District of Osterburg

This article deals with the district of Osterburg in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (1816–1952). For the Osterburg district in the GDR district of Magdeburg (1952–1990) and the Osterburg district of the same area in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (1990–1994) see Osterburg district .

Coat of arms of the district of Osterburg

The district of Osterburg , until 1939 Osterburg district , was from 1816 to 1945 a district in the Prussian province of Saxony and from 1945 to 1952 in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ or GDR .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna who became the 1 July 1816 district Osterburg in Magdeburg Region of the Prussian province of Saxony furnished. The district office was in Osterburg .

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and since January 1, 1871 to the German Empire .

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Osterburg district in line with developments in the rest of Prussia, in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939, the Osterburg district was given the name Landkreis, in accordance with the now unified regulation .

After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Magdeburg , administrative district of Magdeburg. In the spring of 1945 the area was occupied by the American Allied forces.

German Democratic Republic

On July 1, 1950, the GDR underwent its first administrative reform , during which the communities of Binde , Fleetmark , Kaulitz , Kerkau , Mechau and Schernikau moved from the Osterburg district to the Salzwedel district . In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, further extensive changes were made to the delimitation of the district:

• The cities of Arendsee , Seehausen and Werben as well as the communities of Aulosen , Behrend , Beuster , Bömenzien , Deutsch , Drüsedau , Falkenberg , Geestgottberg , Genzien , Gollensdorf , Groß Garz , Harpe , Höwisch , Kläden , Krüden , Leppin , Lichterfelde , Lindenberg , Losenrade , Losse , Neukirchen , Neulingen , Pollitz , Räbel , Schönberg , Schrampe , Thielbeer , Wahrenberg , Wanzer , Wendemark , Ziemendorf and Zießau formed the new Seehausen district .
• The communities of Meßdorf and Späningen came to the new district of Kalbe .
• All other communities together with the communities Baben , Häsewig , Klein Schwechten and Ziegenhagen of the district of Stendal formed the district of Osterburg .
• The districts of Osterburg, Seehausen and Kalbe were assigned to the new district of Magdeburg .

The Seehausen district was dissolved again in 1965 and incorporated into the Osterburg district.

Federal Republic of Germany

After the reunification of the two German states, the district became the Osterburg district in the re-established state of Saxony-Anhalt in 1990 , which was largely dissolved in the Stendal district during the district reform of 1994 . The town of Arendsee and the surrounding area joined the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	28.106
1843	36,780
1871	44,998
1890	47,354
1900	43,830
1910	45.206
1925	48.286
1933	45,862
1939	44,480
1946	66.111

District administrators

1816–1820 Leopold Wilhelm von der Schulenburg (1772–1838)

1820–1838 Wilhelm von Jagow (1770–1838)

1838–1846 Friedrich Ludwig Karl von Knoblauch

1846–1858 Friedrich von Jagow (1802–1858)

1858–1885 Friedrich Gottlob Jakob von der Schulenburg (1818–1893)

1885–1893 Ernst von Jagow (1853–1930)

1883–1912 Hermann von Jagow (1848–1923)

1912–1920 Armin von Lossow (1876–1945)

1920–1933 Konrad Zorn (1882– ??)

1933–1945 Keßler

Local constitution

The district of Osterburg 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 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.

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the district of Osterburg comprised four cities and 121 other communities.

Elderly fence Arendsee , city Auloses Ballerstedt Boring Behrendorf mountains Bertkow Beuster Biesenthal Bandage Bohemia Boock Bretsch bush Calberwipe Dalchau Dequede Dessau German Dewitz Dobbrun Drösede Glandular digestion Düsedau Single angle Experience Falkenberg Fleetmark Flessau Gagel Geestgottberg

Genzien Gestures Gethlingen Giesenslage Gladigau Goldbeck Gollensdorf Gross Ellingen Great Garz Great Rossau Harpe Heiligenfelde Herzfelde Hindenburg Hohenberg-Krusemark Sneer Iden Jeggel Kassuhn Kaulitz Kerkau Kerkuhn Dumplings Klein Ellingen Klein Holzhausen Klein Rossau Kleinau King's Mark Kossebau Krevese Rude Krumke

Leppin Lichterfelde Lindenberg Rewards Loose wheel Losse Lückstedt Mechau Meseberg Messdorf Möllendorf Natterheide Neukirchen Newbies Osterburg, city Osterholz Ostorf Petersmark Place Polkau Pole core Pollitz Priemern Rascals Rathsleben Rengerslage Rohrbeck Rönnebeck Sandauerholz Sanne Scharpenlohe Schernikau

Schliecksdorf Schmersau Schoenberg Schönebeck Schrampe Blackwood Seehausen i./Altmark , city Späningen stack Storbeck Stresow Thielbeer Uchtenhagen Vielbaum Wahrenberg Walsleben Wanzer Wasmerslage Turning mark Werben a./Elbe , Stadt Werder Wohlenberg Wollenrade Wolterslage Zedau Consume Ziemendorf Ziessau Cooling

Municipalities dissolved by 1945

• United Aulosen and small Aulosen , 1928 Aulosen together
• United Ballerstedt and small Ballerstedt , 1939 Ballerstedt together
• United Beuster and small Beuster , 1928 Beuster together
• Kallehne and Velgau , 1939 Fleetmark together
• Hohenberg and Krusemark , 1928 Hohenberg-Krusemark together
• United Wanzer and Klein Wanzer , 1936 Wanzer together

• Blankensee , 1936 on Wolterslage
• Ferchlipp , in 1938 in Lichterfelde
• Groß Holzhausen , 1939 to Krüden
• Haverland , 1939 to Groß Garz
• Kraatz , 1939 on Kläden
• Möckern , to Erxleben in 1938
• Orpensdorf , 1939 in Schmersau
• Polkritz , 1939 on Schwarzholz
• Rethhausen , 1936 on Wolterslage

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Osterburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• District of Osterburg Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of November 4, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} genealogy.net: District of Osterburg
2. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 337 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
3. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 146 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
4. ↑ 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]).
5. ↑ ^{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. Osterburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 1946 census