Office Wölpe
The Wölpe Office was an office that emerged from the County of Wölpe and existed until 1859. Its seat was in Wölpe Castle and the domain later mentioned . Several places in the area were part of the office. The Guelph Dukes took over the county in 1302 and set up the Wölpe office for administration. In the course of saving measures, it was dissolved by the Kingdom of Hanover in 1859.
history
The origin of the Wölpe office is Wölpe Castle, first mentioned in 1151 as the seat of the Counts of Wölpe . At the beginning of the 13th century, the Counts of Wölper moved their festival house to the nearby Drakenburg and later to Neustadt am Rübenberge . In 1301 they sold their county, also known as Altes Amt Wölpe , to Count Otto von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst. This in turn sold the county in 1302 for 6500 silver marks to the Guelph Duke Otto II. He installed a Drost on the castle as governor; then the castle was appointed the seat of the Calenberg office of Wölpe.
Associated places
The parishes of Hagen , Heemsen , Holtorf , Husum and Steimbke belonged to the Wölpe office . In the parishes there were the following bailiwicks with a bailiff to assist the bailiff :
- First bailiwick: Holtorf , Heemsen , Rohrsen , Gadesbünden
- Second Vogtei: Steimbke , Stöckse , Sonnenborstel , Glashof, Wenden, Lohe, Wendenborstel , Klein Varlingen, Laderholz , Vorthoff, Baumühlen , Brunenborstel
- Third bailiwick: Borstel , Nöpke , Hagen , Eilvese , Eilveser Damm
- Fourth bailiwick: Husum , Brokeloh , Bolsehle, Linsburg , Schessinghausen, Groß Varlingen, Langendamm
tasks
The tasks of the Wölpe office included the administration of the farms and the forest, the maintenance of the paths, bridges and mills as well as the official building and the collection of taxes for the sovereign and the lower courts.
Official seat
The official residence was in Wölpe Castle , which was destroyed during the Hildesheim collegiate feud between 1519 and 1523 and then restored as a castle by Duke Erich I. During the Thirty Years' War , Wölpe Castle and the Amtshof were captured and damaged by the mercenary troops of General Tilly in 1625 . Because of the damage, the castle was razed after the war and converted into an official building in 1649. The Amtshof was converted into a domain, which included around 150 hectares of land and 30 employees. Due to economic unprofitability, the domain was leased to an official. The office courtyard on the castle hill disappeared a few years after the office was dissolved in 1859 due to demolition due to dilapidation.
In the 19th century, another official building was built on the same street, which still exists today. It is the former district court building on the main road (the entrance to the castle hill). It served as a forestry for many years and is now a residential building. The Wölpe settlement not far from the Amtshof had around 100 residents in the 19th century.
Bailiffs
- before 1715: Johann Christoph Philipp von Windheim , bailiff
- 1723–1750: Hermann Ludewig Voigt, bailiff
- 1802–1823: Leopold Otto Meyer, bailiff
- 1823–1837: Ernst Ludwig Clausen, bailiff, from 1828 senior bailiff
- 1837–1844: Friedrich August Mejer, bailiff
- 1844–1854: Pauol Albert Schilgen, bailiff
- 1855–1859: Friedrich Ernst Ostermeyer, bailiff
literature
- Ludwig Hoffmeyer: The Wölpe office and the Grinderwald with the lordly hunting lodge Linsburg , Nienburg a. Weser, 1922
- Jürgen Rode: History of the Wölpe office and the Erichshagen area . Erichshagen-Wlöpe 2014
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 43.8 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 11.3" E