Friedek district

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Friedek district in the Czech Republic

The Friedek district ( Czech Politický okres Frýdek ) was a political district in Austrian Silesia in the years 1850–1855 and 1901–1918. The district included areas around Friedek , since 1904 without the statutory town of Friedek. It was after the First World War of Czechoslovakia slammed and existed until the 1,942th

history

In the years 1868–1901 the judicial district Friedek belonged to the district Teschen . On January 1, 1904, 7 predominantly Czech-speaking municipalities in the Oderberg judicial district in the predominantly Polish-speaking district of Freistadt were separated to create the new judicial district of Polish Ostrava in the predominantly Czech-speaking district of Friedek, while the city of Friedek was made a statutory town.

Results of the censuses of 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 in the municipalities of the judicial districts Friedek and Polish Ostrava and in the city of Friedek (within the boundaries in 1918):

1880 1890 1900 1910
Friedek 5,826 7,272 8,886 9,730
Czech speaking 4,665 (80.1%) 4,341 (59.7%) 4,981 (56.1%) 4,0333 (41.4%)
Polish speaking 108 (1.8%) 292 (4%) 543 (6.1%) 574 (5.9%)
German speaking 1,053 (18.1%) 2,639 (36.3%) 3,362 (37.8%) 5,123 (52.7%)
Friedek judicial district (excluding the city) 37,225 38,546 41,725 43,011
Czech speaking 36,209 (97.3%) 36,899 (95.7%) 39,112 (93.7%) 40,190 (93.5%)
Polish speaking 384 (1%) 622 (1.6%) 1,639 (3.9%) 1,521 (3.5%)
German speaking 632 (1.7%) 1,025 (2.7%) 971 (2.4%) 1,287 (3%)
Polish judicial district of Ostrava 15,860 23,424 40,908 54,818
Czech speaking 12,669 (79.9%) 17,876 (76.3%) 25,840 (63.2%) 36,275 (66.2%)
Polish speaking 1,631 (10.3%) 4,020 (17.2%) 12,112 (29.6%) 12,998 (23.7%)
German speaking 1,560 (9.8%) 1,524 (6.5%) 2,955 (7.2%) 5,527 (10.1%)

Traditionally the district was inhabited by the so-called Lachen south, who spoke the Lachish dialects . In 1910 (excluding the city) 93,596 (94.6%) people were Roman Catholic, 4,226 (4.3%) Protestant, 942 (0.9%) Israelite, 192 were of other faith. There were around 20,000 (20.5%) immigrants from Galicia , the largest number and number among the districts of Cieszyn Silesia , around 37% of all Galicians in the region, twice as many immigrants from Bohemia and Moravia (10,500 or 10.7%) ).

After the First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy , the area of ​​Cieszyn Silesia was disputed. On November 5, 1918, the Polish National Council of the Duchy of Teschen (Rada Narodowa Kięstwa Cieszyńskiego, RNKC) and the Czech Territorial Committee (Zemský národní výbor, ZNV) agreed that the entire Friedek district should belong to Czechoslovakia.

After the Munich Agreement of 1938, the beginning of the destruction of Czechoslovakia and the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Polish troops occupied the Olsagebiet and 65.7 km 2 of the territory of the district Frýdek, of which 35 km 2 of forests in the municipality Morávka . It was mostly wasteland, but the area totaled around 4,000 inhabitants. On July 1, 1941, some communities around Slezská Ostrava were incorporated into Ostrau.

Localities

Community structure (1910)

In 1910 the judicial districts in Friedek and Polish Ostrau existed in the area of ​​the district, to which the following locations were assigned:

Friedek judicial district
  1. Old hammer
  2. Old town
  3. Bartelsdorf
  4. Baschka
  5. Means Bludowitz
  6. Ober Bludowitz
  7. Brusowitz
  8. Ober Dattin
  9. Dobrau
  10. Under Ellgoth
  11. Upper Ellgoth
  12. Janowitz
  13. Kaniowitz
  14. Krasna
  15. Great Kunzendorf
  16. Leskovets
  17. Lubno
  18. Malenowitz
  19. Morawka
  20. Neudorf
  21. Noschowitz
  22. Pazdierna
  23. Prażma
  24. Pržno
  25. Raschkowitz
  26. Rattimau
  27. Rzepischt
  28. Schönhof
  29. Sedlish
  30. Skalitz
  31. Wenzlowitz
  32. Wojkowitz
  33. Żermanitz
Polish judicial district of Ostrava
  1. Herzmanitz
  2. Market town of Hruschau
  3. Klein Kuntschitz
  4. Market town Michalkowitz
  5. Muglinau
  6. Polish market town of Ostrava
  7. Radwanitz

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janusz Gruchała, Krzysztof Nowak: Śląsk Cieszyński od Wiosny Ludów do I wojny światowej (1848–1918) . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2013, ISBN 978-83-935147-3-1 , p. 12-13 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Kazimierz Piątkowski: Stosunki narodowościowe w Księstwie Cieszyńskiem ( Polish ). Macierz Szkolna Księstwa Cieszyńskiego, Cieszyn 1918, p. 289 [PDF: 152].
  3. ^ A b Ludwig Patryn (ed): The results of the census of December 31, 1910 in Silesia . Troppau 1912 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Śląsk Cieszyński od Wiosny Ludów ..., 2013, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Instytut Śląski w Katowicach, Antoni Wrzosek: Nowe granice województwa śląskiego , Katowice, December 1938 (Polish)