Börde (district)

This article is about the German district. For the type of fertile plain from which it takes its name, see Börde.

Börde (German: Landkreis Börde) is a district in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Its seat is the town Haldensleben.^[2] It takes its name from the natural region Magdeburg Börde. It is the site of the Morsleben radioactive waste repository. The disposal of waste into the facility ended in 1998.

Börde
District
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
Capital	Haldensleben
Government
• District admin.	Martin Stichnoth (CDU)
Area
• Total	2,367.2 km2 (914.0 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2022)[1]
• Total	171,393
• Density	72/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	BK, BÖ, HDL, OC, OK, WMS, WZL
Website	www.landkreis-boerde.de

Geography

The Börde district covers the area west of the city of Magdeburg. With an area of 2,367.2 km² (914.0 sq mi), it is the second-largest district of Saxony-Anhalt.^[3] It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Stendal, Jerichower Land, the city of Magdeburg, Salzlandkreis and Harz. To the west it borders the state of Lower Saxony. The main rivers are the Elbe in the northeast, the Ohre in the north, the Aller in the west and the Bode in the south.

History

The district was formed with the merger the former districts of Ohrekreis and Bördekreis as part of the local-government reform of 2007. For its arms, a design based on the Hornhausen rider stone was chosen.^[4]

• Oschersleben, a former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft disbanded in 2010.

Towns and municipalities

Clickable map of towns and municipalities in the district

The district Börde consists of the following subdivisions:^[5]

Free towns	Free municipalities
Haldensleben Oebisfelde-Weferlingen Oschersleben Wanzleben-Börde Wolmirstedt	Barleben Hohe Börde Niedere Börde Sülzetal

Verbandsgemeinden with municipalities
1. Elbe-Heide Angern Burgstall Colbitz Loitsche-Heinrichsberg Rogätz1 Westheide Zielitz	2. Flechtingen Altenhausen Beendorf Bülstringen Calvörde Erxleben Flechtingen1 Ingersleben	3. Obere Aller Eilsleben1 Harbke Hötensleben Sommersdorf Ummendorf Völpke Wefensleben	4. Westliche Börde Am Großen Bruch Ausleben Gröningen1, 2 Kroppenstedt2
1seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; 2town;

Other localities

• Glindenberg, village and former municipality

References

1. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
2. Hauptsatzung des Landkreises Börde, September 2019.
3. "Tabellen Bodenfläche". Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
4. "Hornhausen, Reiterstein und Reitersteinfest". Stadtmagazin Verlag. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
5. "Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt". Archived from the original on 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2009-08-06.

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