Ribnitz-Damgarten district

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Basic data (as of 1994)
Existing period: 1952-1994
District : Rostock
Administrative headquarters : Ribnitz-Damgarten
Area : 942 km²
Residents: 66,400 (1985)
Population density: 70 inhabitants per km²
License plate : AF, AG (1974–1990)

RDG (1991-1994)

Circle structure: 41 municipalities, including 4 cities
Location of the district in the GDR
Kreis Rügen Kreis Bad Doberan Kreis Greifswald Greifswald Kreis Grevesmühlen Kreis Grimmen Kreis Ribnitz-Damgarten Kreis Rostock-Land Rostock Kreis Stralsund-Land Stralsund Kreis Wismar-Land Wismar Kreis Wolgast Kreis Güstrow Kreis Bützow Kreis Gadebusch Kreis Hagenow Kreis Ludwigslust Kreis Lübz Kreis Parchim Kreis Perleberg Kreis Schwerin-Land Schwerin Kreis Sternberg Kreis Anklam Kreis Altentreptow Kreis Demmin Kreis Malchin Kreis Neubrandenburg-Land Neubrandenburg Kreis Neustrelitz Kreis Pasewalk Kreis Prenzlau Kreis Röbel/Müritz Kreis Strasburg Kreis Templin Kreis Teterow Kreis Ueckermünde Kreis Waren Kreis Belzig Kreis Brandenburg-Land Brandenburg an der Havel Kreis Gransee Kreis Jüterbog Kreis Königs Wusterhausen Kreis Kyritz Kreis Luckenwalde Kreis Nauen Kreis Neuruppin Kreis Oranienburg Kreis Potsdam-Land Potsdam Kreis Pritzwalk Kreis Rathenow Kreis Wittstock Kreis Zossen Kreis Angermünde Kreis Bad Freienwalde Kreis Beeskow Kreis Bernau Kreis Eberswalde Kreis Eisenhüttenstadt-Land Eisenhüttenstadt Frankfurt (Oder) Kreis Fürstenwalde Schwedt/Oder Kreis Seelow Kreis Strausberg Kreis Bad Liebenwerda Kreis Calau Kreis Cottbus-Land Cottbus Kreis Finsterwalde Kreis Forst Kreis Guben Kreis Herzberg Kreis Hoyerswerda Kreis Jessen Kreis Luckau Kreis Lübben Kreis Senftenberg Kreis Spremberg Kreis Weißwasser Kreis Burg Kreis Gardelegen Kreis Genthin Kreis Halberstadt Kreis Haldensleben Kreis Havelberg Kreis Klötze Magdeburg Kreis Oschersleben Kreis Osterburg Kreis Salzwedel Kreis Schönebeck Kreis Staßfurt Kreis Stendal Kreis Wanzleben Kreis Wernigerode Kreis Wolmirstedt Kreis Zerbst Kreis Artern Kreis Aschersleben Kreis Bernburg Kreis Bitterfeld Dessau Kreis Eisleben Kreis Gräfenhainichen Halle (Saale) Kreis Hettstedt Kreis Hohenmölsen Kreis Köthen Kreis Merseburg Kreis Naumburg Kreis Nebra Kreis Quedlinburg Kreis Querfurt Kreis Roßlau Saalkreis Kreis Sangerhausen Kreis Weißenfels Kreis Wittenberg Kreis Zeitz Kreis Altenburg Kreis Borna Kreis Delitzsch Kreis Döbeln Kreis Eilenburg Kreis Geithain Kreis Grimma Kreis Leipzig-Land Leipzig Kreis Oschatz Kreis Schmölln Kreis Torgau Kreis Wurzen Kreis Bautzen Kreis Bischofswerda Kreis Dippoldiswalde Kreis Dresden-Land Dresden Kreis Freital Kreis Görlitz-Land Görlitz Kreis Großenhain Kreis Kamenz Kreis Löbau Kreis Meißen Kreis Niesky Kreis Pirna Kreis Riesa Kreis Sebnitz Kreis Zittau Kreis Annaberg Kreis Aue Kreis Auerbach Kreis Brand-Erbisdorf Kreis Flöha Kreis Freiberg Kreis Glauchau Kreis Hainichen Kreis Hohenstein-Ernstthal Kreis Karl-Marx-Stadt-Land Karl-Marx-Stadt Kreis Klingenthal Kreis Marienberg Kreis Oelsnitz Kreis Plauen-Land Plauen Kreis Reichenbach Kreis Rochlitz Kreis Schwarzenberg Kreis Stollberg Kreis Werdau Kreis Zschopau Kreis Zwickau-Land Zwickau Kreis Eisenberg Kreis Gera-Land Gera Kreis Greiz Kreis Jena-Land Jena Kreis Lobenstein Kreis Pößneck Kreis Rudolstadt Kreis Saalfeld Kreis Schleiz Kreis Stadtroda Kreis Zeulenroda Kreis Apolda Kreis Arnstadt Kreis Eisenach Kreis Erfurt-Land Erfurt Kreis Gotha Kreis Heiligenstadt Kreis Langensalza Kreis Mühlhausen Kreis Nordhausen Kreis Sömmerda Kreis Sondershausen Kreis Weimar-Land Weimar Kreis Worbis Kreis Bad Salzungen Kreis Hildburghausen Kreis Ilmenau Kreis Meiningen Kreis Neuhaus am Rennweg Kreis Schmalkalden Kreis Sonneberg Kreis Suhl-Land Suhl Ost-Berlin Volksrepublik Polen Tschechoslowakei Berlin (West) Deutschland Dänemarkmap
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Zingst harbor
Wind escape on the Darß peninsula
Schlemmin Castle
Church of St. Bartolomew in Damgarten

