Znin district

The Znin district within the boundaries from 1887 to 1919

Administrative division of the Posen Province (1815–1920) Bydgoszcz District District Posen





The district of Znin was a Prussian district in the administrative district of Bromberg in the province of Poznan from 1887 to 1919 . It was in the northeastern part of the province, the district town was Znin . The former district area today largely belongs to the powiat Żniński in the Polish Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship .

prehistory

After the first division of Poland from 1772 to 1807, the eastern part of the later district area with the city of Znin belonged to the Netzedistrikt in the Prussian province of West Prussia , while the west of the later district area after the second division of Poland belonged to the Prussian province of South Prussia from 1793 to 1807 . After the Peace of Tilsit , the entire area came to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 , but fell again to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna on May 15, 1815 and came to the administrative district of Bromberg in the province of Posen .

Administrative history

On October 1, 1887, a comprehensive district reform took place in the Posen Province, including the establishment of the new Znin District . Got to the circle

• from the district of Mogilno the town of Rogowo , the police district Rogowo and from the police district Pakosch the rural communities Friedrichswalde, Klein Laski and Piastowo
• from the Schubin district the cities of Gonsawa and Znin and the police district of Znin
• from the district of Wongrowitz the city of Janowitz and most of the two police districts Janowitz and Juncewo.

The town of Znin became the seat of the district administration .

On December 27, 1918, the Wielkopolska uprising of the Polish majority against German rule began in the province of Posen , and on January 18, 1919 the district town of Znin was 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 Znin district to the newly founded Poland with the signing of the Versailles Treaty .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1890	31,568
1900	35,857
1910	40.210

Of the 31,568 inhabitants in 1890, 82% were Poles, 15% German and 3% Jews. Some of the German residents left the area after 1919.

District administrators

1887–1896 Karl von Davier (1853–1936)00

1896–1909 Carl von Peistel (1862–1930)00

1909–1917 Eugen Naumann (1874–1939)00

1917–1920 00Franz Erich Schüler

cities and communes

Before the First World War, the Znin district comprised the following towns and rural communities:

Noble Ochodza Annowo Bialozewin Bielau Biskupin Boschwitz Bozacin Bozejewiczki Brudzin Brzyskorzystew Budzislaw Cegielnia Cerekwica Coton Dochanowo Drewno Dziewierzewo Eitelsdorf Eitelsdorf Friedrichshöhe Friedrichswalde Galenschweo Galensewko Galenzewo Spiritually Chomionza Glowy Godawy

Gogulkowo Gonsawa , city Gonch Gora Gorzyce Goscieszyn Goscieszynek Hermannshof Jadownik Janowitz , city Janowitz East Januszkowo Yarossevo Jeziora Currant green Juncewo Kaczkowo Little Laski Koldromb Komratowo Komsdorf Royal Grochowiska Kornthal Kwasuty Lasskirch Lubcz Lysinine

Marcinkowo dolne Marcinkowo gorne Marienfeld Miastowitz Miniszewo Mittelwalde Murczyn Narajewo Neitwalde Obersee Obiecanowo Obudno Ocwieka Osno Ottensund Piastowo Pniewy Podgorzyn Podobowitz Poslugowko Poslugowo Retsch Rettschütz Roggenau Rogowo , city Rome Rosalinovo

Rusiec Rydlewo Ryszewko Ryszewo Sarbinovko Sarbinowo Sartschin Schwichowo Sielec hooves Skarbiniec Scork Slabomierz Slembowo Stawek Sulinowo Szelejewo Tonndorf Venetia Weldin Welna Wiesensee Viktorovo Woycin Wybranowo Zalesie Zerniki Znin , city

The district, which in 1910 had an area of ​​740 km², also included numerous manor districts . The rural parishes and manor districts were grouped into police districts.

In the period after 1900 several place names were Germanized:

Bialozewin → Bialosewin (1901)

Brzyskorzystew → Birkenfelde (1907)

Dziewierzewo → Lindenbrück (1905)

Goscieszyn → Goscheschin (1903/08)

Goscieszynek → Goscheschinek (1903/08)

Januszkowo → Januschkowo (1901)

Jaroszewo → Jaroschewo (1907)

Kaczkowo → Katschkowo (1903/08)

Lubcz → Lubtsch (1908)

Miniszewo → Minchau (1903/08)

Murczyn → Murchin (1901)

Osno → Oschnau (1901)

Podgorzyn → Podgorschin (1903/08)

Podobowitz → Podau (1906)

Poslugowo → Poslau (1907)

Ryszewko → Ryschewko (1903/08)

Ryszewo → Ryschewo (1903/08)

Skarbiniec → Skarbinitz (1908)

Szelejewo → Schelejewo (1901/02)

Zerniki → Herrnkirch (1903/08)

See also

• Dietfurt (Wartheland) district, a district established in occupied Poland during World War II

literature

• Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Znin. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

Web links

• District Znin administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 16, 2013.
• Municipalities and population figures 1910 - gemeindeververzeichnis.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Znin district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} municipal register 1910 with population figures