Koenigsberg i. Pr.

Koenigsberg i. Pr.
Prussian Province	East Prussia (1818–1829) Prussia (1829–1878) East Prussia (1878–1939)
Administrative district	Koenigsberg
County seat	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
surface	1,022 km² (1910)
Residents	45,054 (1910)
Population density	44 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Koenigsberg i. Pr. (1890)

The district of Königsberg i. Pr. Was from 1818 to 1939 a district in the administrative district of Königsberg in East Prussia . The district office was in the city of Königsberg i. In 1910 the district had 45,054 inhabitants on an area of ​​1,022 km².

Administrative history

With the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Königsberg i was created on February 1, 1818 . Pr. In the administrative district of Königsberg in the province of East Prussia .

The district initially included the area of ​​the parishes Arnau , Borchersdorf , Haffstrom , Heiligenwalde , Juditten , Löwenhagen , Ludwigswalde , (Adlig) Neuendorf and Steinbeck , Neuhausen , Postnicken , Powunden , Ottenhagen , Quednau , Schaaken , Schönwalde and Seligenfeld .

On April 1, 1819, the area of ​​the parishes Lichtenhagen and Mahnsfeld from the Kreuzburg district was incorporated into the district. In May 1828 the rural suburbs of the city of Königsberg, which had belonged to the city of Königsberg since 1818, were reclassified to the district.

Since December 3, 1829 the district belonged to the new province of Prussia with the seat in Königsberg i. Pr. Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . After the division of the province of Prussia into the new provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, the district of Königsberg i. Pr. April 1, 1878 part of East Prussia.

On October 23, 1886, the Dichtenwalde estate was acquired from the Königsberg i. Pr. Reclassified to the Prussian Eylau district . On July 1, 1891, the Julienhöhe and Willmanns estate districts from the Königsberg i. Pr. To the Labiau district .

With the first big wave of "incorporation" in 1905, the rural communities Ponarth and Tragheimsdorf as well as parts of the rural communities Kalthof, Lawsken , Mittelhufen, Schönfließ and Vorderhufen, the manor districts Karolinenhof, Mühlenhof and Rosenau and parts of the manor districts Adlig Spandienen , Amalienau were incorporated on April 1 of this year , Friedrichswalde, Groß Holstein, Groß Rathshof , Liep, Löbenicht -Ziegelhof, Maraunenhof and Speichersdorf (partially) and the Gut Neue Bleiche are incorporated into the city of Königsberg. On June 16, 1927, the rural communities of Cummerau, Devau, Juditten , Neuhufen, Quednau (partly) and the manor districts of Contienen , Friedrichswalde, Großer Parzierplatz , Groß Friedrichsberg (partly), Liep (partly), Maraunenhof, Rathshof and Speichersdorf also became part of the city of Königsberg . On November 15, 1928, the rural community of Metgethen (partly) and the manor districts of Ballieth, Groß Karschau (partly), Hoch Karschau (partly) and Jerusalem, and on January 1, 1929, the manor districts of Groß Holstein and Spandienen were incorporated into the city of Königsberg.

On September 30, 1929, in the district of Königsberg i. According to the development in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in which all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and allocated to neighboring rural communities. Corresponding to the renaming of the city of Königsberg, the district also bore the official name of Königsberg (Pr) from January 9, 1936 .

On April 1, 1939, the district was dissolved. Parts of the communities Adlig Neuendorf , Altenberg , Godrienen , Mandeln, Palmburg , Wundlacken and Ziegelau as well as Beydritten, Charlottenburg, Haffstrom , Lauth , Metgethen , Moditten, Prappeln , Quednau , Schönfließ , Seligenfeld , Stiegehnen, the manor district of Frisches Haff were incorporated into the city of Königsberg . All remaining parishes came to the new district Samland .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the district was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 and then came under Soviet administration. Today the former district area belongs to the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast .

court House

Schaaken was the official seat until 1880 , when the building at Königstraße 56 in Königsberg was acquired. A noble family built it as a city apartment around 1700. It was around 30 m wide and, like the neighboring Kreissparkasse, was a listed building. The oak staircase leading to the upper floor was richly decorated with hunting motifs, tendrils and leaves. The purchase of land created sufficient space for the structural expansion. After the First World War, the tasks of the district administration increased steadily. In 1939 the state and municipal departments comprised nearly 200 employees.

