Münsterberg district

Münsterberg district
Prussian Province	Silesia (1816–1919) Lower Silesia (1919–1932)
Administrative district	Wroclaw
County seat	Munsterberg
surface	344 km² (1910)
Residents	32,452 (1925)
Population density	94 inhabitants / km² (1925)
The Münsterberg district (1905)

The Münsterberg district was a Prussian district in Silesia that existed from 1742 to 1932. Its county seat was the city of Münsterberg . The former district area is now in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

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 Münsterberg , one of the Silesian sub-principalities, the Prussian districts of Frankenstein and Münsterberg were formed from the old Silesian soft images Frankenstein and Münsterberg . Ernst Wilhelm von Eckwricht-Seyffersdorf was appointed as the first district administrator in the Münsterberg district. The Münsterberg district was subordinate to the Wroclaw War and Domain Chamber until it was assigned to the Reichenbach district of the province of Silesia as part of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1815 .

In the course of a border adjustment with the administrative district of Opole , the villages of Bruckstein, Gallendorf, Herbsdorf, Hertwigswalde, Liebenau, Neuhaus, Nieder and Ober Pomsdorf and Wehrdorf moved from the Grottkau district to the Münsterberg district by 1818 . After the dissolution of the Reichenbach administrative district, the Münsterberg district was assigned to the Breslau administrative district on May 1, 1820 .

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation as part of the Kingdom of Prussia and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire .

Free State of Prussia

On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz . On May 29, 1926, the rural community Kattersdorf moved from the Münsterberg district to the Neisse district . As of September 30, 1929, all manor districts in the Münsterberg district were dissolved in accordance with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On October 1, 1932, the Münsterberg district was dissolved. The communities of Algersdorf, Berzdorf, Deutsch Neudorf, Dobrischau, Haltauf, Kunern, Korschwitz, Kraßwitz, Kummelwitz, Münchhof, Neobschütz, Neu Karlsdorf, Pleßguth, Schildberg, Schönjohnsdorf and Waldneudorf were incorporated into the Strehlen district, while most of the district with all of them other communities to the district of Frankenstein came.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1795	20,029
1819	23,594
1846	32,665
1871	33,434
1885	33,154
1900	31,865
1910	32,036
1925	32,452

District administrators

• 1742–1767 00Ernst Wilhelm von Eckwricht – Seyffersdorf
• 1767–1779 00George Friedrich von Wentzky-Petersheyde
• 1780–1804 00Ernst Christian Gottlieb von Gaffron-Oberstradam
• 1804–1848 00Ernst Friedrich von Wentzky-Petersheyde
• 1850–1865 00Eduard Schwenzner
• 1865 0000000by Stillfried ( provisional )
• 1865–1871 00Theodor von Gaffron-Kunern
• 1871–1896 00Hugo von Sametzi
• 1896–1900 00Paul von Chappuis
• 1900–1931 00Carl Kirchner
• 1931–1932 Paul Pietsch00

Communities

The district of Münsterberg last comprised a city and 58 rural communities:

Algersdorf Old Heinrichau Bärdorf Bärwalde Belmsdorf Bernsdorf Berzdorf Bricks German Neudorf Dobrischau Eichau b. Munsterberg Frömsdorf Glambach Gollendorf Big Nossen

Stop Heinrichau Heinzendorf Herbsdorf Hertwigswalde Korschwitz Kraßwitz Krelkau Kummelwitz Kunern Leipe Liebenau Moschwitz Münchhof Münsterberg i. Schles. , City

Neobschütz New Altmannsdorf New Karlsdorf Neuhaus Neuhof Lower Kunzendorf Lower Pomsdorf Upper Johnsdorf Upper Kunzendorf Upper Pomsdorf Olbersdorf Petershagen Plessguth Rattle Reindörfel

Repent Schildberg Smart Schönjohnsdorf Tarchwitz Taschenberg Tepliwoda Waldneudorf Weigelsdorf Few nuts Wiesenthal Willwitz Zesselwitz Zinc joke

The municipality of Sakrau was incorporated into Schönjohnsdorf on January 1, 1929. Waldneudorf was called Polish Neudorf until 1921 and Petershagen was called Polish Peterwitz until 1922 .

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 205–206, paragraph 19.
• 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. 116–121 ( facsimile in the Google book search).

Web links

• History of the district and its places

• Description of the Münsterberg district from 1792

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. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 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 .
5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Territorial changes in Germany
7. ^ Roman Kamionka: The reorganization of the district division of Silesia in the Stein-Hardenberg reform period , Breslau 1934
8. ^ 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. 256 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ 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 .
10. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European states . The statistical view and special statistics of Central Europe. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1805, p. 38 ( digitized version ).
11. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 88 ( digitized version ).
12. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
13. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
14. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
15. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
16. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. frankenstein.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E