Office Lemförde

The Lemförde office was a historical administrative area that successively belonged to the County of Diepholz , the principalities of Lüneburg and Calenberg, and the Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover .

history

Lemförde Castle was laid out by the noblemen of Diepholz around 1316 to protect their territory against the Minden and Osnabrück monasteries and to secure the Stemwede . With the development of the official constitution in the 14th century, it became the focus of an office that, after the extinction of the Counts of Diepholz (1585), was transferred to the Principality of Lüneburg, in 1665 to Duke Ernst August in his function as Bishop of Osnabrück and with this in 1679 to Calenberg- Hanover fell.

From 1810 to 1813 Lemförde was under French rule. After that, the office was restored to its old extent, but it was canceled in 1859 and incorporated into the Diepholz office. The former official area has belonged to the Diepholz district since 1885. Its communities today form the combined community of Altes Amt Lemförde .

scope

When it was abolished in 1859, the office comprised the following municipalities:

• Brockum
• Hude
• Lembruch
• Lemförde
• Marl
• Quernheim
• Stem horn

Bailiffs

• 1818–1829: Benedict from the ceiling, Drost
• 1830: Wilhelm von Blum, official assessor
• 1830–1832: Johann Friedrich Conrad Rose
• 1832: Niemeyer, official assessor
• 1832–1852: Heinrich Friedrich Arnold Wagemann, bailiff, from 1852 senior bailiff
• 1853–1859: Georg Leuer from Hinüber

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. 239f.