Weißeritzkreis

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Coat of arms of the Weißeritzkreis Map of Germany, position of the Weißeritzkreis highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 13 ° 40'  E

Basic data (as of 2008)
Existing period: 1994-2008
State : Saxony
Administrative region : Dresden
Administrative headquarters : Dippoldiswalde
Area : 765.71 km 2
Residents: 120,645 (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density : 158 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : DW
Circle key : 14 2 90
Circle structure: 16 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Weißeritzstrasse 7
01744 Dippoldiswalde
District Administrator : Bernd Greif ( CDU )
Location of the Weißeritz district in Saxony
Landkreis Delitzsch Leipzig Plauen Hoyerswerda Landkreis Leipziger Land Muldentalkreis Landkreis Torgau-Oschatz Landkreis Döbeln Landkreis Riesa-Großenhain Landkreis Meißen Dresden Landkreis Kamenz Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Görlitz Landkreis Löbau-Zittau Landkreis Bautzen Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz Weißeritzkreis Landkreis Freiberg Landkreis Mittweida Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis Landkreis Annaberg Chemnitz Landkreis Stollberg Landkreis Aue-Schwarzenberg Landkreis Chemnitzer Land Zwickau Vogtlandkreis Landkreis Zwickauer Landmap
About this picture

The Weißeritzkreis was a district in the Free State of Saxony until the 2008 district reform . Since August 1, 2008, the area of ​​the former district has belonged to the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . The neighboring districts were Freiberg , Meißen , Saxon Switzerland and the city ​​of Dresden . In the south, the Weißeritzkreis bordered the Czech Republic ( Okres Teplice ).

geography

The name of the former district describes its geographical location - it was due to the Roter and Wilder Weißeritz , which still united in the Weißeritz district , south of the state capital Dresden in the Eastern Ore Mountains and its foreland. The district also included parts of the valleys of the Elbe tributaries Müglitz ( Geising and Glashütte ), Lockwitzbach ( Reinhardtsgrimma and Kreischa ) and Wilde Sau ( Wilsdruff ). The Wilde Weißeritz, the Müglitz and the Lockwitzbach are only a few kilometers apart on their upper reaches.

As a result of the hull areas of the Pultscholle , the landscape of the former district consists mainly of the valleys and plateaus under agricultural and forestry use. To the south, to the ridge of the Eastern Ore Mountains, the altitude increases steadily. The lowest point was about 160 m above sea level. NN in Freital, the highest with 905 m on the Kahleberg near Zinnwald. The Landberg near Pohrsdorf , the Windberg in Freital, the Golberoder Zughübel with the Babisnauer Poplar , the mountains of the Karsdorf Fault with the Wilisch , the Luchberg near Luchau and the Geisingberg formed striking landmarks .

Well-known standing waters were the Malter reservoir used for tourism and the Lehnmühle and Klingenberg reservoirs required for drinking water . In Lauenstein which was created by 2006 retention basins Müglitztal .

Significant forest areas in the former district are the Tharandt Forest , the Dippoldiswalder Heide and the Bärenfels forest district .

In addition to the nature reserves that belong to the Erzgebirge / Vogtland Nature Park , the protected mountain meadows in the Eastern Ore Mountains with their unique rocky ridge landscape, the Georgenfeld high moor near Zinnwald and the Rabenauer Grund deserve special mention.

history

The Weißeritzkreis was formed on August 1, 1994 by the union of the Dippoldiswalde and Freital districts as part of the Saxon district reform . On July 1, 1998, the city of Wilsdruff moved from the district of Meißen to the Weißeritz district.

In the course of the second Saxon district reform, the district was dissolved on August 1, 2008. The new Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district was created through the merger with the Saxon Switzerland district to the east . Both circles had already agreed on this in the phase of the voluntary orientation of the district mergers of the Free State of Saxony (2007). The new district office is located in Pirna .

politics

Turnout: 53.7% (1999: 60.4%)
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50
40
30th
20th
10
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49.9%
17.1%
14.5%
8.8%
5.4%
4.3%
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 1999
 % p
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-3.5  % p
+1.4  % p
+ 3.3  % p.p.
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+1.4  % p
-1.3  % p

The only district administrator in the Weißeritz district was Bernd Greif (CDU). The 54 seats in the district council were ultimately distributed among the individual parties as follows:

Political party Seats
CDU 28
LEFT 9
Free voters Weißeritzkreis 8th
SPD 4th
FDP 3
GREEN 2

cities and communes

(Population figures as of December 31, 2006)

Cities

  1. Altenberg (5,890)
  2. Dippoldiswalde (10,568)
  3. Freital (39,114)
  4. Geising (3,235)
  5. Glassworks (7,515)
  6. Rabenau (4,655)
  7. Tharandt (5,601)
  8. Wilsdruff (13,783)

Communities

  1. Bannewitz (10,779)
  2. Dorfhain (1,213)
  3. Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau (1,212)
  4. Hermsdorf / Erzgeb. (981)
  5. Höckendorf (3,085)
  6. Kreischa (4,441)
  7. Pretzschendorf (4,428)
  8. Schmiedeberg (4,739)

Administrative communities

License Plate

On August 1, 1994, the district was assigned the DW distinguishing sign , which had been valid for the Dippoldiswalde district since January 1, 1991 and was issued until July 31, 2008. It has been available in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district since November 12, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.statistik.sachsen.de/wpr_alt/pkg_w04_ver.prc_ver?p_bz_bzid=KT04&p_ebene=LK&p_ort=14290