Mansfeld-Südharz district

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coat of arms Germany map
Coat of arms of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz Map of Germany, position of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
Administrative headquarters : Sangerhausen
Area : 1,448.84 km 2
Residents: 134,942 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 93 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : MSH, EIL, HET, ML, SGH
Circle key : 15 0 87
Circle structure: 22 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 20/22
06526 Sangerhausen
Website : www.mansfeldsuedharz.de
District Administrator : Angelika Klein ( left )
Location of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel Landkreis Stendal Landkreis Börde Magdeburg Landkreis Jerichower Land Landkreis Harz Salzlandkreis Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld Dessau-Roßlau Landkreis Wittenberg Saalekreis Halle (Saale) Burgenlandkreis Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz Berlin Sachsen Thüringen Niedersachsen Brandenburgmap
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(New) logo of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz

The district of Mansfeld-Südharz is a regional authority in the southwest of the state of Saxony-Anhalt . It was formed in the course of the district reform on July 1, 2007 by merging the former districts of Mansfelder Land and Sangerhausen .

geography

Satellite image of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz (you can see the larger cities of Eisleben and Sangerhausen as well as the foothills of the Harz)

The north of the district is determined by the Mansfelder Bergland, the easternmost part of the Harz Mountains . At Ulzigerode , the area with the 291 meter high Mahnberg reaches its highest point. To the east, the Harz foreland joins with its almost woodless, flat undulating and varied landscape. In the west, parts of the southern Harz belong to the district, and here, the 580 meter high Großer Auerberg, is the highest point in the district. In the southwest the district closes with the Goldene Aue .

The six square kilometer Kelbra reservoir is located in that fertile lowland area . In the opposite direction on the eastern border of the district, seven kilometers east of Eisleben, there is the three-square-kilometer sweet lake, the second largest body of water in the district. Two rivers cross the district from west to east, the Wipper in the north and the Helme in the south . In the far east of the district, the Saale touches the district area.

Cities and municipalities with the largest population

As of December 31, 2019.

Adjacent counties

The district of Mansfeld-Südharz borders in the north on the district of Harz and the Salzland district , in the east on the Saale district , in the south on the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis and in the west on the district of Nordhausen .

raw materials

Probably the best known raw material in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz is the copper and silver containing copper slate . This occurs underground in the Mansfelder Mulde and around Sangerhausen and was dismantled on a large scale in the past (see Mansfeld (company) ). After the less deep-lying areas were first excavated in smaller pits, the pits enlarged the more they penetrated into the deeper areas. After the end of the GDR, copper slate mining in the district had to be stopped due to inefficiency.

In the southeastern areas of the district there are larger bodies of salt in the subsoil, the leaching of which once led to the deepening of the Sweet Lake and the Salty Lake . Not far from the district border to Mansfeld Südharz there was a salt mine in Teutschenthal in the Saalekreis for decades that mined these bodies. Recently, however, residues have been filled into the mining cavities in order to prevent underground rockfalls.

What is less well known is that limestone was also mined in some pits in the copper slate area . Limestone occurs sporadically in the district.

At the Hornburger Sattel there are smaller uranium deposits that were explored in the early years of the GDR by the SDAG Wismut . However, due to the insufficient amount of uranium of a few hundred tons, mining was not worthwhile.

Near Amsdorf in the extreme southeast of the district there are lignite deposits containing montan wax. These are mined by the Romonta company in the Amsdorf opencast mine .

A wide distribution of fertile black earth soils in the Mansfeld region is very favorable for agriculture. There are also larger forest areas in the Harz Mountains.

ecology

Bauerngraben in the southern Harz karst landscape

The southern Harz karst landscape is unique in the world and of great importance for nature conservation and sustainable regional development. It is therefore partially designated as a biosphere reserve.

Protected areas

There are 27 designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).

Historical development

Old illustration of the castle of the Counts of Mansfeld . Only a few buildings remain from the great fortress.

