District of Mühlhausen i. Th.

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The district of Mühlhausen i. Th. (= In Thuringia ) was a district that existed in Prussia and the Soviet Zone or GDR between 1816 and 1952 and belonged to the province of Saxony and the state of Thuringia . In 1939 it included the town of Treffurt and another 42 communities. The district town of Mühlhausen did not belong to the district from 1892 to 1950.

Administrative history

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Prussia was divided into eight provinces, the latter into administrative districts and the latter into administrative districts. The region around Treffurt and Mühlhausen belonged to the administrative district of Erfurt in the province of Saxony . 1816 the government district was divided into nine districts, one of which the county Mulhouse was that one of the former imperial city of Mulhouse with 19 surrounding villages, the Gutsbezirk Sollstedt, the Bailiwick Dorla , the ganerbschaft Treffurt the former and one part kurmainzischen Eichsfeld formed. In addition to the cities of Mühlhausen and Treffurt, 42 rural communities and several manors were part of the district.

The first district administrator was the Prussian major and captain Carl von Hagen , who is said to have taken his oath of service on October 22, 1816. Von Hagen had a district administrator's seat in the Mainzer Hof in Treffurt until 1837 , while the district administration office was in Mühlhausen. Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . In 1869 the desert brands Lingula , Sebeda and Hornbach were reclassified from the Langensalza district to the Mühlhausen district. On April 1, 1892, the city of Mühlhausen left the district and from then on formed its own urban district , in which the seat of the district office remained.

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Mühlhausen district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. Later, the name Mühlhausen i. Th. Through. On January 1, 1939, the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. According to the now imperial regulation the designation district . After the dissolution of the Province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district continued to belong to the State of Prussia, but was now subordinate to the administration of the Reich Governor for Thuringia in Weimar , in alignment with the Reich Defense Districts .

In the spring of 1945, the district was initially occupied by US forces, but then part of the Soviet occupation zone and in 1949 the GDR . On July 1, 1946, the district of Mühlhausen gave the community Schnellmannshausen to the district of Eisenach and on September 30, 1946 the community of Lengenfeld unterm Stein was reclassified from the district of Eichsfeld to the district of Mühlhausen.

During the regional reform of July 1, 1950, the district of Mühlhausen was enlarged by

At the same time, the city of Treffurt and the communities of Falken and Großburschla moved from the Mühlhausen district to the Eisenach district.

The administrative reform in the GDR of July 25, 1952 brought further extensive changes to the area:

Since 1990 it has been called a district again, and in 1994 the district of Mühlhausen merged with most of the Bad Langensalza district as part of the district reform in Thuringia in the new Unstrut-Hainich district .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 33,476
1843 44.112
1871 50,640
1890 33,315
1900 34,666
1910 37,553
1925 40,511
1933 41,979
1939 42,169
1946 52.016

District administrators

Local constitution until 1945

The district of Mühlhausen i. Th. Was divided into cities, into rural communities and - until their 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.

In 1908, the administration for the district of Mühlhausen was divided into the following administrative districts and local police districts in addition to the urban district of Mühlhausen and the city of Treffurt:

  • Bunting
  • Bickenriede
  • Bollstedt
  • Effelder
  • Hawks
  • Big boy
  • Heyerode
  • Horsmar
  • Kaisershagen
  • Küllstedt
  • Oberdorla
  • Niederdorla
  • Silberhausen

Local courts existed in Mühlhausen, Treffurt and, for some villages in the south of Dichsfeld, also in Dingelstädt.

cities and communes

The district of Mühlhausen i. In 1939, Th. Comprised the city of Treffurt and another 42 communities:

literature

  • Matthias Stude: 200 years of the Mühlhausen district. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. 60th year (2016), issue 6, pages 165-167

Web links

  • District of Mühlhausen i. Th. Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 4, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c http://www.momentmagazin.de/2007/11/26/carl-von-hagen-1780%E2%80%931837/ , accessed on July 31, 2013
  2. ^ Tenth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from September 26, 1946
  3. ^ Thirteenth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from September 26, 1946
  4. 1. Ordinance on the implementation of the law amending the district and municipal boundaries in the state of Thuringia of April 26, 1950
  5. ^ Correction of the 1st regulation
  6. Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
  7. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Erfurt, p. 356 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  8. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 302 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
  9. 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]).
  10. 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. Mühlhausen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. 1946 census
  12. ^ Municipal directory on the website territorial.de