Rathenow district

Basic data
District of the GDR	Potsdam
County seat	Rathenow
surface	818 km² (1989)
Residents	62,457 (1989)
Population density	76 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	D and P (1953–1990) DV and DW (1974–1990) RN (1991–1993)

The Rathenow district was an administrative unit in the Potsdam district of the GDR from 1952 . From 1990 to 1993 it existed as the Rathenow district in the state of Brandenburg . His area is now in the Havelland district in Brandenburg. The seat of the district administration was in the town of the same name Rathenow .

geography

Neighboring areas

The Rathenow district bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Kyritz , Nauen , Brandenburg-Land , Brandenburg / Havel , Genthin and Havelberg .

history

The district emerged from the Westhavelland district , which in turn emerged in 1816 from the division of the Havelland district . The district essentially existed in its original form until 1950. On June 1, 1925, the township of Rathenow left the Westhavelland district, from then on formed its own urban district and was an exclave in the middle of the district. From June 1, 1950, the Rathenow district lost its municipal status as an urban district and became part of the Westhavelland district. At the same time, various communities from the Westhavelland district were transferred to the Brandenburg (Havel) district and the Osthavelland district . As a result of the administrative reform in the GDR at that time, the districts of Nauen and Rathenow were created on July 25, 1952, from the districts of East and West Havelland, with considerable territorial losses . After several changes to the district boundaries until the mid-1950s, the Rathenow district remained in existence from May 17, 1990 with the name Rathenow district until the Brandenburg district reform on December 6, 1993. After that, he was with the district Nauen to Havelland merged. The city of Rathenow became the seat of the district administration in the Havelland district.

District municipalities and cities

All places are listed that were independent communities on July 25, 1952 when the Rathenow district was established.

Altgarz Bamme Barnewitz Bohne Buckow Bützer Buschow Dams Doberitz Ferchesar Friedrichsbruch

Garlitz Brat Gottlin Gräningen Big show Großwudicke Grütz Gulp Hohennauen Jerchel Kietz

Kleßen Throw up Kriele Landin Liepe Milow Mögelin Möthlitz Möthlow Mützlitz Nennhausen

Neuwerder Nitzahn Parey Premnitz (city) Prietzen Rathenow (City) Rhinow (city) Rübehorst Semlin Spaatz Stechow

Steckelsdorf Stölln Current stretch Vieritz Water soup Witzke Wolsier Zollchow

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the letter pairs DV and DW from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was DY 40-01 to DY 60-00 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark RN . It was issued until the end of 1993. It has been available in the Havelland district since January 4, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved February 6, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
3. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
4. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 301 .
5. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 542 .