Mansfeld Circle

The Mansfelder Kreis was a territory in the southern part of the historic Brandenburg-Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg in the Kingdom of Prussia . It consisted of the Prussian part of the former County of Mansfeld , which returned to Brandenburg after the last Count of Mansfeld who was entitled to inherit had died in 1780 .

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Towns of the Mansfeld district around 1790 in the Duchy of Magdeburg (blue), background: map of today's Saxony-Anhalt (gray).

In 1784, without the towns and without the military, the Mansfeld district had 21,713 inhabitants. He was divided into two departments with a common district administrator, namely in

• Mansfeld District I (1784: 10,580 inhabitants) with
  • the immediate city of Mansfeld ,
  • the two media cities Gerbstedt and Leimbach (today part of Mansfeld), and

• Mansfeld District II (1784: 11,133 inhabitants) with
  • the media city Schraplau .

Also belonged to Mansfeld's circle

• the royal offices of Lower and Upper Friedeburg , Klostermansfeld , Helfta Monastery and Holzzelle (today part of the Mansfelder Land lake area ),
• the Prince Ferdinand offices Gerbstedt, Bennstedt , Großörner (now part of Mansfeld), Hedersleben , Unter- and Oberschraplau,
• the noble office of Dachröden Burgörner (now part of the city of Hettstedt ), the baronial offices
• from the Schulenburg in Erdeborn ,
• from Mahrenholz in Helbra ,
• von Bülow in Helmsdorf
• from Schenck in Leimbach,
• from Pfuel in Polleben ,
• von Geusau in Seeburg , as well
• 126 villages and other localities.

In 1806 Napoleon Bonaparte assigned the area west of the Elbe to the Kingdom of Westphalia of his brother Jérôme , whereby the Mansfeld district was dissolved in its original form. After the Congress of Vienna , the area, together with the former Saxon part of the County of Mansfeld, became Prussian again, but was now assigned to the new districts of Mansfelder Seekreis and Mansfelder Gebirgskreis . Here Schraplau, Gerbstedt which formerly came to Saalkreis belonging Alsleben and the former Saxon Eisleben to Seekreis, Mansfeld and Leimbach, together with the former Saxon cities Ermsleben and Hettstedt to the mountain district.

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• Hanns Gringmuth: The organization of the authorities in the Duchy of Magdeburg - its development and integration into the Brandenburg-Prussian state . Dissertation at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1934.
• Johann Ludwig von Heineccius: Detailed topographical description of the Duchy of Magdeburg and the County of Mansfeld, Magdeburgische Antheils . Decker, Berlin 1785.