Office Gehrden

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The Office Gehrden (founded in 1843, disbanded in 1857-58) was an official in the northern district Warburg in Regierungsbezirk Minden of the Prussian province of Westphalia , based in the office belonging to the city Gehrden and had at December 31, 1843 3209 inhabitants.

geography

The office of Gehrden was in the west of the Upper Weserbergland in the southern Netheband and was traversed by the river Nethe and the brook Oese .

Neighboring offices

The neighboring offices were the office Dringenberg in the west, the office Brakel in the north, the office Borgentreich in the east and the office Peckelsheim in the south.

history

The Gehrden office emerged from one of the six administrative districts of the Warburg district formed on October 18, 1816 by ordinance of the royal government in Minden . When it was founded, the Warburg district was divided into administrative districts, the administration of which was initially carried out by mayors and / or cantonal officials. As part of the introduction of the Westphalian rural community order , offices were set up in the Prussian province of Westphalia at the beginning of the 1840s. In 1843, the Gehrden office was created from the then existing mayor 's office.

Between 1845 and 1852, the Natingen community moved to the Borgholz office .

In 1857/58 the Gehrden office was combined with the municipalities of Altenheerse , Dringenberg , Kühlsen , Neuenheerse and Willebadessen from the Dringenberg office to form the new Dringenberg-Gehrden office .

Organization and population

The office was divided into the eight communities of Auenhausen , Fölsen , Frohnhausen , Gehrden , Hampenhausen , Natingen , Niesen and Siddessen, of which Gehrden had the town charter and was also the administrative seat.

The following table shows the municipalities of the Gehrden Office with their area and population from 1843:

Surname Residents Area in km²
Auenhausen 154 3.79
Fölsen 301 5.86
Frohnhausen 351 4.56
Gehrden 919 15.70
Hampenhausen 119 4.03
Natingen 361 6.06
Sneeze 633 12.24
Siddessen 371 7.80
Office Gehrden 3,209 60.04

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bruns (ed.): Westfalenlexikon 1832-1835 . (Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance). Westphalian State Office for Archive Maintenance, Münster 1978.
  2. ↑ Ordinance No. 555. (digitized version ) In: Official Journal of the Minden Government. December 18, 1843, p. 274 , accessed July 22, 2010 .
  3. ^ A b Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815–1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 , p. 381 .
  4. ↑ Seemann: Geographical-statistical-topographical overview of the administrative district of Minden. (pdf; 936 kB) 1845, pp. 86-92 , accessed on April 23, 2010 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 17.8 "  N , 9 ° 7 ′ 16.2"  E