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Bezirk Magdeburg

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Formed
  
1952

Vehicle registration
  
H, M

Founded
  
1952

Date dissolved
  
1990

Seat
  
Magdeburg

Area
  
11,526 km²

Population
  
1.25 million (1989)

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Country
  
German Democratic Republic

Subdivisions
  
21 Kreise and 1 Stadtkreis

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

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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 abolished as part of the process of German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt except Havelberg district, passed to Brandenburg.

Position

The Bezirk Magdeburg bordered with the Bezirke of Schwerin, Potsdam, Halle and Erfurt. It bordered also with West Germany.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 22 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 21 rural districts (Landkreise):

  • Urban district : Magdeburg.
  • Rural districts : Burg; Gardelegen; Genthin; Halberstadt; Haldensleben; Havelberg; Kalbe; Klötze; Loburg; Oschersleben; Osterburg; Salzwedel; Schönebeck; Seehausen; Staßfurt; Stendal; Tangerhütte; Wanzleben; Wernigerode; Wolmirstedt; Zerbst.

    • References

    Bezirk Magdeburg Wikipedia
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