Sondershausen district

This article deals with the administrative district of Sondershausen (1850-1912) and the subordinate district (1912-1922) in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and the district of Sondershausen in Thuringia (1922-1952). For the Sondershausen district in the Erfurt district from 1952 to 1990 and the Sondershausen district in Thuringia from 1990 to 1994 see Sondershausen district

Basic data
Inventory period	1922-1952
Administrative headquarters	Sondershausen
Residents	71,918 (1939)
Communities	71 (1939)
Location of the district of Sondershausen in Thuringia in 1922

The district of Sondershausen was a district in Thuringia from 1922 to 1952 . The district seat was in Sondershausen . The former district area is now part of the Kyffhäuserkreis and the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia . In Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , the administrative district of Sondershausen existed from 1850 to 1912 and the district of subordinate rule with its seat in Sondershausen from 1912 to 1922 .

history

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

In the 19th century, the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen consisted of the three spatially separated parts of the country: Sondershausen, Arnstadt and Gehren. The Sondershausen part of the country formed the subordinate rule , while the Arnstadt and Gehren parts of the country were called the upper rule . When the state was reorganized in 1850, the three administrative districts of Sondershausen, Ebeleben and Greußen were formed under the rule . The first district administrator in Sondershausen was August Adolf Gottschalck . The administrative district Greußen was dissolved again in 1858 and divided into the districts Sondershausen and Ebeleben. From 1882 to 1897 the Ebeleben administrative district was temporarily abolished and during this time the entire subordinate rule formed the Sondershausen administrative district. In 1910 the administrative district of Sondershausen covered 266 km² and had 26,868 inhabitants. In 1912, the city of Sondershausen became a district and the remaining area of ​​subordinate rule was formed into the subordinate district, whose district office had its seat in Sondershausen.

In 1918 the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen became the Free State of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , which in turn opened up in Thuringia on May 1, 1920 .

State of Thuringia

After the new state of Thuringia was founded in 1920, a comprehensive regional reform took place in 1922. The thereby founded district Sondershausen was composed of

• the entire Schwarzburger Unterherrschaft including the until then independent city Sondershausen
• the disbanded District Office Frankenhausen (until 1920 Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt )
• the communities Hohenbergen , Kleinkeula , Körner , Menteroda and Obermehler from the disbanded District Office Gotha (until 1920 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ) and
• the municipality of Oldisleben from the dissolved Apolda administrative district (until 1920 Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach ) .

The first district administrator was the lawyer August Reinbrecht , who had already been district administrator of the Frankenhausen district office.

GDR

During the territorial reform of 1950 in the GDR , the district of Schlotheim and the communities of Großmehlra , Hohenbergen, Keula , Kleinkeula, Körner, Mehrstedt , Menteroda, Obermehler and Urbach became part of the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. From. At the same time he received the municipality of Freienbessingen from the district of Bad Langensalza , the municipalities of Großberndten and Kleinberndten from the district of Nordhausen and the communities of Frömmstedt , Grüningen , Herrnschwende , Kindelbrück , Nausiß , Niedertopfstedt , Oberbösa and Obertopfstedt from the district of Weißensee .

The 2nd party conference of the SED (July 9-12, 1952) triggered a restructuring of the regional and administrative structure in the GDR . As a result, the states on the territory of the GDR were abolished and replaced by districts. At the same time, a new district structure was created:

• The city of Bad Frankenhausen and the communities Borxleben , Esperstedt , Göllingen , Günserode , Ichstedt , Oldisleben, Ringleben , Rottleben , Seega , Seehausen , Steinthaleben and Udersleben came to the new Artern district .
• The towns of Clingen and Greußen as well as the communities of Grüningen, Herrnschwende, Kindelbrück and Westgreußen became part of the new Sömmerda district .
• The core area of ​​the district with the cities of Sondershausen, Ebeleben and Großenehrich formed the district of Sondershausen , which also included the communities Friedrichsrode from the district of Nordhausen and Keula from the district of Mühlhausen.
• The districts Sondershausen and Sömmerda came to the new district Erfurt and the district Artern came to the district Halle .

Population development

	Administrative district		Sondershausen district
year	1900	1910	1925	1933	1939	1946
Residents	24,965	26,868	72.164	73.152	71,918	101,315

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

Bad Frankenhausen	7.175
Greetings	3,478
Jecha	2.165
Oldis life	2,433
Schlotheim	4.032
Sondershausen	10,907
Stockhausen	2,312

cities and communes

In 1939 the district of Sondershausen comprised seven cities and 64 other municipalities:

Abtsbessingen Allmenhausen Bad Frankenhausen , city Badra Bellstedt Bendelife Berka Still life Bliederstedt Borxleben Clingen , city Revive , city Esperstedt Field angel Goellingen Greetings Big brothers Großenehrich , city

Grossfurra Large mealra Gundersleben Günserode Hachelbich Himmelsberg Hohenbergen Hohenebra Wooden angel Holzsußra Holzthaleben Ichstedt Immenrode Jecha Jechaburg Keula Church angel Petty brokers

Kleinkeula Grains Mehrstedt Menteroda Niederbösa Niederspier Obermehler Oberspier Oldis life Otterstedt Ring life Rockensussra Rockstedt Rohnstedt Rottleben Schernberg Schlotheim , city Seega

Seehausen Sondershausen , city Steinthaleben Stockhausen Straussberg Thalebra Thuringia House Toba Trebra Udersleben Urbach Wasserthaleben Not very much Western angel West Greussia Wiedermuth Wolferschwenda

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. sondershausen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ^ Law on the Reorganization of State Administration of March 17, 1850 (§14) . In: Law collection for the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 3rd piece, no. 6 . Sondershausen 1850 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Ordinance on the repeal of the Greußen district authorities of December 15, 1857 . In: Law collection for the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 28th piece, No. 95 . Sondershausen 1857 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Law amending the district regulations of April 13, 1881 . In: Law collection for the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 6th piece, no. 7 . Sondershausen 1881 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ Law for the restoration of the former administrative district of Ebeleben of July 7, 1897 . In: Law collection for the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 12th piece, No. 13 . Sondershausen 1897 ( digitized version ).
6. ^ District regulations from April 6, 1912 . In: Law collection for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 21st piece, No. 35 . Sondershausen 1912 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ Ordinance on the entry into force of the district regulations from June 28, 1912 . In: Law collection for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . 35th piece, No. 59 . Sondershausen 1912 ( digitized version ).
8. ^ ^{A b} gov.genealogy.net: District Sondershausen
9. ↑ Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945, edited by Thomas Klein, Series B, Volume 15: Thuringia, edited by Thomas Klein, Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut, Marburg / Lahn, 1983, pp. (394), (288)
10. ↑ 1. Ordinance on the implementation of the law amending the district and municipal boundaries in the state of Thuringia of April 26, 1950
11. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
12. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 . 
13. ↑ 1946 census