Westerstede Office

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

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

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