The PrussianLandkreis Regenwalde inPomerania was a rural district that existed between 1818 and 1945.
On 1 January 1945 the district included:
99 more municipalities with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants.
After the reorganization of the district borders in theKingdom of Prussia following theCongress of Vienna, the rural district of Regenwalde was created in thegovernment region of Stettin in the Prussian province ofPomerania on 1 January 1818. In 1939, it was reorganized into the government region ofKöslin. The district consisted of mostly rural areas around the cities ofLabes,Plathe,Regenwalde andWangerin. The district council(German:Landratsamt) was in Labes.
From 1 July 1867, the district was part of theNorth German Confederation and from 1 January 1871 it was part of theGerman Empire.
On 30 September 1929, there was a reorganization of borders in the district of Regenwalde, as in the rest ofPrussia, in the course of which all of the formerly independent manors (German:Gutsbezirke) were dissolved and assigned to neighbouring municipalities (German:Landgemeinden).
On 1 October 1938, the district of Regenwalde was transferred from the government region of Stettin to the government region ofKöslin. As of 1 January 1939, the district of Regenwalde had the titleLandkreis (rural district), in accordance with nationwide naming conventions.
In the spring of 1945, the territory of the district of Regenwalde was occupied by theRed Army, and after theWar, it was placed under Polish administration. Today, the area covered by the district is mainly inŁobez County in theWest Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The district of Regenwalde comprised the urban districts (German:Stadtgemeinden) Labes, Plathe, Regenwalde and Wangerin, several rural municipalities and – until their complete dissolution – a number of independent manors (German:Gutsbezirke).
After the Prussian local government reform of 15 December 1933, from 1 January 1934 there was a uniform local government constitution for all Prussian districts (German:Gemeinden). The former "urban municipalities" were now "towns".
When the German Municipal Code(Deutsche Gemeindeordnung) of 30 January 1935 came into force on 1 April 1935, there was a uniform municipal constitution throughout the Reich, and the former "rural municipalities" (Landgemeinden) became just "municipalities" (German:Gemeinden).
No new constitution for the districts was created; theKreisordnung für die Provinzen Ost- und Westpreußen, Brandenburg, Pommern, Schlesien and Sachsen of 19 March 1881 remained in effect.
In 1932, there were 19 local government districts (Amtbezirke) in the rural district of Regenwalde:
In 1932, the district of Regenwalde included four urban municipalities and 99 rural municipalities:
In 1905, the district had a population of 45,447, of which 45,136 (99.32%) spokeGerman, 278 (0.61%) spokePolish, 7 (0.02%) were bilingual and the remainder spoke other languages.[1]
In 1925, the population of the district of Regenwalde was 50,582, of which 48,256 (95.4%) were Protestants, 1,263 (2.5%) were Catholics, 824 (1.6%) were supporters of free churches, and 159 (0.3%) were Jews.[2]
In 1933, the population was 49,753.[3]
The German place names were essentially maintained throughout until 1945.
The first railway line in the district, the Stargard-Labes-Belgard line, started operations in 1859 and was run by theBerlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft >111.0<; this line was joined atRuhnow by a line of thePommersche Centralbahn to Dramburg ab >111.j<. To the west, as from 1882 there was a line of theAltdamm-Colberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, with the stations Piepenburg und Plathe >111.d<. From 1893, Piepenburg could be reached from the station Regenwalde South >111.g<.
In 1906, thePrussian state railways opened a subsidiary line to Regenwalde North from Wurow on the Stargard-Belgard line >111.h< and in the following year this was extended to Regenwalde South >111.g<. From 1909 it was possible to travel from Regenwalde North toward Wietstock via the new railway junction at Plathe>111.h<.
This 120-kilometre railway network was complemented by 77 kilometres of narrow-gauge railway:
Regenwalder Kleinbahnen AG built their first line from Labes to Meesow, where it branched off to Daber and Sallmow, from where, as from 1907, there was a line to Regenwalde North >113.m+m2<.
(The numbers in >< refer to the German railway timetable (Deutsches Kursbuch) 1939.
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