- Source: Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The district existed from 1952 until the Reunification of Germany in 1990. The administrative seat and the main town was Karl-Marx-Stadt, renamed back to Chemnitz during the reunification of Germany.
History
The Chemnitz District (renamed, with the city, after Karl Marx on 10 May 1953) was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990, it was disestablished due to the German reunification, its territory becoming again part of the state of Saxony.
Geography
= Position
=The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, corresponded to the area of the actual Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz and the southernmost one of DDR, bordered with the Bezirke of Gera, Leipzig and Dresden. It bordered also with Czechoslovakia and West German Upper Franconia.
= Subdivision
=The Bezirk was divided into 26 Kreise: 5 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 21 rural districts (Landkreise):
Urban districts : Johanngeorgenstadt; Karl-Marx-Stadt; Plauen; Schneeberg; Zwickau.
Rural districts : Annaberg; Aue; Auerbach; Brand-Erbisdorf; Flöha; Freiberg; Glauchau; Hainichen; Hohenstein-Ernstthal; Karl-Marx-Stadt-Land; Klingenthal; Marienberg; Oelsnitz; Plauen-Land; Reichenbach; Rochlitz; Schwarzenberg; Stollberg; Werdau; Zschopau; Zwickau-Land.
See also
Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz
Administrative divisions of East Germany
Bezirk Dresden
Bezirk Leipzig
References
External links
Media related to Karl-Marx-Stadt District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Annaberg-Buchholz
- Michael Ballack
- Pembagian administratif Jerman Timur
- Jerman Timur
- Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Bezirk Dresden
- Chemnitz
- Michael Ballack
- Chemnitz (region)
- Bezirk Leipzig
- List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany
- Michael Hübner
- Peter Thiel (cross-country skier)
- Tannenberg, Saxony
