Office Ruthe

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The street Amtshof in Ruthe reminds of the former location of the same

The Ruthe office was the historical administrative area of ​​the Duchy of Hildesheim and the Kingdom of Hanover .

history

The area of ​​the office goes back to the Stiftshildesheim castle in Ruthe and its accessories. It was built around 1280 by Bishop Siegfried II, perhaps on the site of a previous installation at the confluence of the Innerste and Leine rivers . Since 1379 a bailiwick (office) with its seat in Ruthe has been occupied, which was pledged several times in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the area of ​​the bailiwick, Hildesheim and Guelph claims overlapped. After the destruction of the castle in the Hildesheim collegiate feud and its assignment to the Principality of Calenberg , the office was administered from Koldingen . In 1643 it returned under Hildesheim rule (while Koldingen remained welfisch) and became the administrative seat again after the new official building. While the administrative business was initially in the hands of a bailiff, the Drosten took over the administration themselves in the 18th century. In 1802 the office came under Prussian rule , and in 1807 Westphalian rule. In 1815 it was restored to its old size, in 1859 it was repealed and incorporated into the Hildesheim office.

Office building

The seat of the administration was the castle in Ruthe until it was destroyed. With the fall of the castle, the associated farm yard also disappeared. The administration was carried out from Koldingen. Only a cattle house stood on the site of the former castle in 1593. After the restitution of the office in the Brunswick Recess in 1643, the monastery government had a simple mansion built on the old Burgplatz as an office building.

Communities

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

Drosten and bailiffs

Drosten

  • 1689–1718: Franz von Frentz
  • 1718–1727: Franz Carl von Frentz
  • 1728–1733: Friedrich Anton von Bocholtz
  • 1733–1779: Hermann Werner von der Asseburg
  • 1780–1790: Ignaz Reichsgraf von Wolff-Metternich
  • 1790–1802: Maximilian Werner Reichsgraf von Wolff-Metternich

Bailiffs

  • 1630–1631: Barwart Langeheine
  • 1643-1645: Valentin Kurtzrock
  • 1645–1686: Theobald (Theodor) Kurtzrock
  • 1686–1689 ?: Max Heinrich von Kurtzrock
  • 1818–1845: Conrad Heinrich Georg Soest, Councilor
  • 1845–1859: Christian Friedrich Theodor von Ompteda, Member of the Government

literature

  • Hans Goedeke: Hereditary register of the offices of Ruthe and Koldingen from 1593 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 24), Hildesheim 1973
  • 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. 300f.
  • Thomas Klingbiel: A stand of its own? Local officials in the early modern period: Studies on state formation and social development in the Hildesheim Monastery and in the older Principality of Wolfenbüttel . Hannover 2002, pp. 689-694