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On 1 April 1914 the city of Schneidemühl was disentangled from the district and became an independent town (Stadtkreis) within the Bromberg Region. On December 27, 1918, the Greater Poland uprising began in the province of Posen. Except for the south of the district around the town of Budsin, the Kolmar district remained largely under German ...
Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced; Alsatian: Colmer; German: Colmar or Kolmar [citation needed]) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse ), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department and of the subprefecture ...
Standesamt Kolmar was a civil registration district located in Kreis Kolmar, province of Posen of the German Empire (1871–1918) and administered the communities of: Community Polish name
Under Nazi German occupation, the town under the Germanized name Kolmar was made part of Reichsgau Wartheland, and the seat of the county (kreis) of Kolmar. The Rynek (Market Square) was renamed the Adolf Hitler Square. [4] Despite such circumstances, the Polish resistance movement was still formed and operated in the town and area. Among its ...
Kollmar is a popular destination for day-trippers from surrounding areas who enjoy watching ships pass along the Elbe shore. Unlike the Seestermüher Marsh and parts of the Haseldorf Marsh, the shipping lane is close to the shore and not obscured by any Elbe island.
Kreis Kolmar in Posen, a "county" in the Prussian province of Posen (1879-1919) This page was last edited on 21 October 2018, at 15:15 (UTC). Text is available ...
Division of the province between Poland and Weimar Germany after World War I; Posen Area in 1910 in km 2 Share of territory Population in 1910 After WW1 part of: Notes Given to: 28,992 km 2 [11] 100% 2,099,831 Divided between: Poland: 26,111 km 2 [12] 90% [13] 93% [13] Poznań Voivodeship: Germany: 2,881 km 2: 10% 7% Posen-West Prussia [14 ...
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts [1] (German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only, Stadtkreise – cities that constitute districts in ...