District of Wernigerode (Province of Saxony)

This article deals with the former district of Wernigerode (also: Kreis Grafschaft Wernigerode) in the Prussian province of Saxony or in Saxony-Anhalt (1825–1952); for the district of Wernigerode in the district of Magdeburg (1952–1990) see district of Wernigerode and for the district of Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt (1990–2007) see district of Wernigerode

Basic data
Prussian Province	Province of Saxony
Administrative district	Magdeburg
Administrative headquarters	Wernigerode
Residents	75,851 (1939)
Communities	48 (1939)
Location of the district of Wernigerode (1905)

Seal mark of the royal district councilor of Wernigerode

The district of Wernigerode was from 1876 to 1952 a district in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ and GDR . It emerged from the county of Wernigerode , which had a special status from 1822/25 to 1876 and was headed by a senior civil servant (instead of district administrator). Because of this tradition, it was named Kreis Grafschaft Wernigerode from 1900 to 1932 . The district seat was in Wernigerode . The former district area is now largely in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

The district of Wernigerode was formed in 1825 in the Prussian administrative district of Magdeburg in the province of Saxony from parts of the dissolved district of Osterwieck . In 1900 the district was renamed Grafschaft Wernigerode . In 1932, the district of Grafschaft Wernigerode was merged with most of the dissolved district of Halberstadt and the Elbingerode office of the dissolved district of Ilfeld to form the district of Wernigerode , which has been known as the district since 1939 . In 1941 Hornburg , Isingerode and Roklum were incorporated into the Wolfenbüttel district as part of the reorganization of the Salzgitter area . In return, the district of Wernigerode received the patch of Hesse .

During the regional reform of 1950 , the district was enlarged to include the municipalities of Benzingerode , Heimburg , Hüttenrode , Rübeland , Tanne and Trautenstein of the dissolved district of Blankenburg .

During the territorial reform of 1952 , the state of Saxony-Anhalt was dissolved and the district of Wernigerode dissolved in its old form:

• The communities of Aspenstedt , Athenstedt , Berßel , Bühne , Danstedt , Dardesheim , Deersheim , Dreirode , Hessen , Heudeber , Langeln , Langenstein , Lüttgenrode , Mahndorf, Osterode am Fallstein , Osterwieck , Rhoden , Rohrsheim , Sargstedt , Schauen , Stötterlingen , Ströbeck , Veltheim am Fallstein , Wasserleben , Westerburg and Zilly became part of the new Halberstadt district .
• All other communities together with parts of the districts of Quedlinburg and Nordhausen formed the district of Wernigerode .
• The districts of Halberstadt and Wernigerode were assigned to the new district of Magdeburg .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1843	17,746
1871	21,659
1890	28,085
1900	31,856
1910	35,915
1925	39,012
1933	75,047
1939	75,851
1946	100,688

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

local community	Residents
Derenburg	2,925
Elbingerode	3,412
Hornburg	3,195
Ilsenburg	5,207
Osterwieck	5,020
Wernigerode	24,437

District administrators

• 1825–1859 Wilhelm Stiehler (1797–1878)
• 1859–1876 Gottlieb von Rosen (1825–1892)
• 1876–1889 Rudolph Elvers (1825–1891)
• 1890–1902 Günther von Hertzberg (1855–1937)
• 1902–1912 Lothar Hugo von Spitzemberg (1868–1930)
• 1912–1944 Erich von Stosch (1877–1946)

cities and communes

As of 1931

Until 1932, the district of Grafschaft Wernigerode comprised a city and twelve other municipalities in its old definition:

Darlingerode Drübeck Ilsenburg (Harz) Langeln Minsleben Reddeber Schierke

Schmatzfeld Silstedt Stapelburg Veckenstedt Aquatic life Wernigerode , city

As of 1939

In 1939 the district of Wernigerode comprised six towns and 42 other municipalities:

Abbenrode Aspenstedt Athenstedt Berßel stage Danstedt Dardesheim , city Darlingerode Deersheim Derenburg , city Drübeck Elbingerode (Harz) , city

misery Göddeckerode Heudeber Hoppenstedt Hornburg , city Ilsenburg (Harz) Isingerode Königshütte (Harz) Langeln Langenstein Lüttgenrode Mahndorf

Minsleben Osterode am Fallstein Osterwieck , city Reddeber Rhodes Rimbeck Rohrsheim Roklum Sargstedt Watch Schierke Schmatzfeld

Silstedt Stapelburg Stötterlingen Ströbeck Suderode Veckenstedt Veltheim am Fallstein Aquatic life Wernigerode , city Westerburg Wülperode Zilly

The district also included the three community-free forest estate districts Harz, Harzforsten and Regenstein .

Municipalities dissolved before 1939

• Altenrode , 1936 to Darlingerode
• Hasserode , 1907 in Wernigerode
• Königshof and Rothehütte , until 1932 the Ilfeld district, in 1936 merged to form the Königshütte community
• Nöschenrode , 1929 in Wernigerode

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 172 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
2. ↑ 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]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Wernigerode district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ 1946 census