Office Diepholz
The Diepholz Office was a historical administrative area that successively belonged to the County of Diepholz , the principalities of Lüneburg and Calenberg , and the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover .
history
The core of the office formed the Diepholz Castle , built between 980 and 1030, and its accessories, which was the headquarters of the noble lords of the same name (Counts of Diepholz since the 16th century). Even under the Diepholz noble lords, an official constitution was formed in the 14th century, which divided their territory into the offices of Diepholz, Lemförde and Auburg .
With the extinction of the Counts of Diepholz (1585) the office of Diepholz fell to the Lüneburg line of the Guelphs , in 1665 to Duke Ernst August in his function as Bishop of Osnabrück and through him in 1679 to Calenberg-Hanover. Under the rule of the Guelphs, the borders with the neighboring territorial rulers were cleared.
After the end of the French era (1807-1813) the office was restituted to its previous extent. The parish of Goldenstedt , which up until then had had two rulers , was divided up in 1817 in such a way that the greater part fell to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the village of Rüssen on the right of the Hunte to Diepholz. In 1820 the previous office of Auburg was canceled and incorporated into the office of Diepholz as an official bailiff. In the same year, the parish Colnrade with the farmers Austen, Colnrade, Beckstedt and Holtorf was handed over from Diepholz to the Harpstedt office . In 1852 the office was divided and an office in Auburg was created again, which also had its administrative seat in Diepholz . In 1859 the offices of Auburg and Lemförde were incorporated into the Diepholz office, which together with the Freudenberg and Sulingen offices had formed the Diepholz (tax) district since 1867. In the course of the administrative reform of 1885, the office was transferred to the district constitution.
scope
When it was abolished in 1885, the office comprised the following municipalities
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(*) 1852-1859 to the office of Auburg; (**) until 1859 for the Lemförde office
Bailiffs
- -1702: Leonard von Dohren, senior bailiff
- 1797–1837 Hans Ernst Bütemeister , bailiff, from 1818 senior bailiff (1824 Diepholz honorary citizen)
- 1838: vacant
- 1840–1856: Claus Ernst Friedrich Tiedemann, bailiff, from 1853 senior bailiff
- 1859–1885: Moritz Denicke , bailiff, from 1867 also district chief
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. 239–243.
- Herbert Major: The honorary citizens of the Fleckens or the city of Diepholz . Diepholz 1987, 2000