Weststernberg district

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District 1905

The Prussian district of Weststernberg (until 1939 the district of Weststernberg) in the province of Brandenburg existed from 1873 to 1945. In the 1930s it comprised the three cities of Drossen , Göritz (Oder) and Reppen , 64 other communities and a forestry district. The former district area is now mainly in the powiat Słubicki in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship . Two smaller parts of the area on the west bank of the Oder now belong to the Märkisch-Oderland district and the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg .

Administrative history

The new district Weststernberg emerged in 1873 from the western parts of the old circle Sternberg in the administrative district of Frankfurt in the Prussian province of Brandenburg . The district office was initially set up in the city of Drossen. On April 1, 1904, the district office was relocated to the city of Reppen.

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Weststernberg district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all manor districts except two were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939, the Weststernberg 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 . After the end of the war, the district was almost completely placed under Polish administration by the Soviet Union . Then the gradual immigration of Polish and Ukrainian migrants began here, some of whom came from areas east of the Curzon Line that had fallen to the Soviet Union . In the following period, the local Polish administrative authorities drove the local population here .

The left-of or located circle parts of Aurith and Kunitz (Kunitzer Loose) and the left of the Oder at Reitwein located area of the city Görlitz remained in the state of Brandenburg in the Soviet occupation zone .

Population development

year Residents source
1871 43,442
1890 45.004
1900 44,028
1910 44,027
1925 45,798
1933 45,831
1939 44,381

District administrators

1872–1874 Adolf von Nickisch-Rosenegk (1836–1895) ( acting )
1874–1900 Bernhard Bohtz (1837–1900)
1900–1917 Reinhold Finck von Finckenstein (1858–1922)
1917–1933 Hans Rieck (1880–1956)
1933 -9999Heinrich Grimm ( substitute )
1933–1945 Erich Schmidt

Local constitution

The Weststernberg district was initially divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete 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 .

traffic

Reppen, the capital of the Weststernberg district, became an important railway junction after the Frankfurt – Posen line opened there in 1870 by the Märkisch-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft > 122.c <with the Küstrin – Rothenburg section of the Breslau- Schweidnitz-Freiburg Railway Company crossed> 122.0 <.

In 1890 the branch line of the Prussian State Railway to Zielenzig> 116.k < began here .

In 1907, the district itself built the Weststernberg small railway from Kunersdorf to Ziebingen = Sandow, which largely followed the Oder> 115.p <. The state traffic office of Brandenburg ran the business as well as for the small railway Küstrin – Hammer , the first part of which, opened in 1896, only touched the north of the district in the Warthebruch> 115.h <.

The numbers in> <refer to the German course book 1939.

cities and communes

The following cities and communities belonged to the district of Weststernberg in the 1930s:

The community-free manor district of Forst Reppen also belonged to the district.

literature

  • Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . Part II: Province of Brandenburg. Weststernberg (Drossen) district . Berlin 1873, pp. 166-171.
  • Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 99-100, item 8.
  • Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867, pp. 253-282.
  • Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867, pp. 253-282.
  • Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's Buchhandlung, Frankfurt a. Cit. 1844, pp. 214-236.
  • Karl Kletke : Regestae Historiae Neomarchicae. The documents on the history of Neumark and the state of Sternberg.
    • Part 1. In: Märkische research. Volume 10, Berlin 1867 ( e-copy ).
    • Part 2. In: Märkische research. Volume 12, Berlin 1868 ( e-copy ).
  • W. Riehl and J. Scheu (eds.): Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg with the Margraviate Nieder-Lausitz in their history and in their present existence . Berlin 1861, pp. 477-507.
  • Eduard Ludwig Wedekind : Sternbergische Kreis-Chronik. History of the cities, towns, villages, colonies, castles etc. of this part of the country from the earliest past to the present . Zielenzig 1855 ( e-copy ).
  • 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 Weststernberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Brandenburg and their population in 1871
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Weststernberg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).