District of Schwerin (Warthe)

Administrative division of the Province of Posen (1887–1920) District Bromberg , Province of Posen , Prussia / Dt. Reich Administrative Region Posen , Province Posen , Prussia / Dt. rich





Administrative division of the Province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia (1922–1938) Administrative region of Schneidemühl , Province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , Dt. Empire Poznan Voivodeship, Rep. Poland



County coat of arms on a memorial stone in Paderborn

The district of Schwerin (Warthe) , formerly the district of Schwerin an der Warthe , was a Prussian district in the provinces of Posen , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia and Brandenburg , which existed from 1887 to 1945. Its former area is now part of the Międzyrzecki powiat in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship .

Administrative history

On October 1st, 1887, the new district of Schwerin an der Warthe was established in the Posen administrative district of the Prussian province of Posen from parts of the Birnbaum district , namely:

• the cities of Blesen and Schwerin an der Warthe
• the police district Schwerin an der Warthe
• from the Birnbaum police district the rural communities Joy, Hope, Groß Krebbel, Kaza, Klein Krebbel, Krebbelmühl, Krynitze, Neu Görtzig, Pechlugt, Schneidemühl-Hauland, Striche, Striche-Hauland, Wierzebaum and the manor districts Neu Görtzig, Striche, Waitze, Waitze and Wierzebaum.

The district mostly comprised rural areas around the district town of Schwerin an der Warthe.

After the dissolution of the province of Posen, which largely fell to Poland , the district of Schwerin an der Warthe was subordinated to the new government office in Schneidemühl in the Grenzmark West Prussia-Posen administrative district on November 20, 1919 .

Since January 11, 1921, the administrative district Grenzmark West Prussia-Posen carried the name "Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia". On July 1, 1922, the district of Schwerin on the Warta became part of the new Prussian province Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia and from August 1, 1922 to the newly formed administrative district of Schneidemühl . Later the spelling Schwerin (Warthe) prevailed. On October 1, 1938, after the dissolution of the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia province, the Schwerin (Warthe) district moved to the Frankfurt administrative district of the Brandenburg province .

In spring 1945 the district was conquered by the Red Army and then placed under Polish administration. It belongs to Poland today.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1890	22,355
1900	22.094
1910	21,620
1925	22,300
1933	21,035
1939	20,912

Among the 22,300 inhabitants in 1925 were 10,107 Protestants, 11,957 Catholics and 121 Jews. In 1933, every second inhabitant worked in agriculture and forestry.

District administrators

Seal mark Royal Prussian District Councilor - Schwerin-Warthe

1887 Kurt von Willich (1860–1903) ( acting )-9999

1887–1891 Hans Ukert (1857–1930)

1891–1898 Gottfried Kögel

1898–1904 Georg von Brandis (1847–1904)

1906–1926 Adolf Parthey (1870–1945)

1926–1928 Josef Ortner (1891–1951)

1928–1932 Gerhard Sendler

1932–1933 Wilhelm Nülle (* 1885) ( acting )

1933–1934 Müller ( acting )

1934–1936 Conrad Prange (1887–1945)

1936–1945 Otto Karl Niemeyer (* 1891)

Local constitution

Two towns belonged to the Schwerin an der Warthe district. The rural communities and independent manor districts were combined to form police districts. On July 1, 1922, instead of the old Poznan district order, the district order for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 was introduced. There was no change in terms of the division into the previous police districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 .

traffic

The Prussian State Railway opened up the district very late: In 1887 the Meseritz - Birnbaum line initially only touched the Wierzebaum> 116.k <station. The district town only received a station "116.f" through the connection between Landsberg and Meseritz in 1896, from which in 1906 the line to Wierzebaum branched off "116.n". Finally, in 1935 , the Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a line to Kreuz to bypass the new Polish border> 116.g <.

The numbers in> <refer to the German course book 1939.

cities and communes

As of 1936

In the mid-1930s, the Schwerin (Warthe) district included two cities and 41 other municipalities:

Althöfchen Altlauske Blesen , city Breeze Eichberg, colony Falkenwalde joy Gollmütz Goray Big Crab Hermsdorf

hope Chalky Kaza Little Krebbel Krebbelmühl Crinkle Lauske Liebuch Marienwalde Neudorf Curious

Neuhaus Neulauske Neuvorwerk Orlowce Oscht Poppe Prittisch Rokitten Rosenthal Hauland Schneidemühl Hauland Schweinert

Schweinert Hauland Schwerin (Warthe) , city Whirl Seewitz Semmritz Strokes Strokes Hauland Trebic Jokes Wierzebaum

The district also contained the forest estate districts of Forst Schweinert, Forst Schwerin (Warthe) and Forst Waitze.

Name changes

In 1937 the following communities were given "more German" names:

• Goray → Eibendorf
• Kaza → forest lynx
• Krinitze → Warthetal
• Orlowce → Eagle's Nest

literature

• 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

• District of Schwerin (Warthe) Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 14, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Schwerin district (Warthe). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ The Big Brockhaus . 15th edition, sixteenth volume, Leipzig 1933, p. 745.