District Jerichow I

The district of Jerichow I , until 1939 the district of Jerichow I , existed in the Prussian province of Saxony and the state of Saxony-Anhalt in the SBZ and GDR from 1816 to June 30, 1950.

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Jerichow I district was set up in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the province of Saxony in 1816 . The district comprised the 2nd district of the Jerichower district and the Ziesar district of the former Duchy of Magdeburg , the former Electoral Saxony office of Gommern and the Anhalt-Dessau office of Walternienburg . The seat of the district administrator was first the town of Loburg , then from 1818 Neuhaus Castle in Leitzkau , from 1850 again Loburg and from 1877 the town of Burg .

On May 8, 1828, the villages of Cracau and Prester moved from the Magdeburg district to the Jerichow I.

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 April 1, 1910, the rural communities Cracau and Prester left the district and were incorporated into the urban district of Magdeburg . On April 1, 1913, the rural communities of Elbenau and Grünewalde were incorporated into the town of Schönebeck (Elbe) in the Calbe district. On June 1, 1924, the city left Burg b. M. the district of Jerichow I and from then on formed its own urban district . The administrative seat of the Jerichow I district remained in Burg.

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Jerichow I 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. Since January 1, 1939 resulted circle Jerichow I as rich now uniform regulation, the term district Jerichow I. After the dissolution of the Province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district was part of the new Province of Magdeburg . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

Soviet occupation zone / GDR

The communities Flötz , Gehrden , Güterglück , Kämeritz , Lübs , Moritz , Prödel , Schora , Töppel and Walternienburg were reclassified from the district of Jerichow I to the district of Zerbst in 1946 .

On July 1, 1950, the GDR underwent its first administrative reform :

• The district of Jerichow I was dissolved.
• The communities of Calenberge , Pechau and Randau moved to the district of Schönebeck .
• The remaining communities formed the new district of Burg .
• The independent city of Burg was incorporated into the district as a district town.
• The community of Reesen moved from the district of Jerichow II to the district of Burg.

In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, extensive area changes were made in the Burg district:

• The communities of Görzke and Werbig came to the Belzig district in the Potsdam district .
• The city of Ziesar and the communities of Boecke , Buckau , Bücknitz , Glienecke , Gräben , Köpernitz , Rottstock , Steinberg , Wenzlow , Wollin and Zitz came to the Brandenburg-Land district in the Potsdam district .
• The cities of Loburg and Möckern as well as the communities of Brietzke-Kalitz , Dalchau , Dannigkow , Dörnitz , Dretzen , Drewitz , Hobeck , Hohenlobbese , Hohenziatz , Isterbies , Ladeburg , Leitzkau , Lübars , Magdeburgerforth , Reesdorf , Rosian , Schopsdorf , Schweinitz , Tryppehna , Vehlitz , Wallwitz , Zeddenick and Zeppernick formed the Loburg district in the Magdeburg district .
• The communities Plötzky , Pretzien and Ranies came to the Schönebeck district in the Magdeburg district .
• All other municipalities, including the cities castle and Gommern, formed together with the community Krüssau the circle Genthin the county castle in Magdeburg district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	37,705
1843	53,483
1871	64,797
1890	73.173
1900	81,703
1910	81,386
1925	59,127
1933	58,140
1939	60,862
1946	76,333

Local constitution

The district of Jerichow I was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution - 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.

District administrators

• 1816–1850 Otto von Münchhausen
• 1850–1853 Ferdinand von Münchhausen (1810–1882)
• 1856–1886 Carl von Plotho (1827–1886)
• 1886–1890 Wilhelm von Hegel (1849–1925)
• 1892–1918 Arthur von Pieschel († 1924)
• 1918–1919 Melchior von Breitenbuch (1874–1940)

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the district of Jerichow I comprised four cities, 86 other municipalities and a municipality-free manor district:

Biederitz Boecke Brietzke-Kalitz Buckau Bucknitz Buden Calenberg Dalchau Dannigkow Detershagen Dörnitz Dretzen Drewitz Flötz Friedensau Gehrden Gerwisch Glienecke Gommern , city Görzke Trenches Grabow Great Lübars

Grüningen Gübs Good luck Hobeck Hohenlobbese Hohenwarthe Hohenziatz Ihleburg Isterbies Kämeritz Karith Klein Lübars-Riesdorf Königsborn Köpernitz Körbelitz Küsel Ladeburg Leitzkau Loburg , city Lostau Luebs Lühe Magdeburgerforth

Menz Möckern , city Moritz Möser Nedlitz Niegripp Parchau Pechau Pietzpuhl Plötzky Pramsdorf Pretzia Prödel Randau Ranies Reesdorf Rietzel Rogäsen-Jerichow Rosian Rottstock Schartau Shame Schopsdorf

Shora Schweinitz Stegelitz Steinberg Stresow Tea Potters Tryppehna Vehlitz Wahlitz Wallwitz Walternienburg Wenzlow Advertising Wollin Woltersdorf Wörmlitz Zeddenick Zeppernick Ziepel Ziesar , city Teat

The municipality-free manor district Altengrabow also belonged to the district .

Municipalities dissolved or left by 1945

• Cracau , 1910 in Magdeburg
• Elbenau , 1913 to Schönebeck in the Calbe district
• United Lübs and small Lübs , 1937 Lübs together
• Grünewalde , 1913 to Schönebeck in the Calbe district
• Prester , 1910 to Magdeburg

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State archive Saxony-Anhalt: District Jerichow I
2. ↑ ^{a b} genealogy.net: District Jerichow I
3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 332 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 110 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
5. ↑ 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]).
6. ↑ ^{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. District Jerichow I. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ 1946 census