Jade region
The Jade Area (then also Jade Area ) was an area in the Kingdom of Prussia with immediate status from 1853/1854 to 1873. On April 1, 1937, this area was reclassified to Oldenburg , to which it had previously belonged.
history
On July 20, 1853, Prussia signed a contract with Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter von Oldenburg , which was intended to regulate Prussia's assumption of protection for the ships in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . At the same time, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg had to cede two parts of the Jade Bay with a total of 313 hectares, including 94 hectares of solid land, to Prussia:
- Part of the municipality of Heppens in the Jever district west of the Jadebusen with 137 inhabitants (1853)
- Eckwarderhörne residential area in the Burhave office (from 1858 Stollhamm office ) east of the Jadebusen without residents (1853)
Prussia needed this area to build a war port. The administration of the Jade area was transferred to the Prussian Admiralty in 1854. On November 5, 1854, a provisional administration was set up. The Royal Prussian Admiralty Commissariat in Oldenburg was appointed as the competent higher authority . This set up an office each to the west and east of the Jade Bay. A Vogt was appointed each time. These bailiffs in Prussian service were those Oldenburg bailiffs in whose administrative area the areas ceded to Prussia had been located. On May 14, 1855, the Prussian laws were introduced.
On February 16, 1864, another contract was signed between Oldenburg and Prussia. This time, 112 hectares of Oldenburg were to be ceded to Prussia. Prussia needed this area to set up parade grounds and to expand the fortress. On June 17, 1869, the first Prussian North Sea port was inaugurated. He was given the name Wilhelmshaven .
After the establishment of the German Empire on March 23, 1873 109 hectares were reclassified from Oldenburg to Prussia. Thus, the contract of 1864 was finally fulfilled almost ten years later. At the same time it was decided to give up the special position of the Jade region. Just a few days later, on April 1, 1873, it was assigned to the Wittmund Office in the Aurich Steering Committee. The Wittmund district , which was newly formed in 1885, deployed a district assistant officer in Wilhelmshaven until 1919.
The communities of Heppens, Neuende and Bant were united in 1911 to form the town of Rüstringen . This was incorporated into the city of Wilhelmshaven on April 1, 1937 , which was simultaneously reclassified from Prussia to Oldenburg . The Eckwarderhörne settlement was reclassified at the same time into the former municipality of Butjadingen in the Oldenburg office of Wesermarsch .
Development of the city of Wilhelmshaven
The following table shows the development of the city of Wilhelmshaven. The assignment of the small residential area Eckwarderhörn belonging to Wilhelmshaven to the municipality of Burhave on April 1, 1937 is not listed in the table.
| Tabular representation of the development of Wilhelmshaven | ||||||
| year | Wilhelmshaven | Heppens | New end | Bant | Sengwarden | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1869 | Naming of Wilhelmshaven |
Heppens | New end 1 | - | Sengwarden | |
| 1873 | Wilhelmshaven becomes a city |
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| 1879 | Wilhelmshaven | Creation of Bant |
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| 1911 | Merger to form the city of Rüstringen | |||||
| 1937 | Association for the new city of Wilhelmshaven | |||||
| 1938 | Parts of the municipality of Kniphausen zu Wilhelmshaven | |||||
| 1948 | Wilhelmshaven |
Fedderwarden to Sengwarden |
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| 1972 | Sengwarden to Wilhelmshaven | |||||
1 community of Neuende with the village of Rüstersiel
Assignment in elections
In the election in 1870, the Jade area was assigned to constituency 1 of the administrative district of Minden in the province of Westphalia together with the districts of Lübbecke and Minden according to the regulations for the implementation of the electoral law for the Reichstag of the North German Confederation .
supporting documents
- ↑ Greater Hamburg Law, Art. II, Section 7 (2)
- ^ Territorial.de: Administrative history office Wesermarsch
- ↑ http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Reglement_zur_Ausführung_des_Wahlgesetzes_für_den_Reichstag_des_Norddeutschen_Bundes
literature
- Walther Hubatsch (Hrsg.): Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1945. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn; Row A: Prussia;
- Volume 12: Prussia. Part B, III: The Jade Area , edited by Walther Hubatsch, 1978, ISBN 3-87969-127-4 .