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Bezirk Halle

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Formed
  
1952

Seat
  
Halle

Area
  
8,771 km²

Dissolved
  
1990

Vehicle registration
  
K, V

Population
  
1.776 million (1989)

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Country
  
German Democratic Republic

Subdivisions
  
20 Kreise and 3 Stadtkreise

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

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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-Anhalt except Artern kreis, which became part of Thuringia.

Position

The Bezirk Halle bordered with the Bezirke of Magdeburg, Potsdam, Cottbus, Leipzig, Gera and Erfurt.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 23 Kreise: 3 urban districts (Stadtkreise) and 20 rural districts (Landkreise):

  • Urban districts : Dessau; Halle; Halle-Neustadt.
  • Rural districts : Artern; Aschersleben; Bernburg; Bitterfeld; Eisleben; Gräfenhainichen; Hettstedt; Hohenmölsen; Köthen; Merseburg; Naumburg; Nebra; Quedlinburg; Querfurt; Roßlau; Saalkreis; Sangerhausen; Weißenfels; Wittenberg; Zeitz.

    • References

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