Kreis Labiau

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Kreis Labiau was a district in East Prussia that existed from 1818 to 1945. It was located on the southeastern coast of the Curonian Lagoon and had the town of Labiau as its capital.

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Districts of East Prussia in 1910

Since the East Prussian district reform of 1752, the largest part of the area of the future Labiau district belonged to the Tapiau district, which included Labiau, Tapiau and Taplacken. [1] [2] As part of the Prussian administrative reforms, the “Ordinance for Improved Establishment of the Provincial Authorities” of 30 April 1815 resulted in the need for a comprehensive district reform in all of East Prussia, as the districts established in 1752 had proven to be inexpedient and too large. On 1 February 1818 the new district of Labiau was formed from the northern part of the Tapiau district in the Königsberg Region of the Prussian province of East Prussia.

Since 1871, the district belonged to the German Reich. In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army and then came under Soviet administration. The remaining German population was subsequently expelled. Today this territory belongs to the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia.

Demographics

According to the Prussian census of 1867, the Labiau district had a population of 50,467, of which 39,225 (77.7%) were Germans and 11,242 (22.3%) were Lithuanians. [3]

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References

  1. Töppen, Max (1858). Historisch-comparative Geographie von Preussen: Nach den Quellen, Namentlich auch Archivalischen (in German). Perthes.
  2. Baczko, Ludwig von (1803). Handbuch der Geschichte, Erdbeschreibung und Statistik Preussens (in German). Nicolovius.
  3. Belzyt, Leszek (1998). Sprachliche Minderheiten im preussischen Staat: 1815 - 1914 ; die preußische Sprachenstatistik in Bearbeitung und Kommentar. Marburg: Herder-Inst. ISBN   978-3-87969-267-5.[ permanent dead link ]