Kreis Meseritz
- Government district of Posen
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
The county Meseritz was a Prussian administrative district, which consisted 1818-1945.
The county Meseritz included on 1 January 1945:
- The four cities Betsche, Brätz, and Meseritz Tirschtiegel
- And 44 more municipalities.
Administrative history
After the reorganization of the circle outline in the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna was established on January 1, 1818, county Meseritz in the district of Posen in the province of Posen. This usually consisted of rural areas around the city Meseritz. The District Office was in Meseritz.
Since 1 July 1867, circle the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 belonged to the German Empire. Because of the decay of the province of Posen of the circle Meseritz the new government office in Pila (administrative district border Mark West Prussian Posen) was assumed on 20 November 1919. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles, the eastern part of the county Meseritz with the municipality Bentschen to Poland was ceded on 10 January 1920. As of January 11, 1921, the previous County Grenzmark West Prussia poses bore the designation "border Posen- West Prussia ". On 1 July 1922, the district Meseritz the new Prussian province of Posen- West Prussia border and from 1 August In 1922 the newly formed government district Schneidemühl.
On October 1, 1938, the district Meseritz moved to the resolution limit of the province of Posen - West Prussia to the province of Brandenburg - later "Mark Brandenburg" -, Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt. In spring 1945 the circle area was occupied by the Red Army and subsequently became part of Poland. Today powiat Międzyrzecki has about the same cut.
District administrators
Municipal organization and communal constitution
The circle Meseritz divided into boroughs. The rural communities and independent estate districts were initially in (smaller) Woytbezirken ( Polish " wójt " = German " Vogt " ) and then collected into (larger) police districts.
With the introduction of the Prussian municipality constitutional law of 15 December 1933 and the German church order of January 30, 1935 April 1, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the community level. The former municipalities Betsche, Brätz, and Meseritz Tirschtiegel resulted from 1 January 1934, the city name.
A new circle Constitution was not created. However, the district regulations had been introduced for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony, from March 19, 1881 from July 1, 1922 instead of the Poznań. The layout in the previous police districts there had been no change.
Place names
The place names were essentially maintained until 1945.
1937, however, following communities received new German names:
- Rybojadel: Hoffmannstal,
- Stalun: Schönfelde ( Grenzmark )
- Zielomischel: Wilhelmstal ( Grenzmark ).
Population
In the year 1925 32.852 inhabitants were counted in a circle Meseritz, of which 19,164 were Protestant denomination, 13,056 Catholics and 251 Jews.
Personalities
- Emil Zillmann (1870-1937), architect
- Georg Zillmann (1871-1958), architect
The cousins Georg and Emil Zillmann were born in Meseritz. They talked in Berlin / Charlottenburg an architectural firm. The focus of her construction was in Upper Silesia.