Nordhausen district

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Coat of arms of the Nordhausen district Map of Germany, position of the Nordhausen district highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 44'  E

Basic data
State : Thuringia
Administrative headquarters : Nordhausen
Area : 713.9 km 2
Residents: 83,416 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 117 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : NDH
Circle key : 16 0 62
Circle structure: 15 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Grimmelallee 23
99734 Nordhausen, Germany
Website : www.landratsamt-
nordhausen.de
District Administrator : Matthias Jendricke ( SPD )
Location of the district of Nordhausen in Thuringia
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The district of Nordhausen is the northernmost district of Thuringia . The Nordhausen district, founded in the GDR in 1952, is congruent with today's Nordhausen district. From 1816 to 1952, most of the region belonged to the County of Hohenstein .

geography

location

In the north the district is bounded by the Harz Mountains , in the south by the ridges of the Dün , the Hainleite and the Windleite . The highest point is at 634  m above sea level. NN in the Harz Mountains, on the border with Lower Saxony. It is the only district in Thuringia that has a share in the Harz Mountains.

Neighboring counties

Neighboring districts in the north and east are the two Saxony-Anhalt districts of Harz and Mansfeld-Südharz , in the south the Kyffhäuserkreis , in the west the district of Eichsfeld and in the northwest the districts of Göttingen and Goslar in Lower Saxony .

Waters

The largest rivers are the Helmets , the Zorge and the Wipper . In addition, there are still some water-filled karst phenomena in the Nordhausen district, such as the large lake hole with small changes .

The standing waters worth mentioning are the gravel ponds between Nordhausen and Heringen, the lye stacking basins near Wipperdorf , the reservoir near Schiedungen , the Neustadt dam and two ponds at Riedgraben near Werther.

natural reserve

The southern Harz karst landscape in the districts of Nordhausen, Mansfeld-Südharz and the old district of Osterode am Harz is unique and of great importance for nature conservation and sustainable regional development. It is therefore partially designated as a biosphere reserve. There is also a karst hiking trail .

Protected areas

There are 16 designated nature reserves in the district (as of January 2017).

history

District Office Building (2011)

The center and administrative seat is the city of Nordhausen, which was a free imperial city from 1220 to 1802 . In the Middle Ages , the counties Lohra , Klettenberg and Hohnstein existed in the area of ​​today's district in addition to the imperial city of Nordhausen ; the Counts of Hohnstein held a dominant position in the male line until they died out in 1593.

Due to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), most of the district fell to Kurbrandenburg . In 1802 Nordhausen lost its imperial city status. In 1816 a district of Nordhausen was created within the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony . In 1888 the district was renamed Grafschaft Hohenstein . Nordhausen was an independent city from 1882 to 1945 .

In April 1945 the district was occupied by the US Army , then added to the Soviet occupation zone and belonged to the GDR from 1949 . In this context (April 1945) an exchange of territory was agreed: the town of Bad Sachsa was added to the district of Osterode, so it came into the British zone of occupation , later Lower Saxony . The reason was the desire to keep the Northeim – Nordhausen railway line passable at least as far as Ellrich .

In October 1945, Nordhausen became the district town of the district, which was now renamed the district of Nordhausen . When the federal states were dissolved in 1952, the Nordhausen district emerged from the Nordhausen district and became part of the Erfurt district .

Since German reunification in 1990, as from 1945 to 1952, it belonged to the Land of Thuringia as the Nordhausen district .

It was the only district that remained unaffected by the Thuringian district reform of 1994 .

population

Development of the population since 1994 until today
year Residents
1994
  
102.405
1995
  
101,870
1996
  
101,309
1997
  
100,743
1998
  
100.112
1999
  
99,355
2000
  
98,609
2001
  
97,685
2002
  
96,628
2003
  
95,620
2004
  
94,519
2005
  
93,612
2006
  
92,630
2007
  
91,762
2008
  
91.120
2009
  
90.357
2010
  
89.963
2011
  
1 89.192
2012
  
85,921
2013
  
85,380
2014
  
85,055
2015
  
85,355
2016
  
85,098
2017
  
84,697
2018
  
83,822
2019
  
83,416
1Population corrected downwards according to the 2011 census . All figures from 2011 are based on the results of the 2011 census.
Data source: from 1994 Thuringian State Office for Statistics - values ​​from December 31st

