District of Zauch-Belzig

The district area 1905

The district of Zauch-Belzig , also known as the Zauch-Belzigscher district or the district of Zauch-Belzig , existed in Prussia , in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR ( Land Brandenburg ) from 1817 to 1952.

On January 1, 1945, the district of Zauch-Belzig comprised the six towns of Beelitz , Belzig , Brück , Niemegk , Treuenbrietzen and Werder (Havel) , 144 other communities and the forest district of Lehnin.

Today the former district is part of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

During the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Zauch-Belzig in the administrative district of Potsdam in the province of Brandenburg , since 1939 "Mark Brandenburg", was re-established with effect from April 1, 1817 . The district area included

• the old, Kurbrandenburgische Kreis Zauche (also called Zauchischer or Zauchescher Kreis) without the little country Bärwalde , which came to the new Jüterbog-Luckenwalde and
• the former Saxon office of Belzig , which had only come to Prussia and Brandenburg in 1815.

The district office was in the city of Belzig .

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 July 21, 1875, the Gränert manor district was reclassified from the Zauch-Belzig district to the Jerichow II district in the province of Saxony, administrative district Magdeburg. On April 1, 1926, the estate districts Plantagenhaus (partially), Potsdam-Gut and Tornow from the Zauch-Belzig district were incorporated into the Potsdam urban district.

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Zauch-Belzig district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , during which almost all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities.

On October 1, 1937, the community Wilhelmsdorf was incorporated from the Zauch-Belzig district into the Brandenburg (Havel) district. On April 1, 1939, the Bergholz-Rehbrücke community from the Zauch-Belzig district joined the Potsdam district.

On January 1, 1939, the district of Zauch-Belzig was called the district in accordance with the now uniform rule . In April 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army .

Soviet occupation zone / German Democratic Republic

The Zauch-Belzig district was reduced in size by the law on the amendment to improve the district and community boundaries of April 28, 1950. The communities of Goddess b. Brandenburg (Havel) and Malerke came to the Brandenburg district, the Wilhelmshorst community to the Potsdam district, the Alt Töplitz , Göttin a./Havel , Leest and Neu Töplitz communities to the Osthavelland district and the Schiaß community to the Teltow district . The municipality of Boßdorf also changed its nationality and came to the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt .

During the major administrative reform in 1952 , the district of Zauch-Belzig was essentially divided into the districts of Belzig , Brandenburg an der Havel and Potsdam . Some communities came to the Jüterbog and Luckenwalde districts .

Federal Republic of Germany

The former district area is now predominantly part of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district .

Local constitution until 1945

The Zauch-Belzig district was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their almost complete dissolution in 1929 - manor districts.

On the basis of the district regulations for the provinces of Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia and Saxony from December 13, 1872, with effect from January 1874, mostly several rural communities and manor districts were introduced in order to relieve the predominantly very small community units from the growing administrative tasks . In 1944 there were 42 administrative 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 .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1816	41,415
1846	58,868
1871	68.064
1890	77.105
1900	80,651
1910	88,559
1925	92.266
1933	98,378
1939	108,855
1946	134,652

District administrators

Term of office	Surname
1816-1828	Rochus von Rochow
1828-1852	Heinrich Friedrich Levin von Tschirschky and Bögendorff
1852-1861	Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff
1861-1897	Rudolf von Stülpnagel
1898-1918	Bernhard Hans Levin von Tschirschky and Bögendorff
1919-1921	Werner Freund
1921-1933	Edmund Bean
1933/34	Hans Christoph von Werder
1935-1939	Waldemar Vöge
1939 – April 1945	Otto Wegner
(May 12-20, 1945)	Alfred Beiersdorff (*)
(May / June 1945)	Otto Lange (*)
June 1945 – October 1945	Friedrich Menz ( KPD )
October 1945 – May 1946	Karl Vogt ( KPD / SED )
June 1946 – December 1950	Richard Sydow (SED)
1951/52	Antonie Stemmler (SED)

(*) As Mayor of Belzig also interim district administrator

cities and communes

Status 1945

In 1945 the following towns and communities belonged to the district of Zauch-Belzig:

