District of Köslin

The district of Köslin within the boundaries of 1905

The district of Köslin (formerly: District of Cöslin) was a Prussian district in Pomerania from 1872 to 1945 . He was one of the three successor groups of the Fürstenthum Cammin district . His district town Köslin formed its own urban district since 1923. The former district area is now largely in the Koszaliński powiat in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

On September 1, 1872, the Fürstenthum district was dissolved and divided into the three new districts of Bublitz , Cöslin and Colberg-Cörlin . At the beginning of its existence, the new district of Cöslin comprised the city of Cöslin, 81 rural communities and 62 manor districts .

In the 1920s the spelling of Cöslin was changed to Köslin . On April 1, 1923, the city left the district and has since formed its own district . The name of the circle Koszalin changed thereby in the country circuit. On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Köslin district as in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all manor districts except one were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On October 1, 1932, the district of Köslin was enlarged by the largest part of the dissolved neighboring district of Bublitz.

In the spring of 1945 the area of ​​the Köslin district was occupied by the Red Army . After the war ended, the district was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying forces in the summer of 1945 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1871	42.001
1890	45,305
1900	48,678
1910	51,311
1925	30,022
1933	46.093
1939	46.165

District administrators

• 1872–1891 August von Gerlach (1830–1906)00
• 1891–1920 Gustav von Eisenhart-Rothe (1855–1936)00
• 1920–1930 Hermann Lotz (1865–?)00
• 1930–1945 Ludwig Beckhaus (1887–1957)00

Local constitution

The district of Köslin was divided into the city of Köslin (until 1923), into rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

Districts, cities and municipalities

Districts

In the 1930s, the communities in the Köslin district were divided into 27 administrative districts . The city of Bublitz was vacant.

Biziker district Crampe district Drawehn District District Gerfin Goldbeck district District of Griebnitz Großmöllen district District Gust Jamund District

District of Koppelsberg Kordeshagen district District of Krettmin Manow District District of Parsow District of Porst District Rogzow Schulzenhagen district District of Schwessin

Sorenbohm district Streitz district Strippow district Ticino administrative district District of Thunow District Vangerow Varchmin District Wisbuhr district Wusseken district

Cities and municipalities 1945

In 1945 the district of Köslin comprised the city of Bublitz, 99 other communities and a community-free manor district:

Farm Old Banzin Old Belz Augustine Barzlin bast Farmer's hooves Bizarre Bublitz , city Crampe Dargen Datev Deep Dörsenthin Drawehn Dubbertech Funkenhagen Gerfin Gieskow Gohrband Goldbeck Gollendorf Großmöllen Güdenhagen Gust Hohenfelde Jamund Jatzthum Kaltenhagen Clannin Kleinmöllen Kleist Kluss Konikov

Forst Koppelsberg , manor district Corduroy Kothlow Scratchy Krettmin Kurow (with Zeblin ) Course bug Laase Labus Lassehne (with Wendhagen ) Lumpy Lubow Lüptow Manow Maskow Mersin Meyringen Mocker Nedlin nest New Banzin New Griebnitz Neudorf Neuenhagen Neuklenz Parnow Parsov Plümenhagen Pobanz Poppenhagen Porst Puddemsdorf Reckow Repkow

Rogzow (with Obermühle ) Rossnow Walking sticks Thrusts Schulzenhagen Swellin Flood min Schwerinsthal Schwessin Seeger Seidel Sorenbohm Steglin Strachmin Along the way Streitz Strippow Ticino Thunow Timmenhagen Todenhagen Ubedel Vangerow Varchmin Varchminshagen Warnin Wisbuhr Wolf Hagen Wusseken Disturb Zetthun Zewelin (with Bonin ) Breeding

Communities dissolved before 1945

• Noble Klein Möllen and Kleinmöllen-Amt, merged in 1928 to form the municipality of Kleinmöllen
• Borkenhagen, 1928 to Hohenfelde
• Gülz, about 1928 on Streckenthin
• Kiepersdorf, about 1928 to Funkenhagen
• Pleushagen, about 1928 in Kaltenhagen
• Bornhagen, on October 1, 1937 at Sorenbohm
• Parpart, to Funkenhagen on October 1, 1937
• Schützenwerder, to Bast on October 1, 1937
• Friedrichsfelde , on April 1, 1939 in Bublitz

traffic

The Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft reached Köslin in 1859 with the main line from Stettin , which was continued eastwards in 1870> 111.0 <. The connection to Kolberg was established in 1899 by the Altdamm-Colberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft > 111.e <. The old district of Bublitz was developed by the Prussian State Railways , which ran its route from Gramenz to Bublitz in 1896/97 and extended> 111.m <in 1903 to Pollnow and in 1921 to Zollbrück .

In these years, narrow-gauge lines - gauge 750 mm - were added by the AG of the united small railways of the districts of Köslin, Bublitz, Belgard , which also connected the district towns:

• 1898: Köslin - Manow - Pollnow and
• 1905: Manow - Schwellin - Bublitz with the Schwellin - Belgard branch

The electric railways in the district were shut down as early as 1937 and 1938, namely the Köslin tram opened in 1911 and the Köslin beach tram opened in 1905 and expanded and electrified in 1913 , which led to the seaside resorts of Groß Möllen and Nest.

(The numbers in> <refer to the German course book 1939).

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Berlin 1874, pp. 125–126, point 2.

• Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the province of Pomerania and their people. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 120-127.
• Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Province of Pomerania - District of Köslin. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
• Gunthard Stübs and Pomeranian Research Association: The district of Köslin in the former province of Pomerania (2011).

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Köslin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cöslin 1872 . No. 35 , p. 165 ( digital copy - decree for the dissolution of the Fürstenthum Cammin district).
2. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cöslin 1872 . No. 38 , p. 185 ( digitized version - precise description of the area of ​​the new districts).
3. ↑ ^{a b} The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Pomerania and their population in 1871
4. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of districts from August 1, 1932 . In: Prussian Law Collection 1932 . Berlin August 3, 1932 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Köslin district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Pomeranian information system: District of Köslin