Westerstede Office

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Westerstede Office (1910)
German federal state Grand Duchy of Oldenburg,
Free State of Oldenburg
Inventory period 1814-1933
Administrative headquarters Westerstede
surface 452 km²
Residents 22,684
Population density 50 inhabitants / km²
Communities 4th
location
Office Westerstede.jpg

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

history

The Westerstede office was formed as part of the Oldenburg administrative reform of 1814 and initially comprised the two communities Westerstede and Apen . In 1858 the communities of Zwischenahn and Edewecht were added from the dissolved office of Zwischenahn.

During the administrative reform of 1933, the Westerstede office was dissolved. His communities were Wiefelstede and Rastede from the dissolved office Oldenburg for Office Ammerland summarized from the 1939 district Ammerland was.

Population development

Westerstede Office 1890 1900 1910 1925
Residents 18,706 19,546 22,684 27,462

Communities

The Westerstede office last comprised four municipalities (as of December 1, 1910):

local community Residents
Apen 5160
Edewecht 3968
Westerstede 7442
Intermediate tooth 6114

Web links

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