Weissenfels district

This article covers the district of Weißenfels in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. For the Weißenfels district in the GDR district of Halle (1952–1990) see Weißenfels district .

coat of arms	map
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
Administrative headquarters :	Weissenfels
Area :	372.41 km²
Residents :	73,074 (June 30, 2007)
Population density :	196 inhabitants per km²
Circle key :	15 2 68
License plate :	WSF
Circle structure:	33 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Am Stadtpark 6 06667 Weißenfels
politics
Last District Administrator :	Bernd Grüneberger ( SPD )
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District election 2004

Turnout: 43.3% (1999: 50.9%)

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Remarks:

^g 1999: Individual applicant Lutz Schuster

The district of Weißenfels was a district in the south of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. On July 1, 2007 it was merged with the Burgenlandkreis to form the new Burgenlandkreis as part of the regional reform in Saxony-Anhalt . Neighboring districts were the Merseburg-Querfurt district in the north, the Saxon district of Leipziger Land in the east and the Burgenland district in the south and west .

history

Prussia

The Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna became the October 1, 1816 District Weissenfels in the administrative district of Merseburg in the Prussian province of Saxony furnished. It originally comprised most of the old Saxon offices of Weißenfels and Pforta as well as parts of the offices of Eckartsberga , Freyburg and Zeitz . The district office was located in the city of Weißenfels .

On January 1, 1818, the Weißenfels district gave a large number of communities to the neighboring Naumburg district .

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On March 28, 1878, the rural communities of Gieckau , Pohlitz, Rathewitz and Scheiplitz were reclassified from the Weißenfels district to the Naumburg district. From April 1, 1899, the city of Weißenfels formed its own urban district . The Weissenfels district has been called the district since then . After the city of Weißenfels no longer belonged to the Weißenfels district, Teuchern was the largest city in the district. For this reason, Teuchern district council members tried several times to relocate the district building to Teuchern. Teuchern would have become a district town. However, this project failed again and again due to a few votes.

On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Weißenfels district, as in the rest of Prussia , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1932, the districts of Naumburg and Weißenfels were merged to form the new district of Weißenfels with the district office in Weißenfels.

After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Halle-Merseburg . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the American forces.

GDR

In 1946 the district became part of the newly founded state of Saxony-Anhalt . On July 1, 1950, the district boundaries were changed by a first administrative reform :

• The previously independent cities of Naumburg and Weißenfels were incorporated into the Weißenfels district.
• The city of Lützen and the communities of Bothfeld , Dehlitz (Saale) , Gostau , Großgöhren , Großgörschen , Kaja , Kleingöhren , Kleingörschen , Meuchen , Michlitz , Muschwitz , Oeglitzsch , Pobles , Rahna , Röcken , Schweßwitz , Söhesten , Sössen , Starsiedel , Stößwitz and Tornau were reclassified from the Merseburg district to the Weißenfels district.
• The Roßbach community moved from the Querfurt district to the Weißenfels district.

• The community Großkayna moved from the district of Weißenfels to the district of Merseburg.
• The district of Weißenfels gave the towns of Osterfeld and Schkölen and the communities of Deuben , Dobergast , Döbris , Döschwitz , Droy says , Goldschau , Kämmeritz , Kleinhelmsdorf , Kretzschau , Lindau , Luckenau , Löbitz , Meineweh , Mutschau, Nautschütz , Nonnewitz , Podebuls-Wetterzeube , Pötewitz, Theißen , Trebnitz a./Elster, Unterkaka , Waldau , Weickelsdorf , Weißenborn and Wettaburg to the Zeitz district .

In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 , the district of Weißenfels was divided:

• The cities of Hohenmölsen , Stoß and Teuchern as well as the communities Granschütz , Gröben , Gröbitz , Großgrimma , Krauschwitz , Muschwitz , Nessa , Poserna , Pretzsch , Schelkau , Taucha , Webau , Werschen , Zembschen and Zorbau became part of the new Hohenmölsen district .
• The towns of Bad Kösen and Naumburg and the communities of Abtlöbnitz , Flemmingen , Gieckau , Görschen , Hassenhausen , Kleinheringen , Lißdorf , Mertendorf , Möllern , Mollschütz , Schönburg , Spielberg , Taugwitz and Wethau came to the new Naumburg district .
• The community Roßbach came to the district of Merseburg.
• The remaining communities formed the Weißenfels district .
• The districts of Hohenmölsen, Merseburg, Naumburg and Weißenfels were assigned to the new Halle district .

