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Krajna · 1919–1939 · one delivery

The border through Krajna

Beer from Złotów to Więcbork. Before 1920 this is one road in one state. After that the same road runs across a border, and the ledger lacks exactly the items we would like to know.

Choose a year and a recipient. The route breaks where the border cuts across the connection. A hatched field means no data, not zero. Explanation · Sources

Model delivery · a diagram, not an invoice and not a map

The state border cuts across the connection · 1920–1939
Year
  1. FromZłotówGermany · seat of the Welsch brewery
  2. RouteTrailCourse and length: no data
  3. FormalityState borderCustoms and passport control. Details for beer: no data.
  4. ToWięcborkPoland

1920 · the region dividedAfter the Treaty of Versailles Złotów stays in Germany, while Więcbork, Sępólno and Łobżenica pass to Poland. In January 1920 the Polish army takes over the towns of this part of Krajna (per V2).

States
Germany → Poland
per V2
Border control
customs and passport procedures (in general)
per V2 · to be verified
Consignment document
no data · we do not reconstruct an invoice or a permit
no data
Customs duty and fees
no data · the numerical example below is not a rate
no data
Effect on the brewery
Museum of the Złotów Land: the Welsch brewery lost a large part of its market (no figures)
per the museum · no figures
Ledger total
left open: no document, rate, prices or transport costs
no data

The labels “per V2”, “per V1” and “per the museum” refer to the content of earlier versions of the page and to the sources named in them. They were not checked again when V3 was built. List of sources

Before and after: the same towns, a different order

The comparison is always visible in both columns. The year chosen above highlights the one that describes it. The diagram beside it shows only on which side of the border each recipient lies.

GermanyPoland
Diagram of the connection between Złotów and three towns on the other side of the border from 1920 On the left the point of Złotów in Germany, on the right three points for the recipients: from the top Sępólno Krajeńskie, Więcbork and Łobżenica. The red dashed vertical line marks the border from 1920. The selected connection is drawn thicker and crosses that line at an X mark. Exception: in 1939 Łobżenica has a grey dashed line with no crossing mark, because the status of that connection is not known from the material. The drawing has no labels: the town names are given in text beside it. The layout is schematic: no scale, distances or geographical directions.

border from 1920 (diagram)

Złotów (the brewery’s seat) is the point on the left. Recipients on the right, from the top:

  1. Sępólno Krajeńskie
  2. Więcbork
  3. Łobżenica
A diagram of connections, not a map. No scale, distances or geographical directions. Our own drawing, without survey data. For Łobżenica in 1939 the connection is grey and dashed, with no crossing mark: no data. The kilometres from V2 were removed as unverified.

Selected year (1920): the “after” column is highlighted.

State

Until 1919Złotów, Więcbork and Sępólno in one state (Germany). There is no state border within the region.
1920–1939Złotów in Germany. Więcbork, Sępólno and Łobżenica in Poland. Sępólno: seat of a county in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The brewery’s recipients

Until 1919Beer from Złotów reaches recipients in Więcbork, Sępólno and Łobżenica (per the Museum of the Złotów Land).
1920–1939The museum: the Welsch brewery loses a large part of its market because these recipients are now in another state. Scale of the loss: no data.

Formalities

Until 1919No border control: there is no state border on this connection yet.
1920–1939Customs and passport procedures. Which document, what fee and what waiting time applied to consignments of beer: no data.

People on the Złotów side

Until 1919no data in the material
1920–1939In Złotów the 5th District of the Union of Poles in Germany and the Polish-Catholic School Society are active. From 1929 a Polish school and kindergarten.

A numerical example: what a surcharge does, not how much it was

The same batch without a surcharge (A) and with a surcharge (B) on one scale. You set the surcharge yourself. We have no tariffs, prices or brewery books, so the result shows the arithmetic of the example, not a historical cost. The units are conventional: 1 barrel = 100 units.

Example · not a historical rate

Connection: Złotów → Więcbork · year 1920

The slider changes the result only for a connection across the border in 1920 and 1929. You change the year and the recipient in the ledger at the top.

35%

A = 5,000 units · B = 6,750 units · index 135%

Example · not a historical rate
Base cost (A)
5,000 units
Surcharge
+1,750 units
Total with surcharge (B)
6,750 units
Index of B relative to A
135%
A · without surcharge5,000 units
B · with surcharge6,750 units

With an illustrative surcharge of 35%, a batch of 50 barrels costs 6,750 units in the example instead of 5,000 units (index 135%). This is the arithmetic of the example: not a rate from the period and not proof of why the markets were lost.

Explanation and limits

This page works on material from earlier versions. The sources were not reopened when V3 was built and need to be checked before publication. Below: how to read the labels, what the ledger does not settle and what was changed relative to V2.

How to read the labels

  • per source information carried over from V1, V2 or the museum, to be verified
  • no data the material does not give this; it is not zero and not “there was none”
  • not applicable in this year and on this connection the item does not occur
  • Example numbers set by the reader, not data from the period

What this ledger does not settle

  1. Timing is not cause. The museum describes the loss of the market after the recipients ended up in another state. Without books, prices and tariffs it is not known how much was due to customs duty, how much to formalities and how much to other factors.
  2. Today’s route is not the old route. Modern route planning does not reproduce the availability of the old crossings, so we give neither kilometres nor travel time.
  3. No document. The material contains no invoice, stamp or sample permit, so we do not draw them.

What changed relative to V2

  • The attack arrows were removed from the diagram. The 1939 thread is a single sentence under the year 1939, not a decoration of the diagram.
  • Saving in the browser and the clear button were removed: nothing is saved. Reset restores the example.
  • The kilometres, the three-town card (its content is in the “States” row) and a photograph of a town hall from the internet were removed. A modern view does not document the border.
  • The administrative names next to Złotów (West Prussia, Grenzmark) were removed: V2 gave them without verified dates.
  • The dependency was kept: without a border the surcharge is 0. Changed: in 1939 the total is not calculated, because it is a missing value, not zero.
  • The “competitiveness index” was renamed the “index of B relative to A”: the model does not measure competitiveness.

Sources

Links carried over from V2. They describe what each page covers, according to the earlier version. The content of external pages was not checked when V3 was built.