Bezirk Dresden

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

Bezirk Dresden
District
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
Coordinates: 51°10′N 14°10′E
CountryGerman Democratic Republic
Subdivisions15 Kreise and 2 Stadtkreise
Formed1952
Dissolved1990
SeatDresden
Area
 • Total6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi)
Population
 (1989)[1]
 • Total1,757,400
 • Density260/km2 (680/sq mi)
Vehicle registrationR, Y

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.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' of Cottbus, Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt, as well as on Czechoslovakia and Poland. It was broadly similar in area to the later Direktionsbezirk Dresden, which functioned from 1990 to 2012.

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.

See also

References
  1. "40 Jahre DDR", National central administration for statistics, May 1989

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