Freiwaldau district

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The district of Freiwaldau was a district in the Sudetenland and existed as a German district between 1938 and 1945. Its predecessor, the Political District of Freiwaldau , had existed since 1850.

The district had an area of ​​736.36 km².

On January 1, 1945, the Freiwaldau district included:

According to the respective census results, the area of ​​the Freiwaldau district had:

  • 1910: 68,823 inhabitants (including 66,855 Germans)
  • 1921: 66,108 inhabitants (including 63,029 Germans)
  • 1930: 71,717 inhabitants (including 66,987 Germans)
  • 1939: 70,005 inhabitants (including 69,390 Germans)

On May 22, 1947 the population was only 36,302.

Administrative history

Austria-Hungary

The political district of Freiwaldau was created in 1850. It was divided into the judicial districts Freiwaldau, Jauernig, Weidenau and Zuckmantel.

Czechoslovakia

After the First World War, the area of ​​the Freiwaldau district was occupied by the Czech military and, against the will of the majority of its population, was finally incorporated into the newly formed state of Czechoslovakia. The administrative division that existed from the Austrian period also remained in the Czechoslovak state, but the district was now officially run under the name Frývaldov .

German Empire

As a result of the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, German troops occupied this area from October 1 to 10, 1938. From then on, the political district of Frývaldov carried the former German-Austrian name Freiwaldau . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Freiwaldau has been known as the "district". Until that day he was subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , as head of the military administration.

On November 21, 1938, the area of ​​the Freiwaldau district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

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

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the Freiwaldau district came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new district of Troppau .

On May 1, 1939, a reorganization of the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland was decreed, but this did not affect the Freiwaldau district. It remained in this state until the end of World War II .

ČSSR / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1938–1939:?
1940–1945: Alfred von Campe (1889–1945)

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 provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipal 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.

cities and communes

(Residents 1930/1939)

Cities

  1. Freiwaldau (8,251 / 7,440)
  2. Friedeberg (1,478 / 1,612)
  3. Sibiu (2.187 / 2.148)
  4. Jauernig (3.067 / 2.932)
  5. Weidenau (2.186 / 2.158)
  6. Zuckmantel (4,473 / 4,363)

Communities

  1. Adelsdorf (1.254 / 1.196)
  2. Old Rothwasser (2.101 / 2.066)
  3. Barzdorf (2,631 / 2,394)
  4. Bohemian village (2,693 / 2,767)
  5. Breitenfurt (839/809)
  6. Buchelsdorf (2,333 / 2,360)
  7. Domsdorf (708/749)
  8. Endersdorf (1,737 / 1,644)
  9. Gröditz (931/918)
  10. Big Krosse (1.643 / 1.587)
  11. Gross Kunzendorf (1.448 / 1.456)
  12. Gurschdorf (1,848 / 1,955)
  13. Jungferndorf (984/970)
  14. Kohlsdorf (789/762)
  15. Krautenwalde (438/375)
  16. New Wilmsdorf (705/671)
  17. Nieder Grund (469/493)
  18. Lower Lindewiese (3.470 / 3.290)
  19. Niklasdorf , market (3.338 / 3.316)
  20. Ober Gostitz (394/375)
  21. Above Ground (587/546)
  22. Ober Lindewiese (1,544 / 1,430)
  23. Petersdorf (623/654)
  24. Reihwiesen (351/329)
  25. Sand pound (1,639 / 1,653)
  26. Saubsdorf (1,734 / 1,710)
  27. Schwarzwasser (2.182 / 2.276)
  28. Setzdorf (3.240 / 3.323)
  29. Sörgsdorf (1.087 / 1.078)
  30. Thomasdorf (Domašov) (2,342 / 2,387)
  31. Waldek (456/456)
  32. Weissbach (772/736)
  33. Weißwasser , market (1.104 / 1.025)
  34. Wildschütz (1,661 / 1,574)

Personalities

literature

  • Otakar Káňa. Historické proměny pohraničí: Vývoj pohraničních okresů Jeseník, Rýmařov, Bruntál a Krnov po roce 1945 . Profile 1976.
  • Josef Bartoš, Jindřich Schulz, Miloš Trapl: Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960. Sv. 13, okresy: Bruntál, Jeseník, Krnov . Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc 1994. ISBN 80-7067-402-4 .

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