Prenzlau district

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The district of Prenzlau , until 1939 district of Prenzlau , was a district in Brandenburg . It existed in Prussia , the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR from 1817 to 1952.

territory

On January 1, 1945, the Prenzlau district comprised the three cities of Brüssow , Prenzlau and Strasburg (Uckermark) and 91 other communities. Today the former district area belongs to the districts of Uckermark in Brandenburg and Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .

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 three new districts of Angermünde , Prenzlau and Templin were formed in the Uckermark . The Prenzlau district was made up of the northern part of the Uckermark. The district office was in the city of Prenzlau.

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 18, 1871 to the German Empire .

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Prenzlau 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 April 1, 1937, the Kornow Lake was incorporated from the Prenzlau district into the Stargard district in Mecklenburg .

As of January 1, 1939, the Prenzlau district was given the name Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

Soviet occupation zone / GDR

In 1945 the Prenzlau district became part of the state of Brandenburg , which had been part of the GDR since 1949 . 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:

During the GDR district reform of 1952 , the district was significantly reduced in size:

The district of Prenzlau , which was added to the newly formed district of Neubrandenburg , became the remaining district area . At the same time, the communities of Blankenburg , Gramzow , Meichow , Neumeichow , Seehausen and Warnitz moved from the Angermünde district to the Prenzlau district.

Federal Republic of Germany

In 1990 the citizens of the Prenzlau and Templin districts decided by an overwhelming majority to belong to the state of Brandenburg.

The municipalities of Bagemühl , Grünberg , Nechlin , Woddow , Wollschow-Menkin and the city of Brüssow of the district of Pasewalk as well as the municipalities of Fahrenholz , Güterberg , Jagow , Lemmersdorf , Lübbenow , Milow , Trebenow and Wilsickow were established by a state treaty between the states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Wismar and Wolfshagen in the district of Strasburg were reclassified from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to Brandenburg on July 1, 1992. All of these communities were part of Brandenburg until the district reforms at the beginning of the 1950s.

The districts of Angermünde , Prenzlau and Templin as well as the independent city of Schwedt were merged in 1993 to form the district of Uckermark .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 35,569
1846 52,404
1871 53,031
1890 56,065
1900 59,340
1910 61,878
1925 64,295
1933 62,088
1939 64,641
1946 73,490

District administrators

Local constitution until 1945

The Prenzlau district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - manor districts. With the introduction of the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced on April 1, 1935 at the municipal level . 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 Prenzlau district:

Name changes

In the 1920s, the place name Strasburg i./Uckermark changed to Strasburg (Uckermark) . The municipality of Hindenburg was renamed Lindenhagen in 1949 .

literature

Contributions to the history of mining in the province of Brandenburg , Hermann Cramer, Halle 1872–1889, Volume 5, Reprint, (facsimile), ISBN 978-3-88372-004-3 , Potsdam 2011

Web links

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

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. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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]).
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 313 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Brandenburg and their population in 1871
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Prenzlau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ 1946 census