Office Lauenstein
The Amt Lauenstein was a historical administrative district in the Principality of Calenberg , later the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover .
history
Lauenstein Castle is first mentioned in 1247 as the property of the noblemen of Homburg . In that year Heinrich von Homburg transferred the house of Lauenstein to Duke Otto and received it back as a Guelph fief. Presumably, this measure served to secure the Homburgers support against the neighboring Counts of Spiegelberg , who also raised claims on Lauenstein between 1277 and 1409. With the extinction of the Homburgs in 1409, the associated property (Vogtei), which by 1400 already comprised 40 places, fell to the Guelphs and has since formed an administrative district. In 1433 the dukes Otto and Bernhard transferred Lauenstein to the bishop of Hildesheim. Until 1587 the office was mostly after- pledged to noble families (to the Bock von Nordholz, 1493 to the von Saldern ). After the Hildesheim collegiate feud , the office came back into Welf possession in 1523. Duke Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , who had acquired the principality of Calenberg-Göttingen in 1584, redeemed the pledge from von Saldern in 1587. Since then, ducal officials have taken over the administration. By court ruling of December 1629, the office was assigned to the Hildesheim Monastery and in January 1630 it was taken over by officials of the prince-bishopric. The Brunswick bailiff Julius Vessen was deposed, but three years later the office returned to the Duchy of Brunswick. Even after the Hildesheim main trial , Lauenstein remained with a few neighboring offices at Calenberg (and thus Hanover), while most of the other Hildesheim offices were returned to the Duchy of Hildesheim after 120 years.
The bailiff's seat was moved from Lauenstein Castle to the Eggersen domain near Levedagsen at the beginning of the 18th century .
After the Franco-Westphalian rule, the Lauenstein office was restituted to its old extent. Until the first half of the 19th century it was divided into two Börde (upper and lower Börde). In 1836 it was divided into three district bailiffs (house bailiwick, bailiwick Eime and bailiwick Wallensen).
In 1852 the administrative area was significantly reduced: The communities of Ahrenfeld, Benstorf, Dörpe, Esbeck, Hemmendorf, Marienau, Oldendorf, Osterwald, Quanthof and Sehlde came to the Coppenbrügge district , the communities of Rott and Hoyershausen to the Alfeld (Leine) district . In 1853 Esbeck von Coppenbrügge was reassigned to Lauenstein, but Eime von Lauenstein to the Office of Elze. On January 1, 1855, Ahrenfeld, Benstorf, Hemmendorf, Oldendorf and Quanthof were transferred from the Coppenbrügge to the Lauenstein department. In 1859 the offices of Lauenstein and Coppenbrügge were combined to form the new office of Lauenstein. Since 1867 the offices of Lauenstein, Hameln and Polle as well as the unofficial cities of Bodenwerder and Hameln have formed the Hameln steering committee. In the course of the territorial reform of 1885 it was abolished and the communities were divided into the districts of Hameln , Gronau and Alfeld (Leine) .
Communities
In 1855 the office included the following municipalities:
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- 1589 - 1605: Johannes von Wirth (v. Wierte)
- 1605 - 1606: Johannes Hofmeister
- 1606 - 1614: Daniel Heidemann
- 1626 - 1627: Johann Lappe
- - 1630: Julius Vessen (last Brunswick bailiff)
- 1630 - 1632: N. Kote and Heinrich Burchtorf, (administrators of Hildesheim Monastery, Counter Reformation)
- 1633 - 1648: Heinrich Julius Schrader
- 1694 - 1717: Conrad Werner Wedemeyer
- 1717 - 1757: Christian Eberhard Niemeyer
- 1757 - 1766: Haider
- 1766 -: Heinrich Wilhelm Rautenberg
- 1818 - 1840: Friedrich Ernst Otto von Lenthe, Chamber Council
- 1841 - 1852: Friedrich Wilhelm August Zachariae , bailiff
- 1852 - 1885: Carl Wilhelm Niemeyer, 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. 311–314.
- H. Jarck: On the church history of the Lauenstein office . In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 15 (1910), pp. 161–209