Zellerfeld district

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coat of arms Germany map
Coat of arms of the Zellerfeld district
Zellerfeld district
Map of Germany, position of the Zellerfeld district highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 15'  E

Basic data (as of 1972)
Existing period: 1885-1972
State : Lower Saxony
Administrative region : Hildesheim
Administrative headquarters : Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Area : 532.71 km 2
Residents: 34,200 (Dec. 31, 1971)
Population density : 64 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : CLZ
Circle key : 03 2 41
Circle structure: 13 municipalities

The district of Zellerfeld was a district in Lower Saxony . In common parlance, it was and is incorrectly called the district of Clausthal-Zellerfeld because of its district town .

Neighboring areas

The county bordered the beginning of 1972 in a clockwise direction in the northwest starting from the districts Gandersheim and Goslar , the independent city of Goslar and the exclave Bad Harzburg the district Wolfenbüttel (all in Lower Saxony), the county Wernigerode (in the East ) and to the counties Blankenburg and Osterode am Harz (both in turn in Lower Saxony).

history

Location of the Zellerfeld district in the
province of Hanover (1905)
Zellerfeld in Hanover 1905.png

The Zellerfeld district was formed in 1885 from the old Zellerfeld office . It was dissolved on the occasion of the Lower Saxony regional reform on July 1, 1972 and divided between the districts of Osterode am Harz and Goslar . At the same time, numerous communities in the district were merged.

Population development

year Residents source
1890 29,100
1900 29,592
1910 28,860
1925 29,013
1939 27,952
1950 41,547
1960 35,500
1970 33,700
1971 34,200

District administrators

  • 1885–1889 Georg Grahn (1833–1889)
  • 1889–1890 August Dencker, acting (1828–1911)
  • 1890–1906 Karl Loos († 1926)
  • 1906–1921 Hans Wilhelm von Lücken (1890–1939)
  • 1921–1926 Hermann Schropp
  • 1926–1928 Emil Neugebauer (1890–1939)
  • 1928–1933 Paul Curtze (* 1894)
  • 1933–1936 Karl Ferdinand Edler von der Planitz (1893–1945)
  • 1936–1938 Heino Schröder
  • 1938–1941 Heinrich Molsen
  • 1941–1942 Heinrich Bork ( substitute )
  • 1942–1943 Hans Möllenhoff
  • 1943–1945 Hans von Schönfeldt ( substitute )

Old communities

The following table lists all the old communities in the Zellerfeld district and their current affiliation:

Old church today's parish Date of
incorporation
today's district
Altenau Clausthal-Zellerfeld January 1, 2015 Goslar
Bad Grund (Harz) Bad Grund (Harz) Goettingen
Buntenbock Clausthal-Zellerfeld July 1, 1972 Goslar
Clausthal Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1924 Goslar
Clausthal-Zellerfeld Clausthal-Zellerfeld Goslar
Hahnenklee-Bockswiese Goslar July 1, 1972 Goslar
Lautenthal Langelsheim July 1, 1972 Goslar
Lerbach Osterode am Harz July 1, 1972 Goettingen
Lonau Herzberg am Harz July 1, 1972 Goettingen
Lonauerhammerhütte Herzberg am Harz October 1, 1937 Goettingen
Riefensbeek-Kamschlacken Osterode am Harz July 1, 1972 Goettingen
Sankt Andreasberg Braunlage November 1, 2011 Goslar
Schuleberg in the Upper Harz Clausthal-Zellerfeld January 1, 2015 Goslar
Sieber Herzberg am Harz July 1, 1972 Goettingen
Wild man Clausthal-Zellerfeld January 1, 2015 Goslar
Zellerfeld Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1924 Goslar

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign CLZ when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is derived from the former district town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld and was issued until October 11, 1972. Due to the license plate liberalization , it has been available again in the Goslar district since November 15, 2012.

Web links

  • Zellerfeld district administrative history and district council list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 26, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany State Handbook: Part of the Land Lower Saxony edition
  2. ^ State building administration in Lower Saxony
  3. ^ District regulation for the province of Hanover (1884)
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 218 .
  5. a b c d e f g h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. zellerfeld.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  7. Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1973
  8. Municipal directory 1910: Zellerfeld district
  9. territorial.de: Zellerfeld district