Alt Töplitz Baitz Beelitz , city Belzig , town Benken Bergholz b. Belzig Bliesendorf Bochow Borkheide Borkwalde Borne Bossdorf Brachwitz Brück , city Buchholz b. Niemegk Buchholz b. Treuenbrietzen Busendorf Cammer Caputh Dahnsdorf For a long time Damsdorf Deetz The joke German Bork Dietersdorf Dippmannsdorf Elsholz Emstal Ferch Fredersdorf Freienthal Fresdorf Garrey Glindow Göhlsdorf Gollwitz Golzow

Gömnigk Goddess a./Havel Goddess b. Brandenburg (Havel) Götz Grabow Grebs Great Briesen Gross Kreutz Great Marzehns Grubo Green oak Hagelberg Haseloff Highly advertised Jeserig b. Brandenburg (Havel) Jeserig b. Treuenbrietzen Jeserig b. Wiesenburg Jeseriger huts Kähnsdorf Rabbit Kemnitz Klaistow Small Glien Little Marzehns Klepzig Korzin Krahne Kranepuhl Krielow Kuhlowitz Langerwisch Leest Lehnin Lehnsdorf Linthe Lobbies Locktow Luebnitz

Diligence Ludendorf Lühnsdorf Lühsdorf Lusses Lütte Medewitz Medewitzerhütten Michelsdorf Michendorf Mörz Mützdorf Nahmitz Neschholz Networks New Töplitz Neuehütten Neuendorf b. Bridge Neuendorf b. Niemegk Neuseddin Nichel Niebel Niebelhorst Low profile Niemegk , city Pernitz Pflügkuff Phoebas Plessow Roach Preussnitz Prützke Ravens Gears Rädigke Ragosen Reesdorf Reckahn

Reetz Reetzer huts Reppinichen Rubbed Rietz b. Brandenburg (Havel) Rietz b. Treuenbrietzen Rottstock Saarmund Salzbrunn Schäpe Schenkenberg Shot Schlalach Muddy Schlunkendorf Schmergow Pain Schönefeld Schwanebeck Seddin Pieces Trebitz Trechwitz Tremsdorf Treuenbrietzen , city Weitzgrund Werder (Havel) , city Wiesenburg / Mark Wildenbruch Wilhelmshorst Wittbrietzen Junk Zauchwitz Zeuden Zixdorf Ziezow

In addition, the Forst Lehnin manor district still existed in 1945 .

After the Second World War, the places Alt Bork , Fichtenwalde and Oberjünne were elevated to separate communities.

Communities dissolved before 1945

• Bergholz-Rehbrücke , on April 1, 1939 in Potsdam
• Kammerode , to Ferch on January 1, 1926
• Old Langerwisch and New Langerwisch , on 1 April 1938 in order to commune Langerwisch together
• Mittelbusch , to Ferch on January 1, 1926
• Petzow , on April 1, 1939 in Werder (Havel)
• Sandberg , on April 1, 1914 in Belzig
• Spring , 1928 to Wiesenburg / Mark
• Welsigke , to Grubo on January 1, 1926
• Wilhelmsdorf , on October 1, 1937 in Brandenburg an der Havel

Name changes

• Bergholz b. Potsdam, renamed Bergholz-Rehbrücke on July 16, 1934
• Lotzschke renamed on 20 October 1937 in Lehnsdorf , after the west of the town situated "Desert Feldmark Lehnsdorf"
• Schwina, renamed Emstal on October 20, 1937
• Wendisch Bork, district renamed to Alt Bork on October 9, 1937 , at the same time the entire community was renamed Borkheide

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
• John Shreve: Wartime. Rural Germany 1914–1919, Belzig and the Zauch-Belzig district. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95410-045-3 .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Zauch-Belzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matthias Helle: Post-war years in the provinces - the Brandenburg district of Zauch-Belzig 1945 to 1952, dissertation, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The community of Borkwalde, founded in 1939, was not recorded separately in the 1939 census and is listed in the community registers at www.territorial.de and from Michael Rademacher: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte von der Reichereinigung 1871 bis zu reunification 1990.. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  not considered.
2. ^ 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]).
3. ^ 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]).
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: District Zauch-Belzig. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ 1946 census
9. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark . P. 34