Regenwalde district

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The district rain forest , to 1938 Regenwalde was from 1818 to 1945, a Prussian county in Pomerania . Its county seat was the city of Labes . After the Second World War , the district was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in the summer of 1945 in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . The district area today corresponds roughly to the powiat Łobeski in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

history

The Borcksche and Ostensche districts in the 18th century
Regenwalde district in 1905

The two previous circles of the Regenwalde district were the Borckesche Kreis around the cities of Labes , Regenwalde and Wangerin and the Ostensche Kreis around the city of Plathe . With the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Regenwalde district was formed in the district of Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania on January 1, 1818 . The circle was composed of the following components:

In 1871, the Regenwalde district comprised the four cities of Labes , Plathe , Regenwalde and Wangerin , 82 rural communities and 109 manor districts .

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Regenwalde district, as in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

By 1 October 1938, the county entered Regenwalde from Administrative district Stettin to administrative region of Pomerania . On January 1, 1939, the Regenwalde district was given the name Landkreis, in accordance with a rule that had been uniform throughout the empire .

In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army and, after the end of the war in the summer of 1945, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, it was placed under Polish administration like all of Western Pomerania . Most of the residents were subsequently driven out of the district by the local Polish administrative authorities .

Population development

year Residents source
1846 40,833
1871 47,570
1890 45.272
1900 44,954
1910 45.991
1925 50,582 1
1933 49,739
1939 49,232
1 including 48,256 Protestants, 1,263 Catholics, 824 followers of free churches and 159 Jews

politics

District administrators

Local constitution

The Regenwalde district was initially divided into the cities of Labes, Plathe, Regenwalde and Wangerin, into rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . 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

The rural parishes of the district were divided into 19 administrative districts in the 1930s . The cities of the district were free of office.

Cities and municipalities 1945

At the end of its existence in 1945, the Regenwalde district comprised four cities and 99 other municipalities:

Dissolved communities

Name changes

The municipality of Radem was renamed Friedrichsgnade in 1938 .

traffic

The first railway line in the district was put into operation in 1859 by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft on the Stargard - Labes - Belgard section> 111.0 <; a section of the Pomeranian Central Railway to Dramburg branched off from it in Ruhnow from "111.j". In the west, the Altdamm-Colberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ran through the district> 111.d <with the stations Piepenburg and Plathe from 1882 . From 1893, Piepenburg reached Regenwalde Süd station> 111.g <.

In 1906 the Prussian State Railroad opened a branch line from Wurow on the main line Stargard - Belgard to Regenwalde North> 111.h <and the following year to the south station> 111.g <. From 1909 it was possible to travel from the Nordbahnhof via the new Plathe junction in the direction of Wietstock> 111.h <.

This railway network of 120 km in length was supplemented by narrow-gauge railways of 77 km in length:

The Regenwalder Kleinbahnen AG ran their first connection from Labes to Meesow, where they branched off to Daber and Sallmow; From this station it went on to Regenwalde Nord in 1907> 113.m + m² <.

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

literature

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Regenwalde  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Stettin: Ordinance on the new district division of January 18, 1816 . No. 12 , 1816, p. 43 ( digitized version [accessed February 2, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Local directory of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division . approx. 1818. Struck, Stettin ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Berthold Schulze: The reform of the administrative districts in Brandenburg and Pomerania 1809-1818 . with the support of the Historical Commission for the Province of Pomerania. In: Individual writings of the historical commission for the province of Brandenburg . Gsellius, Berlin 1931 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Pomerania and their population in 1871
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 315 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ 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. Regenwalde district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Regenwalde district in the Pommern information system.
  8. ↑ Systematic directory of name and inventory changes of municipalities . Excerpts from: Fritz R. Barran: City Atlas Pomerania . 2nd Edition. Rautenberg, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8003-3097-0 , p. 192.