Saalekreis
Sign in to saveSaalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Nordsachsen, Leipzig (both Saxony) and Burgenlandkreis. The district-free city of Halle is surrounded by the Saalekreis.
Key facts
- District DE.area
- 1434.2
- District DE.name
- Saalekreis
- District DE.image_flag
- Flagge Saalekreis.svg
- District DE.image_coa
- Wappen Saalekreis.svg
- District DE.state
- Saxony-Anhalt
- District DE.capital
- Merseburg
- District DE.Kreisschlüssel
- 15088
- District DE.district_admin
- Hartmut Handschak
- District DE.carsign
- SK, MER, MQ, QFT
- District DE.url
- www.saalekreis.de
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Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Nordsachsen, Leipzig (both Saxony) and Burgenlandkreis. The district-free city of Halle is surrounded by the Saalekreis.
== History == The district was established by merging the former districts of Merseburg-Querfurt and Saalkreis as part of the district reform of 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saalekreis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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