Opole administrative district

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Administrative division of Silesia (1905): District Liegnitz District Breslau District Opole



The administrative district of Opole in Silesia, 1905
Administrative districts and counties in the Upper Silesia Gau (1943)
The old government building on Government Square (today Plac Wolności )
The government building from the 1930s with the Piast Tower
Seal of the district president

The administrative district of Opole was an administrative district in the Prussian province of Silesia . It existed from 1813 to 1945 and covered the south-eastern part of Silesia. 1919–1938 and from 1941 Silesia was divided into two provinces; the old administrative district of Opole then formed the province of Upper Silesia . In 1939, because of the annexations of Polish territory, the administrative district of Katowice and a newly delimited administrative district of Opole were formed, which existed until 1945.

geography

The administrative seat of the administrative district was in the Upper Silesian city of Opole . Other important cities in the administrative district were mainly the large cities of the Upper Silesian coal mining area, i. hu a. Katowice , Gleiwitz , Beuthen , Königshütte and Hindenburg , outside of this metropolitan area mainly Ratibor , Neustadt , Neisse and Kreuzburg .

The northwestern part of Silesia belonged to the Wroclaw administrative district . In the north the administrative district bordered for a few kilometers on the Kempen district in the province of Posen , in the east on Russia , from 1919 on Poland , in the south on the Austrian crown lands Galicia (from 1919 Poland) and Austrian Silesia (from 1919 Czechoslovakia ).

The administrative district comprised the following urban and rural districts (as of 1910):

City districts

  1. Bytom
  2. Gliwice
  3. Katowice
  4. Koenigshütte
  5. Opole
  6. Ratibor (since 1904)

Counties and counties

  1. Bytom district
  2. District of Cosel
  3. Falkenberg district
  4. Groß Strehlitz district
  5. Grottkau district
  6. District of Zabrze (from 1915 "Hindenburg OS")
  7. Katowice County
  8. Kreuzburg district
  9. District of Leobschütz
  10. Lublinitz district
  11. Neisse district
  12. Neustadt district
  13. Opole district
  14. District of Pless
  15. Ratibor district
  16. Rosenberg district
  17. Rybnik district
  18. Tarnowitz district
  19. Tost-Gleiwitz district

District President

population

Development of the ethnolinguistic structure

Number of Polish and German-speaking population in the Opole administrative district
year Polish German Others (including bilingual)
absolutely percentage absolutely percentage absolutely percentage
1819 0377.100 67.2% 0162,600 29.0% 021,503 3.8%
1828 0418,437 61.1% 0255.483 37.3% 010,904 1.6%
1831 0456.348 62.0% 0257.852 36.1% 013,254 1.9%
1834 0468.691 62.6% 0266,399 35.6% 013,120 1.8%
1837 0495,362 62.1% 0290.168 36.3% 012,679 1.6%
1840 0525.395 58.6% 0330.099 36.8% 041,570 4.6%
1843 0540.402 58.1% 0348.094 37.4% 042,292 4.5%
1846 0568,582 58.1% 0364.175 37.2% 045,736 4.7%
1852 0584.293 58.6% 0363,990 36.5% 049,445 4.9%
1855 0590.248 58.7% 0366,562 36.5% 048,270 4.8%
1858 0612,849 57.3% 0406,950 38.1% 049,037 4.6%
1861 0665.865 59.1% 0409.218 38.3% 051.187 4.6%
1867 0742.153 59.8% 0457,545 36.8% 041,611 3.4%
1890 0918.728 58.2% 0566,523 35.9% 092,480 5.9%
1900 1,048,230 56.1% 0684.397 36.6% 0135,519 7.3%
1905 1,158,805 56.9% 0757.200 37.2% 0117,651 5.8%
1910 1,169,340 53.0% 0884.045 40.0% 0154,596 7.0%

Web links

Commons : Opole District  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European and the most distinguished non-European states, in terms of their development, size, population, financial and military constitution, presented in tabular form; First issue: Which represents the two great powers Austria and Prussia and the German Confederation ; Verlag des Geographisches Institut Weimar (1823), p. 34; (Total population in 1819: 561,203; Moravians: 12,000; Jews: 8,000 and Czechs: 1,600)
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), pp. 8–9
  3. ^ A b c d Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), p. 27