Bolkenhain district

Bolkenhain district 1905

The Bolkenhain district was a Prussian district in Silesia from 1818 to 1932 . Its district town was Bolkenhain, today's Bolków in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia .

Administrative history

After the conquest of most of Silesia by Prussia in 1741, the royal cabinet order of November 25, 1741 introduced the Prussian administrative structures in Lower Silesia . This included the establishment of two war and domain chambers in Breslau and Glogau as well as their subdivision into districts and the appointment of district administrators on January 1, 1742.

In the Principality of Schweidnitz , one of the Silesian sub-principalities, the four Prussian districts Bolkenhain-Landeshut, Reichenbach , Schweidnitz and Striegau were formed from old Silesian soft images . All four districts were subordinate to the Wroclaw War and Domain Chamber until they were assigned to the Reichenbach administrative district of the province of Silesia in the course of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1815 .

The district of Bolkenhain-Landeshut was split up by the government in Reichenbach on January 1, 1818, into the two districts of Bolkenhain and Landeshut , which corresponded to the old Silesian Weichbildern Bolkenhain and Landeshut. After the dissolution of the Reichenbach administrative district, the Bolkenhain district was assigned to the Liegnitz administrative district on May 1, 1820 .

Wilhelmsburg Palace and Nimmersath ruins around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz . As of September 30, 1929, all manor districts in the Bolkenhain district were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities in line with developments in the rest of Prussia .

On October 1, 1932, the Bolkenhain district was dissolved as part of a Prussian district reform and initially incorporated into the Landeshut district. When it was reorganized on October 1, 1933, all of its former parishes came to the Jauer district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1819	26,131
1846	32,788
1871	32,401
1885	31,805
1900	29,526
1910	29,991
1925	29,779

District administrators

1818–1824 00Johann Ernst Oswald von Richthofen, from 1805 to 1817 District Administrator of the Bolkenhain-Landeshut district

1824–1856 Friedrich von Seherr and Thoß00

1856–1866 00Julius von Bülow

1866–1874 00Timotheus von Schweinitz and Crain

1874–1901 00Johann von Loesch

1901–1919 00Georg von Loesch

1919–1920 00Christel Bothe

1920–1931 Alfred Kieckebusch (* 1877)00

1931–1932 Theodor Parisius (1896–1985)00

Communities

The Bolkenhain district last comprised two cities and 43 rural communities:

Old Reichenau Alt Röhrsdorf Blumenau Bohrauseifersdorf Bolkenhain , city Brooch Dätzdorf Einsiedel Falkenberg Giesmannsdorf Girlachsdorf Graves Halbendorf House village Hohenfriedeberg , city

Hohenhelmsdorf Hohenpetersdorf Kauder Langhelwigsdorf Merzdorf Möhnersdorf New Reichenau Lower Baumgarten Lower Kunzendorf Nimmersath Ober Baumgarten Upper Hohendorf Upper Kunzendorf Upper Rohnstock Oberlauterbach

Polkau Quolsdorf Rohnstock Pack city Ruhbank Schollwitz Pig house Shitzerland Simsdorf Stretch brook Thomasdorf Wederau Wiesau Wolmsdorf Würgsdorf

The following incorporations took place in the district up to 1929:

• Adlersruh, on April 1, 1924 in Rudelstadt
• Klein Waltersdorf, on April 1, 1929 in Bolkenhain
• New Röhrsdorf, on April 1, 1929 to Alt Röhrsdorf
• Preilsdorf, on April 1, 1929 to Kauder
• Prittwitzdorf, on April 1, 1929 in Rudelstadt
• Wernersdorf, on April 1, 1929 in Merzdorf
• Wiesenberg, on April 1st, 1929 in Hohenpetersdorf

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 216-217, item 5.
• Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the Province of Silesia and their people. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 240–245 ( facsimile in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Kreis Bolkenhain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Gehrke: State Parliament and the Public: Provincial Parliamentarism in Silesia 1825-1845 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20413-6 , pp. 45 ( partially digitized ).
2. ^ Monuments of the Prussian State Administration in the 18th century . Files from May 31, 1740 to the end of 1745. In: Royal Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . tape 6.2 . Paul Parey, Berlin 1901, Royal Order for the appointment of district administrators in Lower Silesia , p. 259 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ WFC Starke: Contributions to the knowledge of the existing court system and the latest results of the administration of justice in the Prussian state . Carl Heymann, Berlin 1839, District division of the Prussian Duchy of Silesia in the 18th century, p. 290 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
5. ^ Roman Kamionka: The reorganization of the district division of Silesia in the Stein-Hardenberg reform period , Breslau 1934, page 75
6. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of districts from August 1, 1932 . In: Prussian State Ministry (Hrsg.): Preußische Gesetzessammlung . Berlin 1932, district reform in the Liegnitz administrative district, p. 257 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia. Volume 4: Dieter Stüttgen: Silesia. Johann Gottfried Harder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1976, ISBN 3-87969-116-9 .
8. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 94 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
10. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
11. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
12. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
13. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. jauer.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
14. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
15. ↑ District of Bolkenhain administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 26, 2013.