Stralsund (region)

The special legal position of this territory was the reason for the creation of what was then the smallest government region in the whole of Prussia.

An alignment of the legal position was only gradually achieved in the second half of the 19th century, and was largely completed on the introduction of the Civil Code (BGB) in January 1900.

But in some areas, special legal forms continued to exist, a situation that was unlike anywhere else in Prussia and Germany and which even went back to the time of Swedish rule, for example, the so-called Tertialrecht [de].

The first regional government was inaugurated on 5 January 1818 by the upper president of the Province of Pomerania, Johann August Sack [de], in his office.

That produced three options: An appeal by the districts and towns to the king against the formation of the government region was dismissed.

However, the Prussian system of taxation was only introduced in New Hither Pomerania following a royal cabinet order of 19 November 1821.

The Stralsund government region is divided into four counties, three of which take their name from the towns in which the district councils are located.

In 1952 on the occasion of redistricting East Germany into new administrative units the eastern part of the Franzburg-Barth became the new and smaller District of Stralsund [de] within the likewise new Region (Bezirk) of Rostock of the GDR.