Office Dannenberg
The office of Dannenberg was a historical administrative area of the Principality of Lüneburg , later of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover . The official seat was Dannenberg Castle .
history
The center of the official district was Dannenberg Castle, built around 1150 as the ancestral seat of the counts of the same name , first mentioned in 1153 , whose last representative handed over the castle and town of Dannenberg with the left-Elbe possessions to Duke Otto the Strict from Lüneburg in 1303 . The associated possessions and bailiwick rights formed the cornerstone for the later office of Dannenberg. According to a treasury register in 1450, the former bailiwick comprised more than 50 villages, of which 45 still belonged to the Dannenberg district in the 18th century. At that time it was divided into the Marschvogtei with 32 localities and the Hausvogtei with one city, 40 localities and three independent courtyards. This subdivision was not based on old parish or geographic boundaries, but was based on topographical boundaries. For the sovereign services, the office was divided into cloths, with several villages belonging to one cloth. Until the 16th century, the office was mostly pledged, pledge takers were among others the city of Lüneburg and the von Bülow family .
In 1569 the office of Dannenberg with the monastery Scharnebeck was determined to equip a branch line of the house Braunschweig-Lüneburg and thus a new principality of Dannenberg was created. The sovereignty remained with the dukes residing in Celle. From 1635 the principality was temporarily administered from Wolfenbüttel. After the relapse to Lüneburg (1671) the office of Dannenberg was re-created. At the end of the 17th century, property relations with neighboring offices and the established nobility were cleaned up.
With the exception of the integration of the Gümse Office , the scope remained relatively constant in the 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century. In 1852 ten communities (Braasche, Karwitz, Lenzen, Nausen, Quarstedt, Sammatz, Schmardau, Schmessau, Timmeitz and Zernien) were ceded to the Hitzacker office , three (Bellahn, Fließau, Tripkau) moved from Hitzacker to Dannenberg. The municipalities of Maddau and Sareitz fell to the Clenze office , Breese am Seißelberge to the Bleckede office . In 1859 the left Elbe part of the abolished Hitzacker office was attached. From 1867 the office of Dannenberg formed the (tax) district of Dannenberg with the offices of Gartow , Lüchow and Neuhaus and the cities of Dannenberg (Elbe) and Lüchow. In 1885 the office was transferred to the district constitution.
scope
When it was abolished (1885), the office included the following municipalities:
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(*) 1859 from the Hitzacker office.
Bailiffs
- 1766–1779: Christoph Barthold Scharf
- 1779–1792: Georg Heinrich Schwarzkopf
- 1783–1784: Georg August Hagemann
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- 1818–1820: Carl Johann Samuel Grote, senior bailiff
- 1821–1822: Carl Friedrich Bahr, bailiff
- 1823–1829: Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Kramer, senior bailiff
- 1830–1852: August Wilhelm Niemeyer, bailiff, from 1851 senior bailiff
- 1852–1859: Ludolf Fromme , bailiff
- 1860–1863: Julius Jordan , bailiff
- 1864–1867: Hermann C. Bühne, bailiff
- 1868–1885: Ernst Georg Heinrich Otto Albers, captain, district chief, 1885–1888 district administrator of the Dannenberg district
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. 233–239.
- Martin Krieg: The emergence and development of the administrative districts in the former Principality of Lüneburg , Göttingen 1922, pp. 61–65