Ueckermünde district

This article deals with the district of Ueckermünde in the province of Pomerania and in the state of Mecklenburg. For the Ueckermünde district in the Neubrandenburg district from 1952, see Ueckermünde district .

The district area within the boundaries of 1905

The district of Ueckermünde , which until 1939 was a district of Ueckermünde , was a district in the Prussian province of Pomerania that existed from 1818 to 1950 and in the state of Mecklenburg of the SBZ and GDR . The former district area is now in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the Powiat Policki in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

Prussia

During the district reform of January 1, 1818 in the administrative district of Stettin , a new district of Ueckermünde was formed from parts of the districts of Anklam and Randow . The towns of Neuwarp and Ueckermünde as well as the offices of Königsholland, Torgelow and Ueckermünde came from the district of Anklam to the new district and from the district of Randow the town of Pasewalk and the surrounding villages. The district administrative office had its official seat in Ueckermünde.

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and since January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . In 1871 the district comprised the three cities of Neuwarp, Pasewalk and Ueckermünde, 61 rural communities and 14 manor districts .

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Ueckermünde district as in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which most of the independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply. On January 1, 1939, the district of Ueckermünde was given the name Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation .

On October 15, 1939, 32 communities and two manor districts from the dissolved Randow district were incorporated into the Ueckermünde district.

Soviet occupation zone / GDR

During the Battle of East Pomerania in the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army . After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , its western part came to the state of Mecklenburg in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1945, the eastern part of the district was placed under the People's Republic of Poland . From the old district of Ueckermünde, this affected the town of Neuwarp and the communities of Althagen , Hammer, Amt Jasenitz , Karpin , Königsfelde , Mützelburg , Wahrlang , Wilhelmsdorf and Ziegenort . Of the communities in the old district of Randow, which had belonged to the district of Ueckermünde since 1939, Armenheide, Boblin, Böck, Daber, Falkenwalde, Günnitz, Hagen, Jasenitz, Köstin, Laack, Nassenheide, Neuenkirchen, Stolzenburg, Trestin and Wamlitz fell to Poland. The communities of Bismark, Blankensee, Boock, Gorkow, Grambow, Lienken, Löcknitz, Mewegen, Pampow, Plöwen, Ramin, Retzin, Rothenklempenow, Schwennenz and Sonnenberg moved to the Randow district, which was re-established on the German side.

As part of the first GDR district reform , the district of Pasewalk was formed on July 1, 1950 from the remaining district of Ueckermünde and parts of the district of Randow, which had been dissolved again . This was divided into the Ueckermünde and Pasewalk districts as part of the administrative reform of July 25, 1952 . Both circles were added to the newly formed district of Neubrandenburg .

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Since 1990 the district area from 1950 has belonged again to the newly constituted state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . With the communal reorganization on June 12, 1994, it opened up in the new Uecker-Randow district , which in turn opened up on September 4, 2011 in the new Western Pomerania-Greifswald district.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1846	38,584
1871	42,534
1890	50,793
1900	53,767
1910	56,528
1925	59,609 1
1933	59,422
1939	60,695
1946	72,986

¹55,889 Protestants, 2,395 Catholics, 430 Lutherans and 152 Jews

politics

District administrators

• 1818– ?: August Krafft
• 1851–1863: Ferdinand Julius Balcke
• 1863 – after 1887: Oswald von Rittberg (1832–1908)
• 1893–1907: Robert Hagedorn († 1907)
• 1907–1918: Ulrich von Heyden (1873–1963)
• 1921–1928: stork
• 1928–1929: Wilhelm Köhne (* 1883)
• 1929–1933: Artur Breitfeld (1899–1967)
• 1933–1938: Horst Schlenzig
• 1938–1940: Erich Daniel
• 1940–1945: Gerhard Becker

Local constitution

The district of Ueckermünde was divided into cities, rural communities and - until they were dissolved in 1929 - into independent manor districts . With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural communities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts .

