District of Stendal

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Coat of arms of the district of Stendal Map of Germany, position of the district of Stendal highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′  N , 11 ° 50 ′  E

Basic data
State : Saxony-Anhalt
Administrative headquarters : Stendal
Area : 2,423.16 km 2
Residents: 111,190 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 46 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : SDL, HV, OBG
Circle key : 15 0 90
Circle structure: 25 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Hospitalstrasse 1–2
39576 Stendal
Website : landkreis-stendal.de
District Administrator : Patrick Puhlmann ( SPD )
Location of the district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt
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The district of Stendal is a district in the northeast of the state of Saxony-Anhalt . In terms of area, it is the tenth largest district in Germany and the largest district in Saxony-Anhalt. Neighboring districts in the north are the Brandenburg district of Prignitz , in the east the Brandenburg districts Ostprignitz-Ruppin and Havelland , in the south the districts Jerichower Land and Börde and in the west the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and in the northwest the Lower Saxony district Lüchow-Dannenberg .

geography

The district of Stendal includes the eastern Altmark and the Elbe-Havel-Winkel. The most important bodies of water are the Elbe , Havel , Tanger , Biese , Aland and Uchte . The northernmost point of the state of Saxony-Anhalt is in the municipality of Aland .

history

Prussia and the German Empire

The district of Stendal in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the Prussian province of Saxony was established on July 1, 1816 as part of the Prussian administrative reforms following the Congress of Vienna . The district office was in Stendal. The district was divided into the three cities of Arneburg , Bismark and Stendal as well as into rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts .

On October 6, 1862, the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide was divided. The Stendal district received the eastern parts of the Burgstall and Jävenitz chief foresters . Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and since January 18, 1871 to the German Empire .

On April 1, 1909, the city of Stendal left the district and formed its own urban district . The Stendal district was henceforth referred to as the district . On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Stendal district as in the rest of Prussia, in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced on April 1, 1935 at the municipal level . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

The municipality of Tangerhütte , which was called Vaethen until 1928 , received town charter in 1935.

After the Prussian province of Saxony was dissolved on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Magdeburg . In the spring of 1945, the western part of the district was occupied by the American armed forces , the eastern part by Polish and Soviet armed forces.

Soviet occupation zone and German Democratic Republic

The first administrative reform in the GDR took place on July 1, 1950, during which the city of Stendal rejoined the Stendal district.

In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, extensive changes were made to the delimitation of the district:

On January 1, 1988, the Tangerhütte district was dissolved and parts of it were reintegrated into the Stendal district.

Federal Republic of Germany

In 1994, the Osterburg and Havelberg districts and the Bismark (Altmark) administrative community of the Salzwedel district were initially merged with the Stendal district under the working title of the Eastern Altmark district , but the constituent district council then decided on the name of the Stendal district .

Population development

Population pyramid for the Stendal district (data source: 2011 census)
year Residents source
1816 29,286
1843 37,872
1871 48,830
1890 62,393
1900 73,564
1910 54,027
1925 55,086
1939 54,523
1946 75,529
1955 83,200
1960 77,525
1971 73.423
1981 76,491
1990 95,400
2000 140,600
2007 127.464
2010 121,899
2014 114,668

politics

District council

Election of the Stendal District Assembly 2019
Turnout: 54.0% (2014: 43.3%)
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b Pro Altmark voter group
h Farmers for the Region - Independent Voting Community
Allocation of seats in the
Stendaler Kreisag 2019
        
A total of 48 seats

On May 6, 1990, the first local elections after the political change of 1989 took place. On May 31st, the first freely elected district council was constituted and the district of Stendal got a district administrator again in Lothar Riedinger.

