Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Karl-Marx-Stadt, renamed Chemnitz after the reunification of Germany.

Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
District
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt within the German Democratic Republic
Coordinates: 50°45′N 12°45′E
CountryGerman Democratic Republic
Subdivisions21 Kreise and 5 Stadtkreise
Formed1952
Dissolved1990
SeatKarl-Marx-Stadt
Area
 • Total6,009 km2 (2,320 sq mi)
Population
 (1989)[1]
 • Total1,859,500
 • Density310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Vehicle registrationT, X

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

References
  1. "40 Jahre DDR", National central administration for statistics, May 1989

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