Kreis Bomst
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
- Government district of Posen
The circle Bomst on the western edge of the Prussian province of Posen (or after 1922 in the province of Posen- West Prussia border ) was in the period from 1815 until 1938.
History
The area around the city Babimost ( Bomst ) belonged from 1319 to 1339 temporarily to Mark Brandenburg and the Duchy of Glogau in Silesia, only to include for around 450 years to the Kingdom of Poland. After the Second Partition of Poland it came from 1793 to 1807 temporarily to the Prussian province of South Prussia, and after the peace of Tilsit in 1807 to the Duchy of Warsaw.
Administrative history
After the Congress of Vienna, the area around Bomst fell on May 15, 1815 again to the Kingdom of Prussia.
As part of the general reorganization of the circle outline in the Prussian state, a circle Bomst was redefined on January 1, 1818.
Seat of the district administration, the city became stone wool.
As part of the province of Posen of the circle Bomst was on 18th January 1871 at the same time part of the newly founded German Empire, whereas the Polish deputies in the new Reichstag on April 1, 1871 protested.
On December 27, began in 1918 in the province of Posen of the Wielkopolska Uprising of the Polish majority population against German rule, and beginning already in January 1919 were the eastern two-thirds of the district under Polish control ( the county seat Wolsztyn from 5 January 1919 Bomst was from January 25 to February 12, 1919 only temporarily by Polish troops occupied ).
On February 16, 1919 armistice ended the Polish- German battles, and on 28 June 1919, the German government stepped with the signing of the Versailles Treaty, the eastern two-thirds of the circle Bomst (740 km ²) officially starting at the newly established Poland, which became the new powiat Wolsztyn.
The remaining western Germany in the rest part of the circle Bomst (297 km ²) was initially co-managed by the Brandenburg district Züllichau - Schwiebus from 27 February 1919.
As of November 20, 1919, the district Bomst Schneidemühl ( Reg.Bez. Schneidemühl ) was administered and was subsequently to 1922 the newly formed province of Posen- West Prussia border of the Free State of Prussia.
On 1 October 1938, the circular Bomst was dissolved, the northern part with Bomst and Unruhstadt came to the Brandenburg district Züllichau - Schwiebus, the southern part of the Lower Silesian district Grünberg.
District administrators
Municipal outline
1818-1919
The circle Bomst divided into six municipalities, the remaining villages were grouped into police districts.
The circle Bomst consisted on 1 January 1908:
- Six municipalities ( Bomst, Kopnitz, Rakwitz, Rothenburg on the Obra, Unruhstadt and wool stone)
- 105 rural communities and
- 37 agricultural estates.
1919-1938
The reduced circuit Bomst existed from 1919 of two municipalities ( Bomst and Clock Town ) and 26 rural communities.
Size
The circle Bomst had until 1919 an area of 1037 km ², after 297 km ².
Population
The circle Bomst had in 1905 58.714 inhabitants. Of these, 51% German and 49 % Polish. In 1925 the county had 13,179 inhabitants, of whom 6848 Protestant denomination, 6224 Catholics and 34 Jews.
In the remaining with Germany remaining the circle Bomst there was a Polish minority, the county seat Bomst had in 1939 to 30% of Polish citizens.
Towns
List of localities in the district Bomst with more than 1000 inhabitants ( 1910):