Bezirk Neubrandenburg

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

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 following German reunification, becoming again mostly part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Also rural districts of Prenzlau and Templin (on 3 October 1990), municipalities of Nechlin, Wollschow, Woddow, Bagemühl and Grünberg with city of Brüssow in Pasewalk district and municipalities of Fahrenholz, Güterberg, Jagow, Lemmersdorf, Lübbenow, Milow, Trebenow, Wilsickow, Wismar (Uckerland) and Wolfshagen in Strasburg one part of the one of Brandenburg on 9 May 1992.

Geography

Position

The Bezirk Neubrandenburg bordered with the Bezirke of Rostock, Schwerin, Potsdam and Frankfurt (Oder). It bordered also with Poland and a little part of it was located by the Stettin Bay, a lagoon separated from the Baltic Sea.

Subdivision

The Bezirk was divided into 15 Kreise: 1 urban district (Stadtkreis) and 14 rural districts (Landkreise):

• Urban districts : Neubrandenburg.
• Rural districts : Altentreptow; Anklam; Demmin; Malchin; Neubrandenburg-Land; Neustrelitz; Pasewalk; Prenzlau; Röbel/Müritz; Strasburg; Templin; Teterow; Ueckermünde; Waren.

References

External links

Media related to Neubrandenburg District (GDR) at Wikimedia Commons

1. Neubrandenburg
2. Gerhard Müller (politician)
3. Angela Merkel
4. Georg Ewald
5. Bezirk Frankfurt
6. Bezirk Rostock
7. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
8. Western Pomerania
9. List of leaders of administrative divisions of East Germany
10. Bezirk Potsdam
11. Pomerania
12. Ilona Slupianek
13. Chris Gueffroy
14. Marcel Gleffe
15. Demmin
16. Grit Breuer
17. Anklam
18. Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)
19. Free State of Prussia
20. State of the Teutonic Order