Rybnik district

Rybnik County on a map from 1905

The Rybnik district was a Prussian district in Upper Silesia from 1818 to 1926 . Its county seat was the city of Rybnik . The former district area is now in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

Gut Baranowitz around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

During the district reform of January 1, 1818 in the Opole district of the Prussian province of Silesia , the new Rybnik district was formed. It originated from parts of the districts of Pleß (city of Loslau and 35 other localities), Ratibor (cities of Rybnik and Sohrau with 76 other localities) and Tost (patches of Pilchowitz and eight other localities).

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the administrative district of Opole .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 34.8% of the voters in the Rybnik district voted to remain with Germany and 65.2% for a cession to Poland. Due to the subsequent resolutions of the Paris Ambassadors Conference , on July 3, 1922, most of the district had to be ceded to Poland. The remainder of the district that remained German initially existed formally as a separate district until it was dissolved on January 1, 1927 and divided as follows:

• The rural communities or manor districts Barglowka, Groß Rauden, Gurek, Jankowitz-Rauden, Klein Rauden, Rennersdorf, Stanitz and Stodoll came to the district of Ratibor .
• The rural communities or manor districts of Nieborowitz, Nieborowitzer Hammer, Niederdorf, Pilchowitz and Wielepole-Pilchowitz came to the Tost-Gleiwitz district .

The district that fell to Poland formed the Powiat Rybnicki there .

During the German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945, a district of Rybnik was set up as part of the administrative district of Katowice .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1819	31,740
1846	59,464
1871	74.121
1885	79,669
1900	96,248
1910	131,630
1925	8,779

In the 1910 census, 78% of the residents of the Rybnik district described themselves as purely Polish -speaking and 19% as purely German-speaking . In 1910 95% of the population were Catholic and 4% Protestant .

District administrators

• 1818–1832 00Friedrich von Wengersky
• 1832–1834 00Moritz von Stengel ( acting )
• 1834–1860 Emil von Durant00
• 1860 0000000Adalbert von der Recke (1791–1878) ( acting )
• 1860–1873 00Ludwig von Richthofen (1800–1880)
• 1873–1901 Carl Gemander (1836–1904)00
• 1901–1903 00Georg Plewig
• 1903–1919 Hans Lentz (1868–1946)00
• 1919 Hans Lukaschek (1885–1960) ( center )0000000
• 1920 0000000Paul Strzoda ( acting )
• 1920–1922 00Paulus van Husen ( acting )
• 1922–1925 Artur Finger (1878– ??)00
• 1925–1926 00Alfons Schmidt ( provisional )

Local constitution

The Rybnik district was divided into cities, rural communities and manor districts, with the rural communities and manor districts being grouped into administrative districts . Until 1922, the district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

Communities

In 1908 three towns and 112 rural communities belonged to the Rybnik district. The municipalities marked with ^D remained in the German Reich in 1922.

• Old Dubensko
• Altenstein
• Baranowitz
• Barglowka ^D.
• Belk
• Birtultau
• Boguschowitz
• Brodek
• Chwallentzitz
• Chwallowitz
• Cissowka
• Czernitz
• Czerwionka
• Czirsowitz
• Czuchow
• Dyhrngrund
• Dzimierz
• Ellguth
• Friedrichsthal
• Gaschowitz
• Godow
• Gogolau
• Golkowitz
• Golleow
• Gottartowitz
• Great Dubensko
• Groß Rauden ^D
• Great Thurze
• Gurek ^D.
• Jankowitz-Rauden ^D.
• Jedlownik
• Jeykowitz
• Klein Rauden ^D
• Klein Thurze
• Klischczow
• Klokochin
• Knizenitz
• Knurow
• Kokoschütz
• Royal Jankowitz
• Royal Rados
• Royal Wielepole
• Royal Zamislau
• Königsdorff-Jastrzemb
• Kriewald
• Krostoschowitz
• Krzischkowitz
• Lazisk
• Leschczin
• Lissek
• Lohnitz
• Go ahead , town
• Lukow
• Moschczenitz
• Mschanna
• Neudorf
• Nieborowitz ^D.
• Nieborowitzer Hammer ^D
• Lower Marklowitz
• Lower Niewiadom
• Nieder Radoschau
• Lower Rydultau
• Nieder Schwirklan
• Lower Wilcza
• Niederdorf ^D
• Niedobschütz
• Upper Jastrzemb
• Upper Marklowitz
• Upper Niewiadom
• Ober Radoschau
• Upper Rydultau
• Ober Schwirklan
• Ober Wilcza
• Ochojetz
• Orzupowitz
• Oshin
• Pallowitz
• Peterkowitz
• Pietze
• Pilchowitz ^D
• Pohlom
• Poppelau
• Przegendza
• Pschow
• Pschow oarlocks
• Pstrzonsna
• Radlin
• Rennersdorf ^D.
• Rogoisna
• Romanshof
• Rowin
• Roy
• Ruptau
• Ruptawietz
• Rybnik , city
• Rzuchow
• Schyglowitz
• Sczeykowitz
• Sczyrbitz
• Seibersdorf
• Skrbenski
• Skrzischow
• Sohrau , city
• Sophienthal
• Stanitz ^D.
• Stanowitz
• stone
• Stodoll ^D
• Summin
• Advancing
• Wielepole-Pilchowitz ^D.
• Wilchwa
• Zawada
• Zwonowitz
• Zyttna

Before 1908, the rural community Alt Loslau was incorporated into Loslau and the rural community Smollna was incorporated into Rybnik. In 1908 four rural parishes were also renamed:

• Dzimierz → Dreilinden
• Pstrzonsna → fishing ground
• Nieder Niewiadom → Nieder Birkenau
• Rzuchow → Schönburg

literature

• Felix Triest : Topographical Handbook of Upper Silesia , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, pp. 733-820 .
• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 180-181, item 12.
• 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. 350–359 .
• M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

Web links

Commons : Rybnik District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Journal of the Royal Oppelschen government in 1817, no. XLI . Announcement of the new district division of the Opole government district from October 1, 1817. Opole, p. 523 ff . ( Digitized version ).
2. ^ ^{A b c} District Rybnik administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 26, 2013.
3. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 91 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
5. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
7. ↑ ^{a b c} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
8. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_rybnik.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ↑ Jakob Spett: Nationality map of the eastern provinces of the German Empire based on the results of the official census of 1910 designed by Ing.Jakob Spett . Justus Perthes, January 1, 1910 ( bibliotekacyfrowa.pl [accessed March 14, 2017]). , see also Silesia # The ethnolinguistic structure of Upper Silesia (1819–1910)