West Galicia
West Galicia ( New Galicia also ) called the part of the Kingdom of Poland, who had come with the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 to Austria and was awarded the crown land Galicia, which was 1772 Austro since the First Partition of Poland, united.
The name West Galicia is a bit misleading, since it followed on from the previous crown land in the north. It was located on the upper Vistula and was limited by the Pilicą and the north and east from the bow to the west. It thus comprised approximately the north of the historic landscape of Little Poland. West Galicia was 52,000 km ² and had 1.3 million inhabitants. Its main cities were Cracow, Lublin and Kielce. However Praga with the eastern foothills of Warsaw lay in the division area of Prussia.
History
Already during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794 invaded Austrian troops in the area around Lublin to make any claims, particularly against Prussia, which speculated on the acquisition of Cracow, clearly. After negotiations with the division partners Russia and as compensation for the loss of Belgium Austria was awarded the contracts dated January 3, 1795 to October 24, 1795 the territory of 47,000 km ². In January 1796 the until then by Prussian troops occupied Krakow also eventually could be taken, the final division was finally decided by a convention which was in St. Petersburg on January 26, 1797 financial statements.
From 1797 to 1803 was under this area of Kk Commission authorized facility in Western Galicia (also Kk authorized westgalizische Hofcommission ), which had its seat in Krakow and the region is divided into the following groups:
In March 1803, the territory was incorporated into the crown land Galicia under one governor, while the number of districts was reduced to the following six:
- Kielce district, county Krakow, Lublin district, district Radom, Siedlce district and county Włodawa ( district administration in Biała Podlaska ).
After the peace of Tilsit in 1807, the Duchy of Warsaw was formed from parts of former Polish Prussia. An Austrian campaign against the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 during the Fifth Coalition War had the effect that Western Galicia and the city of Zamość have been together with the same circle in the Treaty of Schönbrunn added to the Duchy.
The area came in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, with the exception of Krakow to " Congress Poland " and thus indirectly to Russia.
Administrator
- Commissioner Johann Wenzel von Margelik ( 1796-1801 )
- Governor Johann Graf von Trautmann village ( 1801-1803 )
- Governor Anton tree of apple Mayrhofen (1803 until the integration to Galicia )