Bilin County
The German district of Bilin existed between 1939 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it included the city of Bilin and 37 other communities.
The area of the district of Bilin had 39,965 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 33,559 on May 17, 1939 and 28,468 on May 17, 1947.
Administrative history
On May 1, 1939, the district of Bilin was founded as part of a reorganization of the districts in the newly created Reichsgau Sudetenland .
It emerged from the judicial district of Bilin of the previous district of Dux , gave the community of Patokrey to the district of Brüx and received the community of Rannay from the rest of the judicial district of Laun . It belonged to the new district of Aussig .
The city of Bilin became the seat of the district administration . It remained in this state until the end of World War II.
From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution . Today it is part of the Czech Republic .
District administrators
- 1938–1939: Wolfgang Geißler
- 1939-1945: Feiler
Local constitution
On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich , namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which saw the principle of leadership at municipality level. From then on, the terms customary in the previous territory of the Reich were used, namely instead:
- Local parish: Municipality,
- Market town: market,
- Municipality: City,
- Political district: District.
Place names
The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version from 1918.
Web links
- District of Bilin Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 28, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Bilin district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).