Westprignitz district
The district of Westprignitz , until 1939 the district of Westprignitz , was a district in Brandenburg . It existed in Prussia , the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR from 1817 to 1952.
scope
On January 1, 1945, the Westprignitz district comprised the five cities of Bad Wilsnack , Havelberg , Lenzen , Perleberg and Putlitz as well as 136 other communities. Today, most of the former district area belongs to the Prignitz district in the state of Brandenburg. The southern tip of the former district around the city of Havelberg is now part of the Stendal district in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and a small part in the north of the former district is now part of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
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 new districts Westprignitz and Ostprignitz were created in Prignitz . The district Westprignitz was formed from
- the dissolved Lenzen district
- the disbanded district of Plattenburg
- most of the dissolved district of Perleberg and
- part of the dissolved Havelberg district .
The district office was in the city of Perleberg .
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 August 1, 1922, the city of Wittenberge left the Westprignitz district and from then on formed its own urban district . On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Westprignitz 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 January 1, 1939, the Westprignitz district was given the designation Landkreis in accordance with the now unified regulation .
In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .
German Democratic Republic
Due to the law on the amendment to improve the district and community boundaries of April 28, 1950, the city of Wittenberge lost its district freedom and came back to the Westprignitz district on July 1, 1950.
In the course of the administrative restructuring on July 23, 1952, the state of Brandenburg and the district of Westprignitz were dissolved:
- The Lanz / Lenzen / Lenzerwische area came to the Ludwigslust district in the Schwerin district .
- The city of Putlitz and the communities of Hülsebeck , Lockstädt , Lütkendorf , Mansfeld and Sagast came to the Pritzwalk district in the Potsdam district .
- The city of Havelberg and the communities of Jeditz , Kümmernitz , Nitzow , Toppel and Vehlgast came to the district of Havelberg in the district of Magdeburg .
- All other towns and communities formed the Perleberg district in the Schwerin district .
Federal Republic of Germany
The district of Perleberg moved to the newly founded state of Brandenburg on October 3, 1990, after a public survey in the summer of 1990 approved this. On August 1, 1992, the Lenzen region also moved to the State of Brandenburg and thus to the Perleberg district by means of a state treaty of July 1, 1992. From the old districts of Perleberg and Pritzwalk (excluding the communities of Blumenthal , Grabow and Rosenwinkel ) and the Gumtow district of the former district of Kyritz, the new district of Prignitz was formed on December 6, 1993.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 40,057 | |
| 1846 | 63,317 | |
| 1871 | 70,892 | |
| 1890 | 72,697 | |
| 1900 | 76,789 | |
| 1910 | 81,414 | |
| 1925 | 62,216 | |
| 1933 | 62,158 | |
| 1939 | 63,439 | |
| 1946 | 88,487 |
Local constitution until 1945
The Westprignitz 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 . 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.
District administrators
- 1817–1839 by Petersdorff
- 1839–1860 Gustav von Saldern-Plattenburg
- 1860–1895 Julius von Jagow (1825–1897)
- 1895–1906 Traugott von Jagow (1865–1941)
- 1906–1917 Hans Joachim von Graevenitz (1874–1938)
- 1917–1919 Hartwig von Graevenitz
- 1919–1920 Paul Spiritus
- 1920–1922 Karl Willigmann
- 1922–1932 August Karl Luis Eugen Sommer
- 1932–1934 Wilhelm von Goßler
- 1934–1945 Johannes Bierbach (* 1888)
cities and communes
Status 1945
In 1945 the following cities and communities belonged to the district of Westprignitz:
Municipalities dissolved before 1939
- Babekuhl , April 1, 1939 in Lanz
- Groß Berge and Klein Berge , merged on October 1, 1938 to form the new Berge community
- Klein Breese and Mittel Breese , merged on April 1, 1939 to form the new municipality of Breese
- Gosedahl , on April 1, 1939 in Boberow
- Haverland , to Abbendorf on April 1, 1939
- Klein Welle , April 1, 1939 in Viesecke
- New Sagast , on April 1, 1939 at Sagast
- Saldernhorst , to Vehlgast in the 20th century
- Groß Wootz , Klein Wootz and Rosendorf , merged on April 1, 1939 to form the new municipality of Wootz
Name changes
- In 1929 the city of Wilsnack was given the additional designation Bad .
- The community Grenzheim was called Schweinkofen until 1919
- The town of Gross Warnow was called until 1937 Warnow
- The municipality of Klein Warnow was called Wendisch Warnow until 1937
Web links
- History of the Prignitz - a brief overview of the settlement, art and cultural history
- www.territorial.de - Westprignitz district
Individual evidence
- ^ 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]).
- ^ 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]).
- ^ 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]).
- ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 313 ( digitized version ).
- ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Brandenburg and their population in 1871
- ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Westprignitz district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census
- ↑ Brandenburg rural building culture
Administrative districts: Frankfurt administrative district | Potsdam administrative district
City districts: Brandenburg an der Havel | Cottbus | Eberswalde | Forst (Lausitz) | Frankfurt (Oder) | Guben | Landsberg (Warthe) | Potsdam | Rathenow | Wittenberg
Districts: Angermünde | Beeskow-Storkow | Calau | Cottbus | Cross | Guben | Jüterbog-Luckenwalde | Königsberg Nm. | Landsberg (Warthe) | Lebus | Luebben | Luckau | Meseritz | Niederbarnim | Oberbarnim | East Havelland | Ostprignitz | Oststernberg | Prenzlau | Ruppin | Schwerin (Warta) | Soldin | Sorau | Spremberg | Teltow | Templin | West Havelland | Westprignitz | Weststernberg | Zauch-Belzig | Züllichau-Schwiebus
Dissolved in 1825 : Spremberg-Hoyerswerda , dissolved in 1827 : Frankfurt , dissolved in 1836 : Cüstrin | Teltow-Storkow , dissolved in 1873 : Sternberg , retired in 1881 : Berlin , in 1938 to the province of Pomerania : Arnswalde | Friedeberg Nm.