Office of Bentheim
The Bentheim office was a historical administrative area of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover . The higher administrative level was the Landdrostei Osnabrück .
history
The office was set up on September 1, 1824 as the media office of the county of Bentheim as the registry of the princes of Bentheim-Steinfurt. It encompassed the Upper County of Bentheim , i.e. the area of what is now the unified municipality of Bad Bentheim and the present-day joint municipality of Schüttorf as well as the municipalities of Brandlecht and Hestrup and the Brandlecht estate . The town and the parish of Nordhorn belonged to the Neuenhaus district . From 1866 the Bentheim office together with the offices of Freren , Lingen and Neuenhaus as well as the city of Lingen formed the (tax) district of Lingen. In 1885 the previous offices of Bentheim and Neuenhaus became the county of Bentheim .
Bailiffs
- 1824–1832: Georg Philipp Wedekind
- 1833–1837: vacant
- 1838–1857: Ernst Wilhelm August Benning
- 1857–1884: Friedrich Meyer
literature
- Iselin Gundermann , Walther Hubatsch : Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945 . Row A: Prussia, Volume 10: Hanover. Marburg (Lahn) 1981