Żywiec district

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Saybush District (1867-1920)
Location of the Saybusch district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria

The district of Żywiec (until around 1900 also the district of Saybusch ) was a political district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Its area comprised the westernmost parts of western Galicia in today's Silesia and Lesser Poland Voivodeship , the seat of the district administration was the city of Żywiec (German Saybusch ).

After the First World War , Austria had to cede the entire district to Poland . It bordered on the north by the district Biala , in the northeast on the district Wadowice , on the east by the district Myślenice , on the south by the Kingdom of Hungary and on the west by Austrian Silesia .

history

A forerunner of the later district (administrative and judicial authority at the same time) was created at the end of 1850, the district administration Żywiec was subordinate to the government area of ​​Kraków and comprised the following judicial districts:

  • Saybusch judicial district
  • Milówka Judicial District
  • Jeleśnia judicial district

After the general principles of judicial and administrative reform had been approved by Emperor Franz Joseph I in June 1849 , the ministries of the interior, finance and justice established the new administrative and judicial division in 1854. The two administrative areas of Krakow (West Galicia) and Lemberg (East Galicia) were created at the top level, followed by the districts and administrative districts . The district offices were initially mixed authorities with political, administrative and judicial tasks, which is why the Żywiec district was initially congruent with the Żywiec judicial district . The establishment of this mixed district offices was finally office effective September 29, 1855 the district Żywiec together with the districts Andrychów , Biala , Jordanów , Kalwarya , Kenty , Maków , Milówka , Oswiecim , Skawina , Ślemień and Wadowice the district Wadowice formed.

After the district offices were abolished at the end of October 1865 and their competencies were transferred to the district offices, the division of the country into two administrative areas was also abolished after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867. In addition, in the course of the separation of the political from the judicial administration, separate administrative and judicial authorities were created. While the judicial division remained largely unaffected, municipalities of several judicial districts were combined into administrative districts.

The new political district Sajbusch was formed from the following districts:

There were two towns (Żywiec and, from 1896, Sucha ) and two market towns ( Milówka and Ślemień ). In 1891 Tarnawa Dolna and Tarnawa Górna were separated and attached to the Wadowice district .

In 1906 the seat of the Ślemień judicial district was moved to Sucha and the municipalities Łękawica , Okrajnik , Łysina , Kocierz Rychwałdzki , Kocierz Moszczanicki , Gilowice , Rychwałd , Rychwałdek and Pewel Ślemieńska joined the Żywieclemieńska judicial district.

The Żywiec district consisted of 85 municipalities and 20 manor areas in the 1910 census and covered an area of ​​1152.72 km².

In 1900 the population was 108,629, in 1910 119,653 people lived here.

Most of the people living in the area spoke Polish (99%) and Roman Catholic (98%), in 1900 there were 1778 Jews (1.6%).

District administrators
  • Maurycy Wayda (1871)
  • Aleksander Janicki by Rola (1879)
  • Leopold Morawetz (1882)

Localities

In 1910 there were district courts in Żywiec, Milówka and Sucha, and the following locations were assigned to them:

Milówka Judicial District
Sucha judicial district
Saybusch / Żywiec judicial district

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741
  2. ^ A b Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1854, XXXIX. Piece, No. 111 "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance, Concerning the Political and Judicial Organization of the Kingdoms of Galicia and Lodomeria, with the Grand Duchy of Cracow and the Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator"
  3. ↑ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1855, XXVII. Piece, No. 118: "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior and Justice, on the introduction of the district offices in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Grand Duchy of Cracow and the Duchy of Bukovina"
  4. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Austrian Empire 1865, XXVI. Piece, No. 90: "Ordinance of the State Ministry of September 23, 1865, on the repeal of the district authorities in Galicia"
  5. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. "Law of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."
  6. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1867, XVII. Piece, No. 36: "Ordinance of the Ministry of Justice of February 15, 1867, on the establishment of purely district courts in the district of the Krakow Higher Regional Court"
  7. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1891, XII. Piece, No. 39: "Ordinance of the State Ministry of January 23, 1867"
  8. ^ The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council - the summary results of the census. With 6 cartograms - Table I.
  9. ^ The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council - the summary results of the census. With 6 cartograms - Table II.
  10. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
  11. ↑ General list of local communities and localities in Austria based on the results of the census of December 31, 1910, p. 356 ff.

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