Kreis Schildberg
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
- Government district of Posen
The circle shield mountain at the southeastern edge of the Prussian province of Posen was in the period from 1815 until 1919.
Administrative history
The area around the western Polish city Ostrzeszów ( Schildberg ) fell 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 shield Berg was established on January 1, 1818.
Seat of the district administration has been the county seat Schildberg.
As part of the province of Posen of the circle Schildberg 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, the southern half of the circle Schildberg was separated and formed into a separate new circuit Kempen in Poznan.
On December 27, began in 1918 in the Posen province of Wielkopolska Uprising of the Polish majority population against German rule, and to the south-western edge of the town Kobyla Góra became the county area within a few days 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 Schildberg officially to the newly founded Poland from. Germany and Poland concluded on November 25, 1919 an agreement on the evacuation and transfer of the ceded territories, ratified on 10 January 1920.
The evacuation of the remaining German-controlled territory, together with the rest of the city Kobyla Góra and handover to Poland took place between 17 January and 4 February 1920.
From the circle Schildberg the Polish powiat Ostrzeszów was. 1932, the powiat was dissolved and connected to the southern Nachbarpowiat Kępno.
District administrators
Municipal outline
The circle Schildberg was divided initially into five, after the division of the circle into three boroughs. The rural communities and independent estate districts were initially in (smaller) Woytbezirken ( Polish " wójt " = German " Vogt " ) and then collected into larger police districts.
The circle Schildberg consisted on 1 January 1908:
- 3 municipalities ( Schildberg, Grabow and Mixstadt )
- 47 rural communities and
- 25 agricultural estates.
Size
The circle Schildberg had recently an area of 519 km ².
Population
The circle Schildberg had in 1890: 32,505 inhabitants. Of these, 87 % were Polish, 10 % German, and 3 % were Jews. A large part of the German population left after 1919 the area. The Jewish inhabitants were killed during the Second World War by the German occupation authorities.
Towns
List of localities in the district Schildberg 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. )