Querfurt district

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Coat of arms of the district of Querfurt

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 reallocation of the administration in the GDR on July 26, 1952 led to further changes of the area:

Federal Republic of Germany

The Merseburg-Querfurt district was created in 1994 by merging the Merseburg and Querfurt districts.

Population development

year Residents source
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

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

Name changes

In 1936/37 the following name changes took place:

  • Muehle → Muehle (Geiseltal)
  • Calzendorf → Kalzendorf
  • Carsdorf → Karsdorf

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Querfurt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • District of Querfurt Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 28, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 337
  2. a b genealogy.net: Landkreis Querfurt
  3. ^ 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]).
  4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 233 ( digitized version [accessed on July 6, 2016]).
  5. 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]).
  6. 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).
  7. 1946 census