Mansfeld mountain range

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The Mansfelder Gebirgskreis was a district that existed in Prussia and the SBZ or GDR between 1816 and 1950. It comprised the northwestern part of the Mansfeld country . Its name referred to the mountainous terrain of the eastern Harz , as a distinction to the neighboring Mansfeld lake district . The district town was Mansfeld .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Mansfeld Mountain District was set up in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony on October 1, 1816 . The formerly electoral district of Eisleber without the town of Eisleben and the village of Wimmelburg as well as the district office Ermsleben including Dankerode became its components .

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On August 10, 1876, the so-called Hettstedt- Gerbstedter Stadtflur from the Mansfeld Lake District was incorporated into the Mansfeld Mountain District.

On September 30, 1929, in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in the Mansfeld Mountains , in which almost all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On April 1, 1942, to straighten the border between Prussia and the state of Anhalt, the communities Tilkerode from the district of Ballenstedt and Unterwiederstedt from the district of Bernburg were incorporated into the Mansfeld mountain district. 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 area was occupied by the American Allied forces.

GDR

On July 1, 1950, a regional reform took place in the GDR, as part of which the Mansfelder Seekreis was dissolved:

The new district of Eisleben was divided into the districts of Eisleben and Hettstedt in 1952 , which were merged in 1994 to form the district of Mansfelder Land .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 27,756
1843 34,713
1871 43,324
1890 63.003
1900 66.102
1910 64,490
1925 61,317
1933 60,928
1939 61,246
1946 80,305

politics

District administrators

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Mansfeld Mountains
 Blazon : “Quartered; Field 1: divided from red to silver seven times, field 2: in silver a black diagonally crossed hut, field 3: in silver a green fir on a green three-mountain, field 4: in silver six (3: 3) red diamonds. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: Fields 1 and 4 are based on the coat of arms of the County of Mansfeld and, with the seven division of red over silver (Lords of Querfurt) and the 6 red diamonds in silver (old Counts of Mansfeld), indicate the former sovereign affiliation of Region. Field 2 symbolizes with the steel tools chisel, poker (also called fork) and scraper, the copper smelting in the district. Field 3 refers to the natural environment of the Lower Harz with the fir growing from a mountain of three .

The coat of arms was approved by the Prussian State Ministry on July 24, 1935.

Local constitution

The Mansfeld mountain district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts . 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 Mansfeld mountain district comprised four cities and 56 other municipalities:

Part of the parish-free manor district of Pölsfeld also belonged to the district .

Dissolved communities

  • Kupferberg , incorporated into the city of Hettstedt in 1879
  • Sinsleben , incorporated into the city of Ermsleben in 1936

Web links

Commons : Mansfelder Gebirgskreis  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 333
  2. ↑ genealogy.net: Mansfelder Seekreis
  3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 341 ( Digitalisat [accessed on 5 July 2016]).
  4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 212 ( digitized version [accessed on July 6, 2016]).
  5. ↑ 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]).
  6. ^ A b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Mansfeld mountain district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ 1946 census
  8. ^ Territorial.de: Mansfeld mountain range