Lüchow Office

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Lüchow office, around 1600

The Lüchow office was a historical administrative district of the Principality of Lüneburg , later of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover .

history

The official parish goes back to the sphere of influence of the Counts of Lüchow , a noble family that has belonged to the Guelphs' vassals since the time of Henry the Lion . After the house went out, the county was acquired in 1320 by Duke Otto II of Lüneburg . The castle became the seat of a Guelph bailiff or bailiff. At times it was given out as a personal item for Guelph duke widows. The bailiwick of Lüchow was first mentioned in a pledge in 1371, but the scope of the bailiwick at that time is not apparent from the document.

In 1548 the Warpke office was added to the Lüchow office and was de facto downgraded to a bailiwick. From 1591 to 1671 Warpke was assigned to the Dannenberger branch line of the ducal house . In 1695 a border adjustment took place with the neighboring authorities of Dannenberg and Hitzacker , and in 1740 with the authority of Bodenteich . The legal relationship with the Wustrow Office was more complicated . In 1841 the relationship there was also revised. The Lüchow office was divided into a house and travel bailiff as well as the bailiwick of Bergen and the border bailiff of Lübben. In 1852 the Clenze office was separated from Lüchow and made independent, but completely reintegrated in 1859. Likewise, in 1859 the Wustrow office came to Lüchow, and in 1872 the Gartow office (including Schnackenburg). Since 1867 the Lüchow office formed the (tax) district of Dannenberg with the offices of Dannenberg, Gartow and Neuhaus and the cities of Dannenberg (Elbe) and Lüchow. In 1885 the office was transferred to the district constitution.

Communities

The Lüchow Office comprised the following communities before it was merged with the Gartow Office (1871):

Lüchow office from 1852

From the former Clenze office

From the former Wustrow office

Bailiffs

  • 1800–1814: State Johann Heinrich Nanne, 1792 clerk, 1800 bailiff
  • 1818–1836: Otto Friedrich Conrad Stock, bailiff, from 1830 senior bailiff
  • 1837: vacant
  • 1838–1852: Detlef Julius Döring, bailiff
  • 1853–1867: Carl Ludwig Christian von Harling , bailiff, from 1867 senior bailiff
  • 1868–1871: Ludolf Freiherr von Uslar-Gleichen, bailiff
  • 1871–1885: Gustav Rotermund, bailiff

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. 324–329.
  • Martin Krieg: The origin and development of the administrative districts in the former principality of Lüneburg . Göttingen 1922, pp. 67-70