Federal Republic of Germany

Shortly before German reunification, the state of Saxony-Anhalt was re-established in 1990, and the Weißenfels district became part of the Halle administrative district as the Weißenfels district . During the first district reform in Saxony-Anhalt in 1994, the Hohenmölsen district was merged with the Weißenfels district. The administrative districts in Saxony-Anhalt were dissolved on January 1, 2004. As part of the second district reform in Saxony-Anhalt, the district was merged with the Burgenlandkreis (1994-2007) to form the new Burgenlandkreis (initially referred to as the Burgenland district ) on July 1, 2007 .

Population development

The size of the district changed significantly several times; 1899 through the departure of the city of Weißenfels, 1932 through the incorporation of the Naumburg district, 1950/52 through a completely new layout and in 1994 through the incorporation of the Hohenmölsen district.

year	Residents	source
1816	35,251
1843	43,727
1871	67,673
1890	87,560
1900	71,734
1910	76,229
1925	83,922
1933	101,581
1939	99,786
1946	136,454
1955	86,600
1960	82,591
1971	79.134
1981	67,345
1990	62,300
2000	78,900
2007	73,074

District administrators

• 1816–1828 August Heinrich Ferdinand von Funcke
• 1828–1848 Georg von Stuckrad (1811–1893)
• 1848–1857 Bernhard Ulrici (1824–1890)
• 1857–1867 Lothar von Wurmb (1824–1890)
• 1867–1868 Maximilian Senfft von Pilsach (1821–1903) ( acting )
• 1868–1903 Adolph von Richter (1839–1903)
• 1903-1908
• 1908–1917 Fritz von Richter (1879–1917)
• 1917–1920 Busso Bartels (1880–1944)
• 1920–1933 Arthur Zimmermann
• 1933–1945 Alfred Pape (* 1903)

Local constitution until 1945

The Weißenfels district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until they were completely dissolved - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . 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.

Cities and municipalities before 1950

As of 1950

On January 1, 1945, the district of Weißenfels comprised six cities and 174 municipalities:

Abtlöbnitz Almrich Aupitz Bad Kosen , city Benndorf Beuditz Bohlitz Bonau Borau Castle woo Deuben Deumen Dobergast Dobris Domsen Döschwitz Droitzen Drunky Flemmingen Gernstedt Gerstewitz Gieckau Gladitz Gniebendorf Gold show Brat Gosserau Göthewitz Granschütz Coarse Groebitz Großgestewitz Great Grimma Großhelmsdorf Großjena Great Kayna Großkorbetha Haardorf Hassel Hassenhausen Hohenmölsen , city Hollsteitz Jaucha Kämmeritz Kaynsberg

Germans Kirchsteitz Kischlitz Kistritz glue Kleinhelmsdorf Pegs Kleinjena Koesslitz-Wiedebach Kössuln Food place Köttichau Krauschwitz Kreipitzsch Screeching Kretzschau Crawl Krössuln Lagnitz Langendorf Launewitz Chisel Lengefeld Lindau Lißdorf Löbitz Lobitzsch Losau Luckenau Market advertising My pain Mertendorf Meyhen Mödnitz Mollschütz Courage Naundorf Nautschütz Nellschütz Nessa Niedermöllern Nonnewitz Obergreißlau Oberkaka Obermöllern

Obernessa Oberschwöditz Oberwerschen Obschütz Osterfeld , city Package Pirkau Plennschütz Plotha Podebuls weather cap Pohlitz Pomnitz Poppel Pörsten Posendorf Poserna Joke grove Poetewitz Pratschütz Pretzsch Praising Priest town Prittitz Punk joke Punschrau Queisau Quesnitz Rathewitz Rehehausen Reichardt advertising Basically repent Rippach Roda Rödigen Romsdorf Rossbach Rössuln Rudelsdorf Runthal Saaleck Scheiplitz Schelkau Quick seat Schkölen , city Schkortleben

Schleckweda Schleinitz Schmerdorf Schönburg Schortau School gate Schwerzau Selau Spielberg Stone Grimma Proud grove Storkau Bumps , city Daytime advertising Taucha Taugwitz Teuchern , city Theißen Thierbach Trebnitz a./Elster Trebnitz Uichteritz Untergreißlau Unterkaka Unterschwöditz Unterwerschen Wählitz Waldau Webau Weickelsdorf Weissenborn Wengelsdorf-Kraßlau-Leina Advertise Wethau Wettaburg Wetterscheidt Wildschütz Willschütz Wuschlaub Zäckwar Zaschendorf Zellschen Zembschen Zorbau Zschorgula

