Ostprignitz district

The district area (1905)

Seal mark of the Eichenfelde district - Ostprignitz district

The district of Ostprignitz , until 1939 Ostprignitz district , was a district in the province of Brandenburg . It existed in Prussia , in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR from 1817 to 1952. Since 1993, the former district area has belonged to the districts of Ostprignitz-Ruppin and Prignitz in the state of Brandenburg .

Municipalities

In the 1939 census, the Ostprignitz district comprised the four cities of Kyritz , Meyenburg , Pritzwalk and Wittstock , 145 other communities and two forest estate districts .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the formation of provinces and administrative districts in Prussia, a district reform took place in the administrative district of Potsdam in the Prussian province of Brandenburg with effect from April 1, 1817 , in which the new districts Westprignitz and Ostprignitz were created in Prignitz . The Ostprignitz district was formed from

• the dissolved Kyritz district
• the dissolved Pritzwalk district
• the dissolved Wittstock district
• some places of the dissolved district Perleberg and
• part of the dissolved Havelberg district .

The district office was in the city of Kyritz.

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 September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Ostprignitz district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which almost all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On April 1, 1937 there was an exchange of territory under the Greater Hamburg Act :

• The Mecklenburg exclaves Netzeband with Schönberg and Rossow were reclassified from the district of goods to the district of Ostprignitz.
• The Vilzsee was reclassified from the Ostprignitz district in the Mecklenburg district of goods.

On January 1, 1939, the Ostprignitz district was given the name Ostprignitz district in accordance with the now unified regulation . The municipality of Netzeband was reclassified in 1939 to the Ruppin district . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

Soviet occupation zone / GDR

The eastern tip of the Ostprignitz district with the communities of Kleinzerlang , Luhme , Repente , Dorf Zechlin , Flecken Zechlin , Zechlinerhütte and Zempow fell to the district of Ruppin by resolution of the presidium of the Mark Brandenburg provincial administration on September 7, 1946 .

With the law on changing the borders of the federal states of June 28, 1950, an exchange of territory between the federal states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg took place . The communities of Drenkow and Suckow from the Ostprignitz district were reclassified to the Parchim district in Mecklenburg and merged with their twin communities of the same name. In return, the Mecklenburg part of Porep moved from the Parchim district to the Ostprignitz district and was united with Porep in Brandenburg to form one municipality.

On July 23, 1952, the state of Brandenburg was dissolved and the Ostprignitz district dissolved. The district area was essentially divided into the newly formed districts of Kyritz , Pritzwalk and Wittstock , which were allocated to the newly formed Potsdam district. The communities Klein Pankow and Redlin came to the Parchim district in the Schwerin district .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	40,721
1846	61,761
1871	69.003
1890	66,834
1900	67,362
1910	68.104
1925	70,983
1933	71,216
1939	70,843
1946	98,673

District administrators

• 1817–1850 Hans von Kröcher
• 1850–1853 Wilhelm von Kalckreuth
• 1853–1857 Wilhelm von Graevenitz (1789–1860)
• 1857 -9999von Rohr auf Holzhausen ( substitute )
• 1858 -9999Lessmann in Wittstock ( substitute )
• 1859–1867 Paul Persius (1832–1902)
• 1867–1874 Achatz von Bismarck (1833–1874)
• 1874–1887 Hugo Friedrich Leo von Graevenitz
• 1887–1901 Percy von Bernstorff (1858–1930)
• 1901–1908 Reinhold von Heinz
• 1908–1920 Friedrich von Winterfeld (1875–1949)
• 1920–1930 Hans Egidi (1890–1970)
• 1930–1933 Ludwig Beckhaus (1887–1957) ( substitute )
• 1933 Silvio Conti (1899–1938) ( acting )-9999
• 1933–1936 Wilhelm von Wedel (1891–1939)
• 1936–1945 Conrad Prange (1887–1945)

Local constitution until 1945

The Ostprignitz district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete 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

As of 1939

In 1939 the following cities and municipalities belonged to the district of Ostprignitz:

