Bezirk Dresden

Bezirk Dresden
District
Coat of arms
Location of Bezirk Dresden within the German Democratic Republic
Coordinates: 51°10′N 14°10′E / 51.167°N 14.167°E / 51.167; 14.167Coordinates: 51°10′N 14°10′E / 51.167°N 14.167°E / 51.167; 14.167
Country	German Democratic Republic
Subdivisions	15 Kreise and 2 Stadtkreise
Formed	1952
Dissolved	1990
Seat	Dresden
Area
• Total	6,738 km2 (2,602 sq mi)
Population  (1989)[1]
• Total	1,757,400
• Density	260/km2 (680/sq mi)
Vehicle registration	R, Y

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

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 : ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .

See also[]

• Direktionsbezirk Dresden

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Dresden District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons