Oberbarnim district

The district area 1905

The district of Oberbarnim , until 1939 Oberbarnim district , until the 19th century also called Oberbarnimscher district , was a district in Brandenburg . It existed in Prussia , the Soviet Zone and the GDR until 1952.

On January 1, 1945, the Oberbarnim district included the towns of Bad Freienwalde , Biesenthal , Finow , Strausberg , Werneuchen and Wriezen , 80 other communities and a forest estate district .

The urban district of Eberswalde was an enclave within the district from 1911 to 1950. Today the former district area belongs to the districts of Barnim and Märkisch-Oderland .

Administrative history

District coat of arms

Kingdom of Prussia

In the post-medieval period, the Margraviate of Brandenburg was divided into circles . One of these historical circles was the Oberbarnimsche district or county Oberbarnim . As part of the formation of provinces and administrative districts in Prussia, a district reform took place in the Potsdam administrative district in 1816 , through which the Oberbarnim district had to give up several places to neighboring districts with effect from April 1, 1817:

• The city of Oderberg moved from the Oberbarnim district to the new Angermünde district .
• The places Erkner , Hennickendorf , Herzfelde , Kagel , Lichtenow , Rehfelde , Rüdersdorf , Werder and Zinndorf changed from the Oberbarnim district to the Niederbarnim district .
• The places Klein Buckow, Hasenholz and Garzin changed from among Oberbarnim in the district Lebus in the administrative district of Frankfurt .

The district office was in Freienwalde a./Oder .

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 .

Former seat of the district administration (photo 2015)

On April 1, 1911, the city of Eberswalde left the Oberbarnim district and from then on formed its own urban district . On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Oberbarnim district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On May 1, 1936, the municipality of Kupferhammer was incorporated from the Oberbarnim district into the Eberswalde district.

On January 1, 1939, the county Oberbarnim introduced the term in accordance with the rich now unified control district . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

Soviet occupation zone / German Democratic Republic

With effect from March 15, 1946, by decision of the Presidium of the Provincial Administration of Mark Brandenburg, the communities Adlig Reetz , Altglietzen , Altreetz , Altwustrow , Bralitz , Gabow , Hohenwutzen , Karlsbiese , Karlshof , Königlich Reetz , Neuglietzen , Neuküstrinchen , Neulietzegöricke , Neuranft , Neurüdnitz , Neutornow , Neuwustrow , Neuenhagen and Schiffmühle of the dissolved district of Königsberg Nm. to the Oberbarnim district. After the dissolution of Prussia, the district of Oberbarnim belonged to the new state of Brandenburg .

The law on the amendment to improve the district and municipal boundaries of April 28, 1950 brought extensive changes to the area on July 1, 1950:

• The city of Eberswalde lost its district freedom and returned to the district.
• The communities Britz , Hohensaaten , Liepe , Niederfinow , Oderberg i./Mark and Werbellin moved from the Angermünde district to the Oberbarnim district.
• From the district Oberbarnim the communities changed Biesenthal , Buchholz , Danewitz , Hirschfelde , Ladeburg , Rüdnitz , Schoenfeld , Tempelfelde , Weesow , Wegendorf , Werneuchen , Wesendahl and Willmersdorf in the district Niederbarnim .
• The municipalities of Altbarnim , Neubarnim , Neutrebbin , Sietzing , Wuschewier and Zelliner Loose moved from the Oberbarnim district to the newly formed Seelow district .

On July 25, 1952, the district of Oberbarnim was dissolved and divided into the districts of Eberswalde , Bad Freienwalde , Seelow and Strausberg .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1750	22,192
1800	41,417
1816	36,135
1846	56,834
1871	71,514
1890	84.018
1900	92,180
1910	103.058
1925	80,657
1933	84,437
1939	90,511
1946	100,838

District administrators

• 1709–1738 Johann Ludwig von Barfus
• 1738–1753 Albrecht Siegmund Friedrich von Barfus
• 1754–1771 Christoph Daniel von der Schulenburg
• 1771–1797 Carl Christoph August von Pfuel
• 1797–1810 Leopold Friedrich von Reichenbach
• 1810–1821 Friedrich Ludwig von Vernezobre
• 1821–1825 Christian Alexander Albrecht Carl von der Schulenburg (1773–1850)
• 1825–1844 Carl von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1800–1880)
• 1844–1874 Alexis von Haeseler (1801–1889)
• 1874–1885 Felix von Bethmann Hollweg (1824–1900)
• 1885–1896 Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921)
• 1896–1909 Heinrich von Oppen (1869–1925)
• 1909–1919 Georg von Müffling called Weiss (1875–1957)
• 1919–1932 Peter Friedrich Mengel (1884–1967)
• 1932–1933 Karl Ott
• 1933–1945 Albrecht Ernst von Thaer (1900–1946)

Local constitution until 1945

The Oberbarnim district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - manor districts.

