Department of the Harz

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Department of the Harz
Harz Department
Département Du Harz
Location 1809
Basic data (1810)
Consist: December 1, 1807-1813
Kingdom : Westphalen
Prefecture : Heiligenstadt
Residents: 273,105 (1810)
Structure: 4 districts
Prefects : Samuel Gottfried Borsche (until May 6, 1809)
August Heinrich Freiherr von Trott (June 19, 1809– August 29, 1809)
Burchhard Leberecht August von Bülow (September 26, 1809– July 10 , 1813)
August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer (July 11, 1813 –7 November 1813)
Location of the department in the Kingdom of Westphalia
With postal routes

The department of the Harz (French: Département du Harz ) was an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813/1814 . This department remained largely unchanged until its dissolution.

history

The Department of the resin was formed from territories on 24 December 1807 up to the Peace of Tilsit to Prussia and the resolution of Napoleon States Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Electorate of Hesse had heard, namely the Prussian possessions Principality Eichsfeld , the northern part of the ganerbschaft Treffurt with Treffurt , Vogtei Dorla , Grafschaft Hohenstein , Mühlhausen , Nordhausen and Benneckenstein , the Brunswick Principality of Grubenhagen with the Walkenried Abbey and from Hessian areas. The main town or capital of the department was Heiligenstadt.

The department of the Harz bordered in the north on the Westphalian department of the Oker , in the east on the Saale department , the principality of Schwarzburg and the lands of the king and dukes of Saxony . To the south it bordered on the ducal Saxon countries and the Werradepartement and to the west on the department of the Leine .

State in 1811:

The department of the Harz covered about 58 square miles, or 160 Lieues (French way hours), or 1,967,343 Brunswick acres. If you add the square miles to 82.5 km², you get a total area of ​​3045 km².

The population was given as of December 31, 1810 with 201,031. They lived in 20 cities, twelve market towns, three suburbs, 290 villages, 59 hamlets and 111 individual buildings with a total of 34,081 fire pits. The 77,228 city dwellers were compared to 123,803 rural dwellers.

The department consisted of four districts, 37 cantons, 286 municipalities, 36 Mairien and 37 peace courts. The court of appeal was in Cassel.

  • The Heiligenstadt district had 68,899 inhabitants and covered 1038 km 2 in five cities, a market town, a suburb, 120 villages, 17 hamlets and 24 individual buildings with a total of 12,574 fire pits or in 13 cantons and 109 municipalities. The district capital was Heiligenstadt.
  • The Duderstadt district had 42,787 inhabitants and covered 516 km² in two cities, two market towns, 70 villages, ten hamlets and 15 individual buildings with a total of 7641 fire places or eight cantons and ten municipalities. The district capital was Duderstadt.
  • The Nordhausen district had 46,033 inhabitants and covered 638 km 2 in five cities, three market towns, 79 villages, 17 hamlets and 25 individual buildings with a total of 7784 fire pits or in nine cantons and 78 municipalities. The district capital was Nordhausen.
  • The Osterode district had 43,312 inhabitants and covered 853 km² in eight cities, six mountain areas, two suburbs, 21 villages, 15 hamlets and 47 individual buildings with a total of 6056 fire pits or in seven cantons and 29 municipalities. The district capital was Osterode .

The Kingdom of Westphalia was divided into departments, the departments into districts, these into cantons and these into municipalities.

District Cantons
Heiligenstadt Heiligenstadt , Allendorf , Dachrieden , Dingelstädt , Dörna , Dorla , Ershausen , Gerbershausen , Großbartloff , Mühlhausen , Treffurt , Udra (Uder) and Wanfried .
Duderstadt Duderstadt , Beuren , Gieboldehausen , Niederorschel , Seulingen , Teistungen , Weissenborn and Worbis .
Nordhausen Nordhausen , Benneckenstein , Bleicherode , Wechsungen , Ellrich , Neustadt , Pützlingen , Pustleben and Sachsa .
Osterode Osterode , Andreasberg , Clausthal , Herzberg , Lauterberg , Lindau and Zellerfeld .

prefecture

The former seat of the prefecture; the Kurmainzer Schloss in Heiligenstadt, built around 1738

The prefecture of the department of the Harz was in Heiligenstadt. The first prefect of the Harz Department, Samuel Gottfried Borsche, was the former director of the War and Domain Chamber of the Eichsfeld in Heiligenstadt and returned to the Prussian state services after a dismissal request in August 1809. His successor, Prefect Burchhard von Bülow, was supported by the Secretary General Sombart (former Prussian War and Domain Council of Heiligenstadt) and the Prefectural Council. It included Messrs Anton von Bodungen , von Flotho, Otto and Trümper (also justice of the peace of Udra), in 1811 Trümper left the company. At the suggestion of the finance minister, Sombart held the post of general inspector of indirect taxes from 1809/1810. In addition, from 1808 a Ludwig Doebel appeared as the prefecture's secretary. In mid-August 1813, the sub-prefect of Osterode, August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer, appeared on record as the new prefect of Heiligenstadt.

The Department Council included Messrs. Ahrens, von Arnstedt, Stecker, Montag, Lamprecht, Koch, von Steinmetzen, Weber and von Wintzingerode.

There were sub-prefects in

  • Duderstadt: the Prefect Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Kramer with his secretary Haber,
  • Osterode: the prefect August Heinrich Kuhlmeyer with his secretary Kast (Dast), 1813 August Wilhelm Francke with the secretary Neuhaus
  • Nordhausen: the prefect of Georg Christian von Steinmetzen with his secretary Cämmerer.

literature

overview

  • Frank Boblenz : The Kingdom of Westphalia and the provinces of Erfurt and Fulda. To the extent of the "French" Thuringia 1806 / 07-1813 / 14. In: “The oldest preserved with loyalty, the new in a friendly way.” Festschrift for Volker Wahl on his 65th birthday, ed. v. Beger K. u. a., Rudolstadt 2008, pp. 333-348.
  • Wilhelm Kohl : The administration of the eastern departments of the Kingdom of Westphalia 1807-1814 (= historical studies, Bd. 323), Berlin 1937.
  • Ulrich Hussong : The division of the Eichsfeld into districts at the beginning of the 19th century. With an outlook on the circle division in the present , in: Eichsfeld Jahrbuch, Vol. 7 (1999), pp. 185–222.
  • Hans Tümmler : The time of Carl August von Weimar 1775–1828 , in: Geschichte Thüringens, Vol. V. Political History of the Modern Era T. 1.2 (= Central German Research, Vol. 48), Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1984, p. 615– 781

Districts in detail

Web links

Commons : Departement des Harzes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Kgl. Decree which divides the kingdom into eight departments. Cassel, December 24, 1807 , in: Bulletin des lois I, Kassel 1807, p. 112 f.
  2. ^ Johann Samuel Publication : Handbook about the Kingdom of Westphalia for instruction on land and inhabitants, constitution, administration and external conditions of the state in general and its individual parts in particular, together with a list of the most distinguished court and state officials. Hall 1808, pp. 216–232.
  3. ^ Helmut Berding : Napoleonic rule and social policy in the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 7). Göttingen 1973, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Thimme: The internal conditions of the Electorate of Hanover under the Franco-Westphalian rule, Vol. II. Hanover / Leipzig 1895, p. 395
  5. ↑ LhA Saxony-Anhalt, B 35, II a, No. 2 / No. 5 (personal matters)
  6. ^ Georg Hassel : Hof = and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Hannover 1811, pp. 164-167.