Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt
The county of Frankfurt was from 1815 to 1945, a government district of the Prussian province of Brandenburg, based in Frankfurt (Oder). Its territory is now part of the German state of Brandenburg and to the Republic of Poland.
History
The county was established in 1815 Frankfurt in the province of Brandenburg of the Kingdom of Prussia. He covered the eastern part of the province, and had at its foundation an area of 20,731 km ². For government district included the Neumark and Lower Lusatia. Prussia belonged since 1871 to the German Empire.
In 1938, the two circles Arnswalde and Friedeberg Nm. in the new government district boundary Posen- West Prussia, the Prussian province of Pomerania reclassified. At the same circles Meseritz and Schwerin ( Warta ) were reclassified from the resolved border province of Posen - West Prussia in the administrative district of Frankfurt. After that, the government district covered an area of 18,390 km ².
After the end of World War II, the area of the administrative region east of the Oder fell to Poland and west of the Oder in the Soviet zone of occupation. In 1946 the newly formed state of Brandenburg no government districts were established.
Population Development
Administrative divisions
Urban districts:
- Cottbus ( 1886 )
- Forestry (since 1897)
- Frankfurt ( Oder) ( until 1827 and since 1877)
- Guben (since 1884)
- Landsberg ( Warta ) (since 1892)
Counties:
- Arnswalde (until 1938 )
- Calau
- Cottbus
- Crossen
- Cüstrin (up to 1836)
- Peace mountain Nm. (until 1938 )
- Guben
- Königsberg Nm.
- Landsberg ( Warta )
- Lebus
- Luckau
- Lubben
- Meseritz (since 1938)
- Oststernberg (since 1873)
- Schwerin ( Warta ) (since 1938)
- Soldin
- Sorau
- Spremberg
- Sternberg (up to 1873)
- Weststernberg (since 1873)
- Züllichau - Schwiebus