Oppeln (region)
{{Short description|Region of Silesia, Prussia}}
[[File:Schlesien_Verwaltungsgliederung_1905.svg|thumb|236x236px|{{Farbindex|29CF77|Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz}}
{{Farbindex|FFDC56|Regierungsbezirk Breslau}}
{{Farbindex|CEA7DD|Regierungsbezirk Oppeln}}]]
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Regierungsbezirk Oppeln was a Regierungsbezirk, or government region, in the Prussian Province of Silesia, from 1813 to 1945, which covered the south-eastern part of Silesia.
Geography
The capital of the Regierungsbezirk was the Upper Silesian city of Oppeln. Other important cities in the region included Kattowitz, Gleiwitz, Beuthen, Königshütte, Hindenburg, Ratibor, Neustadt, Neisse and Kreuzburg.
It comprised the following districts (as of 1910):
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Population
= Ethno-linguistic structure =
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|+Number of Polish and German speakers in Regierungsbezirk Oppeln ! rowspan="2" |Year ! colspan="2" |Polish ! colspan="2" |German ! colspan="2" |Other (including bilingual) |
Number
!Percentage !Number !Percentage !Number !Percentage |
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1819{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA42|title=Statistischer Umriss der Sammtlichen Europaischen und der Vornhemsten Aufseuropaischen Staaten|date=1823|language=de}}
|{{0}}377,100 |67.2% |{{0}}162,600 |29.0% |{{0}}21,503 |3.8% |
1828{{Cite book|last=Weber|first=Paul|url=http://archive.org/details/diepoleninobersc00webeuoft|title=Die Polen in Oberschlesien; eine statistische Untersuchung|date=1913|publisher=Berlin, J. Springer|others=Robarts - University of Toronto}}
|{{0}}418,437 |61.1% |{{0}}255,483 |37.3% |{{0}}10,904 |1.6% |
1831
|{{0}}456,348 |62.0% |{{0}}257,852 |36.1% |{{0}}13,254 |1.9% |
1834
|{{0}}468,691 |62.6% |{{0}}266,399 |35.6% |{{0}}13,120 |1.8% |
1837
|{{0}}495,362 |62.1% |{{0}}290,168 |36.3% |{{0}}12,679 |1.6% |
1840
|{{0}}525,395 |58.6% |{{0}}330,099 |36.8% |{{0}}41,570 |4.6% |
1843
|{{0}}540,402 |58.1% |{{0}}348,094 |37.4% |{{0}}42,292 |4.5% |
1846
|{{0}}568,582 |58.1% |{{0}}364,175 |37.2% |{{0}}45,736 |4.7% |
1852
|{{0}}584,293 |58.6% |{{0}}363,990 |36.5% |{{0}}49,445 |4.9% |
1855
|{{0}}590,248 |58.7% |{{0}}366,562 |36.5% |{{0}}48,270 |4.8% |
1858
|{{0}}612,849 |57.3% |{{0}}406,950 |38.1% |{{0}}49,037 |4.6% |
1861
|{{0}}665,865 |59.1% |{{0}}409,218 |38.3% |{{0}}51,187 |4.6% |
1867
|{{0}}742,153 |59.8% |{{0}}457,545 |36.8% |{{0}}41,611 |3.4% |
1890
|{{0}}918,728 |58.2% |{{0}}566,523 |35.9% |{{0}}92,480 |5.9% |
1900
|1,048,230 |56.1% |{{0}}684,397 |36.6% |{{0}}135,519 |7.3% |
1905
