Administrative authority Bautzen

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Administrative authority Bautzen
Basic data
District Headquarters Bautzen
Administrative headquarters Bautzen
surface 810 km² (1939)
population 112,953 (1939)
Population density 139 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Location of the administrative authority of Bautzen in 1905
Location of the administrative authority of Bautzen in 1905

The Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen was an administrative district in the Kingdom of Saxony and later in the Free State of Saxony . Today your area belongs to the district of Bautzen in Saxony. From 1939 to 1952 the administrative district was called the district of Bautzen . It had its administrative seat in Bautzen, where also the seat of the governor and from 1939 the district administrator was.

history

After the formation of the Bautzen District Office in 1835, the two administrative authorities Bautzen and Löbau were set up in the same year as a subdivision . 1874 Saxony were part of a comprehensive administrative reform in the Kingdom of new district governor teams set up and Amtshauptmann teams. From the judicial districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Königswartha and Schirgiswalde, a downsized Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen was formed, while the new Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz was created from the judicial districts of Kamenz, Königsbrück and Pulsnitz . The Saxon Amtshauptmann teams were in function and size similar to a county .

In 1915, the city of Bautzen became a district-free city and left the administration. After the merging of the district main teams Bautzen and Dresden to form the district main team Dresden / Bautzen in 1932, the official administration took over the supervision of the so-called Wenden department , whose task was to monitor Sorbian social life. In 1939 the administrative authority of Bautzen was renamed the Bautzen district . The city of Bautzen was reintegrated into the district in 1946. The district existed until the territorial reform of 1952 in the GDR and was then divided among other things into the new districts of Bautzen and Bischofswerda , which were assigned to the Dresden district .

Office governors and district administrators

geography

location

The Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen was at the center of Kreishauptmannschaft Bautzen and was in the north and northeast by the Prussian province of Silesia belonging counties Hoyerswerda and Rothenburg, in the southeast by the Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau , the south by the Kingdom of Bohemia (Austria-Hungary) and from 1918 the Czechoslovak Republic , in the southwest by the Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna of Kreishauptmannschaft Dresden and the west by the Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz limited.

Kingdom of Saxony 1895

The adjacent areas can be found in the administrative structure of the Kingdom of Saxony .

Administrative division

In 1910 the administrative area included the cities of Bautzen, Bischofswerda and Schirgiswalde and 253 villages. In 1910, the Amtshauptmannschaft covered an area of ​​around 826.49 km², in which around 136,600 people lived.

Population development

year 1849 1871 1890 1900 1910 1925 1939
Residents 139,290 162,862 109,799 119,939 136,600 106.601 112,953

Of a total of 119,939 inhabitants in 1900, 107,102 were Protestant (89.8%) and 12,106 were Catholic (10.1%), the latter mainly around Schirgiswalde and Radibor.

Communities

Municipalities of the administrative authority of Bautzen with more than 2,000 inhabitants (as of 1939):

local community Residents
Bischofswerda 10,046
Crostau 2.147
Demitz-Thumitz 2,832
Großpostwitz 3,145
Kirschau 2,595
Neukirch (Lausitz) 6,778
Schirgiswalde 4,079
Schmoelln 2,038
Sohland 5,864
Steinigtwolmsdorf 2,365
Wehrsdorf 2,331
Wilthen 4,321

The independent city of Bautzen had 40,260 inhabitants in 1939.

literature

  • Thomas Klein (Ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row B: Central Germany. Tape. 14: Saxony. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1982, ISBN 3-87969-129-0 , pp. 278-279.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (Ed.): Statistics in Saxony . 175 years of official statistics in Saxony (Festschrift). No. 1 , 2006, ISSN  0949-4480 , p. 69–98 ( Online [PDF; 6.3 MB ; accessed on December 23, 2012]).
  2. ↑ Amtshauptmannschaft Bautzen ( Memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Kingdom of Saxony - District Headquarters Bautzen. gemeindeververzeichnis.de, accessed on December 20, 2009 .
  4. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bautzen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ^ The census on December 1, 1900 in the German Reich (=  Statistics of the German Reich . Volume 150 ). 1903, p. 113 .