District of Hindenburg OS

The Prussian district of Zabrze , from 1915 district of Hindenburg OS , existed in Upper Silesia from 1873 to 1926 . The former district area is now part of the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

Due to the strong population growth in the Upper Silesian industrial area in the course of the 19th century, the district of Beuthen proved to be too big. Therefore, in 1873, the three new districts Kattowitz , Tarnowitz and Zabrze were separated from the district of Beuthen . The Zabrze district emerged from the south-western part of the Beuthen district. His district office was established in the rural community of Alt-Zabrze .

In honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg , the district and rural community of Zabrze were renamed Hindenburg OS on February 21, 1915. The addition "OS" (= Upper Silesia) served to distinguish it from the rural community of Groß Friedrichsgraben I in the East Prussian district of Labiau, which was renamed Hindenburg on August 9, 1918 . On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the administrative district of Opole .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 51.1% of the voters in the Hindenburg district voted to remain with Germany and 48.9% for a cession to Poland. The circle was divided by the resolutions of the Paris Ambassadors' Conference . The rural communities and manor districts Bielschowitz, Bujakow, Chudow, Groß Paniow, Klein Paniow , Kunzendorf, Makoschau , Paulsdorf and Ruda fell to Poland on June 28, 1922, while the town of Hindenburg OS and Biskupitz, Mathesdorf, Sosnitza and Zaborze remained in the German Empire .

On January 1, 1927, the Hindenburg OS district was dissolved. The rural community and the manor district Sosnitza joined the city district of Gleiwitz . The city of Hindenburg OS was merged with Biskupitz, Mathesdorf and Zaborze and from then on formed its own urban district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1885	59.199
1900	115,609
1910	159,810

1925	124.126

In the 1910 census, 51% of the residents of the Zabrze district described themselves as purely Polish -speaking and 40% as purely German-speaking . In 1910 95% of the population were Catholic and 4% Protestant .

District administrators

1873–1887 Friedrich von Holwede (1841–1921)00

1873-1891 00Arthur Sebastian von Falkenhayn

1891–1892 Theodor Parisius (1896–1985)00

1892–1902 00Alfred Scheche

1902–1907 00Hermann von Ziller

1907–1912 Hermann Dihle (1873–1944)00

1912–1920 Georg Wilhelm Suermondt (1868–1943)00

1920–1926 Albrecht Müller von Blumencron00

Local constitution

The Zabrze district was initially only divided into rural communities and manor districts . On October 1, 1922, the rural community of Hindenburg OS was granted town charter according to the town regulations for the six eastern provinces of the Prussian monarchy of May 30, 1853. With regard to the district constitution, the district order for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 applied.

Communities

The following communities belonged to the district of Zabrze or Hindenburg OS:

Alt-Zabrze , on April 1, 1905 in Zabrze
Bielschowitz, ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Biskupitz, on January 1, 1927 to Hindenburg OS
Bujakow, ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Chudow, ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Dorotheendorf , on April 1, 1905 in Zabrze
Groß Paniow , ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Klein Paniow , ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Klein-Zabrze , on April 1, 1905 in Zabrze
Kunzendorf, ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Makoschau , ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Mathesdorf, January 1, 1927 to Hindenburg OS
Paulsdorf, ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Ruda , ceded to Poland on June 28, 1922
Sosnitza , on January 1, 1927 in Gleiwitz
Zaborze , on January 1, 1927 to Hindenburg OS
Zabrze , founded on April 1, 1905, renamed Hindenburg OS on February 21, 1915 , town since October 1, 1922

literature

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. 338–339 ( facsimile in the Google book search).
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)

Web links

District of Hindenburg OS Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 6, 2013.

Individual evidence

^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
↑ ^a ^b ^c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
^ ^A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_zabrze.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Jakob Spett: Nationality map of the eastern provinces of the German Empire based on the results of the official census of 1910 designed by Ing.Jakob Spett . Justus Perthes, January 1, 1910 ( bibliotekacyfrowa.pl [accessed March 14, 2017]). , see also Silesia # The ethnolinguistic structure of Upper Silesia (1819–1910)

Hindenburg OS

[1] Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885

[gvz-2] www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de

[demand-3] A ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_zabrze.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[4] Jakob Spett: Nationality map of the eastern provinces of the German Empire based on the results of the official census of 1910 designed by Ing.Jakob Spett . Justus Perthes, January 1, 1910 ( bibliotekacyfrowa.pl [accessed March 14, 2017]). , see also Silesia # The ethnolinguistic structure of Upper Silesia (1819–1910)