Kreis Kosten
- Government district of Posen
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
The circle in the southwest cost of the Prussian province of Posen was in the period from 1815 until 1919.
History ( 1793-1807 )
The area around the city Kościan (cost ) was already after the third partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807 as a cost to the province of South Prussia 's circle. After the peace of Tilsit in 1807, the area became part of the Duchy of Warsaw.
Administrative history
The area around costs 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 on January 1, 1818 county cost was redefined. Seat of the district administration has been the county seat costs.
1835, the revised City Ordinance was introduced for costs and Schmiegel.
As part of the province of Posen of the circle was cost 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 October 1, 1887 from the eastern part of the district costs (554 km ²), a separate circuit Schmiegel formed.
For new circle Schmiegel were:
- The municipalities Schmiegel and Wielichowo,
- The police district Schmiegel -West,
- The police district Schmiegel - East and
- The police district Wielichowo.
On December 27, began in 1918 in the Posen province of Wielkopolska Uprising of the Polish majority population against German rule, and after a few days the district area 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 circuit cost officially to the newly founded Poland from.
Polish powiat Kościan was removed from the list cost. 1932, the neighboring powiat Śmigiel was disbanded and reunited with the powiat Kościan.
District administrators
Municipal outline
The circle cost was divided initially into five, after the division of the circle into three municipalities, the remaining villages were grouped into police districts.
The circle consisted of cost on 1 January 1908:
- Three municipalities (cost, Czempin and Kriewen )
- 84 rural communities and
- 51 agricultural estates.
Expansion
The circle had to cost -sharing in 1887 an area of 1162 km ², after 608 km ².
Population
The circle had cost in 1905: 44 713 inhabitants. Of these, 89% were Poles and 11% German. The majority of the German population left after 1918 the area.
Towns
List of localities in the county costs with more than 500 inhabitants (1910 ):
( With a few exceptions were after 1815, the Polish place names on, at the beginning of the 20th century, several place names were Germanized. )