Rzeszów district

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

The Rzeszów District was a political district in the Crown Land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Its area covered parts of western Galicia in what is now Poland ( Powiat Rzeszów ), the seat of the district administration was the city of Rzeszów . After the First World War , Austria had to cede the entire district to Poland, here large parts can be found today in the powiat Rzeszowski .

It bordered the Kolbuszowa District in the north, the Łańcut District in the east, the Przeworsk District and the Przemyśl District in the southeast, the Brzozów District in the south, the Strzyżów District in the southwest, and the Ropczyce District in the northwest .

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 Rzeszow was subordinate to the government area of Kraków and included the following judicial districts:

Judicial district of Rzeszow
Tyczyn Judicial District
Głogow judicial district
Stryszow judicial district

After the announcement in 1854, on September 29, 1855, the Rzeszów District Office (still responsible for administration and jurisdiction) was established within the Rzeszów 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 of Rzeszów was formed from the following districts:

Parts of the Rzeszów district (with 29 municipalities)
Tyczyn district (with 30 municipalities)
Strzyżów District (with 29 municipalities)
Parts of the Głogów district (municipalities of Bratkowice, Budy, the town of Głogów, Jasionka, Lipia, Nowawieś, Rogożnica, Rudna Wielka, Rudna Mała, Trzebowiska with Górka, Wola Cicha, Wysoka, Zabajka and Zaczernie)

On September 15, 1896, the judicial district Strzyżów was spun off from the district and joined the newly created political district Strzyżów .

In the 1910 census, the Rzeszów district consisted of 85 municipalities and 73 manor areas and covered an area of 977 km². In 1900 the population had been 133,135, in 1910 144,271 people lived here. The majority of the people living in the area spoke Polish (98.7%) and Roman Catholic faith, Jews made up around 10% of the population.