Querfurt district
The district of Querfurt , which was a district of Querfurt until 1939 , was a district in the Prussian province of Saxony from 1816 to 1945 and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt from 1945 to 1952 .
Administrative history
Prussia
As part of the circular outline in Prussia after the Congress of Vienna became the October 1, 1816 District Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony furnished. Most of the old Saxon offices of Freyburg , Querfurt , Sittichenbach and Wendelstein flowed into the district . The district office was in the city of Querfurt .
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 July 21, 1875, parts of the Memleben estate , monastery property on the left bank of the Unstrut from the Querfurt district were incorporated into the Eckartsberga district. At the same time, parts of the Wendelstein estate district (domain on the right bank of the Unstrut) moved from the Eckartsberga district to the Querfurt district.
On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Querfurt 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 resulted circle Querfurt the term in accordance with the rich now unified control district . After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Halle-Merseburg . In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by US forces.
GDR
On July 1, 1950, the GDR underwent its first regional reform:
- The communities Hirschroda and Krawinkel moved from the district of Eckartsberga to the district of Querfurt.
- The communities of Alberstedt , Dornstedt , Esperstedt , Hornburg and Schraplau moved from the Mansfelder Seekreis to the Querfurt district.
- The municipality of Landgrafroda moved from the district of Sangerhausen to the district of Querfurt.
- 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 Roßbach community moved from the Querfurt district to the Weißenfels district .
The reallocation of the administration in the GDR on July 26, 1952 led to further changes of the area:
- The district of Querfurt gave the cities of Freyburg , Laucha and Nebra as well as the communities Altenroda , Balgstädt , Baumersroda , Branderoda , Burgscheidungen , Ebersroda , Gleina , Golzen , Gröst , Hirschroda , Karsdorf , Kirchscheidungen , Krawinkel , Müncheroda, Nißmitz , Plößnitz , Reinsdorf , Schleberoda , Thalwinkel , Tröbsdorf, cheeks , Weischütz , Wennungen , Wetzendorf , Zeuchfeld and Zscheiplitz to the new county Nebra from
- The three communities Bottendorf , Roßleben and Schönewerda came to the new district of Artern .
- From then on, the rest of the district formed the Querfurt district .
- The districts of Artern, Nebra and Querfurt were assigned to the new Halle district .
Federal Republic of Germany
The Merseburg-Querfurt district was created in 1994 by merging the Merseburg and Querfurt districts.
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1816 | 32,453 | |
1843 | 43,569 | |
1871 | 53,780 | |
1890 | 59.202 | |
1900 | 58,351 | |
1910 | 60,734 | |
1925 | 70,465 | |
1933 | 72,814 | |
1939 | 72.114 | |
1946 | 102.032 |
District administrators
- 1816–1833 William von Danckelmann
- 1834–1840 Heinrich von Helldorff
- 1840–1843 Ernst von der Schulenburg
- 1844–1857 Carl von Helldorff
- 1857–1863 Karl von Helldorff
- 1864–1876 Albrecht von Schlieckmann
- 1876–1888 Eberhard von der Recke
- 1888–1903 Richard von Bötticher
- 1903–1919 Heinrich von Helldorff
- 1919–1927 Paul von Krause
- 1927–1933 Hermann Wandersleb
- 1933–1940 Axel Crewell
- 1940–1945 Fritz Adam
Local constitution
The district of Querfurt was divided into cities, into rural communities and - until their complete dissolution - 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 Querfurt comprised five cities and 78 other municipalities:
Dissolved communities
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Name changes
In 1936/37 the following name changes took place:
- Muehle → Muehle (Geiseltal)
- Calzendorf → Kalzendorf
- Carsdorf → Karsdorf
Web links
- District of Querfurt Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 28, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 337
- ↑ a b genealogy.net: Landkreis Querfurt
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 350 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 233 ( digitized version [accessed on July 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 [accessed July 5, 2016]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Querfurt. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census