Department of the Lower Elbe
| Department of the Lower Elbe | |
| Department of the Ilmenau | |
| Department de l'Elbe-Inferieur | |
| Basic data (December 1810) | |
|---|---|
| Consist: | September 1, 1810-5. March 1811 |
| Kingdom : | Westphalen |
| Prefecture : | Luneburg |
| Residents: | 218,615 (December 1810) |
| Structure: | 3 districts |
| Prefects : | Detlef Barthold from Schrader |
| Absorbed in: | Hanseatic departments |
The department of the Nieder-Elbe , later mostly written department Niederelbe , initially also the department of Ilmenau , was a department in the Kingdom of Westphalia from September 1, 1810 to March 5, 1811 .
location
The land on the other side of the Elbe (the Lauenburg) belonged to the new department of the Lower Elbe, excluding 15,000 inhabitants reserved for the French Emperor. Furthermore, the Duchy of Bremen, the so-called "Third Mile" of the Old Country with the city of Buxtehude, most of the Principality of Lüneburg with the County of Dannenberg and the Principality of Verden with the part that bordered the Soltau Heath. Furthermore, cantons ceded by the Elbe department made up part of the area.
history
On March 1, 1810, a contract concluded on January 14, 1810 in Paris on the incorporation of the rest of the Electorate of Hanover came into force. Only about 15,000 residents in Lauenburg were excluded, an area that the emperor reserved at his own disposal. 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. The kingdom thus comprised around 2.6 million subjects, making it the second largest country in the Confederation of Rhine. With Decree 78 of July 19, 1810, which came into effect on September 1, 1810, the newly acquired territories were divided into three departments:
- Northern department ( Departement du Nord ) or department of the Elbe and Weser estuaries
- Department of the Aller
- Department of the Lower Elbe
By decree 78 of July 19, 1810, the cantons of Mieste, Gardelegen (city and country) and Zichtau of the Salzwedel district became the Neuhaldensleben district of the Elbe department , and the cantons of Bretsch and Pollitz of the Salzwedel district became the Stendal district of the Elbe department . The rest of the Salzwedel district with eight cantons (Jübar, Calbe, Apenburg, Betzendorf, Diesdorf, Salzwedel (town and country) and Arendsee) became part of the new Nieder-Elbe department. Some communities from the Duchy of Lüneburg, the office of Klötze , were transferred to the canton of Jübar in the Salzwedel district.
Simultaneously with the dissolution of the department of the Weser , on September 1st, 1810, the official duties of the governing commission of Hanover ceased .
At the end of 1810, 218,615 people lived in the department of the Nieder-Elbe. The main town was Lüneburg.
After a few months, the department of the Lower Elbe was dissolved and on March 5, 1811, most of it came to the newly created French Hanseatic departments . The Salzwedel district came back to the department of the Elbe.
structure
| District | Cantons |
|---|---|
| Luneburg | Lüneburg , Medingen , Bienenbüttel , Uelzen , Ebstorf , Oldenstedt , Bodenteich, Bergen an der Dumme , Clenze , Hitzacker , Dannenberg , Bleckede , Scharnebeck , Bardowick and Artlenburg |
| Harburg | Harburg , Hittfeld , Winsen an der Luhe , Garlstorf , Soltau , Visselhövede , Tostedt , Moisburg , Buxtehude and Wilhelmsburg |
| Salzwedel | Quickborn , Lüchow , Gartow , Wustrow , Wittingen , Jübar , Calbe , Apenburg , Betzendorf , Diesdorf , Salzwedel (town and country) and Arendsee |
prefecture
For the period of four months of existence, Harburger Landdrost Detlef Barthold was appointed prefect by Schrader and he was assisted by the Helmstadt prefectural secretary von Döring as general secretary.
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 )
- Bergen: rain of cloth, travel agent
- Bienenbüttel: Hudwisky, travel agent
- Bleckede: Bucholz, travel agent
- Bodenteich: Lübbecke, travel agent
- Dannenberg: Kolbe, 3rd class director
- Ebstorf: Lübbecke, shipping agent
literature
- (78) Royal Decree of July 19, 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. (79) which determines the point in time. Bulletin des lois du Royaume de Westphalie, Volume 6, pp. 354ff., Online at Google Books
- August Wilhelm Pohlmann: History of the city of Salzwedel. On commission from Hammerde and Schwetschke, Halle 1811.
- 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.
Individual evidence
- ^ August Wilhelm Pohlmann, History of the City of Salzwedel , Halle 1811, p. 348.
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia. Hanover 1811, p. 246 ff.
