Office Vörden

Basic data (as of 1969)
Existing period:	1843-1969
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Detmold
Circle :	Höxter
Residents:	4729 (Dec. 31, 1967)
Office structure:	13 municipalities

The Office Vörden was an office in the East Westphalian district of Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia that existed until 1969 .

Organization and population

The office was divided into the 13 communities Altenbergen , Born , Bredenborn , Bremerberg , Eilversen , Großenbreden , Hohehaus , Kleinenbreden , Kollerbeck , Löwendorf , Münsterbrock , Papenhöfen and Vörden , of which Bredenborn and Vörden had the town charter and the latter was 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 4503 inhabitants. According to the extrapolation of the census results, this number rose to 4729 inhabitants by the end of 1967. With an area of 64.24 km² results in an average population density of 74 inhabitants per square kilometer, which was far below the district average of 140 inhabitants per square kilometer. The following overview shows the 13 municipalities with their population and territorial status as of December 31, 1967:

Surname	Residents	Area in km²
Altenbergen	463	8.11
Born	92	2.80
Bredenborn, city	1271	13.33
Bremerberg	148	3.21
Express verse	77	1.61
Großerbreden	116	1.59
High house	197	1.98
Littles	101	0.86
Kollerbeck	690	7.58
Löwendorf	209	5.51
Munsterbrock	228	6.19
Papenhöfen	212	2.57
Vörden, city	925	8.90
Office Vörden	4729	64.24

geography

The office of Vörden was in the north of the Höxter district. Starting in the east, the offices of Höxter-Land , Brakel , Nieheim and Steinheim (Höxter district) and Detmold district bordered the office in a clockwise direction .

history

The Office Vörden was set up in 1843 as part of the introduction of the rural community order for the province of Westphalia . Initially, the municipality of Hagedorn also belonged to the Vörden district. In 1936 it was reclassified to the Steinheim office .

On the basis of an area change agreement of November 15, 1968 and Section 7 of the “Law for the Reorganization of the District of Höxter” of December 2, 1969, which in Section 8 (7) also confirms the area change agreement with minor restrictions, the municipalities of the office signed up to the 1. January 1970 together to form the new town of Marienmünster . The Vörden office was dissolved. The legal successor is the city of Marienmünster.

Other areas of this name

In the Principality of Osnabrück and later in the Landdrostei Osnabrück there was also an office of Vörden until 1885 . It had its seat in Vörden and was in the area of today's town of Bramsche and today's municipality of Neuenkirchen-Vörden .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ 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 Vörden Office. 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] Landgemeinde -ordnung for the Province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841 (PDF; 1.6 MB)

[2] Official Journal of the Minden Government 1843: Formation of the Vörden Office. Retrieved March 3, 2014 .

[leesch-3] 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 .