Stolzenau office

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The Stolzenau office was a historical administrative area of ​​the County of Hoya , later of the Principality of Calenberg or Kingdom of Hanover and the Prussian Province of Hanover with its seat in Stolzenau .

history

The Office goes on accessories of the mid-14th century by the counts of Hoya as a border fortress against the rule minden Castle Schlüsselburg built castle Stolzenau back. The official district stretched along the border with the Minden monastery . In the 16th century Stolzenau was temporarily the capital and residence of the Upper County of Hoya. After the counts of Hoya had expired, the office fell to the Welfs , and in 1682 to Calenberg / Hanover. In 1829 the parish was enlarged to include the municipalities of the repealed Steyerberg office . The Bohnhorst Bailiwick with the communities of Bohnhorst , Großenvörde , Spalloh and Warmsen went to Diepenau . By the state treaty of November 25, 1837 between Hanover and Prussia, the Mengedörfer Glissen and Westenfeld and the village of Halle were ceded to Hanover and incorporated into the Stolzenau office. In 1859 the Rehburg office was merged with the Stolzenau office. Since 1867 the Stolzenau office with the offices of Nienburg and Uchte as well as the non-official city of Nienburg (Weser) formed the (tax) district of Nienburg. In 1885 it was incorporated into the district constitution.

Communities

When it was abolished (1885), the office comprised the following municipalities:

(*) From the former Steyerberg office; (**) from the former Rehburg office

Bailiffs

  • from 1673: Conrad Hugo (* 1636; † 1710), clerk, 1673 bailiff, lastly senior bailiff
  • to 1764 (?): Christoph Heinrich von Hugo (* 1685; † 1764), senior bailiff
  • to 1758 (?): Albert Conrad von Hugo (* 1717; † 1758), bailiff
  • 1814–1826: Ferdinand von Bothmer , head captain
  • 1826–1848: Georg Friedrich von Blum, bailiff
  • 1848–1849: Erich August Heinrich Pagenstecher, bailiff
  • 1849–1867: Gustav Carl Ernst von Beulwitz, bailiff
  • 1868–1871: Ernst Roscher, bailiff
  • 1878–1885: Ernst Philipp Rudolf Meyer, bailiff (1885–1888 District Administrator of the Stolzenau district)

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, pp. 394–398.