Kielce Voivodeship (1919–39)

The Kielce Voivodeship (Polish: województwo keel eckie ) was in the years 1919 to 1939 a province of the Second Polish Republic. The seat of government was located in Kielce.

Location and size

1921 included the province covers an area of ​​25,741 km ². The 39 cities and 310 rural communities were divided into 17 Powiats.

The province with the cities of Radom, Czestochowa and Sosnowiec extended over a large part of central Poland. By changing the assignment of different counties changed on April 1, 1938, the boundaries of the province.

At the beginning of 1939, the province covered an area of 22,204 km ² and was at the center of Poland. Which bordered on the west by the German Reich and to the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, on the north by the former voivodeships of Łódź and Warsaw. In the east it was bounded by the former voivodeships of Lublin and Lwów, in the south of the Cracow Province.

In the northern part of the landscape was flat, hilly in the middle with the Kielce hill country and in the south. According to the statistics from January 1, 1937 21.2% of the land area was covered by forest, only slightly less than the 22.2 % in the state average.

Population

1921 2,535,898 inhabitants lived in the province. According to the statistics of 1931, there were about 2.671 million inhabitants, of which 88.9 % of Polish origin and 10.7 % were Jews. The Jews lived mostly in larger towns and cities and formed a share of 28.7 % of the total urban population of the province. 1931 could not read and write 25.7 % of the population, slightly more than 23.1% of the national average.

Economy

The province was industrially various stages of development. The westerly cities such as Częstochowa, Sosnowiec or Bedzin had many jobs in coal mining and were heavily industrialized and well developed. Radom in the north also was regarded as an industrial center. The eastern areas, however, were backward, only slightly industrialized and agriculture was considered hardly developed.

In the mid-1930s the Polish government launched a state economic development program under the title Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy ( "Central Industrial Region "), which zugutekam particularly the overpopulated and impoverished counties in the central and eastern parts of the province.

Cities and administrative divisions

From 1 April 1938 to September 1, 1939 included the following 18 Powiats the territory of the Province:

According to the statistical data for the year 1931 the following are the largest cities of the Voivodeship of Kielce were:

• Częstochowa (population: 117 200 ),
• Sosnowiec (population: 109 000 ),
• Radom (population 77 900),
• Kielce (population 58 200),
• Bedzin (population 47 600),
• Dąbrowa Górnicza (population 36 900),
• Zawiercie (population 32 900),
• Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (population 25 900).

Voivode

The following people ruled the Wojwowdschaft 1919-1939:

• Stanisław Franciszek Pękosławski: November 19, 1919 - May 31, 1923
• Adam Kröbl: July 1, 1923 - August 31, 1923 (representing <- acting -> )
• Mieczysław Bilski: September 1, 1923 - May 6, 1924
• Ignacy Manteuffel 24 May 1924 - August 17, 1927
• Adam Kröbl: August 20, 1927 - October 20, 1927 (acting )
• Władysław Korsak: October 21, 1927 - February 28, 1930
• Jerzy Paciorkowski: February 18, 1930 - May 15, 1934
• Stanisław Jarecki: May 17, 1934 - July 9, 1934 (acting )
• Władysław Dziadosz: July 9, 1934 - September 1939

Footnotes

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• Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic
• Kielce