Halberstadt is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Bördekreis, Quedlinburg[?],
Wernigerode[?], Goslar,
Wolfenbüttel, Helmstedt.
The region around Halberstadt was a clerical principality, starting with the creation of the diocese Halberstadt in
804 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 Westphalia, Halberstadt was capital of the departement Saale.
1815 it came back to
Prussia, and in
1816 became part of the
Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg in the new province Saxony. At the same time the Landkreis Halberstadt was created. In
1825 it was merged with the Osterwieck district.
The district is located at the northern end of the
Harz mountains.
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The coat of arms are the same as those used by the principality and the diocese of Halberstadt historically.
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- Dardesheim[?]¹
- Halberstadt[?]
- Osterwieck[?]¹
- Schwanebeck[?]¹
- Wegeleben[?]¹
¹ administered in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Verwaltungsgemeinschaften
- Aue-Fallstein
- Harzvorland-Huy
- Huy
- Osterwieck
- Schwanebeck
- Untere Bode
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Municipalities
- Aderstedt
- Anderbeck
- Aspenstedt
- Athenstedt
- Badersleben
- Berßel
- Bühne
- Danstedt
- Dedeleben
- Deersheim
- Dingelstedt (Huy)
- Eilenstedt
- Eilsdorf
- Groß Quenstedt
- Halberstadt
- Harsleben
- Hessen
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- Huy-Neinstedt
- Langenstein
- Lüttgenrode
- Nienhagen
- Osterode
- Osterwieck
- Pabstorf
- Rhoden
- Rohrsheim
- Sargstedt
- Schauen
- Schlanstedt
- Schachdorf Ströbeck
- Veltheim
- Vogelsdorf
- Wülperode
- Zilly
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