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Gazetteer of Poznań 1902

The Prussian Province of Poznań had 2 administrative districts, Poznań and Bydgoszcz. The Poznań district had 28 powiaty (counties) and Bydgoszcz had 14 powiaty. The value of this gazetteer is that it gives both Polish and German names of locales which can help you locate them on a map. The gazetteer also gives the Catholic parish for the locale.

There were eleven columns of information in the original gazetteer, but only a few columns are represented in this online index. The omission of the rest was a function of my limited time and interest. Someone else might want to add that information. Rather than repeatedly spelling out place names, the gazetteer compiler assigned a number to each locality depending on its context of use. So most of the columns had abbreviations or numbers rather than spelled out words or names. I have found instances where the same number was used to refer to two different places. In other instances, places didn't have numbers where expected. I did not read how the gazetteer was prepared (it's in Polish) but I suspect it was a compiled from many sources-- some of which may conflict with one another. This could also lead to one locale being listed more than once with different information. I wouldn't say the gazetteer is riddled with errors but I would be cautious if something doesn't make sense.

Results will list Locale 1 and possibly a Locale 2. If Locale 1 is a Polish name, then Locale 2 is a German name and vice-versa. The powiat name is given in adjectival form (where the implicit word powiat is modified by the adjective). The district, Poznań or Bydgoszcz is distinguished in the same field. The Catholic parish to which the locality belongs is given. In some instances it either wasn't given or the locality may have been large enough to support more than one church. The Type column says something about the character of the locality-- city, village, etc. The bottom of the results page will summarize the abbreviations and translations of the terms used. Some of the terms were not translated and just treated as an accepted part of the name.

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