Falkenau District (Kingdom of Bohemia)

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The district of Falkenau ( Czech Okresní hejtmanství Falknov, politický okres Falknov ) was a political district in the Kingdom of Bohemia . The district comprised areas in western Bohemia in today's Karlovarský kraj ( Okres Sokolov ). The seat of the district administration was the town of Falkenau ( Falknov ). The area has belonged to the newly founded Czechoslovakia since 1918 and has been part of the Czech Republic since 1993 .

history

The modern, political districts of the Habsburg Monarchy were created in 1868 when the political and judicial administration was separated.

The Falkenau district was formed in 1868 from the Elbogen ( Czech soudní okres Loket ) and Falkenau ( Falknov ) judicial districts .

On December 2, 1913, the Elbogen district was separated from the Falkenau district and subsequently formed the Elbogen district .

59,422 people lived in the Falkenau district in 1869, with the district encompassing an area of ​​9.0 square miles and 43 parishes.

In 1900 the district accommodated 87,680 people who lived in an area of ​​499.25 km² or in 85 communities.

The Falkenau district covered an area of ​​499.21 km² in 1910 and housed a population of 95,995 people. In 1910, 1,361 of the residents stated Czech and 93,011 German as their colloquial language. Furthermore, there lived in the district in 1623 foreign speakers or foreigners. The district included two judicial districts with a total of 87 communities and 101 cadastral communities.

After the Elbogen judicial district was split off, the Falkenau district only comprised 291.59 km² and 54,237 people or 54 communities as of 1910.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 ..."
  2. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1868, XLI. Item, No. 101: Ordinance of July 10th, 1868, the implementation of the law of May 19th, 1868 (Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt Nr. 44) in Bohemia, Dalmatia, Austria under and above the Enns, Styria, Carinthia, Bukowina, Concerning Moravia, Silesia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Istria, Gorizia and Gradiska.
  3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrath 1913, LXXX. Piece, No. 226: "Announcement of the Ministry of the Interior, regarding the establishment of new district authorities in Bohemia with the official headquarters in Kralup and Elbogen"
  4. ↑ C. kr. místodržetelství (ed.): Seznam míst v kralovství Českém. Užívajíc při tom výsledkův sčítání lidu ode dne 31st prosince 1869, sestavených od c. kr. statistické ústřední komise. Prague 1872, p. 7
  5. ↑ Ck místodržitelství (ed.): Seznam míst v Království českém. K rozkazu ck místodržitelství na základě úřadních udání sestaven. Prague 1907, p. 630
  6. ↑ In the census people with Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak colloquial language were combined
  7. ↑ Ck místodržitelství (ed.): Seznam míst v království Českém. Sestaven na základě úředních dat k rozkazu ck místodržitelství. Prague 1913, p. 731
  8. ↑ kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Böhmen. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1915, p. 97

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