Kreis Schwerin an der Warthe ( pl, Powiat skwierzyński) was a district in Prussia, first in the southern administrative Region of Posen within the Prussian

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...

(until 1920), then within the Province of the Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (until 1 October 1938) and at last as part of the administrative Region of Frankfurt within the

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(until 1945). It presently lies in the western part of

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region of

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History

The district was formed in 1887 from parts of the

Kreis Birnbaum Kreis Birnbaum ( pl, Powiat międzychodzki) was a district in Prussia (''Kreis'') in the west of the Grand Duchy of Posen and the succeeding Province of Posen, as part of ''Regierungsbezirk'' Posen between 1815 and 1920. Today the area belongs ...

. After the

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, Kreis Schwerin and few more districts belonged to the truncated remnant of the Province of Posen remaining with the

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. Together with

Kreis Bomst The district of Bomst was a Prussian district which existed from 1793 to 1807 in the province of South Prussia and from 1815 to 1938 successively in the Grand Duchy of Posen, the Province of Posen and the Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia. The ...

and

Kreis Meseritz Kreis Meseritz (''Landkreis Meseritz'' from 1939; pl, Powiat międzyrzecki) was a district in Prussia, first in the southern administrative Region of Posen within the Grand Duchy of Posen (till 1848), then the Province of Posen (till 1920), t ...

, the Kreis Schwerin formed a western territorial

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of Posen-West Prussia. The district capital of Schwerin an der Warthe (now Skwierzyna), was distinguished from

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germany, second-largest city of the northeastern States of Germany, German ...

in Mecklenburg by the name of the

Warthe The river Warta ( , ; german: Warthe ; la, Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly north-west to tributary, flow into the Oder, against the Germany, German border. About long, it is Poland's second-longest river within its borders a ...

river, upon which it is located. When the Posen-West Prussia province was dissolved in 1938 the bulk of its territory, anyway neighbouring

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, was annexed to that province, whereas its western exclave became part of the Province of Brandenburg.

Demographics

The district had a

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majority with a significant

minority.

Geographical features

Civil registry offices

In 1905, these

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offices (german: Standesamt) served the following towns in :

Table of all communities

Table of office holders

References

Former subdivisions of Brandenburg Districts of Prussia Districts of the Province of Posen 1887 establishments in Germany 1945 disestablishments in Germany {{Germany-hist-stub