Zerbst district

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Basic data
Inventory period 1863-1952
Administrative headquarters Zerbst
surface 803 km² (1933)
Residents 63,808 (1933)
Population density 79 inhabitants / km² (1933)
Communities 88 (1950)
General map of Anhalt
General map of Anhalt
Seal mark H. Anhalt district cash register Zerbst
Seal of the district communal - Zerbst district administration

The district of Zerbst was a district in Anhalt from 1863 to 1945 and a district in Saxony-Anhalt from 1945 to 1952 . The area of ​​the former district today belongs to the districts of Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Wittenberg as well as to the independent city of Dessau-Roßlau .

location

The district lay between the Elbe and the Fläming north of Dessau . It bordered on the Prussian districts of Calbe , Jerichow I , Zauch-Belzig and Wittenberg and, to the south, on the Anhalt district of Dessau . The two exclaves Gödnitz and Dornburg belonged to the district .

history

In the Duchy of Anhalt , the six districts of Dessau , Bernburg , Köthen , Ballenstedt , Zerbst and Coswig were formed in 1863 . The Coswig district was dissolved as early as 1865 and incorporated into the Zerbst district. After the Duchy of Anhalt became the Free State of Anhalt in 1918 , the district was called the Zerbst District from 1933 . In 1935 the city of Zerbst left the district and became a district. The city of Roßlau did not belong to the district from 1935 to 1946, but was part of the city of Dessau during this time . After 1945, the district initially belonged to the newly formed province of Saxony-Anhalt , which in 1947 became the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

The communities Flötz , Gehrden , Güterglück , Kämeritz , Lübs , Moritz , Prödel , Schora , Töppel and Walternienburg were reclassified from the district of Jerichow I to the district of Zerbst in 1946 . During a regional reform in 1950, the city of Zerbst was reintegrated into the district; at the same time, the number of municipalities was reduced by a series of incorporations. On July 25, 1952, the states in the GDR were dissolved and replaced by districts , at the same time there was a comprehensive reorganization of most of the districts. From the eastern half of the Zerbst district with the cities of Roßlau and Coswig , the new Roßlau district was formed and assigned to the Halle district . The western half of the Zerbst district with the cities of Zerbst and Lindau has since formed the Zerbst district , which was assigned to the Magdeburg district .

Population development

Residents 1890 1900 1910 1925 1933 1939 1946
41,964 53,141 59,316 62,353 63,808 34,782 66,947

cities and communes

Until the first regional reform in the GDR in 1950, the district of Zerbst comprised three cities and 85 other municipalities:

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. zerbst.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  2. ↑ HGIS Germany: Anhalt (1863-1914). (PDF; 33 kB) Retrieved June 22, 2009 .
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
  4. ↑ GenWiki: Landkreis Zerbst  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wiki-de.genealogy.net  
  5. ↑ 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. ↑ 1946 census