Saarburg district
Basic data | |
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State | Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine |
district | Lorraine |
Administrative headquarters | Saarburg in Lorraine |
surface | 1009 km² (1910) |
Residents | 66,222 (1910) |
Population density | 66 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
Communities | 105 (1910) |
Location of the Saarburg district | |
The Saarburg district was a district in the Lorraine district of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine from 1871 to 1920 . From 1940 to 1944 he was under the name of the district Saarburg (Westmark) as part of the occupied France built CdZ-region Lorraine set up again. The area of the district is now in the arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins in the French department of Moselle .
The Saarburg district in the German Empire
Administrative history
After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Saarburg district was formed in 1871 from the then French arrondissement of Sarrebourg . The district director had his seat in the city of Saarburg in Lorraine. Thus the Saarburg district belonged to the Lorraine district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine. After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, belonged again to France as the Arrondissement of Sarrebourg.
District Directors
- 1870–1872 Emerich Karl Knebel
- 1872–1876 Julius von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1832–1912)
- 1876–1882 Bernhard Hartenstein
- 1882–1887 Julius Siegfried
- 1887–1888 Rabe ( acting )
- 1888–1893 Gustav Adolf von Liebenstein
- 1893–1903 Ferdinand Freudenfeld
- 1903–1912 by Kapherr
- 1912–1918 Josef Krieger
Local constitution
Initially, the French law of July 18, 1837 on municipal administration continued to apply during German times. On April 1, 1896, the previous municipal constitution was replaced and the new municipal code for Alsace-Lorraine of June 6, 1895 was introduced. It applied to all municipalities and made no distinction between those with a rural or urban constitution.
Population development
Residents | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
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Saarburg district | 63.096 | 64,859 | 66,222 |
Municipalities with more than 2000 inhabitants (as of 1910):
local community | Residents |
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Dagsburg | 3,072 |
Pfalzburg | 3,798 |
Saarburg | 10,019 |
Walscheid | 2,032 |
Communities
In 1910 the Saarburg district comprised 105 municipalities:
The district of Saarburg (Westmark) in the Second World War
Administrative history
During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of the Sarrebourg district formed the Saarburg district . A German land commissioner was installed in Saarburg to manage it. The district area was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was part of the CdZ area of Lorraine , which was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Saarpfalz ( Westmark from 1942 ) in Saarbrücken . From April 1, 1941, the head of administration was referred to as district administrator, as in the German Reich . To distinguish it from the district of the same name in the neighboring Prussian Rhine Province , the district name was changed to Saarburg (Westmark) on January 25, 1941 . The following district administrators were employed during the occupation:
Land Commissioner
- 1940 Wilhelm Georg Walch (1903–1988) ( acting )
District administrators
- 1940 Wilhelm Georg Walch
- 1940–1941 Schaeck
- 1942–1944 Schlessmann
Between November and December 1944, the district was liberated by Allied forces and returned to France.
Local constitution
From January 1, 1941, the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 applied to all municipalities in the district. For this purpose, an implementing regulation was issued on February 1, 1941, according to which joint mayor's offices could be formed from several municipalities . On April 1, 1941, the district regulations for Lorraine of March 25, 1941 were introduced, according to which, among other things, the previous cantons were dissolved. The district was last divided into the cities of Finstingen , Pfalzburg and Saarburg (Westmark) and 53 other communities. Depending on their size, these communities formed their own local police districts or were combined to form communal mayorships.
Germanization of place names (1940–1944)
After August 2, 1940, the official German place names valid in 1918 initially continued to apply. On January 25, 1941, all place names were finally set in a German version, some of which differed from the one in 1918, e.g. B .:
- Aspach : 1918 Aspach, 1941 Aspach near Lörchingen
- Héming , 1918 Heming, 1941 Hemingen (Westmark)
- Hesse : 1918 Hesse, 1941 Hesse on the canal
- Metting : 1918 Mettingen, 1941 Mettingen (Westmark)
- Sarrebourg : 1918 Saarburg, 1941 Saarburg (Westmark)
literature
- Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical manual, administrative schematic and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 152–166 ( online )
- Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 430–472 ( online ).
- 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
- Saarburg district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of October 4, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_saarburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).