Landkreis Freystadt i. Niederschles.

District of the German state of Prussia from 1816 to 1945

The Landkreis Freystadt i. Niederschles. was a district of the German state of Prussia from 1816 to 1945. It was part of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia, before 1919 the Prussian Province of Silesia, within Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz. After 1945, it became part of Poland and is currently in the Lubusz Voivodeship. On 1 January 1945 it included:

1 city, Freystadt in Niederschlesien
74 municipalities,
1 Gutsbezirk (Forests).

Demographics

The district had a majority German population, with some Polish minorities.^[1]

Ethnolinguistic Structure^[1]
Language	1900		1905
German	53,824	99.09%	53,305	98.25%
Polish	371	0.68%	699	1.29%
Bilingual	74	0.14%	137	0.25%
Total	54,320		54,252

History

Kingdom of Prussia

North-German League, Second and Third Reichs

Municipal constitution

References

^ ^a ^b 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.