The group leaders of the parties represented in the first district assembly were:

  • Wolfgang Kühnel (CDU)
  • Siegfried Wagner (SPD)
  • Sylvia Lingner (PDS)
  • Karl-Friedrich Behrends (FDP)
  • Irmgard Schmidt (New Forum)
Parties and constituencies Percent
2019
Size
2019
Percent
2014
Seats
2014
Percent
2009
Seats
2009
Percent
2004
Seats
2004
Percent
1999
Seats
1999
Percent
1994
Seats
1994
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 24.4 12 41.8 20th 37.2 18th 40.9 20th 42.7 21st 34.5 18th
Per Altmark Voting group - Pro Altmark 17.0 8th - - - - - - - - - -
THE LEFT. THE LEFT. 16.5 8th 23.8 11 23.9 11 27.8 13 17.7 9 17.1 9
AfD Alternative for Germany 16.3 8th - - - - - - - - - -
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 10.1 5 17.7 9 18.7 9 20.4 10 31.1 15th 33.2 18th
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.7 3 3.6 2 7.6 4th 6.0 3 3.8 2 5.4 3
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 5.5 2 3.6 2 3.2 2 2.6 1 1.9 1 5.2 3
Farmers Farmers for the Region - Independent Voting Community 4.6 2 5.8 3 9.1 4th - - - - - -
NPD National Democratic Party of Germany - - 2.3 1 - - - - - - - -
PIRATES Pirate Party Germany - - 0.7 - - - - - - - - -
CENTER German Center Party - - - - 0.4 - 2.4 1 0.6 - - -
FWG TGM Free community of voters Tangermünde - - - - - - - - 0.9 - 2.4 2
FWG TGH Free voter community (Tangerhütte) - - - - - - - - 0.5 - - -
DSU German Social Union - - - - - - - - 0.4 - - -
EB Individual applicants - - 0.8 - - - - - 0.4 - - -
Others Others - - - - - - - - - - 1.7 -
total 100 48 100 48 100 48 100 48 100 48 100 54
Turnout in percent 53.9 43.3 40.6 44.4 45.0 67.5

  • The Left took up the position of PDS until 2004 .
  • Ezb .: Individual applicants 2014: Bernd Schulze; 1999: Werner Stahlberg.

The following parliamentary groups have formed in the current district assembly: CDU (12 members), Pro Altmark (8 members), DIE LINKE (8 members), AfD (8 members), FDP-GRÜNE farmers (7 members) and SPD (5 members) .

District administrators and council presidents

  • Baron von Uslar 1813 – March 1816
  • Levin Friedrich Christoph August von Bismarck, March 1816 – December 1824
  • Friedrich Josef Johann Karl Graf von Itzenplitz, January 1824 – February 1848
  • Johannes Schrader, deputy from March 1848, appointed November 1850 – May 1863

Administration by district deputies until April 1864

Interim administration of the office by representatives of the government approx. 18 months, u. a. provisionally by Mr. Rosenbruch

  • Fritz Herkt, December 1920 – March 1926
  • Gerhard Schmidt, April 1926 – April 1933
  • Heinrich Detloff von Kalben , 1933 – April 1944
  • Julius Heinrich Wilhelm Grabenstein, May 1945 – August 1945
  • August Langnickel, April 1946 – July 1951
  • Julius Neumann, August 1951 – July 1952

1952 Restructuring of chairman council of the district

  • Julius Neumann, August 1952 – November 1952
  • Kurt Müller, December 1952 – December 1956
  • Alfred Giersemehl, January – December 1965
  • Werner Bachert, January 1966 – October 1976
  • Heinz Hoffmann, November 1976 – March 1980
  • Rolf Schultze, April 1980 – April 1990

1990 Reintroduction of the term district administrator

coat of arms

For the individual coats of arms in the district, see the list of coats of arms in the district of Stendal .
Coat of arms 1937–1994

The district of Stendal carried the coat of arms from July 31, 1937 to 1994 with the following blazon :

“Divided by silver over blue; above a growing gold-armored red eagle; below is a three-leaf, golden clover, angled by three silver oak leaves. "

The red eagle at the gap symbolizes that the district has belonged to the Mark Brandenburg for centuries. The golden shamrock in blue, angled by three silver oak leaves, is the coat of arms of the probably best-known Altmark noble family, the von Bismarck family.

Coat of arms from 1995
Seal of District No. VI - Stendal district / Still with Prussian eagle

Since 1995, due to the merger with the former Havelberg and Osterburg districts, the district has had a new coat of arms with the following blazon :

"Split and half-divided, in front in silver a red gold-armored eagle at the gap, at the top in blue a three-leafed golden clover, angled by three silver oak leaves, at the bottom in black three golden diamonds (2: 1)."

