Wolmirstedt district
The district Wolmirstedt until 1939 Circle Wolmirstedt , was from 1816 to 1945, a county in the Prussian province of Saxony and from 1945 to 1952 in the country Saxony-Anhalt in the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR ..
Administrative history
Kingdom of Prussia
As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna who became the 1 July 1816 district Wolmirstedt in Magdeburg Region of the Prussian province of Saxony furnished. The district office was in Wolmirstedt .
North German Confederation / German Empire
Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and since January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On April 1, 1908, the urban district of Magdeburg received the rural community of Rothensee from the Wolmirstedt district . On September 30, 1929, in line with developments in the rest of Prussia, a regional reform took place in the Wolmirstedt district, in which almost all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. From 1 January 1939, the county Wolmirstedt introduced the term in accordance with the rich now unified control district . On October 1, 1942, uninhabited parts of the city of Wolmirstedt and the communities of Barleben and Glindenberg from the Wolmirstedt district were incorporated into the Magdeburg district. In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the American allied forces.
German Democratic Republic
In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 , a new district structure was created:
- The communities of Angern , Bertingen , Burgstall , Cobbel , Cröchern , Dolle , Kehnert , Mahlpfuhl, Mahlwinkel , Ringfurth , Sandbeiendorf , Uchtdorf , Uetz and Wenddorf moved from the Wolmirstedt district to the Tangerhütte district .
- The communities Drackenstedt , Dreileben , Druxberge and Groß Rodensleben moved from the Wolmirstedt district to the Wanzleben district .
- The remaining district area formed the Wolmirstedt district .
- The districts of Tangerhütte, Wanzleben and Wolmirstedt were assigned to the new Magdeburg district .
Federal Republic of Germany
After the reunification of the two Germanys the circle Wolmirstedt was founded in 1990 in the back country of Saxony-Anhalt to the district Wolmirstedt who in district reform of 1994 in Ohrekreis opened, which again in 2007 Börde district opened.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 27,177 | |
| 1843 | 36.006 | |
| 1871 | 48,741 | |
| 1890 | 51,976 | |
| 1900 | 53,645 | |
| 1910 | 51,397 | |
| 1925 | 51,704 | |
| 1933 | 52,888 | |
| 1939 | 54,465 | |
| 1946 | 78,740 |
District administrators
- 1816–1852 Ernst Johann Karl Ludwig von Froreich
- 1852–1870 Edo Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1816–1904)
- 1870–1872 Wilhelm von Wedel-Piesdorf (1837–1915)
- 1872–1882 Ernst von Bülow
- 1882–1903 Oskar von Hasselbach (1846–1903)
- 1903–1914 Fritz von der Schulenburg-Angern (1843–1921)
- 1914–1919 Herbert von Conrad (1880–1946)
- 1919–1933 Rudolf Böttger
- 1933 Theodor Pichier (1889–1974) ( acting )
- 1933–1935 Johannes Balduin Böhme ( acting )
- 1935–1936 Henning von Winterfeld (1901–1945)
- 1936–1943 Alfred Kipke (1898–1953)
- 1943–1945 Herbert Wagner ( substitute )
Local constitution until 1945
The district of Wolmirstedt was divided into a city, into rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - 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 communes
Status 1945
In 1945 the Wolmirstedt district comprised a town, 55 other communities and a community-free forest estate district.
The Letzlinger Heide forest estate was also located in the district .
Communities dissolved before 1945
- Rothensee , 1908 in Magdeburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appendix A to the law on the further democratization of the structure and the functioning of the state organs in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of July 25, 1952 , Law and Official Journal of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, No. 28 of July 26, 1952
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 330 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 169 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wolmirstedt district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census
Web links
- District of Calbe a./S. Administrative history and district administration list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of May 31, 2015.