Stollberg (district)

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Stollberg

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State:	Saxony
Capital:	Stollberg } } |- | Area:||266.49 km² |- | Inhabitants:||93,041 (2001) |- | pop. density:||349 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||STL |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-stollberg.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Stollberg is a district in Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the district-free city Chemnitz, and the districts Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis, Annaberg, Aue-Schwarzenberg, Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Partnerships 4 Coat of arms 5 Towns and municipalities 6 External links History The district dates back to the Amtshauptmannschaft Stollberg, which was established in 1910. In 1939 it was renamed to Landkreis. In 1950 the district was dissolved and its municipalities were assigned to the neighboring districts Aue, Chemnitz and Zwickau. However two years later in another reform the district was recreated, only with a slightly different layout. In the communal reform of 1994 the district was enlarged by some municipalities from the district Chemnitz, and the city Zwönitz from the district Aue. Geography The district is located on the northwestern slope of the Ore Mountains. Partnerships Since 1990 the district has a partnership with the district Fürth in Bavaria. Coat of arms The left half of the coat of arms show the symbol of the Counts of Schönberg - the county of Schönberg covered most of the area of the district. To the right is the imperial eagle symbolizing the Pleissenland, an imperial estate. The colours of the right side are also identical with those of Meissen, as another part of the district historically belonged to the County of Meissen. Towns and municipalities Cities Verwaltungsgemeinschaften free municipalities Lugau¹ Oelsnitz Stollberg¹ Thalheim Zwönitz ¹ Administrated in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Auerbach-Gornsdorf-Hormersdorf Lugau (Erzgebirge) Stollberg (Erzgebirge) Burkhardtsdorf Hohndorf Jahnsdorf Neukirchen (Erzgebirge) External links [Official website] (German) Cities and rural districts in the Federal State of Saxony in Germany Cities Chemnitz | Dresden | Görlitz | Hoyerswerda | Leipzig | Plauen | Zwickau Rural districts Annaberg | Aue-Schwarzenberg | Bautzen | Chemnitzer Land | Delitzsch | Döbeln | Freiberg | Kamenz | Leipziger Land Löbau-Zittau | Meißen | Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis | Mittweida | Muldentalkreis | Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Riesa-Großenhain | Sächsische Schweiz | Stollberg | Torgau-Oschatz | Vogtlandkreis | Weißeritzkreis | Zwickauer Land   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: