The Landkreis Sprottau was a district of the German state Prussia from 1816 to 1945. It was part of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia, before 1919 the Prussian Province of Silesia. In 1932 it was merged with Landkreis Sagan. Its present-day successors are Powiat Żagański and Powiat Polkowicki. On 1 January 1945 it included: 3 cities, Primkenau (Przemków), Sagan (Żagań) and Sprottau (Szprotawa), 102 municipalities, 4 Gutsbezirke (forests and the military training area Neuhammer am Queis).
Demographics The district had a majority German population, with a small Polish minority. +Ethnolinguistic structure in the district18901900German36,33798.85%38,17597.78%Polish3070.84%5701.46%Bilingual840.23%1240.32%Total36,75939,042
History
Municipal constitution
Placenames Names of two communes were renamed in 1936: Puschkau → Hirtenau (does not exist) Tschirndorf → Hammerfeld
District heads Oskar von Bezold (1932–1933)
Representatives in Provincial Parliament of Lower Silesia Holders of these political positions were called "Landsrat". 1811–1831: Kaspar von Knobelsdorff 1831–1857: Alexander Maximilian von Schkopp 1857–1869: Robert von Reder († 1869) 1869–1877: Hans Graf von Kanitz-Podangen (1813–1941) 1877–1890: Günther von Dallwitz (1838–1910) 1890–1910: Henning von Klitzing 1910–1919: Wilhelm Freiherr von Kottwitz 1919: Eichert (Commissar) 1920–1925: Dietrich 1925–1932: Hermann Kranold 1932–1933: Oskar von Bezold 1933: Pintzke 1933–: Hans-Walter Friderici
References
External links http://www.geschichte-on-demand.de/sprottau.html