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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Urban districts

  1. Beuthen
  2. Gleiwitz
  3. Kattowitz
  4. Königshütte
  5. Oppeln
  6. Ratibor (since 1904)

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Rural districts

  1. Kreis Beuthen
  2. Kreis Cosel
  3. Kreis Falkenberg
  4. Kreis Groß Strehlitz
  5. Kreis Grottkau
  6. Kreis Zabrze (from 1915 "Hindenburg O. S.")
  7. Kreis Kattowitz
  8. Kreis Kreuzburg
  9. Kreis Leobschütz
  10. Kreis Lublinitz
  11. Kreis Neiße
  12. Kreis Neustadt
  13. Kreis Oppeln
  14. Kreis Pleß
  15. Kreis Ratibor
  16. Kreis Rosenberg
  17. Kreis Rybnik
  18. Kreis Tarnowitz
  19. Kreis Tost-Gleiwitz

Population

= Ethno-linguistic structure =

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

|+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

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%

class="wikitable sortable"

|+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