Mining Authority Clausthal
| Mining Authority Clausthal | |
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| Seat | Clausthal |
| Inventory period | 1816-1868 |
| surface | 591 km² (1867) |
| Residents | 32,854 (1867) |
| Population density | 56 inhabitants / km² (1867) |
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The Mining Authority Clausthal was an administrative district of the Kingdom of Hanover in the 19th century . At its head stood a mountain captain . The main town and seat of the authorities was the then city of Clausthal .
history
For the administration of the Kingdom of Hanover, six intermediate authorities were formed in 1816, which were initially called the Provincial Government and from 1823 Landdrostei . Because of the special importance of the Upper Harz mining , a seventh central authority was set up in the Upper Harz , which was initially called Berghauptmannschaft am Oberharz and from 1823 Berghauptmannschaft Clausthal . In 1842 the office of Elbingerode, which had previously belonged to the Landdrostei Hildesheim , was added.
After the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866 , the Clausthal Mining Authority was dissolved as an administrative district in 1868. His two offices Elbingerode and Zellerfeld were subordinated to the Landdrostei Hildesheim .
Miners Captains
The mining captain was the highest official of the mining captaincy.
- 1816–1825: Franz von Meding (1765–1849)
- 1825–1836: Friedrich Otto Burchard von Reden (1769–1836)
- 1836–1846: Julius Albert (1787–1846)
- 1847–1859: Gerlach von dem Knesebeck (1808–1859)
- 1859–1867: Karl August von Linsingen (1803–1899)
Administrative division
The mountain captaincy Clausthal were under initially the seven mining towns Altenau , St. Andreas Berg , Clausthal , basic , Lautenthal , Wildemann and Zellerfeld , the Mining and Forestry office Clausthal, the Unterberg Office St. Andrew Berg and together with the Duchy of Brunswick managed Communion Unterharz . In 1842 the office of Elbingerode, which had previously belonged to the Landdrostei Hildesheim , was added. After various administrative and territorial reforms, the two independent towns Clausthal and Zellerfeld and three offices existed in the Clausthal Mining Authority in 1852:
Office St. Andreasberg
For Office St. Andrew Berg were among the 1,852 mountain town of St. Andrew Berg and places Lonau , Lonauerhammerhütte and Sieber . In 1859 the office was dissolved and incorporated into the Zellerfeld office.
Office Elbingerode
The Elbingerode office had only belonged to the Clausthal Mining Authority since 1842. The office included the city of Elbingerode (Harz) and the communities of Königshof , Rothehütte and Elend . In 1885 the office of Elbingerode was opened in the new Prussian district of Ilfeld .
Zellerfeld office
In 1852 the mining towns of Altenau, Grund, Lautenthal and Wildemann as well as the places Bockswiese , Lerbach , Kamschlacken , Riefensbeek , Schulenberg and Hahnenklee belonged to the Zellerfeld office . By 1859, the cities of Clausthal and Zellerfeld as well as the places of the dissolved office of St. Andreasberg were added. In 1885 the Prussian Zellerfeld District was formed from the enlarged Zellerfeld Office .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clausthal Mining Authority. (pdf; 21 kB) HGIS Germany, 2007, accessed on August 8, 2011 .
- ^ Jansen, Curt Heinrich Conrad Friedrich: Statistical Handbook of the Kingdom of Hanover, 1824 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reallocation of offices in 1852
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of administrative offices in 1859
