Brody district

Location of the Brody district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Brody district was a political district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Its territory comprised parts of eastern Galicia in what is now western Ukraine ( Lviv Oblast , Brody Raion and parts of Busk Raion , Radechiv Raion and Sboriv Raion ), the seat of the District Commission was the city of Brody . In November 1918, after the collapse of the Danube Monarchy at the end of the First World War , the Brody district was briefly part of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic .

It bordered on the north by the district Radziechów , on the east by the Russian Empire in the southeast of the district Zbaraż , the south by the district Tarnopol , in the southwest of the district Zborów and the District Zloczow , the west by the district Kamionka Strumiłowa and in Northwest to the Radziechów district.

history

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

Brody Judicial District
Sokołówka judicial district

Leszniów judicial district

After the announcement in 1854, on September 29, 1855, the Brody District Office (still responsible for administration and jurisdiction) was established within the Żółkiew District.

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 Brody was formed from the following districts:

Brody district (with 34 parishes)
Załoźce District (with 35 municipalities)
Parts of the Łopatyn district (with 25 municipalities)
Parts of the Olesko District ( Czyżki , Konty with Brachówka , Ożydów with Angełówka , Jasionów , Kadłubiska , Łabacz , Rażniów , Dubie , Czechy , Bołożynów , Przewłoczna , Knobyle and Sokołówka )

The Brody district consisted of 106 parishes and 98 manor areas at the 1910 census and covered an area of 1752 km². In 1900 the population had still comprised 137,903 people, in 1910 146,216 people lived here. The majority of the population lived in the area with Ruthenian colloquial language (59%) and the Greek Catholic faith, Jews made up around 15% of the population.

On September 1, 1911, the judicial district Załoźce was spun off from the district and joined the political district Zborów , at the same time the judicial district Podkamień (planned since 1903) and the political district Brody were subordinated.

On January 1, 1912, the Łopatyn judicial district was spun off from the district and joined to the newly created political district of Radziechów .