District administration Zittau
Basic data | |
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District Headquarters | Bautzen |
Administrative headquarters | Zittau |
surface | 406 km² (1939) |
population | 85,357 (1939) |
Population density | 210 inhabitants / km² (1939) |
Location of the Zittau administration in 1895 | |
The Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau 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 Görlitz in Saxony and to the powiat Zgorzelecki of the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia . From 1939 to 1952 the administrative district was called the district of Zittau .
history
1,874 were in Saxony Kingdom as part of a comprehensive administrative reform new district governor teams set up and Amtshauptmann teams. The district administration Zittau was formed from the judicial districts Groß-Schönau, Ostritz, Reichenau and Zittau, which had previously belonged to the Löbau district administration in the Bautzen district administration. The Saxon Amtshauptmann teams were in function and size similar to a county .
In 1915 the city of Zittau was spun off as a district-free city from the administrative governing body and in 1939 the administrative governing body of Zittau was renamed the district of Zittau . After the Second World War , the district east of the Lusatian Neisse was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying forces in July 1945 . The remaining district of Zittau continued to exist in the GDR until the territorial reform of 1952 and was then transferred in a modified form to the new district of Zittau , which was assigned to the Dresden district . As early as 1946, the city of Zittau was reintegrated into the district.
Office governors and district administrators
- 1874–1884 Johann Alfred von Zahn
- 1884–1895 Joachim Kaspar Anton Richard von Schlieben
- 1895–1911 Moritz Maximilian von Beschwitz
- 1911–1918 Karl Rudolf Eduard von Watzdorf
- 1918–1924 Friedrich Wilhelm Richter
- 1925–1933 Hermann Kahmann
- 1933–1945 Kurt Berger
Population development
year | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1925 | 1939 |
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Residents | 102,290 | 113,455 | 123.299 | 88,582 | 85.357 |
The independent city of Zittau had 37,924 inhabitants in 1939.
Communities
Municipalities of the district administration Zittau with more than 2,000 inhabitants (as of 1939):
local community | Residents |
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Großschönau | 7.093 |
Hainewalde | 2,744 |
Hirschfelde | 3,033 |
Leutersdorf | 3,489 |
Niederoderwitz | 3,907 |
Olbersdorf | 5,896 |
Ostritz | 3,871 |
Reichenau | 6,782 |
Seifhennersdorf | 7,850 |
Seitendorf | 2,637 |
Spitzkunnersdorf | 2.167 |
All cities and municipalities (1939) of the Zittau administration in alphabetical order (* belonging to Poland after 1945):
Bertsdorf ,
Blumberg *,
Burkersdorf ,
Dittelsdorf ,
Dornhennersdorf *,
Drausendorf ,
Eckartsberg ,
Friedersdorf *,
Gießmannsdorf *,
Großschönau ,
Grunau *,
Hainewalde ,
Hartau ,
Hirschfelde ,
Hörnitz ,
Jonsdorf ,
Kleinschönau *,
Königshain *,
Leuba ,
Leutersdorf ,
Lichtenberg *,
Lückendorf ,
Marienthal ,
Markersdorf *,
Mittelherwigsdorf ,
Niederoderwitz ,
Oberherwigsdorf ,
Oberseifersdorf ,
Oberullersdorf *,
Olbersdorf ,
Oppelsdorf *,
Ostritz ,
Oybin ,
Pethau ,
Radgendorf ,
Reibersdorf *,
Reichenau *,
Reutnitz *,
Rohnau *,
Rosenthal ,
Schlegel ,
Schönfeld *,
Seifhennersdorf ,
Seitendorf *,
Sommerau *,
Spitzkunnersdorf ,
Trattlau *,
Türchau *,
Waltersdorf ,
Wanscha *,
Weigsdorf *,
Wittgendorf .
literature
- Thomas Klein : 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. 285-286.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries. (PDF; 6.6 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony, accessed on December 18, 2011 .
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. zittau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).