Freudenthal district
The German district of Freudenthal existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945 it comprised:
- the 4 cities Freudenthal , Engelsberg , Bennisch and Würbenthal
- 94 other parishes.
The area of the Freudenthal district had 49,011 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 48,339 inhabitants on May 17, 1939 and 25,998 inhabitants on May 22, 1947.
Administrative history
Czechoslovakia / German occupation
Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Bruntál belonged to Czechoslovakia .
In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. From then on, the district bore the former German-Austrian name Freudenthal . It comprised the judicial districts Bennisch, Freudenthal and Würbenthal . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Freudenthal has been known as the "district".
German Empire
On November 21, the Freudenthal 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 Freudenthal 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 Freudenthal district came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new district of Troppau .
On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. After that, the Freudenthal district remained within its previous boundaries. He received the communities of Karlsberg, Neurode and Rautenberg from the district of Bärn and ceded the communities of Groß Herrlitz and Zattig to the district of Troppau . It stayed that way until the end of World War II .
Since 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia again. Since its division on January 1, 1993, it has belonged to the Czech Republic .
District administrators
- 1938–1943: Friedrich Hartmann
- 1944–1945: Richard Spreu (1896–1969)
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
- Bennisch (3.409 / 3.405)
- Engelsberg (1.417 / 1.421)
- Freudenthal (9,676 / 9,569)
- Würbenthal (3,984 / 4,029)
Communities
- Adamsthal (265/262)
- Alt Erbersdorf (536/561)
- Old town (1,235 / 1,264)
- Old bird soaps (631/611)
- Backwater (284/282)
- Boidensdorf (531/495)
- Brättersdorf (303/309)
- Breitenau (1.034 / 1.050)
- Buchbergsthal (826/800)
- Dittersdorf (378/380)
- Dry soaps (539/543)
- Eckersdorf (721/723)
- Einsiedel (2,214 / 2,097)
- Frei Hermersdorf (950/902)
- Karlsberg (358/382)
- Karlsthal (1,694 / 1,701)
- Klein Herrlitz (328/327)
- Klein Mohrau (1.255 / 1.202)
- Koschendorf (236/247)
- Langenberg (252/221)
- Lichten (2.057 / 1.677)
- Light becoming (1.026 / 1.028)
- Ludwigsthal (955/862)
- Markersdorf (488/463)
- Messendorf (551/582)
- Milkendorf (532/500)
- Neudörfel (225/201)
- New Erbersdorf (898/833)
- Neurode (261/271)
- New bird soaps (289/268)
- Nieder Wildgrub (479/465)
- Ober Wildgrub (566/543)
- Raase (1,670 / 1,708)
- Rautenberg (809/789)
- Silesian Hartau (169/140)
- Writing soap (562/502)
- Seitendorf (726/703)
- Spachendorf (1,368 / 1,348)
- Spillendorf (528/494)
- Green again (297/262)
- Wockendorf (642/620)
- Zossen (857/779)
literature
- Kurt Langer: phonetic geography of the dialect in the districts of Freudenthal and Jägerndorf . Self-published, Prague 1944.
- 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 .
- Jaroslav Vencálek: Okres Bruntál . Okresní úřad, Bruntál 1998. ISBN 80-238-2542-9
- Do nitra Askiburgionu. Bruntálský slovník naučný: encyklopedie Nízkého Jeseníku . Moravská expedice, Bruntál 2004. ISBN 80-86511-18-9
- Rainer Vogel. Family names in the Altvater region: Origin, development and meaning of personal names in the Principality of Jägerndorf and in the Freudenthal rule (formerly Austria-Silesia) . Kovač, Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-8300-7905-7 .
See also
- Okres Bruntál (since 1960)
Web links
- Freudenthal district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 31, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Freudenthal district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- Heimatkreis Freudenthal / Altvater e. V.
- German-Czech place names from the Freudenthal district