District of Ziegenrück

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Ranis Castle , seat of the District Office

The district of Ziegenrück existed in the Prussian province of Saxony from 1816 and 1945. It comprised three cities and 35 communities. In addition, there were eleven manor districts in the district until 1929 .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

In the course of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , on June 15, 1816, the parts of the formerly royal Saxon Neustadt district that had remained with Prussia were assigned to the administrative district of Erfurt in the province of Saxony as Neustadt district. The district office was at Ranis Castle .

At first Prussia was awarded the entire Neustadt district. But since it had committed itself in Art. 37 of the Congress Act to cede to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach areas bordering or neighboring areas with at least 50,000 inhabitants to his Principality of Weimar, Prussia and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach agreed on the cession of the eastern parts of the Neustädter Kreis, named in Neustädter Kreis, so that only a remainder, i.e. H. the western parts of the offices of Ziegenrück (with Ziegenrück and the Saale crossings) and Arnshaugk (with the area around Ranis and the exclave of Kamsdorf ) remained with Prussia. It was not so much economic motives that prompted Prussia to take an interest in this remote district, but rather it was largely military considerations. With the possession of the district, Prussia had the important bridgeheads over the Saale and the route to Franconia in its hands. Shortly afterwards, before 1820, the name of the district was changed to District Ziegenrück .

The exclaves of the Vogtland office of Plauen , d. H. the town of Gefell and the communities of Blintendorf , Sparnberg and Blankenberg also came as exclaves to the Prussian district of Ziegenrück, which was itself an exclave of the province of Saxony . As a result of the lost German War of 1866, the exclave Kaulsdorf an der Saale , which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria , fell back to Prussia and was assigned to the district of Ziegenrück.

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 September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Free State of Prussia , in which all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939 resulted circle Ziegenrück the term in accordance with the rich now unified control district . After the dissolution of the Province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district continued to belong to the State of Prussia, but was now subordinate to the administration of the Reich Governor for Thuringia in Weimar, in alignment with the Reich Defense Districts .

In April 1945, the district was initially occupied by the US Army , but then fell under the agreement of the Soviet occupation zone .

Soviet occupation zone

On July 1, 1945, Blankenberg, Blintendorf, Gefell and Sparnberg were given to the Schleiz district and Goßwitz, Großkamsdorf, Kaulsdorf and Kleinkamsdorf to the Saalfeld district in Thuringia . With effect from October 1, 1945, the district of Ziegenrück was dissolved and, with the exception of two communities, incorporated into the district of Saalfeld. Only the communities of Eßbach and Külmla came to the Schleiz district.

Local constitution

The district of Ziegenrück was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . 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.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 8,112
1843 12,826
1871 14,823
1890 15,906
1900 17,400
1910 19,328
1925 19,457
1933 20,786
1939 21,414

Cities, municipalities and manor districts

Before 1815 part of the Ziegenrück office ( Neustädter Kreis )

city
Communities
Manor districts (until 1929)

Before 1815 part of the Arnshaugk office ( Neustädter Kreis )

city
Communities
Manor districts (until 1929)

Before 1815 belonged to the Plauen district ( Vogtland district )

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Communities
Manor District (until 1929)
  • Sparnberg

Before 1866 the Kingdom of Bavaria duly

local community

District administrators

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Ziegenrück  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First ordinance on the district division of the state of Thuringia
  2. ^ Third ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia
  3. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Erfurt, p. 359 ( digitized version [accessed January 5, 2017]).
  4. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 324 ( 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. Ziegenrück district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: for the year 1928. Published by Decker's Secret Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei Berlin, page 342