Goldberg district

The Goldberg-Haynau district within the boundaries from 1820 to 1932

The Prussian district of Goldberg (from 1817 to 1932 district of Goldberg-Haynau ) in Silesia existed from 1742 to 1945. The district office was in the town of Goldberg . The former district area is now part of the Polish powiats Złotoryjski and Legnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

Seal mark K.Pr. Landrath office of the Goldberg Haynauer district

After the conquest of most of Silesia by Prussia in 1741, the royal cabinet order of November 25, 1741 introduced the Prussian administrative structures in Lower Silesia . This included the establishment of two war and domain chambers in Breslau and Glogau as well as their subdivision into districts and the appointment of district administrators on January 1, 1742.

In the Principality of Liegnitz , Prussian circles were formed from the three existing old Silesian soft images Goldberg-Haynau, Liegnitz and Lüben. Heinrich Sigismund von Festenberg-Pakisch was appointed as the first district administrator in the Goldberg-Haynau district. The district was subordinate to the War and Domain Chamber Glogau, from which in the course of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1815 the administrative district Liegnitz of the province of Silesia emerged .

As part of border regulations between the administrative districts of Liegnitz and Reichenbach , the villages of Peiswitz and Riemberg were reclassified from the Jauer district to the Goldberg-Haynau district on January 1, 1817 . In March 1817 the district office was moved from Goldberg to Haynau and the district was renamed Goldberg-Haynau district .

During the district reform of January 1, 1820 in the Liegnitz district, the Goldberg-Haynau district received the village of Siegendorf from the Liegnitz district and in turn gave the village of Wildschütz to the Liegnitz district. In addition, the villages of Brockendorf, Grüßiggrund, Märzdorf, Petschendorf, Sankt Hedwigsdorf and Woitsdorf were reclassified from the Bunzlau district to the Goldberg-Haynau district and the Buchwald and Fuchsmühl villages from the Goldberg-Haynau district to the Lüben district .

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . The butcher journeyman Johann Carl Gottlob Gurlt came from Gnadendorf and was executed on June 21, 1839 for robbery and murder in Wedding (now in Berlin). It was the last public execution in Berlin.

On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz . On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Goldberg-Haynau district, as in the rest of Prussia , in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On October 1, 1932, most of the dissolved Schönau district , including the town of Schönau a./Katzbach, became the Goldberg-Haynau district, which was also renamed Goldberg district . In addition, the rural community of Siegendorf was reclassified from the Goldberg-Haynau district to the Liegnitz district. The municipalities of Haasel, Hänchen, Laasnig and Prausnitz moved from the dissolved Jauer district to the Goldberg district.

On April 1, 1938, the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia were merged to form the new Province of Silesia. Since January 1, 1939, the Goldberg district has been given the uniform imperial name of the district . On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved again and divided into the provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia. The new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz.

In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army . In the summer of 1945, the district was handed over to the Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . After that, the influx of Polish civilians began in the district area, some of whom came from the areas east of the Curzon Line that fell to the Soviet Union . In the period that followed, most of the German population was expelled from the district .

Goldberg and Solingen

On September 11, 1955, the day of the homeland , the city of Solingen took over the sponsorship of the district Goldberg. 500 former Goldbergers came to Solingen on this occasion to attend the presentation of the sponsorship certificate. The city of Solingen undertook to set up an information center, to organize the Goldberg home meetings and to create a place in the Solingen city archive (the "Goldberg-Stube") for the collection of Goldberger archives and memorabilia. The collection is regularly enlarged through loans and donations.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1795	38,269
1819	38,413
1846	51,492
1871	49,695
1885	49,854
1900	56,533
1910	58,118
1925	53,550
1939	70.025

District administrators

1742–1751 00George Heinrich Sigismund von Festenberg and Pakisch (1680–1751)

1752–1761 00George Heinrich Sigismund von Festenberg and Pakisch (1705–1761)

1761–1764 00Christoph Heinrich von Festenberg and Pakisch

1770–1782 00Friedrich Reinhard von Redern and Probsthayn

1783–1790 00Valentin Sigismund von Redern and Probsthayn

1790–1805 00Hans Christian Alexander von Schweinitz

1806–1814 00Capar von Zedlitz

1814–1821 00Karl Alexander Sebastian von Johnston (1791–1866)

1821–1841 00Müller

1841–1848 00Sylvius Ernst Karl Joachim von Elsner (1783–1851)

