District of Sonderburg
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| Prussian Province | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Administrative district | Schleswig |
| County seat | Sonderburg |
| Inventory period | 1867-1920 |
| surface | 442.28 km² (1910) |
| Residents | 39,909 (1910) |
| Population density | 90 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
| Communities | 70 (1910) |
| Estates | 3 (1910) |
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The district of Sonderburg (Danish Sønderborg landkreds or amt ) was from 1867 to 1920 a district in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . As part of Northern Schleswig , its area came to Denmark in 1920 .
history
After the German-Danish War of 1864, Schleswig - and with it the office of Sonderburg - was occupied by Prussia and Austria and finally annexed by Prussia in 1867.
The district of Sonderburg became “from the city of Sonderburg; the village of Norburg and the offices of Sonderburg and Norburg with the noble estates of Ballegaard and Beuschau enclaved in the former and the county of Reventlow-Sandberg ” .
In 1920 the district was dissolved and the area ceded to Denmark on the basis of the referendum in Schleswig provided for in the Peace Treaty of Versailles .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1890 | 32,177 |
| 1900 | 32,868 |
| 1910 | 39.909 |
District administrators
- 1868–1874 Christian Matthiesen
- 1874 Alfred von Saldern (1829–1904)
- 1874 Karl von Hollen (1839–1895)
- 1875–1879 Eduard von Magdeburg (1844–1932)
- 1881–1912 Adolf von Tschirschnitz (1837–1911)
- 1913–1920 Kurt Schönberg (1877–1948)
economy
The district was active as a railway infrastructure company and built the routes of the district railway on Als in 1898 . The management was with Lenz & Co GmbH - Altona operations department .
Districts and municipalities
When the administrative districts were formed in 1889, the district consisted of the district town of Sønderborg and the spots Augustenburg and Norburg , as well as 67 rural communities and three manor districts, which were distributed over the 18 administrative districts as follows:
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Individual evidence
- ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on April 22, 2015 .
- ^ Ordinance on the organization of the district and district authorities as well as the district representation in the province of Schleswig-Holstein , from September 22, 1867, Appendix A. Published in the collection of laws for the Royal Prussian States 1867, p. 1579ff
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sonderburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).