Koschmin district

The Koschmin district

Administrative division of the Province of Posen (as of 1919) District Bydgoszcz District Posen





The Koschmin district in the southeast of the Prussian province of Posen existed from 1887 to 1919. The former district area today belongs to the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

expansion

The Koschmin district had a total area of ​​453 km².

prehistory

After the third partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the district area belonged to the Krotoschin district in the Prussian province of South Prussia . After the Peace of Tilsit , the area became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 . After the Congress of Vienna , the area fell back to the Kingdom of Prussia on May 15, 1815 . Until October 1, 1887, it belonged to the Krotoschin County in the Poznan Province.

Administrative history

On October 1, 1887, the northern part of the Krotoschin District was formed into the Koschmin District . The town of Koschmin was the district town and seat of the District Office .

On December 27, 1918, the Wielkopolska uprising of the Polish majority against German rule began in the province of Posen , and by January 2, 1919, the city of Koschmin was under Polish control. On February 16, 1919, an armistice ended the Polish-German fighting, and on June 28, 1919, the German government officially ceded the Koschmin District to the newly founded Poland with the signing of the Versailles Treaty .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1895	29,790
1895	31,523
1900	31,251
1910	33,519

Of the population in 1890, around 70% were Poles and 30% German. A large part of the German residents left the district area after 1919.

politics

District administrators

1887-1891 by Pelcke00

1891-1900 by Pelkon00

1900–1908 Witte00

1908–1917 Wilhelm Albrecht (1875–1946)00

1916–1919 Wilhelm Mosle (1877–1955)00

1919 Jozef Chelkowski-999900

elections

The Koschmin district together with the Krotoschin district formed the Posen 9 parliamentary electoral district . The constituency was won by candidates from the Polish parliamentary group in the Reichstag elections between 1887 and 1912 :

• 1887 novel by Komierowski00
• 1890 Ludwig von Jazdzewski00
• 189300 Ludwig von Jazdzewski
• 189800 Ludwig von Jazdzewski
• 190300 Ludwig von Jazdzewski
• 1907 Wladislaus von Mieczkowski00
• 1912 Anton von Chlapowski00

Municipal structure

On January 1, 1908, the three towns of Koschmin , Borek and Pogorzela belonged to the Gostyn district . The (as of 1908) 58 rural communities and 27 manor districts were combined into police districts.

Communities

At the beginning of the 20th century the following communities belonged to the district:

Old Bruczkow Old Obra Berdychow Boleslawowo Borek , city Borzencice Bulakov Cegielnia Celestynowo Czarnysad Dzierzanow Ellerode Galewo Galonski Gloginin Gluchow

Gluchowo Gorka Gosciejewo Great Pogorzalki Groß Salesche Guminiec Kaczagorka Kaniewo Little Zalesie Koshmin , city Kromolice Kuklinow Ladenberg Lagiewnik Leonowo Lipowiec

Malgow Mokronos New Obra Ochla Orla Paradow Pogorzela , city Polish Koschmin Hauland Rojewo Romanov Rzemichow Siebenwald Skalow Skokov Sroki Staniewo

Starkowiec Susnia Szelejewo Trzecianow Unislaw Valerianowo Walkow Wielowies Willanow Vrotkov Vyganov Wyrembin Wzionchow

The municipality of Zdiesz was incorporated into the city of Borek on September 17, 1905. At the beginning of the 20th century, several place names were Germanized.

Web links

• District Koschmin administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 18, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia: Province of Posen
2. ↑ ^{a b c} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_koschmin.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).