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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 ...
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.
Bromberg Region with its districts and cities. Bromberg was the northern of two Prussian government regions, or Regierungsbezirke (Polish: Rejencja), of the Grand Duchy of Posen (1815–1848) and its successor, the Province of Posen (1848–1919). The administrative center was the city of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), which is now part of Poland.
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 ...
The district area became part of Prussia after the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The district of Czarnikau was formed on 1 July 1816. On 1 January 1818 the new district of Chodziesen (later renamed Kolmar in Posen) was formed from the eastern part of the Czarnikau district.
The administrative region was bordered on the north by Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, to the west by the Province of Brandenburg, to the south by the Silesia Province, and to the east by Russian Congress Poland. The Posen region was inhabited mainly by Poles practicing Roman Catholicism, although it had a minority of Germans, mostly Protestants.
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