1848–1851 00Guido von Skal

1851–1892 Ernst Theodor von Rothkirch-Trach (1820–1892)00

1892–1922 00Maximilian von Rothkirch and Trach (1857–1938)

1922–1932 00Alfons Gauglitz (* 1877)

1932 0000000Koch ( substitute )

1932–1934 Edmund Strutz (1892–1964)00

1934–1941 00Erich Daluege (* 1889)

1941–1945 00Hans von Studnitz

Local constitution

The Goldberg-Haynau district has been divided into cities, rural communities and manor districts since the 19th century . With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

Communities

The Goldberg district last comprised three cities and 71 rural communities:

Adelsdorf Alt Schönau Altenlohm Alzenau Bärsdorf-Trach Baudmannsdorf Bielau Bischdorf Brockendorf Doberschau Falcon Grove Georgenthal Giersdorf Goldberg , city Goldberger Vorwerke Göllschau Gröditzberg Groß Tschirbsdorf Haasel

Harpersdorf Haynau, city Haynauisch Hermsdorf Hermsdorf ad Katzbach Herrmannswaldau Hockenau Hohendorf Hohenliebenthal Hundorf Johnsdorf Kaiserswaldau Purchase examination Klein Helmsdorf Konradsdorf Konradswaldau Kopatsch Kosendau Kreibau Lazy

Leisersdorf Praise Ludwigsdorf March village Michelsdorfer Vorwerke Model village Neudorf a. Gröditzberge Neudorf a. Race ways Neukirch Panthenau Peiswitz Pilgram village Pohlswinkel Prausnitz Probsthain Reichwaldau Reisicht Röchlitz Röversdorf

Samitz Schönau a./Katzbach , city Schönfeld Schönwaldau Seifersdorf Steinberg Steinsdorf Steudnitz Straupitz Tammendorf Tiefhartmannsdorf Ulbersdorf Vestibule Wilhelmsdorf Wittgendorf Woitsdorf Wolfsdorf

The following municipalities lost their independence by 1938:

Armenruh, on October 17, 1928 in Harpersdorf Flowers, April 1st, 1937 in Lobendau Geiersberg, on April 1, 1938 in Wolfsdorf Gnadendorf, on August 11, 1928 in Bischdorf Gohlsdorf, on April 1, 1937 in Panthenau Goldbergisch Hermsdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Hermsdorf ad Katzbach Goldbergisch Ulbersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Ulbersdorf Hainwald, on October 17, 1928 in Hockenau Hänchen, on April 1, 1937 in Laasnig Haynauer Vorwerke, on October 17, 1928 to Michelsdorfer Vorwerke Haynauisch Nieder Hermsdorf, on October 17, 1928 to Haynauisch Hermsdorf Haynauisch Ober Hermsdorf, on October 17, 1928 to Haynauisch Hermsdorf Hohberg, on September 30, 1928 at Goldberger Vorwerke Knobelsdorf, on April 1, 1938 in Giersdorf Mittel Bielau, on September 30, 1928 in Bielau Mittel Leisersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Leisersdorf Mittel Nieder Kaiserswaldau, on September 30, 1928 in Kaiserswaldau Mittel Nieder Steinsdorf, on November 3, 1922 in Steinsdorf Moschendorf, on October 17th, 1928 in March village Neuschweinitz, on October 17, 1928 in Alzenau Nieder Adelsdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Adelsdorf Nieder Alzenau, on October 17th, 1928 in Alzenau Nieder Bielau, on September 30, 1928 in Bielau Nieder Falkenhain, on April 1, 1938 to Falkenhain Nieder Harpersdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Harpersdorf Nieder Leisersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Leisersdorf Nieder Lobendau, on September 30, 1928 in Lobendau Nieder Michelsdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Michelsdorfer Vorwerke Nieder Schellendorf, on April 1, 1937 in Baudmannsdorf Nieder Wittgendorf, on October 17, 1928 in Wittgendorf