In the course of the Middle Ages, several systems of rule were established in the area of ​​the district. The county of Mansfeld had the largest share, including the cities of Hettstedt , Lutherstadt Eisleben and Gerbstedt . The county existed until the family died out in 1780 and then became part of Electoral Saxony or Prussia, in 1807/1808 for the most part to the Kingdom of Westphalia ( Saale Department ) and in 1815 to Prussia . Another family of counts ruled the west of the district from 1210, the Counts of Stolberg . The area of ​​today's municipality of Südharz belonged to the county of Stolberg , as well as further south, together with the Counts of Schwarzburg, the places Kelbra and Tilleda . In 1738/1740 the county of Stolberg came under the rule of the Electorate of Saxony , which was replaced by Prussia in 1815.

In the far north, Sandersleben belonged to the Anhalt principalities, from 1918 to 1945 to the Free State of Anhalt. The cities of Sangerhausen and Allstedt were subject to changing rulers . Sangerhausen has belonged to the Brandenburg margraves since 1291 , became the property of the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1340 and came under the Wettin-Saxon rule in 1372 . The Saxon period, between 1656 and 1748 Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels , ended in 1815 with the takeover by Prussia.

Allstedt was mentioned in 1299 as the bailiwick of the county of Beichlingen. In 1320 Allstedt was given as an imperial fiefdom to various mansions, including Mansfeld, Anhalt and Saxony. It was not until 1575 that the Ernestines exercised unrestricted rule over the Allstedt office . From 1815 to 1945 the area around Allstedt was a Thuringian exclave in Prussia (1815–1920: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach ). The rest of today's district, with the exception of Sandersleben and Tilkerode, had been in Prussian hands since 1815 as a result of the Congress of Vienna .

Of the Prussian districts that were newly established up to 1818, the Mansfeld Mountain District , the Mansfeld Lake District and the District of Sangerhausen formed the current district area. This division essentially remained in place until 1994, with parts of the Mansfeld districts and the Eisleben district , which had existed since 1908, forming the Eisleben district in 1950 , which was divided into the Hettstedt and Eisleben districts in 1952 . During the first district reform in Saxony-Anhalt in 1994, the districts of Hettstedt and Eisleben were merged to form the district of Mansfelder Land.

Population development

Population development of the larger municipalities in the district (area status 2014)
Population pyramid for the district of Mansfeld-Suedharz (data source: 2011 census)

The State Statistical Office of Saxony-Anhalt published figures on the population development of the regional units in the district. The population figures for different years were calculated for the respective territorial status from 2014. In the data, a different development of the individual cities and municipalities can be seen. The towns of Sangerhausen and Hettstedt grew until the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the construction of new blocks at the same time. After the collapse of the GDR, however, they lost about a third of the population. The city of Lutherstadt Eisleben, on the other hand, has experienced a population decline since at least the 1960s. She lost about half of the population. In the unified communities in the former old district of Mansfelder Land there is a development analogous to Lutherstadt Eisleben: The number of inhabitants has decreased by around half since the 1960s. In the large unified communities of the old district of Sangerhausen, the population has also been shrinking since the 1960s, albeit less sharply than in the Mansfeld region.

year Sangerhausen Eisleben Hettstedt
1964 38,640 44,773 19,957
1989 43,823 35,374 22,559
2000 35,167 29,526 18,976
2010 29,679 25,489 15,343
2017 26,798 23,651 14,265

economy

The district of Mansfeld-Südharz is one of the economically weakest regions in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The unemployment rate in the district is above average in a national comparison of 8.7% (as of 10/2019). However, it has been falling for a few years. In October 2016 it was still 11.2%.

After the decline of copper mining and aluminum smelting in the Mansfeld area, new branches of industry developed: at Klemme AG in Eisleben and in Hettstedt at the Mansfeld copper and brass works (KME Mansfeld GmbH) , a successor company to the traditional VEB Mansfeld , jobs were created to a certain extent . Another traditional company, the MIFA Mitteldeutsche Fahrradwerke in Sangerhausen, had to file for bankruptcy in 2014 and again in 2017 after years of losses. At Amsdorf there is still the Amsdorf opencast mine ; Romonta GmbH's montan wax factory there covers 80% of the world's montan wax demand . In the wooded western region of the district, forestry is practiced, in the eastern half, however, predominantly agriculture. The Harz regions and the Luther cities of Eisleben and Mansfeld are increasingly benefiting from tourism . Location Marketing Mansfeld-Südharz GmbH acts as a contact for investors and settlements in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz.

