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{{Infobox German district|
|name=Meissen (''Meißen'')
|state=Saxony
|capital=[[Meissen]]
|area=1,453
|Kreisschlüssel    = 14627
|image_flag=Flagge Landkreis Meißen.svg
|image_coa=Wappen_vom_Landkreis_Meissen_2009.svg
| district_admin    = Ralf Hänsel 
| admin_party       = CDU
|carsign=MEI, GRH, RG, RIE
|url={{URL|www.kreis-meissen.org}}
|map={{Germany district OSM map |parent_subdivision = Q1202}}
}}

'''Meissen''' ({{langx|de|Meißen}}) is a district (''[[Districts of Germany|Kreis]]'') in [[Saxony]], [[Germany]]. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the state of [[Brandenburg]], the district of [[Bautzen (district)|Bautzen]], the [[List of German urban districts|urban district]] [[Dresden]], the districts [[Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge]], [[Mittelsachsen]] and [[Nordsachsen]].

==History==
The district dates back to the ''Amt Meißen'', which was first mentioned in 1334. The district was ruled by the [[House of Wettin|Wettin]] dynasty.
The [[List of Margraves of Meissen|Margraves]] of what then became the [[Margravate of Meissen]] created the administrative division (''Amt'') in the 13th century. In 1835 the ''Amt'' was converted into an ''Amtshauptmannschaft'', with the area of the current district covered by the ''Amtshauptmannschaften'' Meissen, Dresden and Großenhain. In 1939, these were renamed ''Landkreise'' (districts). In the administrative reform of 1952, several municipalities were transferred to the districts of Freiberg and Döbeln. In 1990, the old district borders were restored, and in 1996 parts of the district Dresden-Land were added. In August 2008 the district of [[Riesa-Großenhain]] was added to the district to give it its current size.

==Geography==
The main river of the district is the [[Elbe]], which also flows through the town of [[Meissen]].

==Towns and municipalities==
{{Imagemap Germany district MEI|Municipalities in MEI.svg|300px{{!}}thumb{{!}}Clickable map of municipalities in the district}}
{|
! align=left width=33%|Towns
! align=left width=33%|Municipalities
|- valign=top
||
#[[Coswig, Saxony|Coswig]]
#[[Gröditz]]
#[[Großenhain]]
#[[Lommatzsch]]
#[[Meissen]]
#[[Nossen]]
#[[Radebeul]]
#[[Radeburg]]
#[[Riesa]]
#[[Strehla]]
||
#[[Diera-Zehren]]
#[[Ebersbach, Riesa-Großenhain|Ebersbach]]
#[[Glaubitz]]
#[[Hirschstein]]
#[[Käbschütztal]]
#[[Klipphausen]]
#[[Lampertswalde]]
#[[Moritzburg, Saxony|Moritzburg]]
#[[Niederau]]
||
#<li value="10">[[Nünchritz]]
#[[Priestewitz]]
#[[Röderaue]]
#[[Schönfeld, Saxony|Schönfeld]]
#[[Stauchitz]]
#[[Thiendorf]]
#[[Weinböhla]]
#[[Wülknitz]]
#[[Zeithain]]
|}

== Politics ==
[[Meißen (electoral district)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Landkreis Meißen|County of Meissen}}
*[http://www.kreis-meissen.org Official website] (German)
*[http://www.landkreis-meissen.de Unofficial website] (German)

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{{Cities and towns in Meissen (district)}}
{{Germany districts saxony}}

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