Department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries
| Department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries | |
| North Department | |
| Département du Nord (des Bouches du Weser) | |
| Basic data (1810) | |
|---|---|
| Consist: | March 1, 1810-31. December 1810 |
| Kingdom : | Westphalen |
| Prefecture : | Stade |
| Residents: | 214.180 (1810) |
| Structure: | 3 districts |
| Prefects : | Heinrich August Meyer |
| Absorbed in: | Hanseatic departments |
The department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries , also known as the North Department, (French: Département des Bouches de l'Elbe et du Weser ) was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia between March and December 1810, i.e. for nine months . Before the conquest of Belgium (1795), the name Northern Department was that of the northernmost French department.
history
The deed of unification of January 14, 1810 was not made public, but Jerome Bonaparte , King of Westphalia, announced on March 1, 1810 from Kassel the incorporation of the Electorate of Hanover into his kingdom.
The exception was Lauenburg , which belonged to the Emperor Napoleon and received its own administration (including postal services) on March 23. The new Hanover administration was to start work on September 1, 1810. The Napoleon Code came into force. The accounting year, now in the Westphalian tax rate, was to begin in early 1811.
A new territorial division of the 25,410 km 2 with 647,000 inhabitants was also necessary . The Fürstenland formed one part, the bank of the Elbe a second and the fertile stretch of land between Aller and Leine with the land on the Weser the third.
The Principality of Calenberg , the Duchy of Lüneburg , the Duchies of Bremen and Verden , the Counties of Hoya and Diepholz, the Land of Hadeln , the Dominion Spiegelberg and the Principality of Lauenburg with a total of 218,615 souls were integrated.
Thus, the kingdom comprised around 2.6 million subjects, making it the second largest country in the Confederation of Rhine. Among several changes in the older departments, the departments of the Elbe and Weser estuaries, the department of the Nieder-Elbe and the department of the Aller were added.
The department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries then emerged as a newly created department on September 1, 1810 . It was formed from the Duchy of Bremen (without the so-called "Third Mile" with the city of Buxtehude , which came into the department of the Nieder-Elbe ), from the Land of Hadeln , from most of the Principality of Verden , from the three Lüneburg offices of Walsrode , Ahlden and Rethem , from the northernmost part of the county Hoya , the offices of West and Syke and from the department of the Weser of the Kingdom of Westphalia, Rinteln and Thedinghausen . The main town of the department was Stade. The former police director and first head of the Hanover police department founded in 1809, Heinrich August Meyer, was appointed prefect .
| District | Cantons |
|---|---|
| Stade | Otterndorf , Neuenkirchen (Altes Land) , ( Hadeln ), Neuhaus (Oste) , Obernhof , Lamstedt , Osten , Freiburg , Drochtersen , Stade , Himmelpforten , Steinkirchen (Altes Land) , Jork , Horneburg , Harsefeld , Silfingen (?) And Zeven |
| Bremervörde | Lilienthal , Osterholz , Ritterhude , Blumenthal , Hagen , Stotel , Lehe , Bederkesa , Dorum , Beverstedt , Bremervörde , Ottersberg and Hanstedt . |
| Verden | Old and new Syke , Thedinghausen , Mart (e) feld, Achim , Rotenburg , Verden , Rethem , Westen , Walsrode , and Hudemühlen ( Hodenhagen ) |
From January 1, 1811, the department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries no longer existed. It was largely assigned to the newly created French Hanseatic departments .
Postmaster in the department of the Lower Elbe
The Kingdom of Westphalia had postal sovereignty in the country (see postal history of the Kingdom of Westphalia ).
- Brockhagen expedition agent: Meyer-Elmendorf (1810–1813)
- Dahlenburg expeditor Buhlert
literature
- 1810 (78) Royal Decree of July 16, 1810, which decreed the composition of the three departments formed from the former Hanoverian provinces, and the union of some other parts of the kingdom with them. ditto (79) which determines the point in time.
- JA Damin: Statistics of the Confederation of the Rhine. Barrentrapp and Söhn, 1812, 1st volume.
- Heinrich Berghaus: Germany for a hundred years. Voigt & Günter, Leipzig 1862.
- Helmut Stubbe da Luz : French Period in Northern Germany (1803-1814). Napoleon's Hanseatic Departments. Temmen, Bremen 2003 ISBN 978-3-86108-384-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Venturini: History of our time. 2nd volume, Erdmann Ferdinand Steinacker, Leipzig 1813
- ↑ Stubbe da Luz, Helmut: "Napoleon's district administrator in the arrondissement of Lüneburg / Lunebourg (1811-1813) - The memories of the sub-prefect Barthélemy", page 145, Husum Druck, 2011
- ^ “Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia”, Hanover, 1811, p. 246 ff.
