Dresden (Bezirk)

Bezirk Dresden
—  District  —
Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
Coordinates: 51°10′N 14°10′E / 51.167°N 14.167°E / 51.167; 14.167Coordinates: 51°10′N 14°10′E / 51.167°N 14.167°E / 51.167; 14.167
Country	German Democratic Republic
Subdivisions	15 Kreise and 2 Stadtkreise
Formed	1952
Dissolved	1990
Seat	Dresden
Area
- Total	6,738 km2 (2,601.6 sq mi)
Population (1989)[1]
- Total	1,757,400
- Density	260.8/km2 (675.5/sq mi)
Vehicle registration	R, Y

The Bezirk Dresden was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Dresden.

History

The district 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 Dresden, mainly correspondent to the area of the actual Direktionsbezirk Dresden and the easternmost one of DDR, bordered with the Bezirke of Cottbus, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt. It bordered also with Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 17 kreise: 2 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 15 rural districts (Landkreise):

• Urban districts : Dresden; Görlitz.
• Rural districts : Bautzen; Bischofswerda; Dippoldiswalde; Dresden-Land; Freital; Görlitz; Großenhain; Kamenz; Löbau; Meißen; Niesky; Pirna; Riesa; Sebnitz; Zittau.

See also

• Direktionsbezirk Dresden

References

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

External links

Media related to Bezirk Dresden at Wikimedia Commons