Kreis Sebnitz was a Landkreis which existed in Bezirk Dresden in the German Democratic Republic

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

 (DDR) from 1952 to 1990, with its capital at Sebnitz

Sebnitz

Sebnitz is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.- Geography :The town of Sebnitz lies in the valley of the River Sebnitz and its side valleys between 250 and 460 m above sea level between the mountains of Saxon Switzerland and the Lusatian...

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After the reunification of Germany, the state existed from 1990 to 1994 as part of the Saxon Free State

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

 as Landkreis Sebnitz. On 1 August 1994, it joined together with Landkreis Pirna to form the new kreis of Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz which existed until 2008.