Harpstedt office
The Harpstedt office was a historic administrative district of the county of Hoya , later of the principality of Calenberg and the Kingdom of Hanover .
history
In Harpstedt there was already a castle-like complex belonging to the Counts of Neubruchhausen in the 13th century, whose ownership fell to the Counts of Hoya in 1384. The office formed from it was pledged to the Counts of Oldenburg in 1439 and was under the rule of the bishops of Münster from 1482 to 1547 . When the old Oldenburg count's house was extinguished, Harpstedt came to the Principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , but was ceded to Calenberg in 1682.
In 1820 the Harpstedt office was expanded to include the Colnrade parish (previously the Diepholz office ). In the course of the district reform of 1852, parts were reclassified to the Freudenberg office . This is why the Rüssen farmers came from Diepholz to Harpstedt. In 1859 the office was canceled and merged with the Freudenberg office.
Communities
When it was dissolved (1859), the Harpstedt office comprised the following municipalities:
Map with all linked sites: 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, p. 256f.
- Dirk Heile: The former Harpstedt office: a much controversial area . In: Heimatblätter des Landkreis Diepholz 13 (1989), pp. 85f.