Lauban County

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lauban County, 1905

The Lauban district was a Prussian district in Silesia , which existed from 1816 to 1945. On January 1, 1945, it included the four cities of Lauban , Marklissa , Schönberg and Seidenberg as well as 62 other communities.

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, a large part of the former Saxon Upper Lusatia became part of the Liegnitz administrative district of the Prussian province of Silesia . The new Lauban district was formed from parts of this in May 1816 . The district office was in Lauban.

The final delimitation of the district area took place on January 1, 1820 with the following changes to the district boundary:

Alt Berthelsdorf Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
  • Reclassification of the villages Alt- and Neu Berthelsdorf, Eckersdorf, Gieshübel, Gräflich Hernsdorf, Langenöls, Logau, Mauereck, Ober-, Mittel- and Nieder Steinbach, Ober-, Mittel- and Nieder Thiemendorf, Vogelsdorf from the district of Löwenberg to the district of Lauban
  • Reclassification of the town of Seidenberg and the villages of Alt Seidenberg, Bohra, Kundorf, Neu Klüx, Nicolausdorf, Ober Nicolausdorf, Ober- and Nieder Rudelsdorf, Ostrichen, Scheiba, Wilcka and Zwecka from the district of Görlitz to the district of Lauban
  • Reclassification of the villages of Gruna, Hochkirch, Kieslingswalde, Kuna, Sommerseite and Thielitz from the Lauban district to the Görlitz district
  • Reclassification of the village of Haugsdorf from the Bunzlau district to the Lauban 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 .

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, in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in the Lauban district , in which all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On April 1, 1938, the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia were merged to form the new Province of Silesia. On January 1, 1939, the county Lauban led the designation according to the rich now unified control district . On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved. 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 placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . 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 .

Population development

year Residents source
1819 42,556
1846 65,645
1871 64,988
1885 67.113
1900 70,745
1910 72,423
1925 73.136
1939 71,896

District administrators

Local constitution

The Lauban district was initially divided into the towns of Lauban, Marklissa, Schönberg and Seidenberg, in rural communities and manor districts . 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 . 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.

Communities

The Lauban district last comprised the following communities:

The following municipalities lost their independence before 1945:

  • Alt Scheibe, on April 1st, 1935 in Volkersdorf
  • Bergstrasse, on October 1, 1929 in Bad Schwarzbach
  • Grenzdorf, on October 17, 1927 in Bad Schwarzbach
  • Hartha, in Karlsberg on October 1, 1938
  • Heide, on April 1, 1935 in Volkersdorf
  • Meffersdorf, on September 30, 1928 in Wigandsthal
  • Central Bellmannsdorf , on August 21, 1920 in Nieder Bellmannsdorf
  • Mean Linda, to Upper Linda on October 1, 1929
  • New Bertelsdorf, on April 1, 1936 to Bertelsdorf
  • Neu Gersdorf, in Wigandsthal on September 30, 1928
  • New Scheibe, on April 1st, 1935 in Volkersdorf
  • Nieder Gerlachsheim im Winkel, on August 1, 1924 in Nieder Gerlachsheim
  • Nieder Örtmannsdorf, on April 1, 1936 to Örtmannsdorf
  • Ober Langenöls, on August 23, 1920 at Langenöls
  • Ober Örtmannsdorf, on April 1, 1936 to Örtmannsdorf
  • Straßberg, on October 17, 1927 in Bad Schwarzbach

Place names

Meffersdorf manor around 1860,
Alexander Duncker collection

In 1937 several parishes were renamed:

  • Meffersdorf: Wigandsthal
  • Nieder Linda: Nieder Linde
  • Upper Linda: Upper Linden
  • Schwerta: Schwertburg
  • Tzschocha: Rengersdorf
  • Wiesa: Wiese (Lower Silesia)
  • Wilka: Wilke
  • Zwecka: Erlbachtal

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Preliminary announcement of the district division of Upper Lusatia in the administrative district of Liegnitz . In: Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Liegnitz . tape 1816 . Liegnitz May 28, 1816, p. 1 ( digitized version ).
  2. Change of the district division in the administrative district Liegnitz . In: Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Liegnitz . tape 1819 . Liegnitz December 26, 1819, p. 471 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 83 ff . ( Digitized version ).
  4. Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
  7. a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  8. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lauban district (Polish Luban). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).