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{{Infobox District DE
| name=Halberstadt
| state=Saxony-Anhalt
| dissolved = 2007-07-01
| capital=[[Halberstadt]]
| area=664.99
| population=77,876
| population_as_of=2002
| carsign=HBS
| url=[http://www.landkreis.halberstadt.de landkreis.halberstadt.de]
| map=saxony_anhalt_hbs.png
}}
'''Halberstadt''' was a district (''Kreis'') in the middle of [[Saxony-Anhalt]], [[Germany]]. Neighboring districts were (from north clockwise) [[Bördekreis]], [[Quedlinburg (district)|Quedlinburg]], 
[[Wernigerode (district)|Wernigerode]], [[Goslar (district)|Goslar]], 
[[Wolfenbüttel (district)|Wolfenbüttel]], [[Helmstedt (district)|Helmstedt]].

== History ==
The region around Halberstadt was a clerical principality, which emerged with the creation of the [[Bishopric of Halberstadt]] in 804 and existed until the [[Thirty Years' War]]. In 1648 it was secularized and became part of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]] as the [[Principality of Halberstadt]]. During the [[Napoleonic Wars]] it became part of the French-controlled [[Kingdom of Westphalia]], where Halberstadt was the capital of the Département of the Saale. In 1815 it came back to the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], and in 1816 it became part of the ''[[Magdeburg (region)|Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg]]'' within the newly established Prussian [[Province of Saxony]]. At the same time the ''Landkreis'' (district) of Halberstadt was created. In 1825 it was merged with the Osterwieck district.

On 1 July 2007 the district was merged with the districts of Quedlinburg and Wernigerode to form the new [[Harz (district)|district of Harz]].

== Geography ==
The district is located at the northern end of the [[Harz]] mountains.

== Coat of arms ==
{|
|- valign=top
||[[Image:Wappen Landkreis Halberstadt.svg|100px|Coat of arms]]
||The coat of arms is the same as that used by the principality and the [[diocese of Halberstadt]] historically.
|}

==Towns and municipalities==
{|
! width=25% align=left|Towns
! width=50% align=left|[[Amt (political division)|Verwaltungsgemeinschaften]]
! width=25% align=left|Free municipalities
|- valign=top
||
#[[Halberstadt]]
||
#[[Bode-Holtemme]] (incl. towns [[Schwanebeck]] and [[Wegeleben]])
#[[Harzvorland-Huy]]
#[[Osterwieck-Fallstein]] (incl. town [[Osterwieck]])
||
#[[Huy, Germany|Huy]]
|}

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030524211249/http://www.landkreis.halberstadt.de/ Official website] (German)

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