Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt

District of Karl-Marx-Stadt Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt within the German Democratic Republic
Capital	Karl-Marx-Stadt
Area
• 1989	6,009 km2 (2,320 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	1,859,500
History
• Established	1952
• Disestablished	1990
Preceded by Succeeded by Saxony (1945–1952) Saxony
Today part of	Germany

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The district would last from 1952 up to 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

External links

Media related to Karl-Marx-Stadt District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons