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Bezirk Dresden

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Formed
  
1952

Vehicle registration
  
R, Y

Founded
  
1952

Date dissolved
  
1990

Seat
  
Dresden

Area
  
6,738 km²

Population
  
1.757 million (1989)

Bezirk Dresden

Country
  
German Democratic Republic

Subdivisions
  
15 Kreise and 2 Stadtkreise

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

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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.

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.

    • References

    Bezirk Dresden Wikipedia
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