Kreis Rybnik

The territory of this district is now in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.

During the district reform of 1 January 1818 in Regierungsbezirk Oppeln in the Prussian Province of Silesia, the new Rybnik district was formed.

In the Upper Silesia plebiscite held on 20 March 1921, 34.8% of the voters in the Rybnik district voted for Germany and 65.2% voted for Poland.

Due to the subsequent resolutions of the Conference of Ambassadors, on 3 July 1922, most of the district was transferred to Poland.

According to the Prussian census of 1855, Kreis Rybnik had a population of 58,411, of which 52,323 (89.58%) were Poles, 6,053 (10.36%) were Germans and 35 (0.06%) were Czechs.