Bezirk Dresden

The Bezirk Dresden was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany that lasted from 1952 to 1990. Dresden would be reabsorbed back into Saxony after the reunification of Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Dresden.

District of Dresden
Bezirk Dresden
District (Bezirk) of East Germany
1952–1990

Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
CapitalDresden
Area 
 1989
6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi)
Population 
 1989
1,757,400
History
History 
 Established
1952
 Disestablished
1990
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Saxony
Saxony
Today part ofGermany

History

The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished upon 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

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