Mansfeld Lake District

The Mansfelder Seekreis was a district that existed in Prussia and the SBZ or GDR between 1816 and 1950. It covered the southeastern part of the Mansfeld country . In contrast to the neighboring Mansfeld mountain range, its name referred to the lakes in the district such as the Süßen See and the Salziger See . The district town was Eisleben .

Administrative history

19th century

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Mansfelder Seekreis was established on October 1, 1816 in the administrative district of Merseburg in the province of Saxony . Became its constituent parts

• the formerly Electoral Saxon Mansfeld district
• the town of Eisleben and the village of Wimmelburg from the formerly electoral district of Eisleber
• the municipalities of Oberteutschenthal and Unterteutschenthal from the former Electoral Office of Lauchstädt .

The district thus consisted entirely of parts of the Electoral Saxon territories ceded to Prussia in 1815.

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 was reclassified from the Mansfeld Lake District to the Mansfeld Mountain District .

20th century

On April 1, 1908, the city of Eisleben left the district and formed its own urban district . The district office remained in Eisleben. On September 30, 1929, in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in the Mansfelder Seekreis , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Halle-Merseburg , administrative district of Merseburg.

In spring 1945 the district was occupied by the US Army . From the summer it belonged to the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 to the GDR .

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

• The communities Alberstedt , Dornstedt , Esperstedt , Hornburg and Schraplau moved to the district of Querfurt.
• The communities of Beesenstedt , Bennstedt , Fienstedt , Höhnstedt , Kloschwitz , Langenbogen , Salzmünde , Schochwitz , Steuden , Teutschenthal , Wansleben am See , Zappendorf and Zaschwitz switched to the Saalkreis.
• The city of Alsleben and the community of Belleben and Friedeburgerhütte moved to the district of Bernburg.
• The remaining municipalities of the Mansfelder Seekreis were combined with the previously independent city of Eisleben and a large part of the also dissolved Mansfeld mountain district to form the district of Eisleben . This 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	35,737
1843	43,053
1871	66,394
1890	92,551
1900	100,333
1910	82,253
1925	82.187
1933	82,249
1939	78,984
1946	109,493

District administrators

• 1816–1827: Wilhelm von Kerssenbrock (1771–1827)
• 1827–1871: Bernhard von Kerssenbrock (1800–1872)
• 1871–1876: Wilhelm von Wedel-Piesdorf (1837–1915)
• 1877–1915: Karl von Wedel-Piesdorf (1845–1917)
• 1916–1926: Friedrich von Mettenheim (1864–1932)
• 1926–1928: Wilhelm Fitzner (1891–1950)
• 1928–1933: Wilhelm Koch (1880–1954)
• 1933–1935: Ernst Dreykluft (* 1898)
• 1935–1940: Ernst Drewes (1903–1991)
• 1940–1945: Horst Hacker (* 1905)
• 1945 -9999: Werner Eggerath (1900–1977)
• 1945 -9999: Otto Gotsche (1900–1977)

Local constitution

The Mansfeld Lake 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.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Quartered; Field 1: divided from red to silver seven times, field 2: in silver a diagonally crossed black mine counter, field 3: in blue a silver fish rising to the left, field 4: in silver six (3: 3) red diamonds. "

Reasons for the coat of arms: With fields 1 and 4 they are based on the coat of arms of the county of Mansfeld and indicate the former sovereign with the seven-fold division of red over silver (Lords of Querfurt) and the 6 red diamonds in silver (old Counts of Mansfeld) Belonging to the region. Mallets and irons symbolize copper slate mining as the traditional main livelihood of the region, while the fish in blue emphasizes the abundance of water and fish. The coat of arms was approved by the Prussian State Ministry on July 24, 1935.

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the Mansfeld Seekreis comprised three cities and 89 other municipalities:

Adendorf Alberstedt Alsleben a. S. , city Amsdorf Aselife Asendorf Augsdorf Beesenstedt Belleben Benkendorf Benndorf Bennstedt Bischofrode Evil castle Bridge Burgsdorf Dederstedt Dornstedt Ice village Elves Elbitz Erdeborn Esperstedt

Fienstedt Free Friedeburg Friedeburgerhütte Gerbstedt , city Gnölbzig Godewitz Gorsleben Hedersleben Heiligenthal Helbra Helfta Höhnstedt Hornburg Huebitz Ihlewitz Toilet sweat Kochstedt Köllme Crimp Long bow Lochwitz Lüttchendorf

Müllerdorf Naundorf Neehausen Naves Oberrißdorf Oberröblingen Oberteutschenthal Oeste-Königswiek Pfeiffhausen Pfützthal Piesdorf Pollen life Quillschina Räther Reidewitz Rollsdorf Rottelsdorf Rumpin Salzmünde Schochwitz Schraplau , city Schwittersdorf Seeburg

Stedten Steers Strenznaundorf Thaldorf Trebitz Unterrißdorf Unterröblingen Unterteutschenthal Volkmaritz Volkstedt Wansleben am See Welfesholz Wils Wimmelburg Wolferode Wormsleben Zabenstedt Zabitz Zappendorf Zaschwitz Cell joke Zickeritz Zörnitz

Dissolved communities

• Oberesperstedt and Unteresperstedt , merged in 1936 to form the municipality of Esperstedt
• Königswiek and Oeste , merged in the 1920s to form the municipality of Oeste-Königswiek

Name changes

The following name changes occurred in the 1930s:

• 1931 Helmsdorf-Heiligenthal → Heiligenthal
• 1937 Closchwitz → Kloschwitz
• 1937 Coellme → Koellme
• 1939 Koellme → Köllme

Web links

Commons : Mansfelder Seekreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Gazette Mansfeld-Südharz 2016/10 , The history of the Mansfeld-Südharz region since 1815, p. 11 f.
• Mansfelder Seekreis administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of October 26, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 333
2. ^ State archive Saxony-Anhalt: Mansfelder Seekreis
3. ↑ genealogy.net: Mansfelder Seekreis
4. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 342 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
5. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 216 ( digitized version [accessed July 6, 2016]).
6. ↑ 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]).
7. ↑ ^{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. Mansfelder Seekreis. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 1946 census
9. ↑ Municipal directory 1900: Mansfelder Seekreis