The Landkreis Stolp (Stolp
ural
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district; 1648 to 1898: ''Kreis Stolp'') was a Brandenburg-
Prussian district in
Farther Pomerania formed in 1648 from the ''Landvogtei Stolp'' (Stolp land advocacy). It weathered the alterations of the Farther Pomeranian district borders in 1724 unchanged. In 1815, with the introduction of government regions, Stolp District became part of the new
Köslin Region in the enlarged
Province of Pomerania in
Prussia
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, part of the German Federation (1815-1866), North German Confederation (1867-1871) and the
united Germany of 1871.
In 1876 the district ceded a number of exclaves to neighbouring districts and received enclaves within its district area from the Rummelsburg and Schlawe districts. In 1898 the city of Stolp was disentangled from the district, becoming an urban district of its own and a new enclave amidst the rural district. However, Stolp rural district maintained its district offices in that town. On 1 January 1945 the rural district comprised 193 municipalities around the city of
Stolp (renamed in Polish as ''Slupsk'' in 1945). With the Soviet conquest of Farther Pomerania in March 1945 the district ceased to exist.
Demographics
In 1905, the district had a population of 76,478, of which 75,875 (99.21%) spoke
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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, 547 (0.72%) spoke
Polish (Kashubian), 12 (0.02%) were bilingual and the remainder spoke other languages.
References
Literature
* Karl-Heinz Pagel: ''Der Landkreis Stolp in Pommern''. Lübeck 1989 (in German
online
* Karl-Heinz Pagel: ''Stolp in Pommern - eine ostdeutsche Stadt''. Lübeck 1977 (in German
online
External links
*
ttp://schlawe.de/familienforschung/Koszalin/kibustolp.htm Kirchenbücher aus dem Kreis Stolp im Archiv Köslin
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States and territories disestablished in 1945
1898 establishments in Germany