Statistics
State:Saxony-Anhalt
Adm. Region:Magdeburg
Capital:Halberstadt
Area:664.99 km²
Inhabitants:77,876 (2002)
pop. density:117 inh./km²
Car identification:HBS
Homepage:http://www.landkreis.halberstadt.de
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Halberstadt is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Bördekreis, Quedlinburg, Wernigerode, Goslar, Wolfenbüttel, Helmstedt.

Table of contents
1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

History

The region around Halberstadt was a clerical principality, which emerged with the creation of the diocese Halberstadt in 804 and existed until the Thirty Years' War. In 1680 it was secularized and became part of Brandenburg-Prussia. During the Napoleonic wars it became part of the French-occupied Westphalia, where Halberstadt was the capital of the departement Saale. 1815 it came back to Prussia, and in 1816 it became part of the Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg within the newly established Prussian province of Saxony. At the same time the Landkreis (=district) Halberstadt was created. In 1825 it was merged with the Osterwieck district.

Geography

The district is located at the northern end of the Harz mountains.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is the same as that used by the principality and the diocese of Halberstadt historically.

Towns and municipalities

  1. Dardesheim¹
  2. Halberstadt
  3. Osterwieck¹
  4. Schwanebeck¹
  5. Wegeleben¹

¹ administered in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft

    Verwaltungsgemeinschaften

  1. Aue-Fallstein
  2. Harzvorland-Huy
  3. Huy
  4. Osterwieck
  5. Schwanebeck
  6. Untere Bode
    Municipalities
  1. Aderstedt
  2. Anderbeck
  3. Aspenstedt
  4. Athenstedt
  5. Badersleben
  6. Berßel
  7. Bühne
  8. Danstedt
  9. Dedeleben
  10. Deersheim
  11. Dingelstedt (Huy)
  12. Eilenstedt
  13. Eilsdorf
  14. Groß Quenstedt
  15. Halberstadt
  16. Harsleben
  17. Hessen

  1. Huy-Neinstedt
  2. Langenstein
  3. Lüttgenrode
  4. Nienhagen
  5. Osterode
  6. Osterwieck
  7. Pabstorf
  8. Rhoden
  9. Rohrsheim
  10. Sargstedt
  11. Schauen
  12. Schlanstedt
  13. Schachdorf Ströbeck
  14. Veltheim
  15. Vogelsdorf
  16. Wülperode
  17. Zilly

External links