Elsfleth Office

Elsfleth Office (1910)
German federal state	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period	1814-1933
Administrative headquarters	Elsfleth
surface	259 km²
Residents	14,050
Population density	54 inhabitants / km²
Communities	11
location

The Elsfleth office 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 Elsfleth . The function of the Oldenburg offices largely corresponded to the function of the districts in the rest of the German Empire .

history

The Elsfleth office was founded as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially included Elsfleth, Altenhuntorf , Bardenfleth , Großenmeer , Neuenbrok and Oldenbrok . In 1879, the municipalities of Berne , Bardewisch , Neuenhuntorf and Warfleth were incorporated from the dissolved Amt Berne into the Amt Elsfleth.

During the administrative reform of 1933, the Elsfleth office was dissolved and merged completely with the new Wesermarsch office , which in 1939 became the Wesermarsch district .

Population development

Elsfleth Office	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	13,823	13,669	14,050	13,924

Communities

The Elsfleth office comprised eleven municipalities in 1910 (as of December 1, 1910):

local community	Residents
Altenhuntorf	981
Bardfleth	1342
Bardewish	715
Berne	3393
Elsfleth, rural community	1023
Elsfleth, city	2259
Great Sea	1145
Neuenbrok	467
Neuenhuntorf	625
Oldenbrok	1078
Warfleth	1022

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 .