District of Schönau

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District of Schönau
Prussian Province Silesia (1818–1919)
Lower Silesia (1919–1932)
Administrative district Reichenbach (1818–1820)
Liegnitz (1820–1932)
County seat Schönau an der Katzbach
surface 349 km² (1910)
Residents 26,726 (1925)
Population density 77 inhabitants / km² (1925)
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Location of the Schönau district (1905)

The county Schonau was from 1818 to 1932, a county in the district Liegnitz the Prussian province of Silesia . The district office was in the city of Schönau an der Katzbach . The former district area is now part of the Polish powiats Jeleniogórski and Złotoryjski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

In the administrative district of Reichenbach in the Prussian province of Silesia , the new district of Schönau was formed on January 1, 1818 from the northern part of the Hirschberg district . After the government district of Reichenbach was dissolved, the district of Schönau joined the district of Liegnitz on May 1, 1820 .

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 Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz .

On September 30, 1929, in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On October 1, 1932, the Schönau district was dissolved:

  • The rural communities of Ketschdorf and Seitendorf became part of the Landeshut district
  • The city of Kupferberg and the rural communities of Boberstein, Dreschburg, Eichberg, Jannowitz , Kammerswaldau, Maiwaldau, Nieder Berbisdorf, Ober Berbisdorf, Rohrlach, Schildau, Seiffersdorf and Waltersdorf came to the Hirschberg district
  • The city of Schönau an der Katzbach and all other communities came to the district of Goldberg .

Population development

year Residents source
1819 23,659
1846 27,636
1871 26,082
1885 24,928
1900 24,252
1910 26,020
1925 26,726

District administrators

1818–1857 Wilhelm von Zedlitz-Neukirch00
1857-1892 Deodatus von Hoffmann00
1892–1896 Georg von Zedlitz-Neukirch00
1896–1903 Wilhelm Ernst von Zedlitz-Neukirch00
1903–1921 Horst Arthur von Wolff00
1921–1925 Ludwig Schröter00
1925–1932 Kurt Dreschhoff00

Communities

The district of Schönau last comprised two cities and 32 rural communities:

  • Alt Schönau
  • Boberstein
  • Threshing castle
  • Eichberg
  • Herrmannswaldau
  • Hohenliebenthal
  • Jannowitz
  • Johnsdorf
  • Kammerswaldau
  • Lower Falkenhain
  • Upper Berbisdorf
  • Upper Middle Falkenhain
  • Polish Hundorf
  • Ratschin
  • Reichwaldau
  • Rohrlach
  • Rosenau
  • Röversdorf

The community Rodeland was incorporated into Ketschdorf on October 5, 1920. The communities Nieder Röversdorf and Ober Röversdorf were merged on April 1, 1929 to form the community Röversdorf.

literature

  • Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 215–216, item 4.
  • 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. 238–241 ( facsimile in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Liegnitz administrative district, German municipality register 1910
  2. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. goldberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ^ Roman Kamionka: The reorganization of the district division of Silesia in the Stein-Hardenberg reform period , Breslau 1934
  4. ↑ a b Territorial changes in Germany
  5. ^ 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 ).
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia. Volume 4: Dieter Stüttgen: Silesia. Johann Gottfried Harder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1976, ISBN 3-87969-116-9 .
  7. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 94 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
  9. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
  10. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E