|1,158,805 |56.9% |{{0}}757,200 |37.2% |{{0}}117,651 |5.8% |
1910
|1,169,340 |53.0% |{{0}}884,045 |40.0% |{{0}}154,596 |7.0% |
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|+Ethnolinguistic structure of the districts in Regierungsbezirk Oppeln (1910) {{Cite book|last=Belzyt|first=Leszek|url=https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?isbn|title=Sprachliche Minderheiten im preussischen Staat: 1815 - 1914; die preußische Sprachenstatistik in Bearbeitung und Kommentar|date=1998|publisher=Herder-Inst.|isbn=978-3-87969-267-5|location=Marburg}} !District !Population !Polish !% !German !% !Bilingual !% !Czech !% |
Landkreis Beuthen
|195,844 |123,016 |62.8% |59,308 |30.3% |11,695 |6.0% |94 |0.0% |
Stadtkreis Beuthen
|67,718 |22,401 |33.1% |41,071 |60.7% |3,504 |5.2% |55 |0.1% |
Falkenberg
|37,526 |3,815 |10.2% |33,286 |88.7% |365 |1.0% |1 |0.0% |
Stadtkreis Gleiwitz
|66,981 |9,843 |14.7% |49,543 |74.0% |7,461 |11.1% |46 |0.1% |
Groß Strehlitz
|73,383 |58,102 |79.2% |12,616 |17.2% |1,783 |2.4% |870 |1.2% |
Grottkau
|40,610 |825 |2.0% |39,589 |97.5% |129 |0.3% |26 |0.1% |
Landkreis Kattowitz
|216,807 |140,592 |64.8% |65,763 |30.3% |7,430 |3.4% |98 |0.0% |
Stadtkreis Kattowitz
|43,173 |5,766 |13.4% |36,891 |85.4% |365 |0.8% |13 |0.0% |
Stadtkreis Königshütte
|72,641 |24,687 |34.0% |39,276 |54.1% |8,366 |11.5% |26 |0.0% |
Kosel
|75,673 |56,794 |75.1% |16,433 |21.7% |2,303 |3.0% |90 |0.1% |
Kreuzburg
|51,906 |24,487 |47.2% |24,363 |46.9% |3,002 |5.8% |10 |0.0% |
Leobschütz
|82,635 |5,178 |6.3% |69,901 |84.6% |1,200 |1.5% |6,311 |7.6% |
Lublinitz
|50,388 |39,969 |79.3% |7,384 |14.7% |2,885 |5.7% |138 |0.3% |
Neisse
|101,223 |1,752 |1.7% |98,860 |97.7% |380 |0.4% |95 |0.1% |
Neustadt
|97,537 |43,787 |44.9% |51,489 |52.8% |2,182 |2.2% |63 |0.1% |
Landkreis Oppeln
|117,906 |89,323 |75.8% |23,740 |20.1% |2,955 |2.5% |1,852 |1.6% |
Stadtkreis Oppeln
|33,907 |5,371 |15.8% |27,128 |80.0% |1,385 |4.1% |6 |0.0% |
Pleß
|122,897 |105,744 |86.0% |16,464 |13.4% |447 |0.4% |24 |0.0% |
Landkreis Ratibor
|118,923 |56,765 |47.7% |13,316 |11.2% |1,576 |1.3% |47,209 |39.7% |
Stadtkreis Ratibor
|38,424 |11,525 |30.0% |22,914 |59.6% |3,684 |9.6% |247 |0.6% |
Rosenberg
|52,341 |42,234 |80.7% |8,586 |16.4% |1,514 |2.9% |2 |0.0% |
Rybnik
|131,630 |102,430 |77.8% |24,872 |18.9% |3,636 |2.8% |24 |0.0% |
Tarnowitz
|77,583 |51,858 |66.8% |20,969 |27.0% |4,742 |6.1% |3 |0.0% |
Tost-Gleiwitz
|80,515 |61,509 |76.4% |16,408 |20.4% |2,535 |3.1% |0 |0.0% |
Zabrze
|159,810 |81,567 |51.0% |63,875 |40.0% |13,973 |8.7% |44 |0.0% |
Total
|2,207,981 |1,169,340 |53.0% |884,045 |40.0% |89,497 |4.1% |57,347 |2.6% |
References
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