Bolchen district
Basic data | |
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State | Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine |
district | Lorraine |
Administrative headquarters | Bolchen |
surface | 715 km² (1910) |
Residents | 41,825 (1910) |
Population density | 58 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
Communities | 100 (1910) |
Location of the Bolchen district | |
The county Bolchen was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in District Lorraine of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The former district is now in the Forbach-Boulay-Moselle arrondissement of the French department of Moselle .
history
After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Bolchen district was formed in 1871 from the previously French arrondissement Boulay-Moselle. After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, belonged to the French state again as the Arrondissement Boulay-Moselle .
During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of the arrondissement Boulay-Moselle initially formed the district of Bolchen . On 1 December 1940, the district Bolchen with the neighboring county was Forbach the district Saint Avold together. The district area was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was part of the CdZ area of Lorraine . This was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Saarpfalz (from 1942 Westmark ) in Saarbrücken .
Between November and December 1944, the district was recaptured by Allied forces and returned to France. The two pre-war arrondissements of Forbach and Boulay-Moselle were again established by France .
Population development
Residents | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
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Bolchen district | 41,621 | 39,583 | 41,825 |
Municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants (as of 1910):
Bolchen | 2,218 |
Busendorf | 2.176 |
Falkenberg | 1,015 |
Kreuzwald | 2,956 |
Lubeln | 1,801 |
District administrators
The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director .
- 1871–1872 Sebastian von Saldern
- 1872–1880 Ernst von Saldern (1843–1886)
- 1880–1883 Victor Sittel († 1895)
- 1883–1886 Hugo von Bibra
- 1886–1898 Anton von Villers-Grignoncourt (1849–1911)
- 1898–1906 Seeger
- 1906–1911 Walther Kleemann († 1929)
- 1911–1918 Karl Rebender († 1918)
Communities
In 1910 the Bolchen district comprised 100 communities:
literature
- Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical handbook, administrative scheme and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 117–128 ( online )
- Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 345–372 ( online ).
- M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_bolchen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).