Office (administrative division)

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Office is a name for various administrative divisions .

The name goes back to the offices , the former administrative and judicial districts of many territories in the Holy Roman Empire .

Examples

• Germany:
  • Amt (Kommunalrecht) , a municipal corporation under public law in today's states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein
  • Administrative area from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, see Office (historical administrative area)
  • historical administrative structure in the Duchy of Berg . See also Bergische Ämterverstellung in 1363 .
  • earlier district division in Mecklenburg, see history of Mecklenburg
  • former district division in the Kingdom of Hanover
  • District historically, especially in Northern Germany, z. B. in Prussia, also Oberamt, z. B. in Württemberg
    • see also: offices in Lippe , offices in Westphalia
• Austria: historically a smaller administrative unit, mostly as an addition to the name (e.g. Schiltingeramt )
• Switzerland: historically administrative district , Amtei
• Denmark: administrative unit in Denmark since 1662; Abolished in 2006. See Office (Denmark)
• Norway: Administrative unit in Norway between 1662 and 1919.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950, p. 299.