District of Waldenburg i. Schles.

City and district of Waldenburg

The district of Waldenburg (Schles) was a Prussian district in Silesia . It existed from 1818 to 1945. Its district town was the city of Waldenburg , which had formed its own urban district since 1924 . The former district area is now in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Administrative history

In the administrative district of Reichenbach in the Prussian province of Silesia , the new Waldenburg district was formed on January 1, 1818, from the southwestern part of the Schweidnitz district. After the dissolution of the Reichenbach administrative district, the Schweidnitz and Waldenburg districts were assigned to the Breslau administrative district on May 1, 1820 .

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged as part of Prussia to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the 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 April 1, 1924, the city of Waldenburg was raised to a separate urban district. This gave the Waldenburg district the name of a district . On September 30, 1929, all manor districts in the Waldenburg district were dissolved in accordance with the development in the rest of Prussia and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On April 1, 1934, the rural communities Alt Reichenau and Quolsdorf from the Jauer district and the rural communities Gaablau , Liebersdorf and Rothenbach from the Landeshut district were reclassified into the Waldenburg district. At the same time, the urban district of Waldenburg was expanded to include the rural community of Ober Waldenburg and parcels of the rural communities of Dittersbach, Hermsdorf and Weißstein from the district of Waldenburg.

On September 13, 1937, the city and district were officially named Waldenburg (Silesian) . On October 7, 1937, the point in the addition Waldenburg (Schles) was deleted from the official name . On April 1, 1938, the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia were merged to form the new Province of Silesia. On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved again. The new province of Lower Silesia was formed from the administrative districts of Breslau and Liegnitz.

In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army . In the summer of 1945, the district was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement . The influx of Polish civilians began in the district, some of whom came from the areas east of the Curzon Line that fell to the Soviet Union . In the period that followed, most of the German population was expelled from the district .

Local constitution

The Waldenburg district was initially divided into cities, rural communities and manor districts. Due to the district order for the provinces of Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia and Saxony from December 13, 1872, 33 administrative districts were introduced from January 1, 1874 - in the Waldenburg district from May 9, 1874 - to cover the predominantly very small communities of to relieve the growing administrative tasks. The number of these administrative districts was reduced to 26 by 1945. The district constitution in Silesia was last amended by the district order for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony on March 19, 1881.

With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the previous rural municipalities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1819	35,011
1846	56,263
1871	99,452
1885	117,684
1900	143,361
1910	168.714
1925	133.504
1939	117,918

District administrators

• 1818–1834 00Leopold von Reichenbach (1773–1834)
• 1834–1847 00by Ziethen
• 1847–1853 August von Ende (1815–1889) (honorary citizen of Waldenburg)00
• 1854–1866 Arnold von Rosenberg (1824–1883)00
• 1867–1874 00Conrad von Zedlitz and Neukirch
• 1875–1882 Rudolf von Bitter the Younger (1846–1914)00
• 1882–1885 Karl von Dörnberg (1854–1891)00
• 1885–1897 00Kurt von Lieres and Wilkau
• 1897–1907 00Jakob Scharmer
• 1907–1916 Robert von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1872–1937)00
• 1916–1919 Götz von Götz (1881–1954)00
• 1919 0000000Mücke ( acting )
• 1920–1925 00Oskar Schütz
• 1925–1932 Karl Franz (1881–1967)00
• 1932–1933 00Wilhelm Brandes (by order )
• 1933 Walther von Boeckmann (1888–1970) ( substitute )0000000
• 1933–1934 Walther Kühn (1892–1962)00
• 1934–1943 00Karl Williger
• 1943–1945 00Günther Bier

Communities

The Waldenburg district last comprised two cities and 45 rural communities:

Adelsbach Old Reichenau Old casual Bad Charlottenbrunn Bad Salzbrunn Bärsdorf Dittmannsdorf Donnerau Dorfbach Dörnhau Alder bush Fellhammer

