Lauenburg-Bütow district

The two parts of the Lauenburg-Bütow district at the end of the 18th century

The district of Lauenburg-Bütow , also Lauenburg-Bütowscher district, was a district that existed in Pomerania from 1772/1777 to 1845 . The former district area is now largely in the powiats Bytowski and Lęborski in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

history

The district emerged from the lands of Lauenburg and Bütow , which the Prussian kings had as a fief since 1637 from the crown of Poland . As part of the first partition of Poland in 1772 and formally through the Warsaw Treaty of 1773 , the fiefdom became an integral part of Prussia. This gradually ceased the special status of the Lauenburg and Bütow regions. With regard to judicial matters, Lauenburg and Bütow were initially placed in West Prussia in 1773 . With regard to the rest of the state administration, Lauenburg and Bütow belonged to Pomerania. In 1777 the Lauenburg and Bütow regions were also formally incorporated into the Prussian Duchy of Western Pomerania and formed the new Lauenburg-Bütow district there. The seat of the district administrator was the city of Lauenburg . It was not until 1803/1804 that the Lauenburg-Bütow district was also assigned to Pomerania with regard to judicial matters.

The district consisted of the two spatially separated districts of Lauenburg in the northeast and Bütow in the southwest. The district of Lauenburg included the cities of Lauenburg and Leba , the royal office of Lauenburg and other noble villages, while the district of Bütow consisted of the city of Bütow , the office of Bütow and other noble villages.

As a result of the Prussian provincial authorities ordinance of April 30, 1815, the district became part of the Köslin administrative district of the Pomeranian province . During the Pomeranian district reform of 1818, the demarcation of the district was not changed.

The Lauenburg-Bütow district did not belong to the Holy Roman Empire until its end in 1806, nor did the Lauenburg and Bütow regions previously. With the formation of the German Confederation , however, the Lauenburg-Bütow district had been part of the federal territory since 1815.

On January 1, 1846, the district was divided into the two new districts of Lauenburg and Bütow .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1797	24,197
1816	23,286
1846	52.508

District administrators

The following officiated as district administrators of the Lauenburg-Bütow district:

• 1772–1779 Heinrich Eggard von Woedtke , last captain of the Lauenburg and Bütow regions00
• 1779–1794 Georg Christoph von Wussow , landlord on Vietzig00
• 1794–1800 Franz Christoph von Somnitz , treasurer of Western Pomerania, landlord of Bebbrow and Jatzkow00
• 1800–1814 Ernst Carl Ludwig von Weiher , councilor, landlord on Groß Botzepol00
• 1818–1822 Moritz Heinrich von Weiher , councilor, landlord on Zezenow and Dargeröse00
• 1823–1840 Friedrich von Selchow , landlord at Rettkewitz00
• 1843–1845 Werner von Selchow , landlord of Rettkewitz, son of the previous one00

Web links

• Lauenburg-Bütow district directory (p. 56 of the linked document)

literature

• Reinhold Cramer: History of the Lands Lauenburg and Bütow . Volume 1: The Story . Königsberg 1858. ( Online )

Footnotes

1. ^ Johann Ernst Fabri: Geography for all estates . Schwickertscher Verlag, Leipzig 1793, chap. Prussian Western Pomerania, p. 613 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Fritz Curschmann, Ernst Rubow: Pomeranian district map sheet 2 . The Pomeranian circles before and after 1818. In: Landesgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle der Provinz Pommern (Hrsg.): Historischer Atlas von Pommern . 1935 ( digitized ).
3. ^ Berthold Schulze: The reform of the administrative districts in Brandenburg and Pomerania 1809-1818, page 94 . with the support of the Historical Commission for the Province of Pomerania. In: Individual writings of the historical commission for the province of Brandenburg . Gsellius, Berlin 1931 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ R. v. Restorff: Topographical description of the province of Pomerania . Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1827, pp. 251-266, pp. 251-266.
5. ^ Ellinor von Puttkamer : The Lauenburg and Bütow lands - international border area. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 62 NF, 1976, ISSN  0067-3099 , p. 19, footnote 46.
6. ↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European states . The statistical view and special statistics of Central Europe. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1805, p. 44 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district Cöslin, p. 234 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.): Mittheilungen des Statistisches Bureau's in Berlin, Volume 2 . Population of the districts. S. 316 ( digitized ).
9. ↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels . Volume 3, published by WT Bruer, Berlin 1899, p. 476.