Population structure

December 31, 1998 December 31, 2000 December 31, 2001 12/31/2003 December 31, 2004 12/31/2007 December 31, 2009 December 31, 2010 December 31, 2011 December 31, 2012 December 31, 2013 December 31, 2014 December 31, 2015 December 31, 2016 December 31, 2017
male 49 001 48 324 47 964 47 038 46 541 45 215 44 633 44 497 42 782 42 379 42 137 41 962 42 292 42 163 41 963
Female 51 111 50 285 49 721 48 582 47 978 46 547 45 724 45 466 43 952 43 542 43 243 43 093 43 063 42 935 42 734
all in all 100 112 98 609 97 685 95 620 94 519 91 762 90 357 89 963 86 734 85 921 85 380 85 055 85 355 85 098 84 697
Foreigners male 1 136 1 188 1 196 1 271 1 254 1 168 1 207 1 246 685 805 932 1 098 1,770 1 969 2 145
Foreigners Female 802 899 921 961 946 911 988 1,000 574 637 698 824 1 111 1 230 1 403
Foreigners together 1 938 2,087 2 117 2 232 2,200 2 079 2 195 2 246 1 259 1 442 1 630 1 922 2,881 3 199 3,548
Foreigners Proportion of foreigners 1.9% 2.1% 2.2% 2.3% 2.3% 2.3% 2.4% 2.5% 1.5% 1.7% 1.9% 2.3% 3.4% 3.8% 4.2%

politics

Election of the Nordhausen district council 2019
Turnout: 58.3% (2014: 48.4%)
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25.1%
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compared to 2014
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Remarks:
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District council

In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , there were 71,065 eligible voters in the Nordhausen district.

The district council has 46 members; the result of the election to the district council led to the following distribution of seats:

Allocation of seats in the
Nordhausen district council 2019
8th
7th
3
3
3
12
9
1
8th 7th 12 
A total of 46 seats

The district administrator is an officially authorized member.

District administrators

see also: District administrators of the County of Hohenstein (1816–1953)
see also: District administrators or chairmen of the council of the Nordhausen district (1953–1990)

In the district election on April 26, 2015, no candidate was able to gain an absolute majority of the votes. The successor of the acting district administrator Jutta Krauth was decided in a runoff election on May 10, 2015 between Stefan Nüßle (CDU; 23.8% of the votes in the first ballot) and Matthias Jendricke (SPD; 34.0%). Jendricke won the runoff election with 64.7 percent and a turnout of 26.1 percent.

Partner circles

The sponsor district is the Unterallgäu .

coat of arms

The slaughtered field stands for the former County of Hohnstein , the tree stump for Nordhausen, which was badly destroyed in 1945. The newly sprouting branch stands for a new future under a golden sky, symbolized by the upper field.

An overview of the coats of arms of the cities and municipalities of the district can be found in the list of coats of arms in the Nordhausen district .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the north of the district, tourism is an important economic factor. The towns of Rothesütte , Sophienhof , Neustadt / Harz and Ilfeld in particular play an important role, as they are only a few kilometers away from the Brocken , the highest mountain in the Harz.

Until 1990 the potash mining a . a. played a major role in Bleicherode and Sollstedt . In the course of political and economic reunification , all mining operations were closed, which resulted in the loss of the largest employer in the region.

In the 2016 future atlas , the Nordhausen district was ranked 351 out of 402 districts and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the districts with “future risks”.

traffic

The district is crossed from east to west by the A 38 (Südharzautobahn) . The federal road 80 ran parallel to this (downgraded to the state road L3080). The federal highway 4 crosses the district from north to south (partly closed to trucks in the north). The important B 81 to Magdeburg branches off north of Nordhausen at Netzkater . In a north-west direction, the B 243 leads into the old district of Osterode and on to the A 7 .

The most important railway line is the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden . It is two-pronged and has been electrified since 1994. Other important routes are the routes from Nordhausen to Herzberg am Harz and Northeim (" Südharz route ") and from Wolkramshausen to Erfurt . Nordhausen is also the southern terminus of the Harz narrow-gauge railways .

education

The highest educational institution in the district is the Nordhausen University , founded in 1997.

Communities

Thüringen Bleicherode Bleicherode Ellrich Görsbach Großlohra Harztor Heringen/Helme Hohenstein Kehmstedt Kleinfurra Lipprechterode Niedergebra Nordhausen Sollstedt Urbach WertherMunicipalities in NDH.png
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The city ​​of Nordhausen is designated as a middle center with partial function of a regional center .

The basic centers are the cities of Bleicherode , Ellrich and Heringen / Helme .

