Westhavelland district

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The district area 1905

The district of Westhavelland , until 1939 the district of Westhavelland , was created in 1817 from the division of the early modern Havelland district and was a district in Brandenburg . It existed in Prussia , the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR from 1817 to 1952.

On January 1, 1945, the Westhavelland district comprised the four cities of Friesack , Plaue a./Havel , Pritzerbe and Rhinow as well as 77 other communities.

The district town of Rathenow was a separate urban district between 1925 and 1950 and was an enclave within the district area. Today the former district area belongs mainly to the Havelland district . Today Plaue is a district of Brandenburg an der Havel . The town of Pritzerbe is now part of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the formation of provinces and administrative districts in Prussia, a district reform took place in the Potsdam administrative district of the Prussian province of Brandenburg with effect from April 1, 1817 , in which the old Havelländische Kreis was dissolved and the new Westhavelland district from its western half including the city of Brandenburg an der Havel was formed. The district office was in the city of Rathenow .

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On April 1, 1881, the city of Brandenburg a./Havel left the Westhavelland district and from then on formed its own urban district . On June 1, 1925, the city of Rathenow left the district and also formed its own urban district. On April 1, 1929, the district of Klein Kreutz (vineyards) of the city of Brandenburg (Havel) was reclassified into the rural community of Klein Kreutz in the Westhavelland district, and the rural communities of Dom Brandenburg and Neuendorf were transferred from the Westhavelland district to the city of Brandenburg (Havel).

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Westhavelland district in line with the development in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939, the Westhavelland district was given the name Westhavelland district in accordance with the now unified regulation . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

GDR

When the law on changes to improve the district and community boundaries came into force on April 28, 1950, the town of Rathenow was reintegrated into the Westhavelland district. The communities Göttlin , Grütz , Kirchmöser and Neue Schleuse moved from the district of Jerichow II to the district of Westhavelland. At the same time, the communities of Klein Kreutz and Mötzow from the Westhavelland district were incorporated into the Brandenburg district and the Lietzow community moved to the Osthavelland district .

In 1952 the district of Westhavelland was divided into the districts of Brandenburg , Rathenow and Nauen ; at the same time, the city of Plaue was incorporated into the Brandenburg an der Havel district.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 37,719
1846 55,298
1871 73.994
1890 59,067
1900 63,640
1910 66,132
1925 45,383
1933 42,466
1939 46.025
1946 64,717

Local constitution

The Westhavelland district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - manor districts . With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 .

District administrators

cities and communes

Status 1945

The following towns and communities belonged to the Westhavelland district in 1945:

Municipalities dissolved or left before 1945

literature

  • Contributions to the history of mining in the province of Brandenburg , Hermann Cramer, Halle 1872–1889, Volume 4, Reprint, (facsimile), ISBN 978-3-88372-003-6 , Potsdam 2011

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Westhavelland  - Collection of pictures, 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. ↑ Historical community directory of the State of Brandenburg, p. 17
  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. Westhavelland district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ 1946 census