District of Winsen

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hanover
Administrative district	Luneburg
County seat	Winsen ad Luhe
Inventory period	1885-1932
surface	687.54 km²
Residents:	31,610 (1925)
Population density :	46 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	75 (1910) 70 (1925)
License Plate	IS
Location of the district in the province of Hanover (1905)

The district of Winsen was a district in the Prussian province of Hanover from 1885 to 1932 . The administrative seat was the city of Winsen ad Luhe .

history

The district of Winsen was formed when the new district order for the province of Hanover was introduced on April 1, 1885 from the Winsen an der Luhe office and the independent city of Winsen an der Luhe. The Winsen Castle was the administrative building of the circle. In the course of a Prussian district reform (due to austerity measures as a result of the economic crisis ), the district of Winsen was dissolved in 1932 and incorporated into the district of Harburg , with the district seat being moved to the district-free city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg .

District administrators of the district of Winsen

1885–1890 Theodor Schultze, previously since 1867 governor of the Winsen office
1890–1900 Erich von Flügge
1900–1921 Friedrich Ecker
1921–1932 Horst von Windheim

Population development

circle

year	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	23,800	26,389	30,039	31,610

Largest communities

Municipalities in the district of Winsen with more than 600 inhabitants (as of December 1, 1910):

Winsen Castle was the seat of the district administration

local community	Ew. 1910	Ew. 1925
Borstel	655	702
Brackel	603	630
Handorf	623	598
Hanstedt	616	722
Hoopte	623	599
Meshes	622	717
Pattensen	730	773
Ramelsloh	651	684
Salzhausen	869	948
Job	1495	1525
Hesitated	625	618
Winsen ad Luhe	4711	4718

cities and communes

The following list contains all cities and municipalities that belonged to the district of Winsen. The municipalities marked with ¹⁾ were incorporated into larger neighboring municipalities in 1928/29.

Driving wood ¹⁾

Bends ¹⁾

Mover ¹⁾

Schatzendorf ¹⁾

Winsen ad Luhe , city

Wittorf

Wuhlenburg ¹⁾

Wulfsen

Until it was dissolved in the 1920s, the district of Winsen also had the manor districts of Heimbuch and Radbruchs Forst and the forest districts of Buchwedel, Garlstorfer Wald, Hanstedter Berge, Spann-Grevenhoop, Toppenstedter Wald and Westerhoop-Meningerholz.

Individual evidence

^ District regulation for the province of Hanover (1884)
↑ Prussian Law Collection 1932
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. harburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2011 .

[1] District regulation for the province of Hanover (1884)

[2] Prussian Law Collection 1932

[demand-3] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. harburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[gvz-4] Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2011 .