Office of Rethem

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The Office of Rethem was a historical administrative area of ​​the Principality of Lüneburg and the Kingdom of Hanover .

history

The center of the Rethem office was the Guelph border fortress of the same name on the Aller , built around 1300 . The court of Cordingen was separated from the administrative district in 1852 and added to the Fallingbostel office . In 1859 the Rethem office was completely abolished. The Boitzen court also fell to the Fallingbostel office, the rest of the office (the house bailiff and the Wahlingen patrimonial court) to the Ahlden office.

literature

  • Werner Brünecke; Gunther Gerhardt; Wilhelm Richter: The register of inheritance of the Rethem office from 1669. The old courts of Kirchboitzen, Kirchwahlingen and Cordingen . (= Series of publications by the Association of Friends of the Heidemuseum Walsrode eV 7), Walsrode 1992
  • 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. 190f.