Poznan East District

The Poznan East District

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





The Posen-Ost district in the Prussian province of Posen existed from 1887 to 1919. The former district is now part of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

size

The Posen-Ost district had a size of 655 km² in 1887, after the changes in 1900 it was 664 km².

history

The Prussian Posen-Ost district was formed on October 1, 1887 from the eastern half of the dissolved Posen district. The seat of the district office was the city of Poznan .

On April 1, 1896, the rural community Berdychowo-Piotrowo was given to the urban district of Posen ; on April 1, 1900, the rural communities of Jersitz, Sankt Lazarus and Wilda followed. On the same day, the city of Pudewitz , its police district, the rural communities Paczkowo, Sarbinowo and Sokolniki Gwiazdowskie as well as the manor districts Gwiazdowo and Puszczykowo from the Schroda district moved to the Posen-Ost district.

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

Population development

year	Residents	source
1890	46,896
1900	39,139
1910	49.119

In 1890 64% of the inhabitants of the district were Poles, 35% Germans and 1% Jews. The majority of the German residents left the area after 1919.

Population of the municipalities with more than 400 inhabitants (1910):

Polish name	German name (1815-1919)	German name (1939-1945)	Population (1910)
Główna	Glowno village	Poznan East City	5298
Naramowice	Naramowice	Guntershausen	605
Pobiedziska	Pudewitz	Pudewitz	3397
Rataje	Rataj	Pflugdorf	993
Starołęka Mała	Klein Starolenka 1906–1919 Luisenhain	Luisenhain	1486
Starołęka	Great Starolenka	Luisenhain	512
Suchy Las	Suchylas 1906-1919 Steimersdorf	Steimersdorf	502
Swarzędz	Severity	1939–1943 Schwaningen 1943–1945 Schwersenz	3316
Winiary	Winiary	Weeping	5189
Żegrze	Zegrze	Bamberg	1481

politics

District administrators

• 1887–1899 Arthur Baarth (1858–1937)00
• 1900–1918 Paul Steiner00

elections

The district of Posen-Ost belonged together with the district of Posen-West and the city district of Posen to the Posen 1 Reichstag constituency . The constituency was won by candidates from the Polish parliamentary group in the Reichstag elections between 1887 and 1912 :

• 1887 Stephan Cegielski00
• 189000 Stephan Cegielski
• 189300 Stephan Cegielski
• 1898 Stanislaus Motty00
• 1903 Bernard von Chrzanowski00
• 190700 Bernard von Chrzanowski
• 1912 Stanislaw Nowicki00

Municipal structure

The towns of Schwersenz and from 1900 Pudewitz belonged to the Posen-Ost district . The (as of 1908) 96 rural communities and 47 manor districts were combined to form police districts.

Communities

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

Altgorka Babki Barcinek Bednary Hauland Bitterfeld Bociniec Bolechowko Bolechowo Borovko Bugai Chludowo Chojnica Czapury Czerwonak village Czerwonak Hauland Daszewice II Dembogora Garaszewo Garby Spiritually Biskupice Glembokie Hauland Glembokie colony Glinienko Glinnow Glowno, village Glowno, colony

Gluschin Gluwno Golun Hauland Gortatowo Great Starolenka Gruszczyn Gura Gwiazdowo near Pudewitz hammer Heinrichsfelde Janikowo Jankowo Jasin Jerzykowo Jerzyn Kardorf Kicin Little Starolenka Kliny Kobelnitz Kobylepole Kocanowo Kolatta Coming business Kozieglowy Krzesinki

Krzesiny Lagiewnik Latalice Lowencin Marlewo Mechowo Mienkowo Minikowo Naramowice Neudorf Hauland Neugorka Nordheim in Poznan Paczkowo Podarzewo Hauland Podarzewo Pomarzanki Premnitz Promno Hauland Promno Pruschewitz Pudewitz , city Rabowice Radoyevo Rataj Sarbinowo Schwersenz , city

Schwersenz, village Skorzencin Sokolniki gwiadowskie Splawie Stenszewko Strzeszyno Suchylas Sypniewo Tannenhorst Trzuskotowo Ulmenhof Usarzewo Wagowo Wenglewo village Wenglewo Hauland Winiary Wiorek Wojtostwo Wronczyn Hauland Zalasewo Zberkowo Zegrze Zelniec

With a few exceptions, the Polish place names continued to apply after 1815, and several place names were Germanized at the beginning of the 20th century.

Web links

• District of Posen-Ost Administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 16, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de