Varel Office

Varel Office (1910)
German federal state	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period	1814-1933
Administrative headquarters	Varel
surface	374 km²
Residents	19,842
Population density	53 inhabitants / km²
Communities	6th
location

The Amt Varel was an administrative district of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the later Free State of Oldenburg . The seat of the office was in Varel . The function of the Oldenburg offices largely corresponded to the function of the districts in the rest of the German Empire .

history

The Varel office was formed as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially only comprised Varel and the surrounding area.

In 1856 the office was formally divided into the city of Varel and the rural community of Varel. The city of Varel received the status of a city of the first order in 1858, thus leaving office and becoming a city free of office. In 1858 the municipalities of Zetel and Bockhorn were added from the dissolved Bockhorn to the Varel. In 1867, parts of Bockhorn and Zetel were used to set up the new Neuchâtel community . In 1868 the municipalities of Jade and Schweiburg were added from the dissolved office of Rastede to the office of Varel.

During the administrative reform of 1933, the Varel office was dissolved. Most of the office came to the office of Friesland , Jade and Schweiburg came to the office of Wesermarsch . In 1939, the Oldenburg offices were renamed to districts.

Population development

Varel Office	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	17.059	17,338	19,842	23,172

Communities

The Varel office last comprised six municipalities (as of December 1, 1910):

local community	Residents
Bockhorn	3741
jade	2891
Neuchâtel	1710
Schweiburg	1572
Varel , rural community	6560
Zetel	3368

Web links

• Maps showing the administrative structure of Oldenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of the Duchy of Oldenburg (1825)
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. friesland.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2011 .