Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt Explained

Common Name:Karl-Marx-Stadt
Conventional Long Name:District of Karl-Marx-Stadt
Native Name:Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
Subdivision:District (Bezirk)
Nation:East Germany
Image Map Caption:Location of Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt within the German Democratic Republic
Capital:Karl-Marx-Stadt
Stat Area1:6009
Stat Pop1:1,859,500
Stat Year1:1989
P1:Saxony (1945–1952)
Flag P1:Flag of Saxony.svg
S1:Saxony
Flag S1:Flag of Saxony.svg
Year Start:1952
Year End:1990
Today:Germany

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, also known as Bezirk Chemnitz, was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The district would last from 1952 up to the Reunification of Germany in 1990. The administrative seat and the main town was Karl-Marx-Stadt, renamed back to Chemnitz during the reunification of Germany.

History

The Chemnitz District (renamed, with the city, after Karl Marx on 10 May 1953) was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990, it was disestablished due to the German reunification, its territory becoming again part of the state of Saxony.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, corresponded 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):

See also