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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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):