Kreis Gnesen
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
- Government district of Posen
The circle of Gniezno in the northeast of the Prussian province of Posen was in the period from 1815 until 1918.
History ( 1793-1807 )
The area around the western Polish town of Gniezno ( Gniezno ) was after the Second Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807 as a temporary circuit Gniezno in the Prussian province of South Prussia. After the peace of Tilsit, the area was returned to Poland in 1807.
Administrative history
The area around the western Polish town of Gniezno, fell again after the Congress of Vienna on 15 May 1815, the Kingdom of Prussia.
As part of the general reorganization of the circle outline in the Prussian state, a circle Gniezno was re-established on 1 January 1818. Seat of the district administration has been the county seat Gniezno.
As part of the province of Posen of the circle Gniezno 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 1 October 1887 from the southeast half of the circle Gniezno ( 588 km ²), a separate circuit Witkowo formed.
For new circle Witkowo were:
- The police district Witkowo,
- The majority of the police district Schwarzenau and
- The eastern part of the district police Gniezno II
On December 27, began in 1918 in the Posen province of Wielkopolska Uprising of the Polish majority population against German rule, and already on the same day, the county town of Gniezno was under Polish control.
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 circle Gniezno officially to the newly founded Poland from.
From the circle of Gniezno Gniezno was the Polish powiat. 1925, the city of Gniezno was spun off as a separate county from the powiat.
In 1927, the powiat Witkowo was dissolved again, the majority of 542 km ² came back to the powiat Gniezno, a small part of 46 km ² with the community Marzenin came to the southern Nachbarpowiat Wrzesińska.
District administrators
Municipal outline
The circle Gniezno initially consisted of five, after 1887 in two municipalities, the remaining villages were grouped into police districts.
The circle consisted of Gniezno on 1 January 1908:
- Two townships ( Gniezno and Kletzko )
- 87 rural communities and
- 53 agricultural estates.
Size
The circle Gniezno initially had an area of 1153 km ², after the partition of 1887 there were still 565 km ².
Population
The circle had Gniezno in the year 1905 42.482 inhabitants. Of these, 67% of Poles and 33% German. The majority of the German population left after 1918 the area.
Towns
List of localities in the district of Gniezno with more than 400 inhabitants (1910 ):
( With a few exceptions were after 1815, the Polish place names on, after the founding of the German Empire several place names were Germanized. During the German occupation in the Second World War all the resorts were given German names. )