Witkowo district

Witkowo district

Administrative division of the Province of Posen (as of 1919) District Bydgoszcz District Posen





The Witkowo district was a Prussian district from 1887 to 1919 in the administrative district of Bromberg in the province of Posen . The former district area is now part of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

history

The area around the city of Witkowo belonged to the Prussian province of South Prussia since the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 . After the Peace of Tilsit , the area came to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 , but fell again to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna on May 15, 1815. Until October 1, 1887, it belonged to the Gnesen district in the Bydgoszcz administrative district of the Poznan province.

On October 1, 1887, the new Witkowo district was formed from the southeast half of the Gnesen district . The towns of Mieltschin, Powidz , Schwarzenau and Witkowo , the Witkowo police district , the greater part of the Schwarzenau police district and the eastern part of the Gnesen II police district were added to this new district . The seat of the district office was the town of Witkowo.

On November 12, 1918, a Polish workers 'and soldiers' council took over the administration of the district town. On December 27, 1918, the Greater Poland uprising of the Polish majority against German rule began in the province of Posen , and on December 29, 1918, the district town of Witkowo was finally under Polish control. On February 16, 1919, an armistice ended the Polish-German fighting, and on June 28, 1919, the German government officially ceded the Witkowo district to the newly founded Poland with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles . The Witkowo district became the Polish powiat Witkowo. In 1927 the powiat Witkowo was dissolved, the majority of 542 km² came back to the powiat Gniezno , a small part of 46 km² with the municipality of Marzenin came to the southern neighboring powiat Września .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1890	24,583
1900	26,520
1910	29.094

In 1890 about 84% of the population were Poles and 16% German. Most of the German residents left the area after 1918.

politics

District administrators

1887–1902 00Richard von Zawadzky

1902–1912 00Arthur Schack von Wittenau

1912-1919 Udo de Roberti-Jessen00

elections

The Witkowo district belonged to the Bromberg 5 Reichstag constituency . The constituency was won by candidates from the Polish parliamentary group in all parliamentary elections.

size

The Witkowo district had an area of ​​588 km².

cities and communes

Before the First World War, Witkowo County comprised the following towns and rural communities:

At the Forest Anastazewo Birkenau Braunsdorf Breitenfelde Bridge field Books Cwierdzin Czerniejewo Drachowo Three place Ebenfelde Elisenhain Ellernbruch Folwark Gaj Goczalkowo Görzhof Gorzykowo Grünfeld Grünhof Grzybowo chrzanowice

Huttawerder Imielno In the lake Jägerswalde Jakobsdorf Jarzombkowo Yes, yes Jelitovo Kamionka Karsevo Kendzierzyn Small flow Kleparz Klondau Kolaczkowo Kompiel Royal Strzyzewo Royal Szczytnik Kosovo Lesnievko Linden trees Louisenwalde

Lubochnia Ludwigshorst Lugi Malenin Malvenkamp Marzenin Miaty Mieltschin, a town until 1907 Mielzynek Mierzewo Monkownica New Pakschin New Teklenburg Neudorf niechanowo Neuzedlitz Nidom Niechanowo Noskowo Odrowonz Ostrowite Poplar Mountain Pavlovo

Piaski Polanowo Powidz , city Rehthal Ruhfeld Schwarzenau , city Skorzencin Sokolowo Stefansdorf Strzyzewo czerniejewo Szydlowitz Trzoskolon Wierzbiczany Witkowo, rural municipality Witkowo , city Wola skorzencin Wylatkowo Zelaskowo Zolz Zydowo

Numerous manor districts also belonged to the district . The rural parishes and manor districts were combined to form police districts. In the period after 1900 some place names were Germanized:

Jarzombkowo → Jarschomkowo (1900)

Strzyzewo czerniejewo → Karlsruhe (1905)

Szydlowitz → Schidlowitz (1907)

Web links

• District Witkowo administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 17, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Witkowo district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ Database of members of the Reichstag ( memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Victory candidates in the Reichstag elections in the Gnesen-Wongrowitz constituency
4. ↑ ^{a b c} municipal register 1910 with population figures