coat of arms

Blazon : “Half divided and split; in front: at the top in blue on a non-continuous silver wave thread an approaching silver sailing boat, accompanied on both sides of the top of the mast by a flying silver seagull, at the bottom by a silver fish armored in red; a black mallet and a black iron crossed diagonally below in silver; behind in silver an upright red griffin with gold armor and a folded tail. " The coat of arms was designed by Roland Bornschein from Wismar . It was approved on December 8, 1992 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under No. 39 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the sailing boat, seagulls and fish are supposed to symbolize the old district as a region on the Szczecin Lagoon with a tourist character and fishing. The iron industry, which has been based in the territory since the middle of the 18th century, is documented with mallets and irons. The griffin shows that the district is part of the Western Pomerania region.

cities and communes

As of 1939

Before its expansion in 1939, the district of Ueckermünde comprised three cities, 50 rural communities and two community-free manor districts:

Ahlbeck Althagen Old warp Aschersleben Bellin Belling Blumenthal Dargitz Eggesin Eichhof Ferdinandshof Friedrichshagen Gegenensee Grambine

Gumnitz Holländerei Port of Ueckermünde , manor district Hammer, Jasenitz Office Hammer, Ueckermünde Office Heinrichsruh Heinrichswalde Hintersee Hoppenwalde Jatznick Karpin Koblentz Königsfelde Krugsdorf Liepe

Liepgarten Luckow Meiersberg-Schlabrendorf Mönkebude Müggenburg Mützelburg Mützelburger Heide , manor district Neuenkruger district Neuwarp , town Pasewalk , town Rieth Rothemühl Rothenburg Sand fjord

Schönwalde Sprengersfelde Proud castle Torgelow Torgelow Dutch factory Ueckermünde , city square Vogelsang True Forest height Wilhelmsburg Wilhelmsdorf Goat place

On October 15, 1939, 32 parishes and two manor districts of the dissolved Randow district were incorporated into the Ueckermuende district:

Armenheide Bismark Blankensee Boblin Böck Boock But Dorotheenwalde Falkenwalde

Falkenwalde , forest estate district Glassworks Gorkow Grambov Gunnitz Hagen Jasenitz Kostin Laack

Left Löcknitz Mewegen Nassenheide Neuenkirchen Pampow Plow Ramin Retzin

Rothenklempenow Schwennenz Sonnenberg Proud castle Stolzenburg , forest estate district Trestin Wamlitz

Municipalities dissolved before 1939

• Neuendorf , about 1929 in Ueckermünde
• Sand jug , approx. 1929 in Schönwalde
• Vorsee , about 1929 to Ahlbeck
• Warsin , about 1929 to Vogelsang

Name changes

The Hammelstall community was renamed Waldeshöhe in 1929 .

Districts

The rural communities of the Ueckermünde district were divided into 19 administrative districts in 1932 :

Altwarp district Belling District District of Eggesin District of Ferdinandshof Haff district Hammer district, Ueckermünde office Jatznick district Koblentz district Liepgarten district Luckow district

Mönkebude district Neuenkrug district District of Rieth District of Rothemühl District of Schlabrendorf Seegrund district Torgelow district District Wahrlang District of Ziegenort

The three cities of the district were free of office.

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 114, point 3.
• Joachim Wächter : The formation of the Ueckermünde district and its regional development since 1818. In: Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch , Volume 7, VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1967, pages 105-124.
• State Statistical Office (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia. Pomeranian Province. According to the final result of the census of June 16, 1925 and other official sources based on the territory of October 1, 1932 . Berlin 1932, p. XXVIII.
• Manfred Vollack: The Ueckermünde district until 1945 - A Pomeranian homeland book . Hamburg 1981.
• Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the province of Pomerania and their people. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 20-25.
• Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Province of Pomerania - District of Ueckermünde. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
• Gunthard Stübs, Pomeranian Research Association: The district of Ueckermünde in the former province of Pomerania . (2011).

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Ueckermünde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Stettin: Ordinance on the new district division of January 18, 1816 . No. 12 , 1816, p. 44 ( digitized version [accessed February 2, 2017]).
2. ↑ Local directory of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division . Struck, Stettin ( digital copy - approx. 1818).
3. ↑ ^{a b} The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Pomerania and their population in 1871
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ueckermünde district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ GenWiki: County Ueckermünde 1818-1952
6. ↑ GenWiki: Landkreis Randow 1945–1950  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ GenWiki: Landkreis Pasewalk 1950–1952  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 315 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ 1946 census
10. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 426/427.
11. ^ History of Waldeshöhe
12. ^ Ueckermünde district in the Pommern information system.