Office Steinheim (Westphalia)

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period:	1936-1969
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Höxter
Residents:	11,705 (Dec. 31, 1967)
Office structure:	9 municipalities

The Steinheim office was an office in the prince-bishopric or principality of Paderborn that existed until 1807 and an office in the East Westphalian district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1936 to 1969 .

history

Principality of Paderborn

In the Bishopric of Paderborn since the late Middle Ages was an office Steinheim. It was part of the Oberwald district of the spiritual territory. It comprised four parishes: Bredenborn ; Steinheim with Breitenhaupt , Eichholz , Menzenbrock , Ottenhausen , Rolfzen and Thienhausen ; Vinsebeck with Bergheim and finally Vörden . Around 3500 people lived in the office at the end of the 18th century. At its head was a Drost , most recently Maximilian Graf von Wolff-Metternich zu Vinsebeck .

19th century

In 1802/03 Prussia annexed the office and initially continued it in the Principality of Paderborn . After the Napoleonic interlude of the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807–1813, Department of Fulda , Canton of Höxter ) again took over sovereignty, extensive administrative reforms followed.

As part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia , the two offices of Steinheim and Nieheim were established in 1843 . The city of Steinheim remained vacant and did not belong to the Steinheim office. The offices of Nieheim and Steinheim have been administered in personal union since their foundation and formed the combined office of Nieheim-Steinheim since 1852 .

20th century

In 1936 the office of Nieheim-Steinheim was divided back into the original offices of Nieheim and Steinheim. At the same time, the city of Steinheim lost its freedom of office and now joined the Steinheim office. In addition, in 1936 the municipality of Hagedorn moved from the Vörden office to the Steinheim office.

On January 1, 1964, the community Vordereichholz was founded, for which the communities Bergheim, Ottenhausen, Steinheim and Vinsebeck (Office Steinheim) and Eversen and Nieheim (Office Nieheim) ceded an area totaling 4.62 km².

On the basis of an area change agreement of September 11, 1968 and Section 5 of the “Law for the Reorganization of the District of Höxter” of December 2, 1969, which also confirms the area change agreement with restrictions in Section 8 (5), the municipalities of the office joined forces, with the exception of Kempenfeldrom, together with the municipality of Grevenhagen , an exclave of the Detmold district , on January 1, 1970 to form the new town of Steinheim. One restriction for the area change agreement was that it does not apply to the municipality of Kempenfeldrom, which according to Section 5 of the " Law for the Restructuring of the District of Detmold " from December 2, 1969 to January 1, 1970 was incorporated into the Detmold district and with 13 other municipalities of the district was merged to form the new town of Horn-Bad Meinberg . The Steinheim office was dissolved. The legal successor is the city of Steinheim.

The Steinheim office was in the northwest of the Höxter district. Starting in the east, the offices of Vörden and Nieheim (Höxter district), the Grevenhagen community (an exclave of the Detmold district ) and the Paderborn and Detmold districts bordered the office in a clockwise direction .

Organization and population in the 20th century

The Steinheim office was divided into the nine municipalities of Bergheim , Hagedorn , Kempenfeldrom , Ottenhausen , Rolfzen , Sandebeck , Steinheim , Vinsebeck and Vordereichholz (only founded in 1964), of which Steinheim was the only one with town charter and also the administrative seat.

At the last census before the dissolution of the office on May 6, 1961, the municipalities of the office had a resident population of 10,904. According to the extrapolation of the census results, this number rose to 11,705 inhabitants by the end of 1967. With an area of 76.34 km², the average population density is 153 inhabitants per square kilometer, which is above the district average of 140 inhabitants per square kilometer. The following overview shows the eight municipalities with their population and territorial status as of December 31, 1967:

Surname	Residents	Area in km²
Bergheim	1,001	6.99
Hawthorn	95	1.46
Kempenfeldrom	415	6.17
Ottenhausen	585	6.13
Rolfzen	533	5.72
Sandebeck	982	12.44
Steinheim, city	6,653	23.49
Vinsebeck	1,162	9.32
Pre-oak	279	4.62
Steinheim Office	11,705	76.34

literature

Friedrich Keinemann: The Paderborn Monastery at the end of the 18th century . 1996, ISBN 3-8196-0405-7 .

Web links

Law on the reorganization of the Höxter district of December 2, 1969
Law on the reorganization of the Detmold district of December 2, 1969

Individual evidence

↑ Keinemann 1996 Vol. 2: 122
↑ 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 offices of Nieheim and Steinheim. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .
^ Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .

[1] Keinemann 1996 Vol. 2: 122

[2] Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)

[3] Official Journal of the Minden Government 1843: Formation of the offices of Nieheim and Steinheim. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .

[leesch-4] Wolfgang Leesch: Administration in Westphalia 1815-1945 . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . tape 38 . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06845-1 .