Gostyn district
The Gostyn district on the southern edge of the Prussian province of Posen existed from 1887 to 1919. The former district area is now part of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .
size
The Gostyn district had an area of 601 km².
Administrative history
On October 1, 1887, the district of Gostyn was formed in the Posen administrative region from the northern part of the dissolved Kröben district and a small part of the Schrimm district . The town of Gostyn became the seat of the district office and district town .
On December 27, 1918, the Wielkopolska uprising of the Polish majority against German rule began in the province of Posen , and with the exception of a small piece west of the city of Punitz bordering on Silesia , the district was under Polish control within a few days.
On June 28, 1919, the German government ceded the Gostyn district to the newly founded Poland with the signing of the Versailles Treaty . On November 25, 1919, Germany and Poland concluded an agreement on the evacuation and surrender of the areas to be ceded, which was ratified on January 10, 1920. The section remaining under German control was cleared and handed over to Poland between January 17 and February 4, 1920.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1890 | 39,135 | |
| 1895 | 40,966 | |
| 1900 | 42,858 | |
| 1910 | 48,326 |
Of the district's population in 1890, around 70% were Poles and 30% German. A large part of the German residents left the area after 1919.
politics
District administrators
- 1887–1893 Jaroslaw von Jarotzky
- 1893-1919 Richard Lucke
elections
The largest part of the Gostyn district belonged together with the Rawitsch district to the Posen 5 Reichstag constituency . The constituency was won by candidates from the Polish parliamentary group in the Reichstag elections between 1887 and 1912 :
- 1887 Prince Adam Czartoryski
- 1890 Adam Prince Czartoryski
- 1893 Prince Adam Czartoryski
- 1898 Idzizlaw Czartoryski
- 1903 Joseph von Mycielski
- 1907 Anton Stychel
- 1912 Anton Stychel
Municipal structure
On January 1, 1908, the four cities of Gostyn , Kröben , Punitz and Sandberg belonged to the Gostyn district . The remaining (as of 1908) 84 rural communities and 73 manor districts were combined to form police districts.
Communities
At the beginning of the 20th century the following communities belonged to the district:
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At the beginning of the 20th century, several place names were Germanized.
literature
- M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Gostyn. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
Web links
- District of Gostyn administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 16, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia: Province of Posen
- ↑ a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
Administrative districts: Bromberg | Poses
Districts: Poznan | Bromberg | Schneidemühl
Districts: Adelnau | Pear tree | Bomb | Bromberg | Czarnikau | Filehne | Fraustadt | Gostyn | Gniezno | Grätz | Hohensalza (formerly Inowrazlaw ) | Jarotschin | Kempen i. Poses | Kolmar i. Posen (formerly Chodziesen ) | Koshmin | Cost | Krotoschin | Lissa | Meseritz | Mogilno | Neuto Mischel | Obornik | Ostrowo | Pleschen | Poznan East | Poznan West | Rawitsch | Samter | Schildberg | Schmiegel | Schrimm | Schroda | Schubin | Schwerin an der Warthe | Strelno | We seat | Witkowo | Wongrowitz (formerly Wongrowiec ) | Wreschen (formerly Peysern ) | Tin