Ragnit district

Ragnit district
Prussian Province	East Prussia (1818–1829) Prussia (1829–1878) East Prussia (1878–1922)
Administrative district	Gumbinnen
County seat	Ragnite
surface	1,220 km² (1910)
Residents	55,338 (1910)
Population density	45 inhabitants / km² (1910)

District of Ragnit (1890)

The district of Ragnit was from 1818 to 1922 a district in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in East Prussia . The district office was in the town of Ragnit . In 1910 the district had 55,338 inhabitants on an area of 1,220 km².

Administrative history

With the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Ragnit was created on February 1, 1818 in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia . The circle was formed from the area of the parishes Budwethen , Kraupischken , Lengwethen , Ragnit , Szillen and Wischwill . Since December 3, 1829 the district belonged to the new province of Prussia with the seat in Königsberg i. Pr. Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire .

On July 21, 1875, the rural community of Heydebruch and the Klein Szagmanten manor district were reclassified from the Tilsit district to the Ragnit district. On August 10, 1876, the rural community of Kamanten moved from the Pillkallen district to the Ragnit district. After the division of the province of Prussia into the new provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, the Ragnit district became part of East Prussia on April 1, 1878.

On January 10, 1920, the Versailles Treaty came into force. Thus, the north of were Memel lying parts of the district and the district Ragnit Tilsit to the Memel assigned. The new Pogegen district emerged from them . On March 25, 1920, the administration of the remaining Tilsit district south of the Memel was temporarily transferred to the district administrator in Ragnit. On July 1, 1922, the cut districts south of the Memel were reorganized. In the German Reich remaining areas of the circle Ragnit and the district Tilsit were with the villages Alloningken, birch forest, Blausden , Gaiwethen, United board tailors, big stupid, United Ischdaggen, United Wingsnupönen , Grünheide forester, Kattenuppen, Kaukwethen, Kaukweth-Kludszen, Kellmienen , Klein Brettschneidern, Klein Stuponen, Krauleiden, Kühlen, Lapienen Försterei , Papuschienen, Pauperischken, Puskeppeln, Sandlauken , Schillkojen , Seikwethen , Skardupönen, Skroblienen and Smaledumen of the Niederung district have been combined into a new Tilsit-Ragnit district. The town of Tilsit became the district seat .

During the Second World War , the district was occupied by the Red Army in autumn 1944 . After the end of the war, the district came under Soviet administration, which essentially assigned the sub-area north of the Memel to the district of Jurbarkas in Lithuania and the area south of the Memel to the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast .