Bezirk Schwerin

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Bezirk Schwerin was an administrative district in the former East Germany, centered around the city of Schwerin and existing from the 1952 territorial reform until German reunification in 1990.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bezirk Schwerin canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bezirk of East Germany
former administrative district
adminCenter Schwerin
borderedBy Bezirk Magdeburg
Bezirk Neubrandenburg
Bezirk Potsdam
Bezirk Rostock
Germany
surface form: Federal Republic of Germany
capital Schwerin
country East Germany
surface form: German Democratic Republic
dateAbolished 1990-10-03
dateEstablished 1952-07-25
dissolutionReason German reunification
existedFrom 1952
existedUntil 1990
follows State of Mecklenburg
governmentType socialist administrative district
hadSubdivisionType Kreis
Stadtkreis
hadUrbanDistrict Schwerin
hadVehicleRegistrationCode S
historicalRegion Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
surface form: Mecklenburg

Pomerania
surface form: Western Pomerania
language German
locatedIn East Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
surface form: Mecklenburg region

Northern Germany
partOf Northern Districts of the GDR
surface form: Northern Bezirke of the GDR

Eastern Bloc
surface form: Soviet sphere of influence in Europe

administrative structure of the GDR
replacedBy Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
timePeriod Cold War
usedCurrency East German mark

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

East Germany hadSubdivision Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Potsdam borderedBy Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Rostock borderedBy Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Magdeburg borderedBy Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Neubrandenburg borderedBy Bezirk Schwerin