District of Szczecin

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Administrative division of Pomerania in 1913: Stralsund district, Stettin district, Köslin district




The Administrative district Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania was from 1808 to 1945. Its predecessor was the western part of the district, which was founded in 1723 Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber based in Szczecin , in turn, from the merger of in Stargard in Pomerania local authorities war department and office chamber was created. The province was divided into three since 1815/18 administrative regions divided: the administrative district of Stettin, the administrative region of Pomerania , the eastern part of Eastern Pomerania included, and in the western part Vorpommern lying Region of Stralsund . The latter was dissolved in 1932 and incorporated into the Stettin district.

history

Model of the former government building of the administrative district of Szczecin

The city of Szczecin was the capital of the Prussian province of Pomerania from 1815 to 1945. Since 1808 it was also the seat of the regional president of the administrative district of Stettin.

On December 1, 1900, the administrative district of Stettin had 830,709 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 1,237,782. In 1900 the area covered 12,078.93 km², in which 1,850 cities and municipalities were distributed.

City and rural districts

In 1818 a new district division was carried out, and the administrative district of Stettin has since been divided into the following 13 administrative districts:

  1. District Demmin
  2. Circle Anklam
  3. Ueckermünde district
  4. Usedom-Wollin district
  5. Randow district
  6. City district of Stettin (from 1826 to 1857 part of the Randow district)
  7. Greifenhagen district
  8. Pyritz district
  9. Saatzig circle
  10. Regenwald district
  11. Naugard district
  12. District of Greifenhagen and
  13. Kammin district

In 1900 the administrative district continued to consist of a city district and 12 districts. From 1939 there were four urban and 13 rural districts. The most important change in the area was the annexation of the Stralsund administrative district in 1932.

Surname Population 1900 Inhabitants 1933 Inhabitants 1939 comment
Szczecin , city 210.702 270,747 382,984 Independent city (Stadtkreis) from 1818 to 1826 and since 1857
Stargard in Pomerania , city - 35,804 39,760 Free from a circle since 1901.
Greifswald , city - 29,488 37.051 Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district . Independent since 1913.
Stralsund , city - 43,630 52,931 Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district . Free from a circle since 1874.
Anklam 32,693 35,279 39,527
Cammin 42,485 45,046 45,694
Demmin 48,090 50.206 54,769 Changes in 1937
Franzburg-Barth - 44,569 55,542 Seat of the district administration: Barth . Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district
Greifenberg 37,483 43,794 - To the 1938 Administrative district Köslin submitted
Greifenhagen 48,258 55.281 69,326
Greifswald , district n / A 40,605 n / A From 1913 without the city of Greifswald
Grim - 41,065 39.207 Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district
Naugard 52,777 61,848 61,320
Pyritz 42,686 47,717 48,418
Randow 94,859 113.276 139.061 Largest district in Pomerania, dissolved in 1939
Rainforest 44,954 49,739 - To the 1938 Administrative district Köslin submitted
to reprimand - 53,289 62,261 Seat of the district administration: Bergen on Rügen . Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district
Cumbersome 69,762 44,458 43,258 District administration: Stargard . The figure for 1900 still includes the town of Stargard, which was still part of the district at that time, but not for 1939.
Ueckermünde 56,767 59,422 79.996
Usedom-Wollin 52.193 69.111 83,479 Seat of the district administration: Swinoujscie

After 1945

After 1945, Szczecin was the seat of the Szczecin Voivodeship until 1998 , when it was united with the Köslin Voivodeship to form the West Pomeranian Voivodeship , whose official seat remained in Szczecin. The parts of the area that remained German in the GDR belonged to the districts of Frankfurt (Oder) , Neubrandenburg and Rostock and, since 1990, to Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

people

Seal mark "The Royal Prussian Government President Stettin"

District President

The regional presidents of the administrative district of Szczecin were:

literature

  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Dictionary. Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-394-6 .
  • Dirk Mellies: Modernization in the Prussian Province? The administrative district of Stettin in the 19th century (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 201). Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-37023-0 .
  • Official municipality register for the German Reich based on the 1919 census. Published by the Statistical Reichsamt, Stettin 1941
  • List of localities of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division from 1817 including alphabetical register. Stettin 1817, printed by Carl Wilhelm Struck ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Administrative history of the city of Stettin and the Randow district, Heinrich Berghaus: History of the city of Stettin . In: Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . tape 8 . F. Riemschneider, Berlin and Wriezen 1875, p. 106 ff . ( Digitized version ).