Office of Vechta

Office Cloppenburg (1910)
German federal state	Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period	1814-1939
Administrative headquarters	Vechta
surface	760 km²
Residents	39,949
Population density	53 inhabitants / km²
Communities	15th
Location in Oldenburg

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

history

The Vechta office was formed as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially included Vechta , Bakum , Goldenstedt , Langförden , Lutten , Oythe , Vestrup and Visbek . South of the Vechta office, the offices of Steinfeld and Damme were established. After the Steinfeld office had already been incorporated into the Damme office in 1871, the municipalities of Dinklage , Lohne , Steinfeld , Damme , Holdorf and Neuenkirchen were added to the Vechta office from the dissolved Damme office in 1879 . In 1907 the community of Lohne was divided into a town and a rural community.

Hinrich Gerhard Kückens was the official governor .

In 1939 the Vechta district was formed from the Vechta office .

Population development

Office of Vechta	1890	1900	1910	1925	1939
Residents	31,879	35,344	39,949	46.205	51,912

Communities

The Vechta office comprised fifteen municipalities in 1910 (as of December 1, 1910):

local community	Residents
Bakum	2077
Dams	5116
Dinklage	4500
Goldenstedt	3070
Holdorf	1791
Langförden	1674
Lohne , rural community	3579
Wages , city	2181
Lutten	999
Neuenkirchen	1949
Oythe	895
Steinfeld	3150
Vechta	4374
Vestrup	1141
Visbek	3453

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. vechta.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2011 .