Landkreis Neustadt O.S.

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Neustadt district (1905)

The Neustadt O.S. district was a Prussian district in Upper Silesia from 1743 to 1945. Its territory corresponded roughly to the present-day Prudnik County in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

History[]

After the conquest of most of Silesia, King Frederick the Great introduced Prussian administrative structures in Lower Silesia in 1742 and in Upper Silesia in 1743.^[1] This included the establishment of two war and domain chambers in Breslau and Glogau as well as their division into districts. The district of Neustadt was initially under the War and Domain Chamber of Breslau. In the course of the Prussian Reform Movement, the administrative region of Oppeln was created in the Province of Silesia, which included the Neustadt district.

During the district reform of January 1, 1818, the district boundaries were changed as follows:^[2]

• The villages of Berndau, Damasko, Gläsen, Kasimir, Schönau, Steubendorf and Thomnitz were transferred from the Neustadt district to the Leobschütz district.
• The villages of Oberwitz and Roswadze were transferred from the Neustadt district to the Groß Strehlitz district.
• The villages of Dobersdorf and Malckwitz were transferred from the Oppeln district to the Neustadt district.

From 1871, the district belonged to the German Empire. On November 8, 1919, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Upper Silesia was formed from Regierungsbezirk Oppeln. In the Upper Silesia plebiscite held on March 20, 1921, 88.2% of voters in the Neustadt district voted for Germany and 11.8% voted for Poland. Therefore, the district remained in the German Reich. In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army. In the summer of 1945, the district was placed under Polish administration in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. In the following years the German population was largely expelled and replaced by Poles.

Demographics[]

According to the Prussian census of 1840, the district had a population of 68,677, of which 35,476 (51.7%) were Germans and 33,201 (48.3%) were Poles.^[3]

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