Office Cloppenburg

Office Cloppenburg (1910)
German federal state	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period	1814-1939
Administrative headquarters	Cloppenburg
surface	855 km²
Residents	29,993
Population density	35 inhabitants / km²
Communities	10
Location in Oldenburg

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

history

The Cloppenburg office was formed as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially included the communities of Cloppenburg , Cappeln , Emstek and Molbergen . In 1855, the municipality of Krapendorf was formed in the area around Cloppenburg . In 1872 Garrel also became an independent municipality. In 1879 the communities of Essen , Lastrup , Lindern and Löningen were added from the dissolved Löningen office.

During the administrative reform of 1933, the old office of Cloppenburg was enlarged to include the area of ​​the dissolved office of Friesoythe . In 1939, the new, enlarged Cloppenburg office became the Cloppenburg district .

Population development

Office Cloppenburg	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	22,186	24.207	29,993	37.002

Communities

The Cloppenburg office comprised ten municipalities in 1910 (as of December 1, 1910):

local community	Residents
Cappeln	1813
Cloppenburg	3702
Emstek	3210
eat	3931
Garrel	2187
Krapendorf	2740
Lastrup	2520
Alleviate	2239
Loeningen	5695
Molbergen	1956

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. cloppenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2011 .