Bordesholm is a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein. It was also the name of a former historical district of the Kingdom of Prussia and Weimar Republic for which it was the district capital. Places identified in this site were extracted from the 1912 Gazetteer of the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein. Many changes have occurred to this Kreis over the years. Below is a brief historical background of the district boundaries.
Brief historical background:
After Holstein was separated from the Danish state and briefly under Austrian administration, the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein was founded in 1867. At the same time, an administrative reform was carried out in which the district of Kiel was formed "from the city of Kiel; the district of Bordesholm excl. Sachsenbande; the districts of Cronshagen, Kiel and Neumünster; the monastic Itzehoe bailiwick of Meimerstorf; the estates of Bothkamp, Blockshagen, Klein-Nordsee, Neu-Nordsee, Marutendorf, Hohenschulen, Quarnbeck, Schwarzenbeck, Projenstorf, Schrevenborn, Oppendorf, Schönhorst and the farmstead of Overndorf, as well as the monastic Preetz villages of Taastorf and Gadeland"[1]. The district was divided into 18 administrative districts in 1889.
After the city of Kiel was spun off on November 14, 1883, the district was given the name Landkreis Kiel and the administrative seat was moved to Bordesholm. The district subsequently lost parts of its territory to the city of Kiel several times, including the municipality of Wik in 1893, the municipalities of Gaarden, Hassee, Hasseldieksdamm and Wellingdorf in 1910 and the municipality of Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf in 1924. After the town of Neumünster also left the district of Kiel on April 1, 1901, it was renamed the district of Bordesholm on June 18, 1907.
On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the district of Bordesholm in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, in which all manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighbouring rural communities. With the ordinance on the reorganization of administrative districts of August 1, 1932, the district of Bordesholm was dissolved and its municipalities divided up among the districts of Plön, Rendsburg and Segeberg
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