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Bezirk Karl Marx Stadt

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Formed
  
1952

Seat
  
Karl-Marx-Stadt

Founded
  
1952

Population
  
1.86 million (1989)

Dissolved
  
1990

Vehicle registration
  
T, X

Area
  
6,009 km²

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Country
  
German Democratic Republic

Subdivisions
  
21 Kreise and 5 Stadtkreise

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.

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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.

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

    Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt Wikipedia
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