With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . 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.

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the following towns and communities belonged to the Oberbarnim district:

Altfriedland Altlewin Altmaedewitz Old-soft Alttrebbin Altwriezen Bad Freienwalde , city Batzlow Beauregard Beiersdorf Biesenthal , city Bliesdorf Bollersdorf Brunow Buchholz Danewitz Dannenberg Eichwerder Falkenberg / Mark Finow , city Finowfurt

Frankenfelde Freudenberg Garzau Gersdorf Gielsdorf Grand Barnim Grunow Grüntal Harnekop Haselberg Heckelberg Heinrichsdorf Hirschfelde Hohenfinow Hohenstein Ihlow Kerstenbruch Little Barnim Klobbicke Monastery village Kunersdorf Ladeburg

Leuenberg Lichterfelde Ludersdorf Melchow Metzdorf Neubarnim Neugaul Neukietz b. Scrape New win Neumädewitz Neutrebbin Pritzhagen Prötzel Rathsdorf Reichenberg Reichenow Ringenwalde Rudnitz Ruhlsdorf Schönfeld Schönholz

Schulzendorf Sietzing Sommerfelde Sonnenburg Woodpecker houses Steinbeck Sternebeck Strausberg , city Temple field Deep lake Tornow Hitchhike Cloths Weesow Wegendorf Werneuchen , city Wesendahl Willmersdorf Wollenberg Wölsickendorf Wriezen , city Wuschewier

In 1945 there was also the Forst Barnimer Heide estate.

After the Second World War, the places Biesdorf , Kruge , Möglin and Zelliner Loose were elevated to communities.

Communities dissolved before 1945

• Alt Bliesdorf , on January 1, 1926 in Bliesdorf
• Altkietz b. Freienwalde , 1928 to Bad Freienwalde
• Altkietz b. Wriezen , to Wriezen on January 1, 1926
• Alt Tornow , 1928 in Bad Freienwalde
• Amalienhof , in Falkenberg on January 1, 1926
• Broichsdorf , on January 1, 1926 in Falkenberg
• Burgwall , to Neutrebbin
• Eberswalde , since April 1, 1911, an independent city
• Grube , on April 1, 1935 in Neutrebbin
• Heegermühle , merged on January 1, 1926 with the manor districts of Eisenspalterei, Messingwerke and Wolfswinkel to form the community of Finow
• Jäckelsbruch , on January 1, 1926 in Eichwerder
• Karlsdorf , to Altfriedland
• Kupferhammer , on May 1st, 1936 in Eberswalde
• New Bliesdorf , on January 1, 1926 in Bliesdorf
• Neukietz b. Freienwalde a./Oder , to Bad Freienwalde
• Schöpfurth and Steinfurth , merged on January 1, 1929 to form the community of Finowfurt
• Sydow , on January 1, 1926 in Grüntal
• Vevais , in Bliesdorf on January 1, 1926
• Wubrigsberg , to Neutrebbin

Name changes

In 1925 the name changed from Freienwalde a./Oder to Bad Freienwalde (Oder). In 1932, minor changes in the typeface took place by changing the spelling of place names such as Alt Friedland in Altfriedland, Alt Ranft in Altranft and Neu Gaul in Neugaul.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Oberbarnim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• District of Oberbarnim Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of June 10, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingo Materna, Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): Brandenburg history . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 , Boundaries and Administrative Structure, p. 32 ff . ( Digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
2. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam . District division of the administrative district of Potsdam. tape 1816 , no. 12 . Potsdam, S. 103 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
3. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam . Entry into force of the new district division of the administrative district of Potsdam. tape 1817 , no. 7 . Potsdam, S. 51 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
4. ^ Hohenwutzen and the surrounding area at genealogy.net
5. ^ Provincial administration Mark Brandenburg (Ed.): Ordinance sheet of the Provincial Administration Mark Brandenburg No. 7 of April 10, 1946 . Resolution of the presidium of the provincial administration of Mark Brandenburg on the dissolution of the remaining district of Königsberg (Neumark) and change of the borders of the districts of Oberbarnim, Lebus and Angermünde.
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office: Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states. Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7
7. ^ ^{A b} Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring : Statistical-topographical description of the entire Mark Brandenburg . tape 2 . Friedrich Maurer, Berlin 1805, chap. District of Oberbarnim, S. 222 ff . ( Digitized version ).
8. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Potsdam, p. 197 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
9. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 313 ( digitized version ).
10. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Brandenburg and their population in 1871
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Oberbarnim district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
12. ↑ 1946 census
13. ↑ Historical municipality directory Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland