Kreis Schwerin in Posen
- Government district of Posen
- Regierungsbezirk Bromberg
The county of Schwerin ( Warta ), formerly " Schwerin on the Warta River ", was a Prussian administrative district in the province of Posen or limit Posen- West Prussia, which was 1887-1945. It included on 1 January 1945:
- The two cities Blesen and Schwerin on the Warta River
- And 41 more municipalities with less than 2,000 inhabitants.
- And three estate districts ( Forestry).
21,035 people lived in 1933 in the district, every second person was engaged in the agricultural and forestry sectors.
Administrative history
Kingdom of Prussia
On 1 October 1887, the new district of Schwerin on the Warta River in the Prussian province of Posen, government district of Posen was created from parts of the circle Birnbaum, namely:
- The municipalities Blesen and Schwerin on the Warta River,
- The police districts Birnbaum - only the rural communities joy, hope, United Krebbel, Kaza, Small Krebbel, Krebbelmühl, Krynitze, New Görtzig, pitch lie, Schneidemühl - Hauland, strokes, strokes - Hauland, Wierzebaum and the estate districts New Görtzig, strokes, Waitze, Waitze Oberförsterei and Wierzebaum - and Schwerin on the Warta River.
This usually consisted of rural areas around the county town of Schwerin on the Warta River.
North German Bund / German Empire
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 Schwerin was assumed on the Warta River of the new government office in Pila (administrative district border Mark West Prussian Posen) on 20 November 1919.
With the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles, the eastern part of the district of Schwerin was ceded to the Warta River in Poland 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 of Schwerin joined on the Warta River to the new Prussian province of Posen- West Prussia border and from 1 August 1922 the newly formed government district Schneidemühl. Later the spelling Schwerin won ( Warta ).
On October 1, 1938, the district moved Schwerin ( Warta ) after the dissolution of the province of Posen- West Prussia border with the province of Brandenburg - later "Mark Brandenburg" -, Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt.
In the spring of 1945, the county area was conquered by the Red Army and subsequently placed under Polish administration. It now belongs to Poland.
District administrators
Communal Constitution
The county of Schwerin on the Warta River was divided into townships. The rural communities and independent estate districts were grouped into 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.
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 consistently German place names were essentially maintained until 1945. However, in 1937 received the following communities " more German " names:
- Goray: yew village,
- Kaza: Waldluch,
- Krinitze: Warthetal,
- Orlowce: Eagle's Nest.
Population
In 1925 ( Warta ) were counted 22,300 inhabitants in the district of Schwerin, of which 10,107 Protestant, 11,957 Catholics and 121 Jews.
Traffic
The Prussian State Railways opened up the circle very late: in 1887 touched the route Meseritz - Birnbaum initially only the station Wierzebaum > 116.k <. The county seat was awarded until 1896 by the connection Landsberg - Meseritz a railway station > 116.f <, of the 1906 line to Wierzebaum teed > 116.n <. Finally, the German Reichsbahn still took in 1935 a line to cross into operation in order to circumvent the new Polish border > 116.g <.
The numbers in > < refer to the German course book 1939.