District of Meißen (1996-2008)

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Coat of arms of the district of Meissen Map of Germany, position of the district of Meissen highlighted
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Basic data (as of 2008)
Existing period: 1996-2008
State : Saxony
Administrative region : Dresden
Administrative headquarters : Meissen
Area : 631.69 km 2
Residents: 148,268 (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 235 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : MEI
Circle key : 14 2 80
Circle structure: 15 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Brauhausstrasse 21
01662 Meissen
District Administrator : Arndt Steinbach ( CDU )
Location of the district of Meissen in Saxony
Landkreis Delitzsch Leipzig Plauen Hoyerswerda Landkreis Leipziger Land Muldentalkreis Landkreis Torgau-Oschatz Landkreis Döbeln Landkreis Riesa-Großenhain Landkreis Meißen Dresden Landkreis Kamenz Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Görlitz Landkreis Löbau-Zittau Landkreis Bautzen Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz Weißeritzkreis Landkreis Freiberg Landkreis Mittweida Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis Landkreis Annaberg Chemnitz Landkreis Stollberg Landkreis Aue-Schwarzenberg Landkreis Chemnitzer Land Zwickau Vogtlandkreis Landkreis Zwickauer Landmap
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The district of Meißen (until December 31, 1996 district of Meißen-Radebeul ) was a district in the Saxon administrative district of Dresden . It was formed on January 1, 1996 and existed until July 31, 2008. On August 1, 2008, the district was part of a new district of the same name . Before its dissolution, the district of Meissen comprised 15 communities with around 150,000 inhabitants.

geography

The neighboring districts of the district of Meißen were the district of Riesa-Großenhain in the north, the district of Kamenz in the east, the independent city of Dresden in the southeast, the districts of Weißeritzkreis and Freiberg in the south and the districts of Mittweida and Döbeln in the west .

history

In 1334 the lower administrative district of the Margraviate of Meißen , the Amt Meißen, was mentioned for the first time in a document. It stretched from Mohorn in the south to Riesa in the north and from the Elbe in the east to the Mügeln - Döbeln line in the west.

In 1835 the offices became the governing authorities in the Kingdom of Saxony. The Amtshauptmannschaft Meißen was established and existed with only minor changes for almost a century without significant territorial changes until 1952. However, the uniform renaming in the district of Meißen took place in 1939.

1952 a GDR territorial reform was carried out. This resulted in changes to the territorial status: from the old district of Meißen, municipalities went to the districts of Freiberg and Döbeln , but in particular to the newly formed districts of Freital and Dresden-Land . The remaining communities in the old district became the GDR district of Meißen . This structure was retained until the district reform in Saxony in 1994–1996 . In the first Saxon district reform after German reunification , it was decided to dissolve the "collar district" Dresden; its communities were to be divided up between the newly formed districts on August 1, 1994. The Ministry of the Interior originally intended the name "Landkreis Meißen-Dresden" for the new administrative unit. Due to a lawsuit by the district of Dresden against its dissolution, the formation of the new district could only be resolved by the 1st district area reform amendment law of September 6, 1995; it came into force on January 1, 1996. He got the name "Landkreis Meißen-Radebeul". On February 28, 1997 he renamed himself “Landkreis Meißen”.

On August 1, 2008, in the course of the second Saxon district reform, the new district of Meißen was created from the previous district of Meißen and the district of Riesa-Großenhain . The last district administrator in the old district was Arndt Steinbach (CDU).

tourism

In 2000 the bed occupancy rate was almost 40 percent. This placed this region in fourth place in Saxony. The district's share of the total volume of the “Saxon Elbland” region was around 37–40 percent. Share in this great tourist attraction of the district had known buildings such as the Albrechtsburg , Moritzburg , Wackerbarth , Hoflößnitz , Nossen Castle , Kloster Park Altzella or Castle Heynitz who were in the district of Meissen.

2004 data
offered beds: 4617
open establishments: 97
average occupancy: 30%
average length of stay: 3 days
Arrivals: 206.985
Overnight stays: 560.502

politics

District council

District election 2004
Turnout: 47.4% (1999: 55.5%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
45.7%
17.9%
10.9%
9.5%
6.6%
5.1%
4.2%
Gains and losses
compared to 1999
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.6  % p
+ 0.4  % p
-4.1  % p
+ 2.5  % p
+ 2.2  % p
+ 4.1  % p
+ 0.3  % p

After the local elections on June 13, 2004, the 62 seats in the last district assembly were distributed among the individual parties as follows:

Political party
Seats
CDU
29
LEFT
11
SPD
7th
FDP
6th
GREEN
4th
NPD
3
DSU
2

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the district represented a black lion standing upright on a gold background, heraldically turned to the right, armored in red and with a red tongue. It matched the coat of arms of the former Margrave of Meißen. The choice for this coat of arms expressed that the district of Meißen covers an area that is synonymous with the historical center of the former margraviate of Meißen .

The blazon corresponds to that of the coat of arms of Flanders . It was also adopted in a slightly modified form for the successor group.

cities and communes

Source: District Office Meißen, District Development Office, 2006

The district of Meißen was made up of 15 municipalities, six of which had city ​​rights . The cities of Coswig, Meißen and Radebeul were given the special name of a large district town . The communities Leuben-Schleinitz and Ketzerbachtal formed an administrative community.

The largest city in the district on December 31, 2007 was Radebeul with 33,300 inhabitants, followed by the district town of Meißen with around 27,800 inhabitants and Coswig with around 22,000 inhabitants. The most populous municipality without municipal rights was Weinböhla with a little over 10,000 inhabitants, followed by Moritzburg with around 8,000 and Klipphausen with around 6,000 inhabitants. The smallest municipality was Leuben-Schleinitz with around 1,500 inhabitants.

(Population figures as of December 31, 2007)

Cities

  1. Coswig (22,057)
  2. Lommatzsch (5,683)
  3. Meissen (27,856)
  4. Nossen (7,323)
  5. Radebeul (33,300)
  6. Radeburg (7,858)

Administrative community

Communities

  1. Diera-Zehren (3,742)
  2. Käbschützal (2,962)
  3. Ketzerbachtal (2,800)
  4. Klipphausen (6,146)
  5. Leuben-Schleinitz (1,536)
  6. Moritzburg (8,165)
  7. Niederau (4,120)
  8. Triebischtal (4,529)
  9. Weinboehla (10,191)

License Plate

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign MEI . It is still issued today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_w04_ver.prc_ver?p_bz_bzid=KT04&p_ebene=LK&p_ort=14280