Due to the mild climate for these latitudes, grapes are grown on the Süßen See for wines belonging to the Saale-Unstrut region ( Mansfeld Lakes area ). The main growing area of ​​this region is, however, further southeast in the neighboring counties. Furthermore, beer is brewed in a brewery in Wippra in the Harz Mountains ( Wippraer ).

Future Atlas 2016 ranked the district of Mansfeld-Südharz 400th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany and is therefore one of the regions with "very high future risks".

Traffic routes

Motorway connections

The A 38 motorway near Hornburg, in the background the dumps of the old Sangerhausen district

The district of Mansfeld-Südharz is connected to the Kassel / Göttingen regions in the west and the Halle / Leipzig region in the east via the A 38 motorway . It runs for approx. 46 km through the district area. There is also a connection from Sangerhausen with the A 71 to Erfurt in the south, which runs for approx. 4.9 km over the district area. The Plötzkau junction on the A 14 is not far from the district border in the north-east , via which, in addition to Halle and Leipzig, the Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg can be reached. Finally, the A 36 leads past the northern edge of the district near Aschersleben . In addition to the northern Harz region, the cities of Braunschweig and Hanover in Lower Saxony can also be reached via these .

Federal highways

The following federal highways run in the district:

  • B 80 for approx. 13 km
  • B 85 for about 6.3 km
  • B 86 for approx. 36 km
  • B 180 for approx. 40 km
  • B 242 (Harzhochstraße) for approx. 25 km

Railway lines

The train station in Sangerhausen, the junction of the Halle – Hann railway lines. Münden and Sangerhausen – Erfurt

The remaining railways are of regional importance:

The larger railway lines touch at two junctions. At the train station in Sangerhausen there are connections with the regional express to Erfurt and Magdeburg on one route and Halle (Saale), Eisleben, Nordhausen and Kassel on another. The Sandersleben train station is also on the railway line, which enables rail connections with the regional express to Erfurt and Magdeburg. From there there are other railway lines to Halle and in the northern Harz to Aschersleben, Quedlinburg , Halberstadt and Goslar .

The narrow-gauge Mansfeld mining railway and the Klostermansfeld – Wippra (“Wipperliese”) railway are also used purely for tourism . Both routes are served by historic vehicles.

Hospitals

In the district of Mansfeld-Südharz there are Helios clinics in Hettstedt, Lutherstadt Eisleben and Sangerhausen. All three clinics are basic providers .

education

In the district of Mansfeld-Südharz there are 39 primary schools, nine secondary schools, four grammar schools, one vocational school and six special schools. In Eisleben there used to be a university (1798 to 1968 Bergschule Eisleben , 1968 to 1993 Engineering School Eisleben ), but it was closed in the early 1990s.

politics

Election of the Mansfeld-Südharzer Kreisag 2019
Turnout: 53.3% (2014: 45.6%)
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Farmers Association g
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Remarks:
e Free citizens of Central Germany
g Mansfeld-Südharz farmers' association
Allocation of seats in the
Mansfeld-Südharzer Kreisag 2019
            
A total of 48 seats

District Administrator

The first district administrator was Dirk Schatz , who won a runoff election on May 6, 2007 with 52.89% to 47.11% of the votes against his competitor Frank Bayer (SPD).

Schatz was replaced on July 16, 2014 by Angelika Klein (left). A month earlier she had received 80.6% of the vote in a runoff election against the incumbent.

District council

(Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019)

