Château-Salins county

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lorraine
Administrative headquarters	Château-Salins
surface	976 km² (1910)
Residents	45,303 (1910)
Population density	46 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	132 (1910)
Location of the Château-Salins district

The district of Château-Salins (initially the district of Salzburg ) was from 1871 to 1920 a district in the Lorraine district of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . From 1940 to 1944 he was under the name of the district Salzburgen as part of the occupied France built CdZ-region Lorraine set up again. The area of ​​the district is now in the arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins in the French department of Moselle .

The Château-Salins district in the German Empire

Administrative history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the district of Salzburg was formed in 1871 from the then French arrondissement of Château-Salins . The district director had his seat in the city of Château-Salins . The district of Château-Salins thus belonged to the Lorraine district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine. A short time later, the district and county seat were given the French name of Château-Salins . According to the results of the census of December 1, 1900, the district of Château-Salins with 69.7% - next to the district of Metz with 57.1% - was one of the two districts of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine in which a majority of the population was French as Stated mother tongue.

After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, it belonged to the French state again as the Arrondissement of Château-Salins .

District Directors

The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director.

1871–1872 Lambert Rospatt00

1872–1880 Sigismund von Kramer00

1880–1882 Karl Hack00

1882–1886 German Killinger00

1886–1891 Sengenwald00

1891–1896 Emil Kayser00

1896–1897 Eduard Knüppel00

1897-1901 Max Menny00

1901–1903 Baron von Türcke00

1903–1912 Georg Mahl00

1913-1918 Back00

Local constitution

Initially, the French law of July 18, 1837 on municipal administration continued to apply during German times. On April 1, 1896, the previous municipal constitution was replaced and the new municipal code for Alsace-Lorraine of June 6, 1895 was introduced. It applied to all municipalities and made no distinction between those with a rural or urban constitution.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Château-Salins county	48,956	46,894	45,303

Municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Château-Salins	2,402
Dieuze	5,852
Vic-sur-Seille	1,761

Communities

In 1910, the Château-Salins district comprised 132 municipalities:

Aboncourt Ajoncourt Alaincourt Albesdorf Amelécourt Attilloncourt Aulnois Bacourt Baudrecourt Bensdorf Bermeringen Bessingen Biedesdorf Bioncourt Boellingen Bourdonnay Bréhain Burgaltdorf Burlioncourt Chambrey Château-Bréhain Château-Salins Chenois Chicourt Conthil Coutures Craincourt Dalheim Dédeling Delme Dieuze Dommenheim Donjeux

Donnelay Dorsweiler Dürkastel Ash trees Fonteny Fossieux Freialtdorf Frémery Fresnes-en-Saulnois Gebesdorf Gebling Geinslingen Geistkirch Genesdorf Gerbécourt Gisselfingen Givrycourt Grémecey Güblingen Habudingen Hampont Hannocourt Harraucourt on the Seille Hunkirch Insmingen Insweiler Jallaucourt Juville Kerprich at Dieuze Kleinbessingen Kuttingen Lagarde Laneuveville-en-Saulnois

Lauterfingen Leiningen Lemoncourt Lesse Ley Lezey To sing songs Linden Lindre-Basse Lindre-Haute Liocourt Lohr Losdorf Lubécourt Lucy Maizières Malaucourt Manhoué Marimont Marsal Marthil Molringen Moncourt Montdidier Morville on the Nied Morville at Vic Moyenvic Mulcey Muenster Nebing Neufvillage Obreck Ommeray

Oriocourt Oron Pettoncourt Pewingen Prévocourt Puttigny Puzieux rich Reiningen Rodalben Rohrbach Salonnes Saint Epvre Saint Médard Sotzeling Tarquimpol Tincry Vahl Vannecourt Vaxy Vergaville Vic Villers on the Nied Viviers Weisskirchen Wiebersweiler Wirmingen Wittersburg Wuisse Xanrey Xocourt Zarbeling Zemmingen

Germanization of place names

By imperial decree of September 2, 1915, the place names in the French-speaking area were Germanized, e.g. B .:

• Chambrey : Kambrich
• Delme : Delm
• Dieuze : Duss
• Fossieux : Fossingen
• Lagarde : Gerden
• Marsal : Salzmar
• Vic : Wich

The district of Salzburgen in the Second World War

history

During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the arrondissement of Château-Salins initially formed the district of Salzburg . A German land commissioner was installed in Château-Salins to manage it. The district area was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was part of the CdZ area of ​​Lorraine , which was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Saarpfalz ( Westmark from 1942 ) in Saarbrücken . To distinguish it from the district of the same name in the Reichsgau Salzburg , the district name was changed to the district of Salzburgen on January 25, 1941 . On April 1, 1941, the district boundaries were changed slightly. The two communities Eschen bei Mörchingen and Pewingen were reclassified to the district of Sankt Avold and the community of Nellingen was reclassified from the district of Saargemünd to the district of Salzburgen. From the same time on, the head of administration was referred to as district administrator, as in the German Reich . The following district administrators were appointed between 1940 and 1943:

Between November and December 1944, the district was recaptured by Allied forces and returned to France. The pre-war arrondissement of Château-Salins was set up again by France.

Land Commissioner

1940 Wagner ( provisional )-999900

District administrators

1940 Wagner-999900

1940–1941 Theo Gauweiler (1909–1942)00

1942 Leonhard Lorschneider ( acting )-999900

1942–1943 Friedrich Kipp00

Local constitution

From January 1, 1941, the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 applied to all municipalities in the district .

For this purpose, an executive order was issued on February 1, 1941, according to which joint mayorships could be formed from several communities . On April 1, 1941, the district regulations for Lorraine of March 25, 1941 were introduced, according to which, among other things, the previous cantons were dissolved.

The district was finally divided into the cities of Duss , Salzburgen , Salzmar and Wich and 17 other communities. Depending on their size, these communities formed their own local police districts or were combined to form communal mayor's offices.

Germanization of place names

After August 2, 1940, the official German place names valid in 1918 were initially reintroduced. On January 25, 1941, a German version was set for all place names "finally", some of which differed from the one in 1918, e.g. B .:

• Château-Salins : 1918: Château-Salins, 1941: Salzburgen
• Conthil : 1918: Conthil, 1941: Kontich
• Dalhain : 1918: Dalheim, 1941: Dalheim (Westmark)
• Delme : 1918: Delm, 1941: Delmen
• Francaltroff : 1918: Altdorf (Freialtdorf), 1941: Freialtdorf
• Lagarde : 1918: Gerden, 1941: Lagarde
• Lucy : 1918: Lixingen, 1941: Lixingen near Delmen

literature

• Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical handbook, administrative scheme and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 167-184 ( online )
• Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 472-519 ( online ).
• M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Foreign-language minorities in the German Reich, census from December 1, 1900 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved January 20, 2013 . 
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_chateau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).