Municipalities dissolved or eliminated before 1950

Bösau , to Großgrimma Bröditz , 1928 on Nonnewitz Gaumnitz , 1931 to Luckenau Groitzschen , to Kretzschau Grunau , to Großgrimma Kleinkayna , to Großkayna Köpsen , 1930 to Rössuln Korseburg , 1932 to Schleinitz Kuhndorf , 1935 to Runthal Lissen , in 1938 at Osterfeld Nixditz , 1928 on Nonnewitz

Nödlitz , to Wildschütz Pitzschendorf , 1938 to Osterfeld Reuss b. Theißen , 1928 to Theißen Streckau , 1931 to Luckenau Tackau , 1939 to Deuben Unteressa-Dippelsdorf , 1929 to Nessa Weidau , 1931 to Luckenau Wernsdorf , 1929 to Nessa Zetzsch , in 1931 to Hohenmölsen Zorbitz , to Zorbau

Name changes

In the 1920s / 30s there were some minor name changes:

• 1929 Schulpforta → Schulpforte
• 1935 Kosen → Bad Kosen
• 1937 Cämmeritz → Kämmeritz
• 1937 Cleben → Gluing

Cities and municipalities 1990–2007

Administrative structure 2007

(Resident on December 31, 2006)

Unified municipalities

1. Hohenmölsen , City (9,530)

Administrative communities with their member communities

Headquarters of the administrative association *

1. Administrative community Lützen-Wiesengrund Dehlitz (Saale) (574) Granschütz (1,146) Grossgörschen (851) Lützen , City * (3,629) Muschwitz (1,135) Poserna (384) Rippach (689) Skirts (610) Sauces (236) Starsiedel (692) Taucha (641) Zorbau (819) 2. Saale Valley administrative community Castle Werben (1,070) Goseck (1,106) Großkorbetha * (2,008) Reichardt advertising (1,266) Schkort Life (629) Storkau (601) Day advertising (808) Uichteritz (1,417) Wengelsdorf (905)

3. Administrative community Vier Berge-Teucherner Land Groben (715) Groebitz (500) Krauschwitz (607) Langendorf (2,475) Buckling (1,568) Nessa (977) Prittitz (1,028) Teuchern , City * (3,484) Trebnitz (880) 4. Weissenfelser Land administrative community Marketing (698) Weißenfels , City * (29,669)

Territory changes since 1995

Since 1995 there have been many changes to the area in the Weißenfels district.

Of the original eight administrative communities, there were still four administrative communities when the district was dissolved. At the same time, the number of parishes decreased from 38 to 33.

Changes in administrative communities

• Dissolution of the administrative community Weißenfels - incorporation of the member community Borau into the city Weißenfels , which becomes a unified community (January 1, 1995)
• Dissolution of the administrative community Hohenmölsen-Land - incorporation of the member communities Webau and Werschen into the city of Hohenmölsen , which becomes a unified community (January 1, 2003)
• Dissolution of the administrative community Teucherner Land and Vier Berge - new formation of the administrative community Vier Berge-Teucherner Land (January 1, 2005)
• Dissolution of the administrative communities Groß Korbetha and Uichteritz (incorporation of the community Markwerben into the administrative community Weißenfelser Land ) - new formation of the administrative community Saaletal (January 1, 2005)
• Dissolution of the administrative communities Lützen and Wiesengrund - new formation of the administrative community Lützen-Wiesengrund (January 1, 2005)
• New formation of the VG Weißenfelser Land from the municipality of Markwerben from the dissolved VG Uichteritz and the previously free town of Weißenfels (January 1, 2005)

Changes at the community level

• Dissolution of the Borau community - incorporation into Weißenfels (January 1, 1995)
• Dissolution of the community of Zembschen - incorporation into Hohenmölsen (May 9, 2002)
• Dissolution of the municipalities of Webau and Werschen - incorporation into Hohenmölsen (January 1, 2003)
• Dissolution of the community of Schelkau - incorporation into Teuchern (January 1, 2004)

License Plate

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark WSF . It was issued through June 30, 2007. Due to the license plate liberalization , it has been available in the Burgenland district since November 27, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Weißenfels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Weissenfels district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of April 27, 2014.
• Burgenland district website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Saxony-Anhalt, monthly issue 11/2007
2. ↑ http://www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/kw04/erg/kreis/kw.15268.ergtab.frame.html
3. ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 336
4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1817, p. 655
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952
6. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 349 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
7. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, Neustadt-Magdeburg, p. 263 ( digitized version [accessed on July 6, 2016]).
8. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony and their population. Edited and compiled by the Royal Statistical Bureau from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. In: Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Hrsg.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. tape VI , 1873, ZDB -ID 1467440-3 , p. 192 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Weissenfels district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ 1946 census
11. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 . 
12. ^ Statistical yearbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .