Municipal Parliament of Old Western and Western Pomerania
The communal parliament of Altvor- and Hinterpommern was a Prussian communal parliament that was spatially responsible for Altvorpommern and Hinterpommern . In addition, the Prussian province of Pomerania still had the municipal parliament of New Western Pomerania and Rügen .
Since the Peace of Westphalia , Pomerania was divided between Sweden and Prussia. At the Congress of Vienna , Prussia received Swedish Pomerania and incorporated this area into the province of Pomerania. The division of the area also affected the estates . In 1823 a joint provincial assembly of the Pomeranian province was created for both parts of the country. According to the will of the Prussian government, however, a number of tasks that were the task of the provincial parliaments in other provinces should be dealt with separately in Pomerania according to the two parts of the territory. The provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania approved this procedure in the state parliament adopted in autumn 1824.
With the "Ordinance, because of the future constitution of the municipal state parliaments in Pomerania" of August 17, 1825, the two municipal state parliaments were created. They consisted of the provincial parliament members of the respective areas. The chairman of the communal parliament was elected for three years by the communal parliament itself and had to come from among the members of the knighthood. A select committee was elected for the time between the state parliaments (these should take place once a year). This consisted of two members of the knighthood, and one each from the cities and the rural communities. The select committee bore the name of the former select committee “Vor und Hinterpommersche Landstuben” and had all of its competencies.
The municipal parliament met in Szczecin .
The area of responsibility of the municipal parliament was all municipal affairs. This also included fire insurance (Old Pomeranian Cities Fire Society) and the Rügenwalde insane and infirmary.
In 1875 the Provincial Association of Pomerania was brought into being. In 1881 the municipal parliaments were abolished, the tasks now lay directly with the provincial parish of the Pomerania province.
literature
- The corporate legislation of the Prussian states: Systematic presentation of the corporate legislation. Volume 2, 1845, pp. 592 ff., Online