Sagan County

Sagan County
Affiliation	Duchy of Silesia (1742–1815) Province of Silesia (1815–1919) Province of Lower Silesia (1919–1932)
County seat	Sagan
surface	1,112 km² (1910)
Residents	64,420 (1925)
Population density	58 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Location of Sagan County (1905)

The Sagan district was a Prussian district in Silesia from 1742 to 1932 . The district office was in the city of Sagan . In 1925 the district had 64,420 inhabitants on an area of ​​1,112 km². The former district area is now almost entirely in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship . The small area of ​​the former district around the village of Pechern , located to the left of the Lusatian Neisse , is now part of the Görlitz district in Saxony .

history

Kingdom of Prussia

After the conquest of most of Silesia by Prussia in 1741, the royal cabinet order of November 25, 1741 introduced the Prussian administrative structures in Lower Silesia . This included the establishment of two war and domain chambers in Breslau and Glogau as well as their subdivision into districts and the establishment of district administrators on January 1, 1742. On the territory of the Principality of Sagan , the Sagan district was established as the first to follow the old Sagan image District Administrator Johann Albrecht von Seelstrang installed. The district was subordinate to the War and Domain Chamber Glogau, from which in the course of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1815 the administrative district Liegnitz of the province of Silesia emerged .

During the district reform of January 1, 1820 in the Liegnitz district, the Sagan district gave the places Girbigsdorf, Kunzendorf, Reußenfeldau, Rückersdorf and Wittgendorf to the Sprottau district .

German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation as part of Prussia and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire .

Free State of Prussia

On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz .

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Sagan district, as in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. At the same time, the forest estate district Neudorf b. Pechern from Sagan district to Rothenburg district (Ob. Laus.).

On October 1, 1932, Sagan County was dissolved:

• The city of Naumburg a. Bober and the rural communities Alt Kleppen, Groß Dobritsch, Groß Reichenau, Klein Dobritsch, Kosel, Kottwitz, Kunzendorf, Neu Kleppen, Neuwaldau, Paganz, Peterswaldau, Popowitz, Poydritz, Reichenbach, Schöneich, Theuern, Tschirkau and Zedelsdorf came to the district of Grünberg
• The city of Priebus and the rural communities Alt Tschöpeln, Bogendorf, Dubrau, Graefenhain, Groß Petersdorf, Hermsdorf b. Priebus, Jamnitz-Pattag, Jenkendorf, Kochsdorf, Mellendorf, Merzdorf b. Priebus, Mühlbach, Neu Tschöpeln, Pechern, Quolsdorf b. Tschöpeln, Raußen, Reichenau b. Priebus, Ruppendorf, Tschöpeln, Wällisch, Wendisch Musta, Zessendorf and Ziebern came to the Rothenburg i district. If. Louse.
• The city of Sagan and all other parishes became part of Sprottau County .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1795	30,448
1819	33,939
1846	49.107
1871	54,814
1885	56,536
1900	55,525
1910	59,605
1925	64,420

District administrators

1742–1745 00Johann Albrecht von Seelstrang

1745–1761 00Joachim Ernst von Zech

1761–1766 00Hans Friederich von Haugwitz

1766–1782 00Maximilian Wilhelm von Seidl

1783–1791 00Carl Heinrich Adolf von Rabenau

1791–1812 00Anton August von Rhaden

1812–1814 00Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz ( acting )

1814–1816 00by Thein ( provisional )

1816–1818 00by Goldammer ( provisional )

1818–1845 00by Skal

1847–1863 Fabian zu Dohna-Schlodien00

1863–1868 Otto Rudolf Vitzthum von Eckstädt00

1868–1874 Octavio von Zedlitz-Neukirch00

1874–1894 00Karl Richard Heinrich Strutz

1894–1903 00Johannes von Neefe and Obischau

1903–1918 00Horst Arthur von Wolff

1918–1919 Paul Ikier00

1919–1921 00Walter Firnhaber

1921–1932 Oskar von Bezold00

Communities

In 1910, Sagan County had three cities and 112 rural parishes:

Drain well Alt Kleppen Altkirch Bergisdorf Birch pool Archery village Brennstadt Burau Charlottenthal Do German Diebau Dittersbach Dober break Dubrau Eckersdorf Eichdorf Eisenberg Fishing village Freiwaldau Gladisgorpe Graefenhain Graflich Zeisau Greisitz Great Dobrich Gross Petersdorf Big Rare Half building Hansdorf Heiligensee

Hermsdorf near Priebus Hermsdorf near Sagan Hertwigswaldau Herzoglich Zeisau Hirschfeldau Jamnitz-Pattag Jenkendorf Kalkreuth Little Dobrich Klein Kothau Small Rare Klix Kochsdorf Kosel Kottwitz Kunau Kunzendorf Küpper Leuthen Dear ones Lipschau-Dohms Loos Mednitz Mellendorf Merzdorf near Priebus Merzdorf near Sagan Mühlbach Naumburg am Bober , city New Kleppen

Neudorf an der Tschirne Neuhammer Neuhaus Neuwaldau Lower Briesnitz Lower Buchwald Lower Gorpe Lower Hartmannsdorf Nikolschmiede Nimbsch Upper Briesnitz Upper Buchwald Upper Gorpe Ober Hartmannsdorf Pagance Bad luck Petersdorf near Sagan Peterswaldau Make Polish Popowitz Poydritz Priebus , city Pushkau Qumelic Quolsdorf near Mellendorf Quolsdorf near Tschöpeln Gears Outside Reichenau near Priebus

Reichenbach Rengersdorf Ruppendorf Seeds Sagan , city Silesian Halbau Silesian Nikolschmiede Schönbrunn Schöneich Schonthal Yourself for silver Urban semi-building Dear Tschiebsdorf Tschirkau Tschirndorf Tschöpeln Wax village Wällisch Wendish Musta Wiesau Wolfsdorf Zedelsdorf Disposable bag Zeipau Zessendorf Fever

In addition, numerous manor districts existed until 1929 .

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 226–227, item 15.
• 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. 178–189 ( facsimile in the Google book search).

Web links

• Description of Sagan County in 1792

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Liegnitz administrative district, German municipal register 1910
2. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sprottau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Roland Gehrke: State Parliament and the Public: Provincial Parliamentarism in Silesia 1825-1845 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20413-6 , pp. 45 ( partially digitized ).
4. ^ Monuments of the Prussian State Administration in the 18th century . Files from May 31, 1740 to the end of 1745. In: Royal Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . tape 6.2 . Paul Parey, Berlin 1901, Royal Order for the appointment of district administrators in Lower Silesia , p. 259 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ WFC Starke: Contributions to the knowledge of the existing court system and the latest results of the administration of justice in the Prussian state . Carl Heymann, Berlin 1839, District division of the Prussian Duchy of Silesia in the 18th century, p. 290 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officers 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
7. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
8. ^ Territorial changes in Germany
9. ^ Official Gazette of the Liegnitz Government 1819, No. 52 . Ordinance on the new district division of December 15, 1819. Liegnitz, p. 470 ( digitized version ).
10. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of districts from August 1, 1932 . In: Prussian State Ministry (Hrsg.): Preußische Gesetzessammlung . Berlin 1932, district reform in the Liegnitz administrative district, p. 257 ( digitized version ).
11. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European states . The statistical view and special statistics of Central Europe. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1805, p. 35 ff . ( Digitized version ).
12. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 93 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
14. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
15. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E