The Bezirk Gera was a
district
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(''Bezirk'') of
East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was
Gera.
History
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, replacing the old
German
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states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished following
German reunification, becoming again part of the state of
Thuringia.
Geography
Position
The Bezirk Gera had borders with the ''Bezirke'' of
Suhl
Suhl () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located SW of Erfurt, NE of Würzburg and N of Nuremberg. With its 37,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest of the six urban districts within Thuringia. Together with its northern neighbour-town Zella ...
,
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...
,
Halle,
Leipzig and
Karl-Marx-Stadt
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germ ...
, as well as with
West Germany.
Subdivision
The ''Bezirk'' was divided into 13 ''Kreise'': 2 urban districts (''Stadtkreise'') and 11 rural districts (''Landkreise''):
*Urban districts :
Gera;
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
.
*Rural districts :
Eisenberg;
Gera-Land;
Greiz
Greiz () is a town in the state of Thuringia, Germany, and is the capital of the district of Greiz. Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia, east of state capital Jena, on the river ''White Elster''.
Greiz has a large park in its center (Fürstl ...
;
Jena-Land;
Lobenstein;
Pößneck
Pößneck (also spelled ''Poessneck'') is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 19 km east of Rudolstadt, and 26 km south of Jena.
History
Pößneck, which is of Slavonic origin, passed about ...
;
Rudolstadt;
Saalfeld;
Schleiz
Schleiz is a town in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany. The former municipality Crispendorf was merged into Schleiz in January 2019, and Burgk in December 2019.
Location
Schleiz is in the Thuringian Vogtland area, an a ...
;
Stadtroda
Stadtroda (Roda until 1925) is a town of 6,653 people (2017), located in Thuringia, Germany. Stadtroda lies on the river Roda, a tributary of the Saale. The former municipalities Bollberg and Quirla were merged into Stadtroda in January 2019. ...
;
Zeulenroda
Zeulenroda-Triebes is a German town in the district of Greiz in the state of Thuringia.
Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with Sa ...
.
References
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Gera
Bezirk Gera
The Bezirk Gera was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and main town was Gera.
History
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, replacing the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was d ...
Gera
Former states and territories of Thuringia
Jena