Merseburg district
The district of Merseburg , until 1921 Kreis Merseburg , was a district that existed in Prussia ( province of Saxony ) and the SBZ or GDR (state of Saxony-Anhalt ) from 1816 to 1952. The district town of Merseburg formed its own urban district from 1921 to 1950 . The former district area today largely belongs to the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt.
Administrative history
Kingdom of Prussia
After the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Merseburg was established in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony on October 1, 1816 . The district office was in Merseburg. The district consisted for the most part of the area of the Hochstift Merseburg with the offices of Merseburg , Lauchstädt , Lützen and Schkeuditz, which had previously been under Electoral Saxon or Royal Saxon administration . There were also some municipalities in the offices of Leipzig , Pegau and Weißenfels .
In 1819 the Rattmannsdorfer Mark was reclassified from the Weißenfels district to the Merseburg district. In 1828 the villages of Angersdorf and Passendorf and the manor Passendorf came from the dissolved urban district of Halle a./Saale to the district of Merseburg.
North German Confederation / German Empire
Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On February 15, 1921, the municipality of Merseburg left the district and from then on formed its own urban district . From then on, the district was known as the Merseburg district . On September 30, 1929, as in the rest of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in the Merseburg district, in which all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1937, the Ennewitz community moved from the Merseburg district to the Delitzsch district .
After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district became part of the new province of Halle-Merseburg . In the spring of 1945 the area was occupied by the American Allied forces.
German Democratic Republic
On July 1, 1950, the district boundaries were changed by a first administrative reform :
- The city of Merseburg lost its district freedom and came back to the district of Merseburg.
- The municipality of Pritschöna was reclassified from the Saalkreis to the district of Merseburg.
- The community of Großkayna was reclassified from the district of Weißenfels to the district of Merseburg.
- The city of Müelte and the communities of Braunsbedra , Krumpa , Neumark and Oberwünsch were reclassified from the district of Querfurt to the district of Merseburg.
- The community of Angersdorf moved from the district of Merseburg to the Saalkreis.
- The municipality of Passendorf from the district of Merseburg was incorporated into the independent city of Halle (Saale) .
- The city of Lützen and the communities of Bothfeld , Dehlitz (Saale) , Gostau , Großgöhren , Großgörschen , Kaja , Kleingöhren , Kleingörschen , Meuchen , Michlitz , Muschwitz , Oeglitzsch , Pobles , Rahna , Röcken , Schweßwitz , Söhesten , Sössen , Starsiedel , Stößwitz and Tornau were reclassified from the Merseburg district to the Weißenfels district.
In 1952 there was another administrative reform in the GDR :
- The city of Schkeuditz and the municipalities Altranstädt , Döhlen , Eisdorf , Großlehna , Großschkorlopp , fawns , Kleinliebenau , Kleinschkorlopp , Kursdorf , Löben , loess , Meyhen , Peißen , Räpitz , distinguishing , Schkeitbar , Schkölen , sails , Sittel , reinvestment , Thronitz , Wehlitz and Zitzschen moved from the Merseburg district to the new Leipzig-Land district in the Leipzig district .
- The communities of Beuditz, Hohenweiden and Holleben moved from the Merseburg district to the Saalkreis in the Halle district .
- The remaining district area formed the district of Merseburg , which was assigned to the newly formed district of Halle .
Federal Republic of Germany
After the reunification of the two German states of Merseburg was founded in 1990 in the back country of Saxony-Anhalt to Merseburg , who in the district reform of 1994 in the district of Merseburg-Querfurt opened.
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1816 | 35,435 | |
1843 | 51,128 | |
1871 | 63,693 | |
1890 | 76.051 | |
1900 | 82,388 | |
1910 | 91,918 | |
1925 | 83,466 | |
1933 | 94.257 | |
1939 | 101.123 | |
1946 | 134.197 |
Local constitution
The district of Merseburg was divided into town communities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts . 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
- 1816–1822 Carl Friedrich Rudolph von Grünberg (1785–1850)
- 1822–1838 Johann Christian Starke ( -1840)
- 1838–1845 Gustav von Keller (1805–1897)
- 1845–1845 Adolf Starcke
- 1845–1877 Ludwig Weidlich ( –1877)
- 1877–1884 Julius von Helldorff (1827–1908)
- 1884–1891 Otto Weidlich ( –1922)
- 1891–1893 Siegfried Körte (1861–1919)
- 1896–1913 Arthur Clairon d'Haussonville (1866–1913)
- 1913–1919 Tilo von Wilmowsky (1878–1966)
- 1922–1928 Wilhelm Guske (1880–1957)
- 1930–1933 Albrecht Bähnisch (1900–1943)
- 1933–1934 Werner Oberst (* 1891)
- 1934–1938 Wilhelm Jung (1903–1960)
- 1938–1942 Günter Riesen (1892–1951)
- 1942–1943 Adolf Pott (1906–1943)
Personalities
- Emil Körner (1847–1920), German officer, from 1885 military advisor in Chile and from 1900 to 1910 General Inspector of the Chilean Army
cities and communes
As of 1950
In 1945 the district of Merseburg comprised four cities and 123 other municipalities:
Municipalities dissolved or eliminated before 1950
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Name changes
The name of the city of Lauchstedt was changed to Bad Lauchstädt in 1925 .
In 1937 a C was replaced by a K in some places , for example:
- Caja → Kaja
- Collenbey → Kollenbey
- Cracau → Krakow
- Creypau → Kreypau
- Cursdorf → Kursdorf
- Niederclobicau → Niederklobikau
- Oberclobicau → Oberklobikau
Beuna also received the addition (Geiseltal) .
Web links
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. merseburg.html. (Historical data; online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- http://www.sachsen-anhalt-wiki.de/index.php/Landkreis_Merseburg - project of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 336
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 347 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, Neustadt-Magdeburg, p. 221 ( digitized version [accessed June 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 version [accessed on May 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. Merseburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census
- ↑ Official spelling of the city of Lauchstedt 1910
- ^ History of the city of Bad Lauchstädt at www.stadtrally.de