Karl-Marx-Stadt (Bezirk)

Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
—  District  —
Location of Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt within the German Democratic Republic
Coordinates: 50°45′N 12°45′E / 50.75°N 12.75°E / 50.75; 12.75
Country	German Democratic Republic
Subdivisions	21 Kreise and 5 Stadtkreise
Formed	1952
Dissolved	1990
Seat	Karl-Marx-Stadt
Area
– Total	6,009 km2 (2,320.1 sq mi)
Population (1989)[1]
– Total	1,859,500
– Density	309.5/km2 (801.5/sq mi)
Vehicle registration	T, X

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.

History

The district (named, with the city, after Karl Marx) was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states. After October 3, 1990, it was disestablished due to the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, correspondent 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.

References

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

See also

• Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz

External links

Media related to Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt at Wikimedia Commons