The Ribnitz-Damgarten district was a district in the Rostock district in the GDR . From May 17, 1990, it continued as the Ribnitz-Damgarten district . Today his area belongs to the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The seat of the district administration was in Ribnitz-Damgarten .

geography

location

The Ribnitz-Damgarten district with an outer coast of the Baltic Sea of approx. 60 kilometers in length encompassed the areas on the lower reaches of the Recknitz and Barthe rivers , the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula chain and the Bodden waters between the peninsulas and the mainland, which are mostly flat or only slightly hilly terrain existed (highest point: 55 m above sea level in the south-west of the district).

Size and population

The district had an area of ​​942 km². That was 13.3% of the area of ​​the Rostock district.

In 1985 there were around 66,400 inhabitants in the district. That was 7.4% of the district's population. Its population density was 70 inhabitants per km².

Neighboring areas

The Ribnitz-Damgarten district in the center of the Rostock district bordered the Rostock-Land district in the south-west, the Teterow district in the south, the Grimmen district in the southeast and the Stralsund district in the east .

history

The district consisting of Western Pomerania and Mecklenburg areas was created on July 25, 1952 from parts of the old districts of Rostock to the west and Franzburg-Barth (referred to as the district of Stralsund since 1946) to the east of the Recknitz , and after the dissolution of the states belonged to the newly formed district of Rostock . The district came to the newly founded state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on October 3, 1990 within the accession area to the Federal Republic of Germany . On June 12, 1994, the district (referred to as the district since May 17, 1990) was dissolved and since then, together with the districts of Stralsund and Grimmen, which were also dissolved, until the district reform in 2011, the district of North Western Pomerania was formed .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Ribnitz-Damgarten district, tourism dominated, especially in the summer season on the beaches of the Baltic Sea and the Bodden waters. The agricultural products of the "hinterland" were largely processed in the towns of the district, the catches of the fishing cooperatives in Barth and Ribnitz-Damgarten. The fiberboard factory in the district town of Ribnitz-Damgarten was the largest industrial company in the district . In the area of ​​the district was also the socialist "model village" Trinwillershagen with its LPG "Red Banner".

The main traffic axis in the district was trunk road 105 ( Rostock - Stralsund ) and the parallel railway line. The roads connecting the seaside resorts, including the Meiningen Bridge, were of great importance for tourism . The Velgast-Barth and Velgast-Tribsees branch lines were of minor or seasonal importance.

cities and communes

On October 3, 1990, the Ribnitz-Damgarten district had 41 municipalities, including four cities:

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinguishing signs starting with the letter pairs AF and AG from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was AX 50-01 to AX 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinctive sign RDG . It was issued until June 11, 1994. It has been available in the Vorpommern-Rügen district since March 15, 2013 .

Darßer Ort lighthouse
Mill in Bad Sülze

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  3. ↑ 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 .
  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. 547 .