Åbenrå Office

Location of the Aabenraa Office in Denmark

Åbenrå Office. The areas of the seven municipalities that were created by the municipal reform in 1970 and then belonged to the Sønderjyllands Amt are marked with different shades of green .

Åbenrå Amt , also spelling Aabenraa Amt according to the spelling Åbenrå or Aabenraa , was an administrative district ( amtskreds ) in Denmark until 1932 . As a political district ( amtsrådskreds ), it retained its independence until 1970.

Åbenrå Amt consisted of three Harden ( Danish : Herred ):

• Lundtoft
• Rise
• Sønder-Rangstrup

history

The Aabenraa office was constituted in the Middle Ages as a feudal district around the lordly Brundlund Castle near the fjord city of Aabenraa. Until then, most of the territory had belonged to the Ellumsyssel, namely the Riesharde, the Birk Warnitz and the Lundtoftharde (only relinquished from Tondern in 1850), while the Süderrangstrupharde had belonged to the Barwittsyssel. When the country was divided in 1544, the office fell to Gottorf , where it remained until 1713. After that it was a royal office, which until 1850 had the same bailiff with the small office of Lügumkloster. From 1850 the Lundtoftharde and all goods in the area belonged to the office, whose bailiff now also administered the offices of Sønderborg and Norburg.

After the war of 1864 , Schleswig - and with it the Aabenraa - was occupied by Prussia and Austria and annexed by Prussia in 1867. The office was then transformed into the Prussian district of Aabenraa .

After the majority of the population in Northern Schleswig had voted for Denmark in the referendum on February 10, 1920, the district was ceded to Denmark on June 15 . The Åbenrå Office was formed from the district and most of the administrative district of Bau as well as the rural community Fröslee of the Flensburg-Land district.

In 1932, Åbenrå Amt and the neighboring Sønderborg Amt were merged into Aabenraa-Sønderborg Amt . Both districts retained their function as a political unit ( amtsrådskreds ) by maintaining two separate meetings of officials. Administratively, however, they were combined and subordinated to a common head of office. With the Danish municipal reform on April 1, 1970 , both district councils went into the new Sønderjyllands office . The following municipalities were formed from the parishes ( Danish : Sogn ) in the Sønderjyllands Amt:

• Bov (from the parishes of Bov and Holbøl )
• Gråsten (from the parishes of Rinkenæs and Kværs as well as the municipality of Gråsten-Adsbøl, which was united in 1957 )
• Lundtoft (from the parishes of Kliplev , Felsted and Varnæs )
• Løgumkloster (including from Bedsted parish )
• Rødekro (from the parishes of Egvad , Hellevad , Hjordkær , Øster Løgum and most of Rise )
• Tinglev (including from the parishes Bjolderup and Uge )
• Aabenraa (from the parishes of Aabenraa , Løjt , Ensted and the rest of the Rise Sogn)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerret Liebing Schlaber: Hertugdømmet Slesvigs forvaltning. Administrative structures og retspleje mellem Ejderen og Kongeåen approx. 1460-1864 , Flensburg 2007, p. 411
2. ↑ J. P. Trap: Danmark . Vol. 10, Part. 3, pp. 801, 1066

literature

• Gerret Liebing Schlaber: Hertugdømmet Slesvigs forvaltning. Administrative structures and retspleje mellem Ejderen and Kongeåen approx. 1460-1864 , ed. from the study department of the Danish Central Library for South Schleswig, Flensburg 2007. ISBN 978-87-89178-65-3
• JP Trap: Danmark . Edited by Niels Nielsen, Peter Skautrup and Therkel Mathiassen, vol. 10, vol. 3. Gads Forlag, Copenhagen 1967.
• Nicolai Jonge: Danmarksbeskrivelse, 1777 PDF file (Danish)

Web links

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