Ober Adelsdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Adelsdorf Ober Alzenau, on October 17, 1928 in Alzenau Ober Bielau, on September 30, 1928 in Bielau Ober Gröditz, 1928 to Gröditzberg Ober Harpersdorf, on October 17, 1928 in Harpersdorf Ober Kaiserswaldau, on September 30, 1928 in Kaiserswaldau Ober Leisersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Leisersdorf Ober Lobendau, on September 30, 1928 in Lobendau Upper Middle Falkenhain, on April 1st, 1938 to Falkenhain Ober Nieder Leisersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Leisersdorf Ober Steinsdorf, on November 3, 1922 in Steinsdorf Ober Wittgendorf, on October 17, 1928 in Wittgendorf Oberau, on January 1, 1925 in Goldberg Petersdorf, on April 1, 1938 in Konradsdorf Petschendorf, on July 20, 1925 at Doberschau Pohlsdorf, on April 1, 1937 in Panthenau Radchen, on April 1, 1937 in Kaiserswaldau Ratschin, on April 1, 1937 in Tiefhartmannsdorf Riemberg, on April 1, 1937 in Hohendorf Rosenau, on April 1, 1937 in Neukirch Rothbrünnig, on April 1, 1937 in Giersdorf Sankt Hedwigshof, on April 1, 1937 in Modelsdorf Scharfenort, on April 1, 1937 in Lobendau Schierau, on April 1, 1937 in Straupitz Seiffenau, on October 17, 1928 in Hermsdorf ad Katzbach Taschenhof, on April 1, 1937 in Neukirch Töppendorf, on April 1, 1937 in Alzenau Tscheschendorf, on April 1, 1937 in Schönfeld Wüttchenau, on January 6, 1908 in Ober Gröditz

Place names

In 1936, the municipality of Kopatsch was renamed Schneebach , the municipality Tscheschendorf was renamed Georgenruh and the municipality Groß Tschirbsdorf was renamed Sandwaldau .

Personalities

• George Heinrich Sigismund von Festenberg and Packisch (1680–1751), first court judge and state elder in the soft picture Goldberg-Haynau, then from 1742 to 1751 district administrator of the Prussian district of Goldberg-Haynau
• Waldemar Dyhrenfurth (1849–1899), public prosecutor, bizarre social critic, creator of Bonifazius Kiesewetter
• Carl Kühne (1871–1956), German engineer, born in Neuwiese
• Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916-1982), attack aircraft and an officer of the Wehrmacht

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 214–215, item 3.
• Ludwig Sturm: Description of the Goldberg-Haynau district for school and home. Self-published, 1889.
• Ludwig Sturm: The Gröditzberg and its immediate surroundings: history of the castle and the surrounding villages. 5. complete. Ed., CO Raupbach Nachf., Haynau i. Schl. 1928.
• Johann Adrian Eduard von Hoverden: Personal chronicle of the Silesian landscape since its establishment in the year 1770. S.109
• Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the Province of Silesia and their people. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 216–225 ( facsimile in the Google book search).
• 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)

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Goldberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of the Goldberg-Haynau district from 1792

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Gehrke: State Parliament and the Public: Provincial Parliamentarism in Silesia 1825-1845 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20413-6 , pp. 45 ( partially digitized ).
2. ^ Monuments of the Prussian State Administration in the 18th century . Files from May 31, 1740 to the end of 1745. In: Royal Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . tape 6.2 . Paul Parey, Berlin 1901, Royal Order for the appointment of district administrators in Lower Silesia , p. 259 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ WFC Starke: Contributions to the knowledge of the existing court system and the latest results of the administration of justice in the Prussian state . Carl Heymann, Berlin 1839, District division of the Prussian Duchy of Silesia in the 18th century, p. 290 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
6. ^ Official Gazette of the Liegnitz Government 1819, No. 52 . Ordinance on the new district division of December 15, 1819. Liegnitz, p. 470 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ In detail: Matthias Blazek : The execution of Johann Carl Gottlob Gurlt in 1839 - the grandstand collapsed under the load . In: Journal der legal contemporary history , ISSN  1863-9984 , issue 3/2012, pp. 122–126.
8. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of districts from August 1, 1932 . In: Prussian State Ministry (Hrsg.): Preußische Gesetzessammlung . Berlin 1932, district reform in the Liegnitz administrative district, p. 257 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia. Volume 4: Dieter Stüttgen: Silesia. Johann Gottfried Harder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1976, ISBN 3-87969-116-9 .
10. ^ Goldberg room. In: bkge.de. Retrieved October 31, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European states . The statistical view and special statistics of Central Europe. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1805, p. 36 ( digitized version ).
12. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 94 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
14. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
15. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
16. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
17. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. goldberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
18. ^ Territorial changes in Germany

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