Friedland, city Happy Village Gaablau Göhlenau Görbersdorf Gottesberg, city Großhain House village Heinrichsau Hermsdorf Kynau Langwaltersdorf

Clay water Liebersdorf Liebichau Lomnitz Michelsdorf Neudorf Lower Salzbrunn Ober Wüstegiersdorf Polsnitz Quolsdorf Raspenau Reimsbach

Reimswaldau Reussendorf Rothenbach in Silesia Rudolfswaldau Schmidtsdorf Seitendorf Sophienau Stone ground White stone Wüstegiersdorf Wüstewaltersdorf

Wüstegiersdorf was called Nieder Wüstegiersdorf until 1917 , Hermsdorf was called Nieder Hermsdorf until 1933 and Bad Salzbrunn was called Ober Salzbrunn until 1933 . The following incorporations took place in the district up to 1937:

Alt Liebichau, on March 4, 1909 in Liebichau Althain, in Dittersbach on April 24, 1923 Altwasser , on April 1, 1919 in Waldenburg Bärengrund, on May 4, 1920 in Dittersbach Blumenau, on January 1, 1929 in Wüstegiersdorf Dittersbach in Silesia , on May 1, 1935 in Großhain Freudenburg , on January 1, 1929 in Lomnitz Friedersdorf, to Heinrichau on April 1, 1938 Reason to go to Wüstewaltersdorf on October 1, 1937 Hartau, on March 31, 1920 at Neu Salzbrunn Jauernig, on April 1, 1938 in Hausdorf Kaltwasser, on January 1st, 1929 at Wüstegiersdorf Konradsthal , on June 1, 1929 in Weißstein Neu Lässig, to Fellhammer on September 30, 1928 Neu Liebichau, on March 4, 1909 in Liebichau Neu Salzbrunn, on April 1, 1927 in Weißstein New Wüstegiersdorf, on January 1, 1929 in Ober Wüstegiersdorf

New court on April 1, 1938 at Hausdorf Neuhain, on May 1, 1934 in Steinau Neuhohendorf, to Fellhammer on September 30, 1928 Nieder Adelsbach, after 1910 to Adelsbach Nieder Waltersdorf, on January 28, 1926 in Schmidtsdorf Ober Adelsbach, after 1910 to Adelsbach Ober Hermsdorf, on March 31, 1929 in Gottesberg Ober Waldenburg , on May 1, 1934 in Waldenburg Rosenau , on April 1, 1938 in Raspenau Schenkendorf, on April 1, 1937 in Kynau Schlesisch Falkenberg, on January 1, 1929 in Dorfbach Sorgau, on April 10, 1920 in Nieder Salzbrunn Steinau, on April 1, 1938 in Großhain Tannhausen, to Wüstegiersdorf on January 1, 1929 Toschendorf, on October 1, 1937 in Wüstewaltersdorf Grove, on April 1, 1938 in Erlenbusch Zedlitzheide , to Wüstewaltersdorf on October 1, 1937

Attractions

Fürstenstein Castle is located in the north of the former district area .

Personalities

• Writer and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Gerhart Hauptmann , born on November 15, 1862 in Obersalzbrunn, (since 1935 "Bad Salzbrunn") died on June 6, 1946 in Agnetendorf .
• Composer and guitarist Peter Weirauch , born on August 30, 1933 in Polsnitz , died on January 30, 2019 in Berlin .

literature

• Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 207–208, paragraph 21.
• 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. 142–147 ( facsimile in the Google book search).
• 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)

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Waldenburg (Schles)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• genealogienetz.de: The district of Waldenburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roman Kamionka: The reorganization of the district division of Silesia in the Stein-Hardenberg reform period , Breslau 1934
2. ^ Statistisches Bureau zu Berlin (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Prussian state . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1821, Silesia, p. 88 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. ( Digitized version ).
4. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population 1871
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
6. ↑ ^{a b} www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. waldenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ http://preussenprotocol.bbaw.de/bilder/Band%2012-2.pdf
9. ↑ Landkreis Waldenburg administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 26, 2013.