Arrondissement Bremerlehe

The "Hanseatic Departments"

The Arrondissement de Bremerlehe (German: Arrondissement Bremerlehe , also District Bremerlehe ) was one of four administrative units in the department of the Weser estuaries . The arrondissement was part of the French Empire from January 1, 1811 to April 11, 1814 .

After the Allied victory over Napoléon I in 1814, the arrondissement became part of the Kingdom of Hanover , the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Hanseatic City of Bremen.

Today the area includes parts of Lower Saxony and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Administrative division

The arrondissement of Bremerlehe was divided into 6 cantons , in which in 1812 a total of 82,634 inhabitants lived.

• Beverstedt ,
• Bremerlehe,
• Dorum ,
• Hagen ,
• Osterholz , and
• Vegesack .

See also

• French period in Bremen
• Northern Germany
• Napoleonic Post in Northern Germany

literature

• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : "French times" in Northern Germany (1803-1814). Napoleon's Hanseatic Departments. Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-384-1 .
• Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A historical manual, first section, by Johann Gottfried Kißling, Osnabrück 1813, page 90
• Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Volume II, Die Franzosenzeit , pp. 13 to 36, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .