Steinau district

The Steinau district, 1905

The Steinau district was a Prussian district in Silesia , which existed from 1742 to 1932. The town of Steinau an der Oder was named after and district town . The former district area is now largely part of the Powiat Lubiński (district of Lüben). in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

The district was in Lower Silesia on the Oder , around 55 km northwest of Wroclaw , 30 km northeast of Liegnitz and 35 km southeast of Glogau . The majority of the district area lay on the left (western) bank of the Oder. The border to Poland at Rawitsch was around 25 km northeast of Köben. The district included the three cities of Köben an der Oder , Raudten and Steinau an der Oder. The district bordered in the northeast on the district of Guhrau , in the east on the district of Wohlau , in the south on the district of Liegnitz , in the south-west on the district of Lüben and in the north-west on the district of Glogau .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

After the conquest of most of Silesia by Prussia in 1741, the royal cabinet order of November 25, 1741 introduced the Prussian administrative structures in Lower Silesia . This included the establishment of two war and domain chambers in Breslau and Glogau as well as their subdivision into districts and the appointment of district administrators on January 1, 1742.

In the Principality of Wohlau , one of the Silesian sub-principalities, the Prussian districts of Steinau-Raudten and Wohlau were formed from the old Silesian soft images of Raudten, Steinau and Wohlau . Christoph Gotthard von Kreckwitz was appointed as the first district administrator in the Steinau-Raudten district. The Steinau-Raudten district was under the Wroclaw War and Domain Chamber . The name part “Raudten” was dispensed with at the end of the 18th century. In the course of the Stein-Hardenberg reforms in 1815, the Steinau district was assigned to the Breslau administrative district of the province of Silesia .

During the district reform of January 1, 1818 in the district of Breslau, the district of Steinau received the village of Beitkau from the district of Glogau as well as the town of Köben and the villages of Brödelwitz, Guhren, Köben Dorf, Läskau, Mühlgast, Nutrschütz, Radschütz and Ristitz from the district of Guhrau . The villages of Herrndorf, Merschwitz and Polack moved from the Steinau district to the Lüben district .

Free State of Prussia / German Empire

On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz . On September 30, 1929, all manor districts in the Steinau district were dissolved in accordance with the development in the rest of the Free State of Prussia and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On October 1, 1932, the Steinau district was dissolved:

• The rural community Rostersdorf came to the district of Glogau .
• The town of Raudten and the rural communities Alt Raudten, Brodelwitz, Gaffron, Queissen, Mlitsch, Ober Dammer, Töschwitz and Zedlitz came to the Lüben district .
• Most of the district with all other communities came to the district of Wohlau.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1795	16,259
1819	18,315
1846	24,219
1871	24,200
1885	24,924
1900	23,398
1910	23,893
1925	25,425

District administrators

District Administrator of the Steinau district were:

• 1742–1748 00Christoph Gotthard von Kreckwitz
• 1751–1759 00Hanns Caspar von Stosch
• 1764–1794 00George Sigismund von Unruh
• 1794–1800 00Johann Rudolph von Skrbensky
• 1800–1806 00Wolfgang Gustav von Wechmar
• 1811–1818 00Carl von Hugo
• 1821– 000000by Meyer
• 0000–1851 00Karl von Wechmar
• 1851–1856 Oskar von Heydebrand and the Lasa (1815–1888)00
• 1858–1877 00August von Liebermann
• 1878-1889 00by Loeper
• 1891–1894 Georg Strutz (1861–1929)00
• 1895–1920 Otto von Schuckmann (1859–1926)00
• 1920–1923 00Emil von Wedel
• 1924–1932 Hans Bertuch (* 1880)00

Communities

The Steinau district last comprised three cities and 51 rural communities:

Alt Raudten Bartsch-Kulm Bielwiese Borsches Brodelwitz Brödelwitz Dammitsch Dike slip Thief Gaffron Großendorf Guhren Gurkau Hochbauschwitz Ibsdorf Juertsch Kammelwitz Dab look

Köben on the Oder , city Screeching Kulmikau Kunzendorf Lampersdorf Lehsewitz Middle Nieder Dammer Mlitsch Mühlgast Nutrient protection Neudorf b. Steinau Nesting Ober Dammer Ölschen Porschwitz Preichau Pronzendorf Quitting

Radlitz Mudguard Ruffles Raudten , city Rostersdorf Steinau an der Oder , city Steudelwitz Tarxdorf Thauer Thielau Thiemendorf Töschwitz Urschkau Waldheim Wandritsch Whitish Zechelwitz Zedlitz

Incorporation until 1908

• Bartsch, before 1908 to Bartsch-Kulm
• Beitkau, before 1908 to Gaffron
• Gäblitz, before 1908 to Klieschau-Gäblitz
• Geißendorf, on April 13, 1909 in Steinau
• Georgendorf I, on September 8, 1902 in Steinau
• Georgendorf II, on September 8, 1902 in Steinau
• Great Gaffron, before 1908 to Gaffron
• Klein Gaffron, before 1908 to Gaffron
• Klieschau, before 1908 at Klieschau-Gäblitz
• Köben, rural community, 1907 to the city of Köben
• Kulm, before 1908 to Bartsch-Kulm
• Mittel Dammer, before 1908 to Mittel Nieder Dammer
• Nieder Dammer, before 1908 to Mittel Nieder Dammer

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 193, item 8.
• Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the Province of Silesia and their people. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 56-61 ( facsimile in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Kreis Steinau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Steinau district from 1792
• Description of the Steinau district from 1802

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roland Gehrke: State Parliament and the Public: Provincial Parliamentarism in Silesia 1825-1845 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20413-6 , pp. 45 ( partially digitized ).
2. ^ Monuments of the Prussian State Administration in the 18th century . Files from May 31, 1740 to the end of 1745. In: Royal Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . tape 6.2 . Paul Parey, Berlin 1901, Royal Order for the appointment of district administrators in Lower Silesia , p. 259 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ WFC Starke: Contributions to the knowledge of the existing court system and the latest results of the administration of justice in the Prussian state . Carl Heymann, Berlin 1839, District division of the Prussian Duchy of Silesia in the 18th century, p. 290 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
5. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Territorial changes in Germany
7. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Breslau 1817, No. XLV . New division and demarcation of the circles in the Breslau government department of October 31, 1817. Breslau, p. 476 ff . ( Digitized version ).
8. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of districts from August 1, 1932 . In: Prussian State Ministry (Hrsg.): Preußische Gesetzessammlung . Berlin 1932, district reform in the Liegnitz administrative district, p. 256 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Row A: Prussia. Volume 4: Dieter Stüttgen: Silesia. Johann Gottfried Harder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1976, ISBN 3-87969-116-9 .
10. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European states . The statistical view and special statistics of Central Europe. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1805, p. 36 ( digitized version ).
11. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 87 ( digitized version ).
12. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
13. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
14. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
15. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
16. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wohllau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).