Office Ahlden

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The Ahlden office was a historical administrative area of ​​the Principality of Lüneburg , later of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover .

history

The office goes back to the accessories of Ahlden Castle and the Gografschaft Ahlden, which was owned by the noble family of the same name as a fiefdom of the Minden bishops in the second half of the 14th century . In the conflict with the bishops and the Guelphs , the von Ahlden in 1431 largely lost their property. Legal successors were the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (Principality of Lüneburg). The ducal office emerged from the Ahlden Villication and the Gogericht.

The district consisted of the parishes of Ahlden and Eickeloh until 1852 . The castle and bailiwick were often pledged and, from 1694 to 1726, personal belongings of the exiled Princess Sophie Dorothea of ​​Braunschweig-Lüneburg ("Princess of Ahlden"). The offices of Ahlden, Rethem and Walsrode stood from the end of the 16th century to 1784 under the joint supervision of a Grand Vogt or Landdrosten zu Ahlden.

After the Prussian (from 1802) and Westphalian rule (from 1807) the office was restituted in 1815. In 1852 it was enlarged to include the Essel District Bailiwick with the Schwarmstedt parish , and in 1859 by half of the Rethem District, including four villages that previously belonged to the Neustadt am Rübenberge district . It was repealed in 1885.

scope

When it was abolished in 1885, the Ahlden office comprised the following municipalities:

(*) From the Office of Rethem; (**) from the Neustadt am Rübenberge office

Bailiffs

  • 1818–1828: Franz Wilhelm von Hassel, Drost
  • 1829–1852: Wilhelm Leo Georg Herbord von Uslar-Gleichen, Drost, from 1851 head captain
  • 1853–1858: Bernhard Carl von Reiche, bailiff
  • 1859–1885: Georg Eduard Jordan, bailiff

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. 190–193.