Kniphausen (municipality)
The municipality Kniphausen was a 1933 built and 1948 re-dissolved municipality in the district of Friesland , which in parts of the former rule Germany and Kniphausen covered.
The Oldenburg law to simplify and reduce the cost of administration of April 27, 1933, formed a new large community from the previous communities of Accum , Fedderwarden , Sengwarden and Sillenstede , which was named Kniphausen and had 3,456 inhabitants in 1939. The new community was headed by a mayor and a ten-member community council. The seat of the municipal administration was in Fedderwarden. In 1938, the southern parts of the municipality including Kniphausen Castle had to be ceded to the city of Wilhelmshaven .
In 1948 the municipality of Kniphausen was dissolved, its previous area was divided into the new municipalities of Sengwarden (with Fedderwarden) and Sillenstede (with Accum). Today Sengwarden belongs to Wilhelmshaven and Sillenstede to Schortens .
Web links
Municipality map of the state of Oldenburg (1937)
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. friesland.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).