Tilsit County

Tilsit District (1818–1896) Tilsit District (1896–1922)
Prussian Province	East Prussia (1818–1829) Prussia (1829–1878) East Prussia (1878–1922)
Administrative district	Gumbinnen
County seat	Tilsit
surface	783 km² (1910)
Residents	46,372 (1910)
Population density	59 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Tilsit district (1890)

The district Tilsit (until 1896 Kreis Tilsit ) was from 1818 to 1922, a district in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in East Prussia . The district seat was in the town of Tilsit, which has been an independent city since 1896 . In 1910 the district had 46,372 inhabitants on an area of ​​783 km².

Administrative history

The Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna, which was created with the February 1, 1818 Kreis Tilsit in Administrative district Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia . The district was formed from the area of ​​the parishes Coadjuthen, Piktupönen, Tilsit and Willkischken. Since December 3, 1829 the district belonged to the new province of Prussia with the seat in Königsberg i. Pr.

On January 1, 1836, the area of ​​the parish of Plaschken from the Niederung district was incorporated into the Tilsit district. Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire .

On July 21, 1875, the rural community of Bublauken was reclassified from the Niederung district to the Tilsit district. After the province of Prussia was divided into the new provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, the Tilsit district became part of East Prussia on April 1, 1878.

On April 1, 1896, the city of Tilsit left the district and from then on formed its own urban district . Since then, Tilsit County has been known as Tilsit County . On April 1, 1919, the rural communities of Kallkappen, Splitter, Stolbeck and Tilsit-Prussia were incorporated into the Tilsit district.

On January 10, 1920, the Versailles Treaty came into force. Thus, the north of were Memel lying parts of the district and the district Ragnit Tilsit to the Memel assigned. The new Pogegen district emerged from them . On March 25, 1920, the administration of the remaining Tilsit district south of the Memel was temporarily transferred to the district administrator in Ragnit. On July 1, 1922, the cut districts south of the Memel were finally reorganized.

The rural communities of Dwischaken, Kaltecken, Kalwen, Moritzkehmen, Schillgallen b. Tilsit and Senteinen (partially) and the Paszelgsten manor district from the Tilsit district were incorporated into the Tilsit district. The rest of the German Reich remaining areas of the district Tilsit and circle Ragnit were with the villages Alloningken, birch forest, Blausden, Gaiwethen, United board tailors, big stupid, United Ischdaggen, United Wingsnupönen , Grünheide forester, Kattenuppen, Kaukwethen, Kaukweth-Kludszen, Kellmienen , Klein Brettschneidern, Klein Dummen, Krauleiden, Kühlen, Lapienen Försterei , Papuschienen, Pauperischken, Puskeppeln, Sandlauken, Schillkojen, Seikwethen , Skardupönen, Skroblienen and Smaledumen of the Niederung district combined into a new Tilsit-Ragnit district. The town of Tilsit became the district seat.

From autumn 1944 the old district area was occupied by the Red Army . The area then came under Soviet administration, which essentially assigned the sub-area north of the Memel to the municipality of Pagėgiai in Lithuania and the area south of the Memel to the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast .

Administrative division

In 1910 there were 175 rural parishes in Tilsit County:

1. Stone
2. Ackmonischken
3. Alt Dekinten
4. Old Jägerischken
5. Alt Karzewischken
6. Old Schäcken
7. Alt Stremehnen
8. Old willow
9. Alt Weynothen ,
   1938–1946: Weinoten
10. Annuschen
11. Argeningken-Graudszen ,
    1938–1946: Argenhof
12. Augskieken
13. Augstwilken
14. Bar stretching
15. Bar boys
16. Bartken
17. Bartukeiten ,
    1938-1946; Bartenhöh
18. Rural Stumbragirren
19. Bendiglauken
20. Benefits
21. Birjohlen
22. Birstonishks
23. Buoyends
24. Bruchhöfen
25. Bublauken ,
    1938–1946: Argenfurt
26. Budeningken
27. German Pillwarren
28. Dwischacken
29. Eichendorf
30. Eistrawischken
31. Endricates
32. Inherited Stumbragirren
33. Eromeiten
34. Gallus-Wilpien
35. Galsdon-Joneiten
36. Gillanden
37. Gillandwirs
38. Gintscheiten
39. Old Roar
40. Great guidance
41. Great Bersteningken
42. Big Lumpönen
43. Big chat warren
44. Big pelken
45. Gudden
46. Jakob-Titzkus
47. Jogauden
48. Jögsden
49. Jonikaten
50. Joseph-Grutscheit
51. Jurge-Kanscheit
52. Juschka-Budwethen
53. Yushka mockery
54. Kallehnen
55. Kallkappen
56. Kallnuggen
57. Kallwen
58. Cold corners
59. Kampinnishken
60. Kampspowilken
61. Card names
62. Kaszemeken
63. Kawohlen
64. Kekersen
65. Basement taverns
66. Kerkutwethen
67. Pegs
68. Klein Bersteningken
69. Klein Karzewischken
70. Klipschen-Rödszen
71. Koadjuthen
72. Kowgirren
73. Kreywhnen
74. War stretching
75. Kugeleit
76. Kullmen-Jennen
77. Kullmen Kulken
78. Kullmen-Laugallen
79. Kullmen-Szarden
80. Kullmen re-doing
81. Kutturren
82. Laser stretching
83. Laugall
84. Laugszargen
85. Laukanders ,
    1938–1946: Waldeneck
86. Leitwarren
87. Lenkonischken ,
    1938–1946: Großschenkendorf
88. Maiden forest
89. Mantwillaten
90. Mas times
91. Maszurmaten
92. Matzstubern
93. Medischkehmen
94. Meischlauken
95. Mikut pains
96. Mixed dogs
97. Mohlgirren
98. Moritzkehmen
99. Nattkischken
100. Naudwarrischken
101. Nausseden
102. Neppertlauken
103. New Argeningken ,
     1938–1946: Argenbrück
104. New Dekinten
105. New Jägerischken
106. New Schäcken
107. New Stremehnen
108. New Weynothen ,
     1938–1946: Preußenhof
109. New miles
110. New dusting
111. Ostishken
112. Eastern Radirwen
113. Pageldienst
114. Pakamones
115. Pamlettes
116. Passon rice gen
117. Pellehnen
118. Peterates
119. Icon tones
120. Plaschken
121. Pleikishken
122. Pleine
123. But against
124. Pokraken ,
     1938–1946: Weidenau
125. Powilken
126. Prussellen
127. Raukothienen
128. Robbeds
129. Move
130. Schakeningken
131. Schatulldorf Stumbragirren
132. Laughing chores
133. Schillgallen on the back
134. Schillgallen at Tilsit
135. Snooping
136. Towing
137. Shudder
138. Schunellen
139. Senteinen
140. Skambracken ,
     1938-1946: Brakenau
141. Skerswethen
142. Scrodding
143. Tendons
144. Spingen
145. Splinter
146. Steppon-Rödszen
147. Stolbeck
148. Stonischken
149. Strasden
150. Suitcases
151. Swarreitkehmen
152. Szameitkehmen near Koadjuthen
153. Scillutten
154. Taurothen
155. Thalerscents
156. Thomuscheiten
157. Tilsit Prussia
158. Tim star
159. Trakening of pictograms
160. Tracking at Tilsit
161. Tuttling
162. Uigschen
163. Ullose
164. Urban sites
165. Uszkamonen
166. Uszkullmen
167. Uszpelken
168. Uszpirden
169. Wartulischken
170. Wersmeningken
171. Werszenhof
172. Willkischken
173. Wittgirren
174. Wittschen
175. Woitkus-Szardwethen

There were also numerous manor districts .

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Tilsit County	71,666	46,944	46,372

City of Tilsit with its districts

City of Tilsit with its districts or suburbs in 1934, "P.Baron's city map of Tilsit, 1: 10000," Verlag Ernst Reuter, Tilsit bookstore

The city of Tilsit was part of the district until 1896.

Districts and suburbs according to Baron's plan from 1934: (The districts were presumably capitalized here, suburbs presumably small)

Located on the west bank of the Memel, today in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in the urban district of Sovetsk (Tilsit) :

• Bendiglauken

• Dwischacken (suburb?)

• (Forsthaus) Grünwalde
• "Good point"

• Jacobsruhe, with city park

• Ports:
  • Kornhaus harbor
  • "Priv.Hafen" (private harbor?)
  • Urban port
  • Another port (Schwedenhafen ?, illegible) at the pulp factory

• Kallkappen
• Cooling?

• Moritzkehmen

• Chatting
• (Tilsit-) Prussia

• Schillgallen
• Senteinen
• Splitter, with a racing course, forest cemetery and a large "Splitterschem mill pond" on the Smalupp brook (today approx. Between the intersection of the streets Ulitza Geroyev / улица героев and Ulitza Chapayeva / улица чапаева and the mill pond that still exists)
• (Tilsit-) Stadtheide, with train station and hospital
• Stolbeck

On the east bank of the Memel, today in the Tauragė district of Lithuania :

• "Bridgehead", (suburb?) With train station
• Groß-Pluschwarren (suburb?)
• Übermemel (suburb?)

District administrators

1812-1818: from Lyncker

1818-1824: Dreßler

1824–1832: Gerhard

1832–1852: Johann Eduard Heinrich Schlenther

1852–1858: Julius August Lauterbach († 1858)

1858–1889: Heinrich Schlenther (1821–1900)

1889–1919: Wilhelm von Schlenther (1858–1924)

1919–1920: Ernst Graf von Hardenberg-Schattschneider

1920–1921: Zwicker

1921–1922: Roderich Walther

Cities and Places Today

• List of localities in Kaliningrad Oblast
• List of cities in Kaliningrad Oblast

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 27-28, item 3.

Web links

Commons : Kreis Tilsit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information from the district community Tilsit-Ragnit e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Government district of Gumbinnen, 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. City of Tilsit and district of Tilsit – Ragnit / Pogegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Territorial changes in Germany
4. ↑ ^{a b} Tilsit district, German municipality register 1910
5. ↑ Volker Stalmann: Left Liberalism in Prussia: the minutes of the meetings of the Prussian parliamentary group of the DDP and DStP 1919–1932 , Volume 11, Part 2, p. 953.

Coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  N , 21 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E