The coat of arms was approved on December 20, 1995.

The coat of arms is linked to the coats of arms of the old districts of Stendal and Osterburg. In addition to the elements of the old district coat of arms, three golden diamonds on black are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Osterburg, who owned the Osterburg rule in the second half of the 12th century, but died out in the 13th century. The coat of arms of Count Siegfried von Osterburg , handed down in the seal of a document from 1214, shows three diamonds arranged 2: 1 in the divided shield below.

Colors of the district: blue / white

The coats of arms of the administrative communities, cities and municipalities of the district can be found in the list of coats of arms in the district of Stendal .

flag

The district of Stendal wears a flag as described below: blue and white striped with a circular coat of arms. The flag was approved along with the coat of arms on December 20, 1995.

Religions

Non-denominational

Most of the district's residents are non-denominational.

Protestant church

Most of the denominationally bound citizens belong to the Protestant Church. The parishes are organized within the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , with the exception of the parish of Havelberg, which belongs to the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).

Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic communities in the district are administratively part of the Stendal deanery of the Magdeburg diocese . The Roman Catholic parish of St. Norbert in Havelberg, however, belongs to the parish of Wittenberge (Deanery Wittenberge) in the Archdiocese of Berlin. (Source: Schematism for the Archdiocese of Berlin 2009, published by the Archbishop's Ordinariate Berlin, Niederwallstrasse 8–9, 10117 Berlin)

Other denominations

There are congregations of the New Apostolic Church and various free churches in the district area. In a nationwide comparison, the number of people belonging to Islam and Judaism is low today .

Parishes before 1945

Status 1945

In 1945 the district of Stendal comprised four towns and 92 other municipalities:

Municipalities dissolved by 1945

Communities

Aland Aland Altmärkische Höhe Altmärkische Wische Arneburg Bismark (Altmark) Bismark (Altmark) Eichstedt Goldbeck Hassel Havelberg Hohenberg-Krusemark Hohenberg-Krusemark Iden Kamern Klein Schwechten Klietz Osterburg Rochau Sandau (Elbe) Schollene Schönhausen (Elbe) Stendal Stendal Stendal Stendal Seehausen Seehausen Tangerhütte Tangermünde Werben (Elbe) Wust-Fischbeck Zehrental Sachsen-AnhaltMunicipalities in SDL.png
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Unified municipalities
(cities arehighlighted in bold )
(* seat of the district)

coat of arms local community Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Bismark (Altmark) .png
Bismark (Altmark) 8143 289.45
Coat of arms Havelberg.png
Hanseatic city of Havelberg 6547 149.12
Coat of arms Osterburg.png
Hanseatic City of Osterburg (Altmark) 9680 229.75
Coat of arms Stendal.svg
Hanseatic City of Stendal * 39.103 268.02
Coat of arms Tangerhuette.png
Tangerhütte 10,705 294.75
Coat of arms Tangermuende.png
Imperial and Hanseatic City of Tangermünde 10,319 89.87

Association communities with their member communities
(* seat of the association community)

Verbandsgemeinde Arneburg-Goldbeck
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Coat of arms Arneburg.png
Arneburg 1493 30.64
Coat of arms Eichstedt.png
Eichstedt (Altmark) 890 32.82
Does not have a coat of arms
Goldbeck * 1389 26.85
Coat of arms Hassel (Altmark) .png
Hassel 905 20.57
Coat of arms Hohenberg-Krusemark.png
Hohenberg-Krusemark 1195 63.45
Coat of arms Iden.png
Iden 795 37.37
Coat of arms Rochau.svg
Rochau 1015 39.01
Wappen Werben (Elbe) .png
Hanseatic City of Werben (Elbe) 1042 53.37
Verbandsgemeinde Elbe-Havel-Land
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Does not have a coat of arms
Cameras 1215 67.84
Coat of arms Klietz.png
Klietz 1739 66.46
Coat of arms Sandau.png
Sandau (Elbe) 838 18.58
Coat of arms Schollene.png
Schollene 1117 65.33
Coat of arms Schoenhausen (Elbe) .svg
Schönhausen (Elbe) * 2091 74.09
Wust-Fischbeck coat of arms.png
Wust-Fischbeck 1228 68.15
Verbandsgemeinde Seehausen (Altmark)
coat of arms Member parish Residents Area
in km²
Does not have a coat of arms
Aland 1346 92.35
Does not have a coat of arms
Altmark height 1834 98.9
DEU Altmaerkische Wische COA.svg
Altmark wipes 853 67.1
Coat of arms Seehausen (Altmark) .png
Hanseatic City of Seehausen (Altmark) * 4825 107
Does not have a coat of arms
Zehrental 883 72.32

