Office Brake

Office Brake (1910)
German federal state	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period	1814-1933
Administrative headquarters	Brake
surface	226 km²
Residents	19,366
Population density	86 inhabitants / km²
Communities	8th
location

The Amt Brake was an administrative district of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the later Free State of Oldenburg . The seat of the office was in the city of Brake . The function of the Oldenburg offices largely corresponded to the function of the districts in the rest of the German Empire .

history

The Brake Office was founded as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially comprised Brake, Hammelwarden and Strückhausen . In the north, the Brake Office bordered the Rodenkirchen Office, which was also established in 1814. In 1858, the similarly delimited Amt Ovelgönne emerged from the Amt Rodenkirchen. At the same time, the Brake Office gave Strückhausen to the new Office Ovelgönne and received Golzwarden from the dissolved Office Rodenkirchen. In 1879, the municipalities of Dedesdorf , Ovelgönne , Rodenkirchen , Schwei and Strückhausen were incorporated into the Brake Office from the dissolved offices of Landwürden and Ovelgönne.

During the administrative reform of 1933, the Brake Office was dissolved and became part of the Wesermarsch Office , which in 1939 became the Wesermarsch district .

Population development

Office Brake	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	17,469	17,938	19,366	19,843

Communities

The Brake Office last comprised eight communities (as of December 1, 1910):

local community	Residents
Brake	5367
Dedesdorf	1402
Golzwarden	2198
Mutton warden	2815
Ovelgönne	551
Rodenkirchen	2481
Sweat	1855
Strückhausen	2697

Web links

• Maps showing the administrative structure of Oldenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of the Duchy of Oldenburg (1825)
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. wesermarsch.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2011 .