Office Vörden (Hanover)
The Vörden Office was founded around 1365 in the Osnabrück Monastery, to which it belonged until 1808. In the Middle Ages, all offices in the bishopric of Osnabrück were based in castles that the Bishop of Osnabrück had built to protect his area against hostile attacks. The youngest of the abbey castles created in this way was Vörden Castle.
In addition to the parishes of Vörden , Bramsche , Engter and Ueffeln, the prince-bishops of Osnabrück at the time also believed that the parishes of Damme and Neuenkirchen belonged to the medieval and (early) modern office of Vörden , an assignment which, however, was not recognized by the prince-bishopric of Münster .
After the fall of the Prince Bishoprics of Osnabrück and Münster, most of the office was assigned to the Kingdom of Hanover ( Landdrostei Osnabrück ) in 1817 . The seat of the Hanoverian office was relocated to Malgarten , as the area of Vörden was on the edge of the new office after the parishes of Damme and Neuenkirchen were assigned to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .
The Hanoverian office was named "Amt Vörden in Malgarten". It kept this name after the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 . The now Prussian office in the province of Hanover existed until 1885, the year the Bersenbrück district was founded , in which it was opened.
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Osnabrück: St. Paulus - Vörden
- ^ Hans-Walter Pries: Office Vörden. Dates . May 9, 2006
- ^ Diocese of Osnabrück: St. Paulus - Vörden
- ↑ Epe (Bramsche) / Office Vörden to Malgarten . wiki-de.genealogy.net