Parties and constituencies Percent
2019
Seats
2019
Percent
2014
Seats
2014
Percent
2007
Seats
2007
Percent
2004
Percent
1999
AfD Alternative for Germany 19.3 9 - - - - - -
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 19.0 9 28.3 14th 30.7 17th 35.9 37.1
left The left 15.9 8th 27.0 13 22.0 12 22.3 18.6
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 14.4 7th 16.6 8th 21.3 12 19.0 26.5
FBM Free citizens of Central Germany 9.3 4th 5.2 3 - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.1 3 6.0 3 9.8 5 10.5 5.9
Farmers association Farmers' Association Mansfeld-Südharz 3.9 2 3.5 2 2.6 1 2.0 2.0
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 3.3 2 2.9 1 1.6 1 1.0 1.8
Regional The regional Mansfeld-Südharz 2.5 1 1.3 1 - - - -
FFw ML Mansfelder Land volunteer fire department 2.4 1 - - - - - -
WG GA Free voter community Goldene Aue 2.0 1 - - - - - -
WGF Voting community fire brigade Mansfeld-Südharz 1.2 1 0.8 0 - - - -
Flat share FLE Lutherstadt Eisleben Fire Brigade voter community 0.8 0 - - - - - -
FWG MSH Free voter community Mansfeld-Südharz 0.3 0 6.9 3 - - - -
HKV Heimat- und Kulturverein Hedersleben e. V. - - 0.6 0 - - - -
NPD National Democratic Party of Germany - - - - 4.2 2 - -
FWJS Free electorate, youth and sport - - - - 3.7 2 5.1 2.3
VS MS People's solidarity Mansfeld-Südharz - - - - 1.2 1 - -
VS Sgh People's solidarity Sangerhausen - - - - 0.9 1 1.0 1.2
WASG Elective alternative social justice - - - - 0.5 0 - -
EB Individual applicants 0.6 0 - - 1.6 0 0.3 0.8
Otherwise. Others - - - - - - 2.9 3.9
total 100 48 100 48 100 54 100 100
Turnout in percent 45.6 34.7 43.9 53.6
  • EB: Individual applicants 2007: Gerald Kästner (0.7%), Horst Tetzel (0.5%), Hartmut Reinicke (0.4%); 2004: Hartmut Reinicke; 1999: k. A.
  • The results from 1999 and 2004 were converted to the 2007 territorial status.

The following parliamentary groups were formed in the district council (as of May 1, 2020): CDU parliamentary group (9 members), parliamentary group FB (9 members), parliamentary group SPD / The Greens (9 members), AfD parliamentary group (8 members), parliamentary group DIE LINKE (8 members), FDP parliamentary group (4 members). Non-attached: 1 member.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz

The coat of arms was approved on March 17, 2008 by the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt.

Blazon : “Half split and divided; front of the top quartered, field 1 and 4: six times silver divided over red; Field 2 and 3: in silver six (3: 3) red diamonds; at the top in silver a stylized natural red rose; at the bottom a silver triangle in green, covered with a diagonally crossed black tooth (miner's tooth). "

The coats of arms of the administrative communities, cities and municipalities of the district are in the list of coats of arms in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz .

flag

The flag is green and white (1: 1) striped (horizontal shape: stripes running horizontally, lengthways shape: stripes running vertically) and in the middle with the district coat of arms.

Award

On May 25, 2009, the district received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .

Communities

Salzlandkreis Landkreis Harz Saalekreis Thüringen Sachsen-Anhalt Gerbstedt Allstedt Seegebiet Mansfelder Land Südharz Ahlsdorf Benndorf Blankenheim Bornstedt Helbra Hergisdorf Klostermansfeld Wimmelburg Lutherstadt Eisleben Hettstedt Mansfeld Sangerhausen Sangerhausen Berga (Kyffhäuser) Brücken-Hackpfüffel Edersleben Kelbra Wallhausen ArnsteinMunicipalities in MSH.svg
About this picture
Sangerhausen is the district town of Mansfeld-Südharz and at the same time the largest town in the district. In the picture the market place.
Eisleben (the market square in the picture) is the second largest city in the district and is only slightly smaller than Sangerhausen.
Hettstedt is by some distance the third largest city in the district. In the picture the central market place.

