Saalkreis (Halle district)

This article deals with the hall circle in the Halle district of the GDR (1952–1990). For the historical hall circle in the Prussian province of Saxony and for the hall circle in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (1990–2007) see Saalkreis .

Basic data
District of the GDR	Hall
County seat	Halle / Saale
surface	618 km² (1989)
Residents	66,013 (1989)
Population density	107 inhabitants / km² (1989)
License Plate	K and V (Halle district)
The hall circle in the Halle district (clickable map)

The Saalkreis was a district in the Halle district of the GDR . His area is now in the Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The seat of the district administration was in Halle / Saale .

geography

The hall circle encircled the cities of Halle (Saale) and between 1967 and 1990 Halle-Neustadt. It bordered clockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Bernburg , Köthen , Bitterfeld , Delitzsch and Merseburg , the urban districts of Halle / Saale and Halle-Neustadt and the districts of Querfurt , Eisleben and Hettstedt .

history

As early as 1815 there was a hall circle in the Prussian province of Saxony , which from 1945 belonged to the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the Soviet occupation zone and thus from 1949 to the GDR. On July 25, 1952, there was a comprehensive district reform in the GDR , in which, among other things, the states were dissolved and replaced by districts .

The Saalkreis gave parts of the area to the Bernburg district . From the remaining part of the district, the Saalkreis was formed together with some communities from the old district of Merseburg . This was assigned to the newly formed Halle district . The district seat was in the city of Halle.

After the reunification of the two German states, the district (since May 17, 1990) was assigned to the re-established state of Saxony-Anhalt in October 1990 . During the second district reform in Saxony-Anhalt , it was absorbed into the new Saalekreis on July 1, 2007.

Population development

Hall circle
year	1960	1971	1981	1989
Residents	89,451	80,962	70,436	66.013

cities and communes

After the administrative reform of 1952, the Saalkreis included the following cities and communities:

Angersdorf Beesenstedt Bennstedt Beuditz Brachstedt Brachwitz Braschwitz Dieskau Döblitz Dölbau Dollnitz Dössel Domnitz Fienstedt Gimritz

Grosser Large sphere Gutenberg Höhnstedt Hohenthurm Hohenweiden Holleben Toilet sweat Krosigk Kütten Landsberg , city Long bow Lettewitz Lieskau Löbejün , city

Lochau Mösthinsdorf Morl Nauendorf Nehlitz Neutz Niemberg Oppin Ostrau Piss Petersberg Suddenly Queis Reuss Rothenburg

Salzmünde Schochwitz Schwerz Sennewitz Sietzsch Spickendorf Steers Teicha Teutschenthal Wallwitz Wettin , city Zappendorf Shatter

economy

Significant companies were among others:

• Teutschenthal potash plant
• VEB Maschinen- und Apparatebau Landsberg
• VEB sugar factory Löbejün
• VEB Porphyry Plant Landsberg
• VEB Transportanlagen-Montagen Landsberg
• VEB Kaolin and Tonwerke Salzmünde

traffic

The district was connected to the GDR motorway network through the north-south motorway Berliner Ring-Hirschberg , which ran east of the Saalkreis . The F 6 in the direction of Magdeburg and Leipzig , the F 80 in the direction of Nordhausen and the F 100 in the direction of Bitterfeld also served national road traffic .

The Saalkreis was connected to the GDR railway network with the Halle – Halberstadt , Magdeburg – Halle – Leipzig , Halle – Berlin , Halle – Cottbus and Halle – Nordhausen railway lines.

License Plate

Motor vehicles (with the exception of motorcycles) and trailers were assigned three-letter distinctive signs starting with the letter pairs KI , KJ , KK , VI , VJ and VK from around 1974 to the end of 1990 . The last number plate series used for motorcycles was VM 00-01 to VM 99-99 .

At the beginning of 1991 the district received the distinguishing mark SK .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical Yearbooks of the German Democratic Republic. In: DigiZeitschriften. Retrieved October 6, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
3. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
4. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
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. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 302 f .
7. ↑ Andreas Herzfeld: The history of the German license plate . 4th edition. German Flag Society V., Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935131-11-7 , pp. 519 .