Ostrowo district

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Ostrowo district
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Administrative division of the Province of Posen (as of 1919) District Bydgoszcz District Posen





The Ostrowo district in the southeast of the Prussian province of Posen existed from 1887 to 1918. The former district area is now part of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

expansion

The Ostrowo district had an area of ​​415 km².

prehistory

The area around the western Polish city of Ostrów Wielkopolski ( Ostrowo ) was in the Prussian province of South Prussia after the Second Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807 and in the Duchy of Warsaw between 1807 and 1815 after the Peace of Tilsit . The area belonged to the Congress of Vienna on May 15, 1815 to October 1, 1887 as the county Adelnau in the government district of Posen Posen again to Prussia.

Administrative history

On October 1, 1887, the Ostrowo district was formed from the following components of the Adelnau district :

  • the city of Ostrovo
  • the Ostrowo-Ost police district
  • the eastern half of the Ostrowo-West police district with the rural communities Franklinow, Gremblew and Kollontajewo, the rural communities and manor districts of Bendzieszyn, Biniew, Czekanow, Karski, Kwiatkow and Slaborowice, and the manor districts of Bagatella, Lewkow, Mlynow and Szczury
  • the eastern half of the Ostrowo-Süd police district with the rural parishes of Chynowa, Chynowpustkowie, Klein Przygodzice and Klein Wysocko, the rural parishes and manor districts of Groß Przygodzice, Klein Wysocko and Wysocko Małe, and the manor districts of Alt Kociem, Antonieciembainwerk and Kaminiec.

The city of Ostrowo became the district town and seat of the District Office .

On November 7, 1918, the majority of the Polish population rose against German rule and on November 10, 1918 temporarily declared the city an autonomous Republika Ostrowska . In the course of the Wielkopolska Uprising , Ostrów Wielkopolski finally came under Polish control on December 31, 1918 and was officially ceded to the newly founded Poland on June 28, 1919 with the signing of the Versailles Treaty .

The Ostrowo district became the Polish powiat Ostrowski . In 1932 the powiat was expanded to include the dissolved western neighboring powiat Odolanów, and in 1934 the municipality of Mikstat from the neighboring powiat Kępiński .

Population development

year Residents source
1890 32,787
1895 34,780
1900 37,420
1910 43,887

Of the population in 1890, 79% were Poles, 17% Germans and 4% Jews. The majority of German residents left the district after 1918.

politics

District administrators

1887–1901 Leo von Lützow00
1901–1903 Gustav von Scheele (1844–1925)00
1903–1907 Hermann von Hodenberg († 1909)00
1907–1918 Walther Tiemann (1868–1939)00

elections

The Ostrowo district was part of the Posen 10th Reichstag constituency . The constituency was won in all Reichstag elections between 1874 and 1912 by Ferdinand von Radziwill , the candidate of the Polish parliamentary group .

Municipal structure

On January 1, 1908, the city of Ostrowo belonged to the Ostrowo district. The 53 rural parishes and 21 manor districts were combined to form police districts.

Communities

At the beginning of the 20th century the following communities belonged to the district:

  • Bendzieszyn
  • Bibianki
  • Biernacice
  • Bilczew
  • Biniev
  • Biskupice szalone
  • Boczkow
  • Chotow
  • Chynow
  • Chynow pustkowie
  • Czekanow
  • Fabianow
  • Franklinow
  • Gniazdow
  • Gostyczyn
  • Gremblew
  • Great Przygodzice
  • Great Wysocko
  • Kania
  • Karski
  • Little Przygodzice
  • Little Wysocko
  • Kollontajewo
  • Kosciuszkow
  • Krempa
  • Kwiatkow
  • Latowitz
  • Leziona
  • Massenau
  • New Kamienice
  • New scaling protection
  • Olobok
  • Osiek
  • Ostrowo , city
  • Parczew-Westrza
  • Prosnau
  • Pruslin
  • Psary
  • Radukhov
  • Rossoszyce
  • Sadowie
  • Weak forest

With a few exceptions, the Polish place names continued to apply after 1815, and several place names were Germanized at the beginning of the 20th century.

See also

Web links

  • Ostrowo district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 18, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia: Province of Posen
  2. ↑ a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de