District administrators

Country house with district office in Königsberg

• 1816–1838: von Ostau
• 1838–1850: Eugen von Dönhoff (1800–1877)
• 1838–1850: Rudolf von Auerswald
• 1850–1851: Jachmann (provisional)
• 1851–1856: by Wegnern
• 1856–1862: Alfred Jachmann
• 1862–1887: Otto Karl von Hüllessem-Meerscheidt
• 1887–1900: Baron von Meerscheidt-Hüllessen
• 1900–1907: Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe
• 1907–1916: Manfred von Brünneck-Bellschwitz
• 1916–1917: Tielsch (representative)
• 1917–1918: Count zu Solms-Laubach (acting)
• 1918–1933: Konrad von der Goltz
• 1933–1934: Paul Hoffmann (acting)
• 1934–1936: Roland Siegel (acting)
• 1936–1939: Klaus von der Groeben

Administrative division

In 1910 there was in the district of Königsberg i. Pr. 123 rural communities:

1. Altenberg
2. Custom
3. Arnau
4. Aweyken
5. Bergau
6. Birch forest
7. Borchersdorf
8. Brasdorf
9. Bulitten
10. Damerau
11. Devau
12. Dog tendons
13. Dorben
14. Dossitten
15. Eythienen
16. Friedrichswalde
17. Fuchsberg
18. Ginthieden
19. Godrienen
20. Gollau
21. Great Lindenau
22. Gross Ottenhagen
23. Great possinds
24. Gunthenen
25. Gutenfeld
26. Haffstrom
27. Heiligenwalde
28. Heyde-Maulen
29. Heyde-Waldburg
30. horst
31. Jäskeim
32. Juditten
33. Jungferndorf
34. Kalkeim
35. Little Barthen
36. Knöppelsdorf
37. Köllmisch Wargien
38. Royal sheaves of gall
39. Königlich Neuendorf
40. Royal Perwissau
41. Royal Sudau
42. Konradsvitte
43. Konradswalde
44. Correynen
45. Kissing
46. Kropiens
47. Kuikeim
48. Grief
49. Langendorf
50. Lauth
51. Lichtenhagen
52. Liska-Schaaken
53. Lobitten
54. Löwenhagen
55. Ludwigswalde
56. Dunning field
57. Almonds
58. Mantau
59. Mouths
60. Moditten
61. Envy germ
62. New Lindenau
63. New fit
64. Neuhausen
65. Neuhof
66. New hooves
67. Nickelsdorf
68. Norgehen
69. Oblits
70. Pissed off
71. Pogau
72. Poggenpfuhl
73. Post nod
74. Powunden
75. Prappeln
76. Prawten
77. Pregelswalde
78. Quednau
79. Vengeance
80. Ramsen
81. Reichenhagen
82. Rogues
83. rose Garden
84. Sand near Löwenhagen
85. Sand near Schaaken
86. Schaaksvitte
87. Sheep farm
88. Forging strings
89. Schönfließ
90. Schönmohr
91. Schönwalde
92. Seewalde
93. Lake meadows
94. Blessed field
95. Scythes
96. Spohr
97. Stangau
98. Traffic jam
99. Steinbeck
100. Steinbeckellen
101. Steinort
102. Stephen
103. Stombeck
104. Tarps
105. Thiemsdorf
106. Marriage customs
107. Trumpets
108. Tropics
109. Trutenau
110. Twergaiten
111. Uggehnen
112. Waldau
113. Wangitt
114. Cheek nod
115. Were served
116. Warthen
117. Weissenstein
118. Wernsdorf
119. Wickbold
120. Will germ
121. Wolfsdorf
122. Whatien
123. Ziegelau

There were also numerous manor districts .

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910	1925	1933
Koenigsberg district	55,067	62.112	45.054	50.991	49,239

Local constitution

The district was initially divided into rural communities and - until their almost complete elimination - into manor districts . With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitution Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the municipal constitution valid in the German Reich came into force on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts .

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 .

literature

in order of appearance

• Leopold Krug : The Prussian Monarchy; presented topographically, statistically and economically. According to official sources . Part I: Province of Prussia . Berlin 1833, pp. 42-105.
• Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, according to official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, pp. 128-140.
• Prussian Ministry of Finance: The results of the property and building tax assessment in the Königsberg administrative district : Berlin 1966, Königsberg district (district), pp. 1–51.
• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 10–11, item 4.
• Paul Gusovius (ed.): The district of Samland. A home book for the former districts of Königsberg and Fischhausen . Holzner, Würzburg 1966 ( East German contributions from the Göttingen working group 38, ISSN  0474-8204 ; The Göttingen working group publication 343).

Web links

• Heimatkreisgemeinschaft Landkreis Königsberg Pr. E. V.
• District of Königsberg i.Pr. Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of January 12, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Government district of Königsberg, German municipal register 1910
2. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Königsberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ Topographical overview of the administrative district of the Royal Prussian Government in Königsberg in Prussia . Heinrich Degen, Königsberg 1820, town directory of the Königsberg district, p. 75 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Königsberg of May 7, 1828, p. 91
5. ^ Territorial changes in Germany
6. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
7. ↑ Patrick Wagner: Bauern, Junker und Beamte , S. 214. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} District of Königsberg i. Pr., German municipality register 1910

Coordinates: 54 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E