District of Sangerhausen (Province of Saxony)

This article deals with the former district of Sangerhausen in the Prussian province of Saxony or in Saxony-Anhalt (1816–1952); for the Sangerhausen district in the Halle district (1952–1990) see Sangerhausen district and for the Sangerhausen district in Saxony-Anhalt (1990–2007) see Sangerhausen district

Basic data
Prussian Province	Province of Saxony
Administrative district	Merseburg
Administrative headquarters	Sangerhausen
Residents	74,295 (1939)
Communities	70 (1939)
Location of the district of Sangerhausen

The district of Sangerhausen , until 1939 Kreis Sangerhausen , was a district that existed from 1816 to 1952 in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ and GDR . The district seat was in Sangerhausen . The former district area is now in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Saxony-Anhalt as well as in the Kyffhäuserkreis and in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

history

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Sangerhausen was established in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony on October 1, 1816 . It was composed of the historical offices of Artern , Heringen , Kelbra and Sangerhausen and the county of Stolberg .

On October 1, 1945, the Thuringian exclave Allstedt , consisting of the city of Allstedt and the communities Einsdorf , Einzingen , Heygendorf , Kalbsrieth , Landgrafroda , Mittelhausen , Mönchpfiffel , Niederröblingen , Winkel and Wolferstedt was incorporated into the district of Sangerhausen.

On July 1, 1950, a regional reform took place in the GDR, in the course of which the delimitation of the district was changed:

• The communities Großleinungen , Horla , Morungen , Rotha and Wippra moved from the disbanded Mansfeld mountain district to the district of Sangerhausen.
• The community of Straßberg moved from the district of Sangerhausen to the district of Quedlinburg .
• The Landgrafroda community moved from the Sangerhausen district to the Querfurt district .

During the territorial reform of 1952 , the state of Saxony-Anhalt was dissolved and the Sangerhausen area was fundamentally reorganized:

• The city of Artern and the communities of Gehofen , Heygendorf, Kalbsrieth, Mönchpfiffel, Nikolausrieth , Ritteburg , Schönfeld and Voigtstedt moved from the district of Sangerhausen to the district of Artern .
• The city of Heringen and the communities of Auleben , Bielen , Görsbach , Hain b. Kleinfurra , Hamma , Herrmannsacker , Rodishain , Steinbrücken , Stempeda , Sundhausen , Uthleben and Windehausen moved from the Sangerhausen district to the Nordhausen district .
• The Bornstedt community moved from the Sangerhausen district to the Eisleben district .
• The municipality of Wippra moved from the district of Sangerhausen to the district of Hettstedt .
• All other communities together with the community Bösenrode from the Nordhausen district formed the Sangerhausen district .
• The districts of Artern, Eisleben, Hettstedt and Sangerhausen were assigned to the new district of Halle ; the Nordhausen district came to the Erfurt district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	31,548
1843	53,719
1871	66,747
1890	70,916
1900	72,145
1910	73.116
1925	75.192
1933	75,120
1939	74,295
1946	109,540

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

local community	Residents
Artern	6,366
Herrings	2,399
Kelbra	2,702
Rossla	2,679
Sangerhausen	12,502
Stolberg (Harz)	2.007

District administrators

• 1816–1842 Christian Ludwig Krug von Nidda
• 1842–1861 Hermann von Werthern
• 1862–1895 Ludwig von Doetinchem de Rande
• 1895–1918 Werner von Doetinchem de Rande
• 1921–1927 Gustav Voigt
• 1927–1933 Friedrich Seemann (SPD)
• 1933–1940 Hermann Riediger
• 1940–1945 Hans Müllenbrock

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the district of Sangerhausen comprised five cities and 65 other municipalities:

Artern , city Outdoor life Names Berga Beyernaumburg Bielen Blankenheim Bornstedt Breitenbach Breitenstein Spreads bridges Dietersdorf Dittichenrode Drebsdorf Edersleben Emseloh Homestead

Gonna Goersbach Grillenberg Minced puffle Grove b. Kleinfurra Hainrode Hamma Hayn b. Stolberg Herring , city Herrmannsacker Hohlstedt Holdenstedt Katharinenrieth Kelbra (Kyffhäuser) , city Small lines Lengefeld Liedersdorf Martinsrieth

Nienstedt Nikolausrieth Oberröblingen Obersdorf Pölsfeld Questenberg Riestedt Riethnordhausen Ritteburg Rodishain Rosperwenda Rossla Rottleberode Sangerhausen , city Schmalzerode Schönfeld Schwenda Sittendorf

Sotterhausen Stone bridges Stempeda Stolberg (Harz) , city Strassberg Sundhausen Thürungen Tilleda Uftrungen Uthleben Voigtstedt Wallhausen Wettelrode Wickerode Windehausen Wolfsberg

Part of the parish-free manor district of Pölsfeld also belonged to the district .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Sangerhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 338
2. ↑ ^{a b} genealogy.net: District Sangerhausen
3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 351 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 244 ( digitized version [accessed 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. Sangerhausen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ 1946 census