Alt Krüssow Babe Babitz Bantikov Barenthin Bekenthin Berlinchen Berlitt Beveringen Tucks Blandikow Blesendorf Blumenthal Boddin Bölzke Bork Breddin Breitenfeld Bruges Brusenhagen Buchholz Buckow Buddenhagen Christdorf Dahlhausen Ladies lacquer Dannenwalde Demerthin Döllen Dossow

On it Drenkow Drewen Oak fields Falkenhagen Frehne Fretzdorf Freyenstein Gadow Gantikow All Gerdshagen Giesensdorf Glienike Goldbeck Gorike Grabow at Frehne Grabow near Blumenthal Granzow Great Hasslow Big Langerwisch Great Pankow Big wave Gross Woltersdorf Gumtow Halenbeck Holy grave Bright Heart leap Holzhausen

Hoppenrade Jabel Jännersdorf Kehrberg Kemnitz Klein Hasslow Klein Pankow Klein Woltersdorf Kleinzerlang Kolrep Koenigsberg Koekendorf Kötzlin Stuff Krempendorf Cow beer Kuhsdorf Kunow Kyritz , city Laaske Langnow Liebenthal Lindenberg Lohm Luhme Mulberry forest Mechow Mertenshof Mesendorf Meyenburg , city

Nettelbeck New Krüssow Never long Papenbruch Porep Preddöhl Pritzwalk , town Randow Rapshagen Reckenthin Redlin Rehfeld Repente Roddahn Rohlsdorf Rosenwinkel Rossow Sadenbeck Sarnow Schmarsow Schmolde Schoenberg Schönebeck Schönermark Schönhagen b. Gumtow Schönhagen b. Pritzwalk Schrepkow Schweinrich Sixteen rows Sewekow

Silmersdorf Sophiendorf Steffendsagen Stepenitz Studenitz Suckow Teetz Telschow Triglitz Towels Vehlin Vehlow Vettin Voigtsbrugge Warnsdorf Weitgendorf Vernikov Wilmersdorf Wittstock / Dosse , city Wulfersdorf Wulkow Wutike Zaatzke Zechlin, village Zechlin, Flecken Zechlinerhütte Zempow Zernitz Zootzen

In addition, there were the forest manor districts of Forst Prignitzer Heide and Forst Zechlin in the Ostprignitz district.

Municipalities dissolved before 1939

• Heinrichsdorf , on January 1, 1925 in Eichenfelde
• Lellichow , on January 1, 1925 to Ganz
• Giesenhagen , on January 1st, 1925 in Gerdshagen
• Siebmannshorst , on January 1, 1925 in Goldbeck
• Techow , on January 1, 1928 at Heiligengrabe
• Garz , to Hoppenrade on January 1, 1926
• Jakobsdorf , on January 1st, 1925 in Laaske
• Ackerfelde , on January 1st, 1828 at Niemerlang

literature

• Jürgen W. Schmidt : The district administrators of the Ostprignitz district from 1867 to 1920 . In: Messages from the Association for the History of Prignitz . tape 13 , 2013, p. 5-62 .
• Jürgen W. Schmidt: The district administrators of the Ostprignitz district from 1920 to 1945 . In: Messages from the Association for the History of Prignitz . tape 14 , 2014, p. 151-184 .
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The archaeologist Walter Matthes as explorer of the Ostprignitz . In: Messages from the Association for the History of Prignitz . tape 15 , 2015, p. 71–85 (3 figs.).

Web links

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

• History of the Prignitz - a brief overview of the settlement, art and cultural history
• Ostprignitz district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 8, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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]).
2. ^ 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]).
3. ↑ www.landkreis-prignitz.de: History
4. ↑ Wolfgang Blöß: Borders and reforms in a society in transition . From the state of Brandenburg to the districts 1945–1952. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014 ( [1] ).
5. ^ 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]).
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 313 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Brandenburg and their population in 1871
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Ostprignitz district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ↑ 1946 census
10. ^ Corps Suevia Munich , Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114 , 1335