Harburg Office
The Harburg office was a historical administrative area of the Principality of Lüneburg , later of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover . The higher administrative level was the Landdrostei Lüneburg .
history
The office of Harburg goes back to the medieval Goe Hittfeld and Hollenstedt, who - long disputed between the Welfs and the Archbishops of Bremen - finally fell to the Principality of Lüneburg in 1236. The Harburg frontier fortress built before 1142 developed into the center and seat of the office. It was rebuilt in 1253 after being destroyed several times, and from the middle of the 14th century, including the office, was mostly pledged (1397 to 1407 to the city of Lüneburg ). In 1517 Duke Heinrich brought the city and bailiwick back under Guelph sovereignty. In 1527 Duke Otto received the rule of Harburg as compensation for his government waiver. Since then, Harburg, supplemented by the Moiseburg office in 1560, formed its own domain, which, however, did not achieve complete sovereignty. After the Harburg line of the Welfs died out in 1642, the office fell back to the Celle line and has been under sovereign administration ever since.
Since the middle of the 17th century it has been divided into the six marching bailiffs Finkenwerder, Altenwerder , Lauenbruch , Kirchwerder , Over and Neuland as well as the four Geest bailiffs Höpen, Hittffeld, Jesteburg and Tostedt. In total, the office comprised seven Elbe islands, a city, 90 villages and 12 independent farms. After the French era, the office was restored in 1815. In 1852 a new Hittfeld Office was formed from the Bailiwicks of Hittfeld and Höpen , and the Bailiwick of Tostedt was added to the Moisburg Office. In 1859 the office of Hittfeld was canceled and, like the previous office of Wilhelmsburg, was merged with the office of Harburg. In 1885 the office was transferred to the Harburg district .
Communities
When it was abolished (1885), the following municipalities belonged to the office:
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Bailiffs
- 1831–1834: Carl August Wilhelm Wyneken, bailiff
- 1835: vacant
- 1836–1839: Claus von der Betten, head captain
- 1839–1843: Wilhelm von Hodenberg , Drost
- 1844–1845: Eduard Christian von Lütcken , Privy Cabinet Councilor
- 1846–1858: Eberhard Christian Compe , bailiff, from 1853 senior bailiff
- 1859–1868: August Neubourg, bailiff
- 1868–1884: Ernst Ludwig Theodor Karl von der Osten, bailiff, district chief
See also
literature
- Iselin Gundermann , Walther Hubatsch : Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945 . Row A: Prussia, Volume 10: Hanover. Marburg (Lahn) 1981
- Manfred Hamann : Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony Main State Archives in Hanover. Third volume: Central and subordinate authorities in the Landdrostei and administrative districts of Hanover, Hildesheim and Lüneburg until 1945. Göttingen 1983, pp. 290–297.
- Peter Aufgebauer : Johannes Mellinger: Atlas des Fürstentums Lüneburg around 1600 , Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2001, ISBN 3-89534-391-9 .
- Martin Krieg: The emergence and development of the administrative districts in the former Principality of Lüneburg , Göttingen 1922, ISBN 3-87898-089-2 .
- Friedrich W. Harseim, C. Schlüter (ed.): Statistical manual for the Kingdom of Hanover . Schlueter, 1848, p. 92 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Christian Hermann Ebhardt (ed.): The state constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover . Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1860, p. 836 ( limited preview in Google Book search).