Saarburg district

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Basic data
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
Map Saarburg district 1905.png

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 Knebel00
1872–1876 Julius von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1832–1912)00
1876–1882 Bernhard Hartenstein00
1882–1887 Julius Siegfried00
1887–1888 Rabe ( acting )00
1888–1893 Gustav Adolf von Liebenstein00
1893–1903 Ferdinand Freudenfeld00
1903–1912 by Kapherr00
1912–1918 Josef Krieger00

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
Saarburg district 63.096 64,859 66,222

Municipalities with more than 2000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

local community Residents
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 )-999900

District administrators

1940 Wilhelm Georg Walch-999900
1940–1941 Schaeck00
1942–1944 Schlessmann00

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

Web links

  • Saarburg district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of October 4, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
  2. ^ 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).