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

community-free municipalities

  1. Ellrich , Stadt (5449)
  2. Harztor , rural community (7577)
  3. Hohenstein (2100)
  4. Nordhausen , Large District City (41,726)
  5. Sollstedt (2889)
  6. Werther (3166)

No administrative communities

fulfilling communities

  1. Bleicherode , city, rural community (10,327), fulfilling community also for
    1. Grosslohra (907)
    2. Kehmstedt (454)
    3. Kleinfurra (1039)
    4. Lipprechteode (493)
    5. Niedergebra (654)
  2. Heringen / Helme , city, rural community (4720), fulfilling community also for
    1. Goersbach (1030)
    2. Urbach (885)

Territorial changes

Communities

Administrative communities and fulfilling communities

  • Founding of the Helmetal administrative association (June 6, 1991)
  • Foundation of the Hainleite administrative association (August 1, 1991)
  • Foundation of the administrative association Goldene Aue (March 18, 1992)
  • Foundation of the Eichsfelder Pforte administrative association (April 9, 1993)
  • Expansion of the administrative community Hainleite to include the communities Großlohra, Kleinfurra and Wipperdorf (November 6, 1993)
  • Foundation of the administrative community Hohnstein / Südharz (April 6, 1994)
  • Expansion of the Helmetal administrative community to include the municipalities of Mauderode and Pützlingen (June 18, 1994)
  • The town of Bleicherode becomes a fulfilling municipality for Etzelsrode, Friedrichsthal, Kehmstedt, Kleinbodungen, Kraja, Lipprechterode, Niedergebra and Obergebra (July 1, 1994)
  • The city of Nordhausen becomes a fulfilling municipality for Steigerthal (September 23, 1995)
  • Extension of the administrative community Goldene Aue to include the municipality of Urbach (December 21, 1995)
  • Dissolution of the administrative community Eichsfelder Pforte - Wülfingerode is incorporated into the community of Sollstedt, this becomes a fulfilling community for Rehungen (June 3, 1996)
  • Dissolution of the Grenzland administrative community - formation of the Hohenstein community from the member communities (October 17, 1996)
  • Dissolution of the Helmetal administrative community - formation of the Werther community from the member communities (December 31, 1996)
  • The city of Nordhausen is no longer a fulfilling municipality for Steigerthal (March 31, 1999)
  • The city of Bleicherode is no longer a fulfilling municipality for Obergebra (December 1, 2007)
  • Outsourcing of the communities Petersdorf , Rodishain and Stempeda from the administrative community Hohnstein / Südharz (December 1, 2007)
  • The community of Sollstedt is no longer fulfilling community for Rehungen (January 1st, 2009)
  • Dissolution of the administrative community Goldene Aue - the member communities, with the exception of Görsbach and Urbach, merge to form the city / rural community of Heringen / Helme; this becomes a fulfilling municipality for Görsbach and Urbach (December 1, 2010)
  • Dissolution of the administrative community Hohnstein / Südharz - The member community Buchholz comes to Nordhausen; Harzungen, Herrmannsacker and Neustadt / Harz come to Harztor (July 6, 2018)
  • Dissolution of the administrative community Hainleite - the member communities of Hainrode , Nohra , Wipperdorf and Wolkramshausen merge with the city of Bleicherode and the communities of Etzelsrode , Friedrichsthal , Kleinbodungen and Kraja to form the city and rural community of Bleicherode; Bleicherode is no longer a fulfilling municipality for Etzelsrode, Friedrichsthal , Kleinbodungen and Kraja; Bleicherode becomes fulfilling community for Großlohra and Kleinfurra (January 1, 2019)

License Plate

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

literature

  • Frank Boblenz : The formation of the Hohnsteiner circle . In: Meyenburg-Museum (Hrsg.): Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen . Issue 24. Nordhausen 1999, DNB  015218104 , OCLC 29716216 , p. 9-18 .
  • Paul Lauerwald: From the Prussian county of Hohnstein to the district of Nordhausen . In: Meyenburg-Museum (Hrsg.): Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen . Issue 24. Nordhausen 1999, DNB  015218104 , OCLC 29716216 , p. 3-8 .
  • Heinrich Heine , Vincent Eisfeld (ed.): History of the city of Nordhausen and the district of Grafschaft Hohenstein (= sources and representations of Nordhausen's city history ; Volume 1), 1st reprint from 1900. BoD, Norderstedt 2018. ISBN 978-3-7481- 2995-0
  • Steffen Iffland, Rainer Hellberg: From the county of Hohenstein to the district of Nordhausen . In: Der Heimatbote (Vol. 2.1999), pp. 5–11.
  • Albrecht Pfeiffer: The history of agriculture in the district of Nordhausen . In: Meyenburg-Museum (Hrsg.): Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen . Issue 24. Nordhausen 1999, DNB  015218104 , OCLC 29716216 , p. 19-37 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
  2. District election in Nordhausen 2019 In: wahlen.thueringen.de .
  3. ^ Jutta Krauth - NordhausenWiki
  4. NNZ-Online.de: District election 2015 - runoff election (preliminary final result) , May 10, 2015 .
  5. Partnerships of the Unterallgäu. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 15, 2008 ; Retrieved November 7, 2008 .
  6. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  7. Regional plan North Thuringia from June 27, 2012 , accessed on October 16, 2016
  8. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).