Unified municipalities
(cities arehighlighted in bold )
(* seat of the district)

coat of arms local community Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Allstedt.png
Allstedt 7685 149.81
Does not have a coat of arms
Arnstein 6553 121.69
Coat of arms Gerbstedt neu.png
Gerbstedt 7072 102.31
Coat of arms Hettstedt.svg
Hettstedt 13,885 36.93
DEU Eisleben COA.svg
Lutherstadt Eisleben 23.003 143.87
Coat of arms Mansfeld.svg
Mansfeld 8649 143.79
Coat of arms Sangerhausen.png
Sangerhausen * 25,963 207.66
Coat of arms sea area Mansfelder Land.png
Mansfelder Land lake area 8880 107.92
Coat of arms municipality Südharz.png
South Harz 9307 236.38

Association communities with their member communities
(* seat of the association community)

Verbandsgemeinde Goldene Aue
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Berga (Kyffhaeuser) .png
Berga 1658 25.67
Coat of arms Bruecken-Hackpfueffel.png
Bridge chopping puddles 982 16.65
Coat of arms Edersleben.png
Edersleben 960 9.06
Coat of arms Kelbra.png
Kelbra (Kyffhäuser) * 3335 40.55
Wallhausen coat of arms (helmets) .png
Wallhausen 2466 35.34
Verbandsgemeinde Mansfelder Grund-Helbra
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Ahlsdorf.png
Ahlsdorf 1561 5.09
Benndorf ML Wappen.PNG
Benndorf 2033 5.77
Coat of arms Blankenheim.png
Blankenheim 1159 14.86
Does not have a coat of arms
Bornstedt 793 9.31
Helbrawappen.PNG
Helbra * 3986 9.26
Hergisdorf coat of arms.svg
Hergisdorf 1580 9.54
Coat of arms Klostermansfeld.png
Klostermansfeld 2306 8.82
Wimmelburg coat of arms.png
Wimmelburg 1126 8.56

Territory changes

Changes at the community level

Church planting

Incorporations

Changes in administrative communities and association communities

License Plate

On October 1, 2007, the district was assigned the distinctive sign MSH . Until then the identifiers ML (Mansfelder Land) and SGH (Sangerhausen) were used. These and the distinctive signs EIL (Eisleben) and HET (Hettstedt) have been available (again) since November 29, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  2. ^ Martin Spilker: 800 years of copper slate mining in Mansfeld. Text for the 12th Südharz Symposium on March 6, 2010 in Wettelrode ( online ), accessed on November 22, 2019.
  3. State Office for Archeology and Monument Preservation Saxony-Anhalt: August: The Mansfeld Haldenlandschaft online , accessed on November 22, 2019.
  4. State Office for Geology and Mining Saxony-Anhalt: Geological surface map 1: 400,000 without Quaternary ( online ), accessed on November 22, 2019.
  5. Dr. Rudolf Mirsch: The secret of activities on the Hohenthalschacht in 1949/1950. In: Article by VMBH eV in Mansfeld-Echo, 2000 - 2 to 4. Also available online at https://www.kupferspuren.eu/ , accessed on November 22, 2019.
  6. State Office for Geology and Mining Saxony-Anhalt: Geological surface map 1: 400,000 ( online ), accessed on November 22, 2019.
  7. census database
  8. StaLA DE-ST: Population development of the lake area Mansfelder Land
  9. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Mansfeld
  10. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Gerbstedt
  11. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Arnstein
  12. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Südharz
  13. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Allstedt
  14. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Sangerhausen
  15. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Eisleben
  16. Stala DE-ST: Population development of Hettstedt
  17. Federal Employment Agency: Statistics , for the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, accessed on November 16, 2019.
  18. Website of the community Seegebiet Mansfelder Land : Wineries in the Seegebiet, accessed on November 21, 2019.
  19. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  20. Local transport company Saxony-Anhalt (nasa): Route network map 2019 (pdf, online) , 1.7 MB, accessed on November 21, 2019.
  21. https://www.mansfeldsuedharz.de : Schools and school transport in general, accessed on November 21, 2019.
  22. Official final result on Wahlresults.sachsen-anhalt.de
  23. Official final result on Wahlresults.sachsen-anhalt.de
  24. statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Result of the 2014 district election.
  25. statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Results of the district council elections 1999–2007.
  26. a b State Administration Office of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): Official Journal . 5th year, no. 8 . Halle (Saale) May 15, 2008, p. 137 ( lvwa.sachsen-anhalt.de [PDF; 235 kB ; accessed on December 1, 2015]). Official Journal ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  27. a b c State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help on this ).
  28. a b c regionalstatistik.de Regional database of the Federal Statistical Office (as of December 31, 2016)