Office new equals

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The Neuengleichen Office was a historical administrative area of ​​the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Kingdom of Hanover .

history

The office goes back to the accessories of the castles Gleichen built around 1100 , which were lent by the Guelphs to the Lords of Uslar around 1270 . In 1318 the two lines of old and new equals appear for the first time. In 1451 the last lords of Uslar of the Neuengleichen line sold their property to the Landgraves of Hesse . The seat of the now Hessian office was the Vorwerk (manor house) Wittmarshof around 1550 ; the Amtshaus stood until 1870. The municipalities Etzenborn , Mackenrode and Sattenhausen as well as four so-called Mengedörfer ( Benniehausen , Bremke , Gelliehausen , Wöllmarshausen ), three quarters of which were assigned to the (Guelph) court Altenleichen and a quarter to the Amt Neuengleichen, also belonged to the administrative district were associated. After the Franco-Westphalian rule , Neuengleichen fell to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1816/17. Benniehausen came undivided from the four group villages to the Neuengleichen office; Bremke, Gelliehausen and Wöllmershausen came to the Altenleichen court.

In 1825 the Neuengleichen office was added to the Reinhausen office .

Bailiff

  • 1818–1823: Friedrich Adam Frankenberg, 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, p. 384.