Territory changes since 1994

In the years since 1994, extensive area changes have taken place in the area of ​​the Stendal district as in the entire state of Saxony-Anhalt. The district remained unaffected by the Saxony-Anhalt district reform in 2007 .

From the original 14 administrative communities there was still one administrative community on January 1, 2010. The number of parishes decreased from 135 to 51.

Administrative communities

Incorporations

Start-ups

Name changes

economy

In the 2016 Future Atlas , the Stendal district came last among 402 districts and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with "very high future risks". The structurally weak district is characterized by agriculture .

traffic

The district town of Stendal is very important for transport, mainly in rail traffic. It is located directly on the Berlin-Lehrter Railway and has other important rail connections to Magdeburg , Wittenberge , Uelzen and Salzwedel . An important inland shipping route crosses the district with the Elbe . There are also plans to build an Altmark motorway (A 14) from Magdeburg to Schwerin , which would touch Stendal in a north-south direction.

The entire regional bus traffic as well as the city bus lines in Stendal and the school traffic have been operated by Stendalbus GmbH with seven city lines, 34 regional lines and one state line in the state network Saxony-Anhalt .

In the district town of Stendal there is also the Stendal airfield ( identifier : EDOV) it is the most frequented airfield in Saxony-Anhalt. In addition to private sport aviation, it is also used by business aviators, as well as by the federal police and the armed forces.

Nature reserves

There are twelve designated nature reserves in the district (as of February 2017).

language

In the district area, parts of the population speak Brandenburg Low German in their private sphere . Otherwise, standard German has largely prevailed.

License Plate

On January 1, 1991, the district was assigned the distinctive sign SDL . Since November 29, 2012, the distinctive signs HV (Havelberg) and OBG (Osterburg) have also been available.

literature

  • Günter GA Marklein: 100 years of the Stendal District Office . The history of the district office in the Altmark with a brief outline of German history since the Thirty Years' War. Bismark / Altmark 1999, ISBN 3-929743-09-4 .
  • Klaus Schwarz: On the prehistoric settlement of the land on the Speckgrabenniederung in the Stendal district In: Jahresschr. f. mitteldt, prehistory 33 1949 pp. 58–85

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  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 , pp. 311 .
  3. Landkreis Stendal in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy
  4. census database
  5. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 336 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  6. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 159 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
  7. 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]).
  8. a b c d e f g h i Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Stendal. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. 1946 census
  10. a b Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 .
  11. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  12. a b Population by age group and gender as well as population development and population level / state, independent cities, districts (1981 - 2010), territorial status July 1, 2007 (= State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt [Hrsg.]: Statistical Reports / A / I / S / 107 ). ZDB ID 2953930-4 ( destatis.de ).
  13. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt
  14. a b State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: District election of May 26, 2019 - Stendal district - final result. September 27, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  15. Historical events in the 20th century
  16. Saxony-Anhalt 1991/1992: Das Jahrbuch: Overviews, Statistics, Chronicle of the Year, Review, Trends, Outlook, The City and District, Company Portraits, Halle 1992, p. 176.
  17. State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt: Comparable election results - Landkreis Stendal (district council elections 1999-2014). March 19, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  18. ^ Günter GA Marklein: 100 Years of the Stendal District Office - The history of the District Office in Altmark with a brief outline of German history since the 30 Years War. Bismark / Altmark 1999, p. 59f.
  19. a b c d State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, population of the municipalities - as of December 31, 2019 (PDF) (update) ( help ).
  20. a b c d regionalstatistik.de Regional database of the Federal Statistical Office (as of December 31, 2016)
  21. State Statistical Office of Saxony-Anhalt: Area information. August 18, 2017, accessed April 9, 2020 .