District of Zwittau
The German district of Zwittau existed between 1939 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised two cities and other communities.
The area of the district of Zwittau had 49,708 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 49,640 on May 17, 1939 and 32,178 on May 22, 1947.
Administrative history
On May 1, 1939, as part of a reorganization of the districts in the newly created Reichsgau Sudetenland, the district of Zwittau was founded and assigned to the administrative district of Troppau .
It originated from the following counties:
- Leitomischl (partially): the part of the Litomysl judicial district that has become German,
- Moravian Trübau (partially): the part of the judicial district of Zwittau that has become German and the municipality of Selsen from the judicial district of Gewitsch,
- Politschka (partially): the part of the Politschka judicial district that has become German.
Until a district office was set up in Zwittau , the district was initially co-administered from Mährisch Trübau .
It remained in this state until the end of World War II.
Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
From 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia . Today it is part of the Czech Republic .
District administrators
- 1939 : Reichelt ( acting )
- 1939–1945: Adalbert Hartmann
Local constitution
On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich , namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipal level. From then on, the terms customary in the previous territory of the Reich were used, namely instead:
- Local parish: Municipality,
- Market town: market,
- Municipality: City,
- Political district: District.
Place names
The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version from 1918.
cities and communes
(Residents 1930/1939)
Cities
Communities
- Abtsdorf , market (? /1,922)
- Blumenau (645/634)
- Bohemian Hermersdorf (143/131)
- Bohemian Rothmühl (1.209 / 1.251)
- Bohemian meadows (335/293)
- Bohnau (694/633)
- Brünnlitz (630/490)
- Chrostau (district Pulpetzen ) (140 /?)
- German Biela (1,158 / 1,043)
- Dittersbach (933/962)
- Dittersdorf (1.009 / 1.005)
- Glaselsdorf (439/450)
- Greifendorf (2,799 / 2,930)
- Hopfendorf (471/469)
- Jansdorf (1,839 / 1,938)
- Karlsbrunn (827/865)
- Ketzelsdorf (1.564 / 1.710)
- Laubendorf (1,766 / 1,771)
- Lauterbach (1,557 / 1,654)
- Moravian Chrostau (1.341 / 1.143)
- Moravian Hermersdorf (952/957)
- Moravian Lotschnau (1,703 / 1,624)
- Moravian Rausenstein (154/148)
- Mährisch Rothmühl, Markt (1,394 / 1,331)
- Moors (432/497)
- Musslau (292/273)
- New Biela (271/268)
- Lower Rauden (211/204)
- Nikl (992 / 1.024)
- Ober Heinzendorf (1.053 / 981)
- Riegersdorf (321/328)
- Umbrella village (? / 817)
- Schönbrunn (1,967 / 2,144)
- Selsen (156/176)
- Stangendorf (1,581 / 1,616)
- Strokele (295/313)
- Überdörfel (867/887)
- Vierzighuben , Markt (2,882 / 3,047)
Individual evidence
- ↑ District of Pazucha, independent since November 20, 1938
Personalities
- Oskar Schindler , Sudeten German industrialist and Righteous Among the Nations
- Hugo Jury , Austrian doctor and National Socialist politician
Web links
- District of Zwittau Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 31, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Zwittau. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- History of the city of Zwittau and its surroundings