Rudolstadt district

This article deals with the former Rudolstadt district between 1922 and 1952. For the Rudolstadt district in the Gera district from 1952 to 1990 and the Rudolstadt district in Thuringia from 1990 to 1994 see Rudolstadt district

Basic data
Inventory period	1922-1952
Administrative headquarters	Rudolstadt
Residents	70.023 (1939)
Communities	105 (1939)
Location of the Rudolstadt district in Thuringia in 1922

The Rudolstadt district was a district in Thuringia that existed from 1922 to 1952 . The district seat was in Rudolstadt . The former district area today largely belongs to the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in Thuringia . Before 1922, the Rudolstadt District Office already existed in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

history

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

In the 19th century, the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt consisted of two spatially separate parts of the country, the supremacy in the Rudolstadt area and the subordinate rule around Frankenhausen . When the national territory was reorganized in 1850, the two district offices of Rudolstadt and Königsee were set up in the supremacy . The district office of Rudolstadt comprised the northern part of the supremacy as well as the exclaves Angelroda , Elxleben , Leutenberg and Weisbach . Between 1858 and 1868 the district office was abolished and in 1893 the city of Rudolstadt was spun off from the district office. In 1908, the reclassification of the community took place under Rottenbach was reclassified to the District Office Königsee 1908 and there with Oberrotte Bach to the municipality of Rottenbach together. In 1918 the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt became the Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , which in turn became part of the State of Thuringia on May 1, 1920 .

State of Thuringia

After the new Free State of Thuringia was founded in 1920, a comprehensive regional reform took place in 1922, during which the Rudolstadt District Office was dissolved. The space Stadtilm came to the district Arnstadt , the exclave Leutenberg the district of Saalfeld and schwarzburgische part of the community Weisbach the district Schleiz . The remaining area of ​​the Rudolstadt District Office formed the core of the new Rudolstadt district . Also joined this county

• the city of Rudolstadt
• a large part of the dissolved Königsee District Office
• the communities of Garsitz , Oelze and Schwarzmühle from the dissolved circle of sovereignty (until 1920 Schwarzburg-Sondershausen )
• the Uhlstädt area with 19 communities from the disbanded District Office Roda (until 1920 Sachsen-Altenburg )
• the communities Catharinau , Großkochberg , Rödelwitz , Weißbach and Weißen from the district of Saalfeld (until 1920 Sachsen-Meiningen ) as well
• the city of Remda and the communities of Altremda , Breitenheerda , Heilsberg , Kirchremda and Sundremda from the disbanded administrative district of Weimar (until 1920 Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ) .

GDR

During the first district reform in the GDR on July 1, 1950, the district boundaries were changed:

• The municipality of Oesteröda moved to the district of Arnstadt .
• The Pennewitz community moved from the Arnstadt district to the Rudolstadt district.
• The communities of Naundorf , Oberpreilipp , Schloßkulm , Unterpreilipp and Unterwirbach moved from the Saalfeld district to the Rudolstadt district.
• The communities of Haufeld , Neckeroda and Treppendorf moved from the Weimar district to the Rudolstadt district.

During the territorial reform of 1952 in the GDR , the state of Thuringia was dissolved and the district of Rudolstadt was divided:

• The town of Oberweißbach and the communities of Cursdorf , Deesbach , Goldisthal , Katzhütte , Leibis , Lichtenhain , Mellenbach-Glasbach , Meura , Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle , Scheibe-Alsbach and Unterweißbach came to the new Neuhaus am Rennweg district in the Suhl district .
• The communities Allersdorf , Herschdorf and Pennewitz came to the new district of Ilmenau in the district of Suhl .
• The remaining part of the district formed the district of Rudolstadt , which was assigned to the district of Gera .

Population development

Rudolstadt district	1925	1933	1939	1946
Residents	65,693	68,450	70.023	90.131

Population of communities with more than 2,000 inhabitants (as of 1939):

local community	Residents
Blankenburg	5,307
Koenigsee	3,344
Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle	2,418
Oberweißbach	2,249
Rudolstadt	18,222
Schwarza	3.233

Communities

As of 1939

In 1939 the district of Rudolstadt comprised six cities and 99 other municipalities:

Allendorf Allersdorf Old tremda Ammelstädt Aschau Bad Blankenburg , city Barigau Bechstedt Beutelsdorf Böhl disks Braunsdorf Breitenheerda Burkersdorf Catharinau Cordobang Cursdorf Deesbach Dittersdorf Dittrichshütte Dorndorf Dörnfeld an der Heide Döschnitz Dröbischau Egelsdorf Eichfeld Engerda Eschdorf

Etzelbach Froebitz Cooking seat Geitersdorf Goldisthal Grossgölitz Großkochberg Heilingen Heilsberg Hengelbach Herschdorf Horba Katzhütte Keilhau Kirchhasel Kirchremda Kleingölitz Kleinkochberg Kolkwitz Königsee , city Cow eating Leibis Leutnitz Lichstedt Lichta Lichtenhain Mankenbach

Mellenbach-Glasbach Meura Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle Milbitz b. Rottenbach Milbitz b. Teichel Mörla Mötzelbach Neusitz Niederkrossen Oberhain Oberhasel Oberköditz Oberschöbling Oberweißbach , city Oberwirbach Oils Oesteröda Partschefeld Paulinzella Plant Wirbach Quittelsdorf Remda , city Röbschütz Rödelwitz Rohrbach Rottenbach Rudolstadt , city

Schaala Disk Alsbach Forge Schwarza Schwarzburg Sitzendorf Solsdorf Stork village Sundremda Teichel , city Teichröda Pond willows Thälendorf Uhlstädt Unterhain Unterköditz Unterschöbling Unterweißbach Watzdorf Weissbach Whites Wittgendorf Pointer home Zeutsch

Municipalities that were eliminated or dissolved before 1939

During the Thuringian district reform of 1922, the Rudolstadt District Office gave a large number of its communities to neighboring administrative districts:

• The town of Stadtilm as well as the communities Angelroda , Bücheloh , Cottendorf , Döllstedt , Ehrenstein , Ellichleben , Elxleben , Geilsdorf , Gösselborn , Gräfinau , Griesheim , Großhettstedt , Großliehaben , Hammersfeld , Kleinhettstedt , Kleinliehaben , Nahhaben , Oberilm , Singen and Wüllersleben came to the Arnstadt district.
• The town of Leutenberg and the communities of Arnsbach , Breternitz , Bucha , Burglemnitz , Döhlen , Dorfilm , Eichicht , Eyba , Fischersdorf , Gleima , Heberndorf , Hirzbach , Hockeroda , Kleingeschwenda , Knobelsdorf , Könitz , Laasen , Landsendorf , Munschwitz - St. Jakob , Preßwitz , Reschwitz , Roda , Rosenthal , Schweinbach , Steinsdorf , Tauschwitz , Unterloquitz , Unterwirbach , Volkmannsdorf , Wallendorf , Weischwitz , Weitisberga , Wickersdorf , Wittmannsgereuth , Witzendorf , Wöhlsdorf and Zopten came to the Saalfeld district .
• The municipality of Volkstedt was incorporated into the city of Rudolstadt in 1921 and the municipality of Cumbach in 1929.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rudolstadt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ 1. Ordinance on the implementation of the law amending the district and municipal boundaries in the state of Thuringia of April 26, 1950
3. ^ Supplement to the 1st regulation
4. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
5. ↑ 1946 census