of Lüneburg . On January 1, 1939, the Gardelegen district was given the designation Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation . After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Magdeburg .
In April 1945 the district was occupied by the US armed forces and handed over to the Soviet troops on July 1, 1945 .
Soviet occupation zone / German Democratic Republic
In 1945 the Calvörde enclave with the communities of Berenbrock , Calvörde , Dorst , Elsebeck , Jeseritz , Lössewitz , Parleib , Uthmöden , Velsdorf and Zobbenitz was reclassified from the Braunschweig district of Helmstedt to the district of Gardelegen.
On July 1, 1950, the GDR underwent its first administrative reform :
- The communities Behnsdorf , Belsdorf , Berenbrock , Born , Böddensell , Calvörde , Dorst , Döhren , Eickendorf , Eschenrode , Everingen , Flechtingen , Weferlingen , Hasselburg , Hödingen , Klinze , Ribbensdorf , Seggerde , Uthmöden , Walbeck and Wieglitz moved from the district of Gardelegen to District of Haldensleben .
- The town of Kalbe (Milde) and the communities of Altmersleben , Böckwitz , Bühne , Dönitz , Immekath , Jahrstedt , Kunrau , Nesenitz , Neuendorf , Neuferchau , Steimke and Vahrholz moved from the Salzwedel district to the Gardelegen district.
In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, further extensive changes were made to the delimitation of the district:
- The communities Bösdorf , Klüden , Etingen , Gehrendorf , Kathendorf , Lockstedt , Mannhausen , Velsdorf and Wegenstedt came to the district of Haldensleben .
- The town of Kalbe (Milde) and the municipalities of Altmersleben , Brüchau , Bühne, Engersen , Faulenhorst , Jemmeritz , Kakerbeck , Schenkenhorst , Vahrholz, Wernstedt and Winkelstedt became part of the Kalbe district .
- The cities pads and Oebisfelde and the municipalities Bergfriede , Böckwitz, Breitenrode , Dannefeld , Doenitz, Immekath, Jahrstedt, Köckte , Kusey , Miesterhorst , Nesenitz, Neuendorf, Neuferchau, Niendorf , Quarnebeck , Röwitz , Steimke, Trippigleben , Wassen village , Weddendorf and Wenze came to the circle of blocks .
- The Ottersburg community came to the Tangerhütte district .
- All other municipalities formed the Gardelegen district .
- The districts of Gardelegen, Haldensleben, Kalbe, Klötze and Tangerhütte were assigned to the new district of Magdeburg .
In 1987 a large part of the disbanded Kalbe district was incorporated into the Gardelegen district. The Gardelegen district, called the district since 1990 , was dissolved on July 1, 1994 and incorporated into the newly formed Altmarkkreis Salzwedel .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 29,719 | |
| 1843 | 41,453 | |
| 1871 | 49,526 | |
| 1890 | 52,477 | |
| 1900 | 56,961 | |
| 1910 | 62,621 | |
| 1925 | 64,789 | |
| 1933 | 63,472 | |
| 1939 | 64.902 | |
| 1946 | 97.381 |
District administrators
- 1816–1843: Wilhelm von Kröcher (1782–1861)
- 1843–1861: Friedrich Wilhelm von Kröcher (1810–1891)
- 1861–1867: Jacob von Gerlach
- 1867-1892: Kurt von Reventlow
- 1892–1894: Konrad von Goßler (1841–1900)
- 1894–1897: Karl von Davier (1853–1936)
- 1897–1920: Werner von Alvensleben (1858–1928)
- 1920–1932: Oscar Böer († 1932)
- 1932–1933: Horst von Windheim (1886–1935)
- 1933–1941: Fritz Coester (* 1893)
- 1941 : Meyer-Nieberg ( substitute )
- 1942 : Siegfried ( substitute )
- 1942-1944: Max Daue ( representatively )
- 1944–1945: Lorke ( provisional )
- 1945 : Georg Rößler (* 1887)
Local constitution until 1945
The Gardelegen district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.
coat of arms
Blazon : “Divided; above in silver a growing gold-armored red eagle, below in red a striding blue-armored and blue-tongued golden lion. "
(approved on September 14, 1938)
cities and communes
As of 1939
In 1939, the Gardelegen district comprised three towns, 102 other communities and a non-community forest estate district.
The Letzlinger Heide forest estate was also located in the district .
Municipalities dissolved or resigned by 1939
- Kaltendorf , 1918 to Oebisfelde-Kaltendorf
- Hehlingen , 1932 to the Gifhorn district
- Heßlingen , 1932 to the Gifhorn district
- Salchau , dissolved in 1939
- Sylpke , 1936 split into the communities Sachau and Solpke
Name changes
- The city of Oebisfelde-Kaltendorf was renamed Oebisfelde in 1938 .
Web links
- Gardelegen district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 5, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gardelegen district
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 337 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 99 ( digitized version [accessed on July 6, 2016]).
- ↑ 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 [accessed July 5, 2016]).
- ↑ 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. Gardelegen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census