Office Lauenau

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The Amt Lauenau was a historical administrative district in the Principality of Calenberg or Kingdom of Hanover with its seat in Lauenau .

history

The castle Lauenau was built around 1190 by Henry the Lion as welfisches bulwark against the counts of Schaumburg , but was given as a pledge to the Schaumburg Count 1364 (until 1512). The managed from there office came only with the extinction of the old count house in 1640 finally back to Guelph. In 1859 the office was abolished and merged with the Office Springe .

Communities

The Lauenau office comprised the following municipalities when it was abolished:

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. 391f.

Bailiffs

  • 1817: Georg Ernst Adolph von Hake, Drost
  • 1818–1832: Christian von Zesterfleth, Oberamtmann
  • 1833–1834: August Moritz Christian Knitter, bailiff
  • 1835: vacant
  • 1836–1844: Heinrich Ferdiunand von Voigt, 1st civil servant
  • 1844–1859: Friedrich August Christoph Günther, bailiff, from 1856 senior bailiff