Office Bokeloh
The Bokeloh office was an office in the Calenberger Land , which the Counts of Schaumburg established in the 15th century and which was dissolved in 1819. The seat of the office was in Bokeloh Castle .
history
The office was located in Bokeloh Castle, which, according to the Minden bishop's chronicle, was built by Minden Bishop Wilhelm I in 1242 as a Castrum Novum . After the 14th century the castle and the village came into the possession of the Counts of Schaumburg , who established the Bokeloh office in the 15th century. In 1640, with the death of Count Otto V, the main line of the Schaumburg family became extinct , and the county was divided between Braunschweig-Lüneburg , the Counts of Lippe and Hesse-Kassel . The office of Bokeloh was incorporated into the Principality of Calenberg as part of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1647 . In 1819, to simplify administration, the Bokeloh office was dissolved and incorporated into the larger office of Blumenau , now a western part of Wunstorf. This had significant consequences for the seat of the office in Schloss Bokeloh, as the official budget had to be dissolved. In the course of this, a number of buildings were demolished, such as the office building, the Vorwerk building, the horse stable, the pig house, the carriage shed, the Darrhaus and a barn. Only the office building and an auxiliary building remained untouched. The chief forester took his seat in the office; the outbuilding was used by officials from the Blumenau office working in Bokeloh, and partly as a grain store.
Associated places
literature
- Heinrich Lathwesen: The Bokeloh office with its villages Bokeloh, Idensen, Mesmerode . Wunstorf, 1981
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 38.3 " N , 9 ° 22 ′ 22.9" E