Bezirk Suhl

The Bezirk Suhl was a district (Bezirk) of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Suhl.HistoryThe district was established, with the other 13, on July 25, 1952, substituting the old German states. After October 3, 1990, it was disestablished due to the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Thuringia.GeographyPositionThe Bezirk Suhl, the westernmost and the smallest of the GDR, bordered with the Bezirke of Erfurt and Gera. It bordered also with West Germany.SubdivisionThe Bezirk was divided into 9 Kreise: 1 urban district and 8 rural districts : Urban district : Suhl.Rural districts : Bad Salzungen; Hildburghausen; Ilmenau; Meiningen; Neuhaus; Schmalkalden; Sonneberg; Suhl.