Kreishauptmannschaft

Kreishauptmannschaft

Kreishauptmannschaft

Designation for an administrative territorial entity

Kreishauptmannschaft is a German historical term that may refer to a historical type of administrative division in Germany, especially in the Kingdom of Saxony.

Historical map of Saxony featuring the Kreishauptmannschafts

Translated literally, it would mean something like District Captaincy. Regierungsbezirk is the word for such administrative division in modern Germany.

Kreishauptmannschaft in the Kingdom of Saxony

Originally there were four Kreishauptmannschaften in the Kingdom of Saxony:[1]

In 1900, a fifth was added:

  • Kreishauptmannschaft Chemnitz

References

  1. [1]
    Alphabetisches Verzeichniß der im Königreiche Sachsen belegenen Stadt- und Landgemeinden mit den zugehörigen, besonders benannten Wohnplätzen, ingleichen der Rittergüter und sonstigen exemten Grundstücke nach Kreishauptmannschaften und amtshauptmannschaftlichen Verwaltungsbezirken geordnet, nebst alphabetischem Register. Dresden: Statist. Bureau Kgl. Minist. d. Inn. 1884.


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