Zeven district

Basic data
Prussian Province	Hanover
Administrative district	Stade
County seat	Zeven
Inventory period	1885-1932
Surface:	661.4 km²
Residents	20,569 (1925)
Population density	31 inhabitants / km² (1925)
Communities	58 (1910) 56 (1932)
License Plate	IS
Location of the district in the province of Hanover (1905)

The Zeven district was a district in the Prussian province of Hanover from 1885 to 1932 . The administrative seat was the rural community (from 1929 city) Zeven .

history

With the introduction of the new district order for the province of Hanover on April 1, 1885, the district of Zeven was formed from the old Hanoverian office of Zeven . In 1932, the Zeven district was dissolved by a decree of the Prussian State Ministry and merged with the Bremervörde district. Today the area of the former Zeven district belongs to the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .

Population development

year	1890	1900	1910	1925
Residents	14,060	15,318	17,825	20,569

District administrators

1885–1887 Gustav von Wick
1887–1895 Bernhard Häger
1895–1900 Ludwig Lessing
1900–1930 Karl von Hammerstein-Gesmold
1930–1932 Ludwig Hamann

District coat of arms

District coat of arms as a stone relief in the park at Zeven Monastery

The district coat of arms combines the coat of arms of Bremen with the two Petri keys with the Zevens and the Hanover provincial coat of arms .

Communities

The municipalities of the Zeven district with their population from 1910:

local community	1910
Altenbülstedt ¹	171
Badenstedt	265
Bockel	61
Boitzen	184
Brauel	133
Breddorf	493
Brümmerhof	88
Brüttendorf	192
Buchholz	174
Bülstedt ¹
Dipshorn	115
Ehestorf	106
Elsdorf	533
Frankenbostel	120
Freyersen ²	67
Glinstedt	268
Godenstedt	112
Groß Meckelsen	244
Great Sittensen	737
Gyhum	304
Hamersen	258
Hanstedt	231
Rushed	186
Heeslingen	607
Hepstedt	514
Hesedorf near Gyhum	290
Ippensen	185
Calf	315
Karlshöfen	643
Kirchtimke	322
Klein Meckelsen	339
Klein Sittensen	220
Lengenbostel	55
Meinstedt	150
Nartum	368
Neuenbülstedt ¹	263
Oldendorf	237
Ostereistedt	366
Easter Timke	208
Rhade	395
Rhadereistedt	279
Rockstedt	228
Rüspel	156
Steddorf	207
Steinfeld	123
Tarmstedt	850
Tiste	257
Vierden	214
Volkensen	109
Vorwerk	226
Weertzen	171
Wehldorf	214
Wense	252
Westertimke	203
Wiersdorf	157
Wilstedt	731
Wistedt	252
Resident	429
Zeven ³	2,108

¹ Altenbülstedt and Neuenbülstedt were merged in 1929 to form the municipality of Bülstedt.

² 1929 incorporated into Weertzen

³ city since 1929

The two manor districts Burgsittensen and Kuhmühlen also existed in the Zeven district until they were dissolved in the 1920s .

Individual evidence

^ District regulation for the province of Hanover (1884)
↑ data on the district of Zeven at territorial.de
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bremervoerde.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Zeven municipality register 1910
↑ ^a ^b Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia: Province of Hanover Verlag des Prussian State Statistical Office, 1930

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

[2] ta on the district of Zeven at territorial.de

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

[4] Zeven municipality register 1910

[lexi-5] Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia: Province of Hanover Verlag des Prussian State Statistical Office, 1930