Large Werder district
The district of Großes Werder was a district in the Free City of Danzig from 1920 to 1939 and in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia from 1939 to 1945 . Its territory is now in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .
Administrative history
Free City of Danzig 1920 to 1939
After the First World War, which had German Reich with the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles on 10 January 1920, the west of the Nogat lying parts of the West Prussian circles Elbing-Land and Marienburg , the Great Marienburger Werder , on the newly formed Free City of Danzig surrender. From this area in the Vistula delta , the district of Großer Werder was formed, which was renamed the district of Großes Werder on October 20, 1923 . Unlike in Germany, where the term district was introduced consistently in 1939, it was valid in the Free City of Danzig according to Art. 68 of its constitution from 1920. The district office was located in the former Hotel Deutsches Haus at Marktstrasse 29 in Tiegenhof.
On December 24, 1920, the northeast border of the Free City of Danzig was changed in favor of the German Empire so that the rural community Zeyerniederkampen and the manor district Nogathaffkampen fell back from the district of Großer Werder to the district of Elbing-Land.
On October 1, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the district in line with developments in the German Reich (Prussia), in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.
The district in World War II
After the invasion of Poland , the area of the Free City of Danzig - and with it the district of Großes Werder - was annexed by the German Reich on September 1, 1939. On October 26, 1939, the district became part of the newly formed Reichsgau West Prussia - later Danzig-West Prussia - in the re-established administrative district of Danzig .
On November 1, 1939, as part of a reorganization , the part of the Danziger Niederung district east of the Vistula cut was reclassified into the Großes Werder district. This area included the communities of Bodenwinkel , Fischerbabke, Freienhuben, Glabitsch, Groschkenkampe, Haus- and Laschkenkampe, Junkeracker, Junkertroyl, Letzkauerweide, Nickelswalde, Pasewark, Poppau, Prinzlaff, Schönbaum, Schönbaumerweide, Steegen , Steegnerwerder, Stutthof and Vogels .
In some cases place names were viewed as “not German enough” and received a phonetic alignment or translation, such as Nogathaupt for Pieckel and Stube for Stuba.
In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army and has belonged to Poland ever since. In the following years the German population from the district sold .
population
In 1929 the district had 66,303 inhabitants.
District administrators
- 1925–? : Kurt Poll (1886–1943)
- 1933–1940: Otto Andres (1902–1975)
- 1941–1942: Jansson (acting)
- 1942–1945: Ernst Wallhöfer (1907–1992)
Communities
In 1939 the district comprised two cities and 102 rural communities:
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literature
- State Statistical Office of the Free City: State Manual of the Free City of Gdansk. Edition 1926 , Danzig 1926, p. 94 ff.
Web links
- Large Werder district administrative history and district council list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 16, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Large Werder district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Constitution of the Free City of Danzig of November 17, 1920, Article 68, accessed on September 30, 2019.
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Large Werder district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ www.territorial.de: Register of local authorities in the district of Großes Werder 1939