Bolchen district

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lorraine
Administrative headquarters	Bolchen
surface	715 km² (1910)
Residents	41,825 (1910)
Population density	58 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	100 (1910)
Location of the Bolchen district

The county Bolchen was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in District Lorraine of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The former district is now in the Forbach-Boulay-Moselle arrondissement of the French department of Moselle .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Bolchen district was formed in 1871 from the previously French arrondissement Boulay-Moselle. After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, belonged to the French state again as the Arrondissement Boulay-Moselle .

During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the arrondissement Boulay-Moselle initially formed the district of Bolchen . On 1 December 1940, the district Bolchen with the neighboring county was Forbach the district Saint Avold together. The district area was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was part of the CdZ area of ​​Lorraine . This was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Saarpfalz (from 1942 Westmark ) in Saarbrücken .

Between November and December 1944, the district was recaptured by Allied forces and returned to France. The two pre-war arrondissements of Forbach and Boulay-Moselle were again established by France .

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Bolchen district	41,621	39,583	41,825

Municipalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Bolchen	2,218
Busendorf	2.176
Falkenberg	1,015
Kreuzwald	2,956
Lubeln	1,801

District administrators

The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director .

1871–1872 Sebastian von Saldern00

1872–1880 Ernst von Saldern (1843–1886)00

1880–1883 Victor Sittel († 1895)00

1883–1886 Hugo von Bibra00

1886–1898 Anton von Villers-Grignoncourt (1849–1911)00

1898–1906 Seeger00

1906–1911 Walther Kleemann († 1929)00

1911–1918 Karl Rebender († 1918)00

Communities

In 1910 the Bolchen district comprised 100 communities:

Adaincourt Alzingen Anzelingen Argenchen Armsdorf Baumbiedersdorf Berweiler Bettingen Bibical Bingen Bisten in Lorraine Bizingen Bolchen Brettnach Break Buschborn Busendorf Chémery Colmen Contchen Dalem Dalstein Dentingen Diedersdorf Ebersweiler

Eblingen Edelingen Elwingen Falk Falkenberg Filsdorf Fletringen Freisdorf Füllingen Walkers Gehnkirchen Gelmingen Gerstlingen Gertingen Girlingen Halleringen Hallingen Ham under Varsberg Han an der Nied Hargarten Heiningen Heinkingen Helsdorf Hemilly Herlingen

Hessdorf Holacourt Hollingen Kreuzwald Kriechingen Cowmen Loud catch Lautermingen Lubeln Maiweiler Memersbronn amounts Merten Möhringen-Zondringen Momersdorf Neunkirchen Niederum Niederwiese Oberdorf Oberfillen Oberwiese Ottendorf Pieblings Reimeringen Remelfangen

Rothendorf Ruplingen Saint Bernard Saint Franz Schemerich Schwerdorf Steinbiedersdorf Teterchen Tetingen Thonville Trittelingen Tromborn Vahlen Valmunster Varsberg Vittoncourt Voimhaut Volmeringen Waibelskirchen Catfish Wallersberg Welwingen Willingen Wölflingen near Busendorf Zimmingen

literature

• Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical handbook, administrative scheme and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 117–128 ( online )
• Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 345–372 ( online ).
• M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_bolchen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).