Reckenberg Office
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ N , 8 ° 19 ′ E |
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| Basic data (as of 1969) | ||
| Existing period: | 1843-1969 | |
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Detmold | |
| Circle : | Wiedenbrück | |
| Area : | 86.68 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7644 (1961) | |
| Population density : | 88 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | WD | |
| Office structure: | 4 municipalities | |
| Office administration address : |
Wasserstraße 14, 33378 Rheda-Wiedenbrück | |
The Reckenberg office was an exclave of the Osnabrück monastery until 1802 and an office in the Wiedenbrück district from 1843 to 1969 . Its administrative seat was Reckenberg Castle in the city of Wiedenbrück .
History / administrative history
middle Ages
The Reckenberg office with its center in Wiedenbrück was created as an exclave in the Münster diocese when the Osnabrück diocese was formed around the year 788, but cannot yet be designated as such at that time. Only after the boundaries between Reckenberg and Rheda were established in the Bielefeld Recess in 1565 and two independent areas of sovereignty were recognized, the term "Reckenberg Office" can actually be used for the area.
Historians assume that the first original parish church stood here in 785, which was the center of a mission area. In 952, King Otto I granted the Osnabrück bishop market , coin and customs rights for Wiedenbrück. There are certificates issued in Wiedenbrück by Otto III. known from the year 985; there was probably a royal court here at that time.
In 1225, Bishop Engelbert von Osnabrück received the Gogerichte zu Wiedenbrück and other cities. This was one of the starting points for the development of the Osnabrück Monastery into a territorial state. The oldest coins from Wiedenbrück have come down to us from around 1230. Wiedenbrück was named civitas in 1231 , lay judges were elected to the court and a seal was announced.
The Neustadt was founded in 1249, and Reckenberg Castle was first mentioned a year later.
Early modern age
Around 1462, the first city constitution in Wiedenbrück based on the model of Osnabrück was drawn up. Hermann Bonnus , a representative of Bishop Franz von Waldeck , reformed Wiedenbrück in 1543. In 1565 the city was predominantly Lutheran.
After the first steps towards a Counter-Reformation were taken in 1624/25 , the office was occupied by the Danes in 1626 during the Thirty Years' War . When Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg took office in 1628, he continued the Counter Reformation.
In 1637 one of the oldest grammar schools in the region was built in Wiedenbrück, the grammar school Marianum , a six-class Latin school and forerunner of the later Ratsgymnasium Wiedenbrück . In 1644, Bishop Franz Wilhelm founded the Franciscan monastery. Three years later, in July 1647, the Swedes took Wiedenbrück, but after the fortress was razed, they vacated the city after two months. The Peace of Westphalia negotiated in Münster and Osnabrück in 1648 prescribed the alternating sequence of a Catholic and a Lutheran bishop from the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg for the Osnabrück Monastery .
In 1726 a new office building was built on the Reckenberg.
Recent history
As a result of the conversion of the bishopric to the Principality of Osnabrück, the Reckenberg office was initially added to Kur-Hannover in 1802 and fell to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 . The canton Wiedenbrück , which belonged to the Paderborn district in the Fulda department, was formed from its territory .
In 1815 the area of the old Reckenberg office was finally assigned to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna and in 1816 assigned to the Wiedenbrück district of the new province of Westphalia . The area was no longer part of the Diocese of Osnabrück and its Catholic communities came to the Diocese of Paderborn . The canton of Wiedenbrück, formed in 1807, initially continued to exist as an administrative district, sometimes also referred to as the mayor's office .
Prussian Office
In 1843, as part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia in the district of Wiedenbrück, the Prussian office of Reckenberg was established, to which the three communities Avenwedde, Friedrichsdorf and Langenberg belonged. The city of Wiedenbrück remained vacant. In 1867 the two communities Batenhorst and St. Vit were newly formed from parts of Langenberg . The two new municipalities Kattenstroth-Spexard and Lintel were also formed in 1888 by hiving off from Avenwedde . In 1910, Kattenstroth-Spexard handed over the Kattenstroth farmers to the city of Gütersloh . The remaining municipal area was named Spexard .
In 1914, the new office Avenwedde , consisting of the communities Avenwedde, Friedrichsdorf and Spexard, was removed from the office Reckenberg, which since then comprised four municipalities.
Latest story
In 1961 the office comprised the municipalities (area and inhabitants also as of 1961):
- Batenhorst (14.63 km², 1,381)
- Langenberg (39.65 km², 4,042)
- Lintel (22.08 km², 1,231)
- Sankt Vit (10.32 km², 990)
The administrative seat was the non-official city of Wiedenbrück .
As part of the local government reform in 1970 Batenhorst, Lintel and Saint Vit to have been on January 1, Rheda-Wiedenbrück incorporated and Langenberg enlarged to up to then to circle Beckum related Benteler , municipality was. The Reckenberg office was dissolved.
literature
- Josef König: The Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück Reckenberg in its territorial development and internal design . Munster 1939.
- Johann Wilhelm du Plat , Günter Wrede: The office of Reckenberg . In: The land surveying of the Principality of Osnabrück 1784–1790 . tape 7 . Association f. History and Geography of Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1967.
- Christian Loefke (arrangement): Head treasury register of the Reckenberg office from 1630 . Dortmund 1998.
- Christian Loefke: Head Treasury of the Reckenberg Office from October 19 and 20, 1649 . o. O. 1992.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bruns, in: Gerhard Taddey: Lexikon der Deutschen Geschichte , Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, p. 930
- ↑ Heimatverein Wiedenbrück-Reckenberg: A brief history of the city of Wiedenbrück until 1820
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe (ed.); Project Westphalian History: "Royal Decree, whereby the division of the kingdom into eight departments is ordered", p. 111
- ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978 (reprint of the original from 1834).
- ↑ Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ^ Official Journal of the Minden Government 1843: Formation of the Reckenberg Office. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 212 .
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 278 .
- ↑ a b Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 239 .
- ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 258 .
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Wiedenbrück district and parts of the Bielefeld district
